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MisterP

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5. sounds like either a saint-kicking Neopentecostal or one of those TFP freaks

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #4)

Sun May 8, 2016, 11:00 PM

May 2016

that literally call Natives "savages" and are just puppets for deforestation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chute_na_santa_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition,_Family_and_Property
the military regime even brought its religious engineering to Umbanda, rerouting Afro-Atlantic religion as a symbol of militarized nationhood
it's a situation of status-quo conservatives vs. a hard right that wants to remake society, that wants to go beyond what those mere greedheads at the chambers of commerce want

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Another Great Post pmorlan1 May 2016 #1

The creeps who are howling for the return of the military dictatorship are not his friends, Judi Lynn May 2016 #2

especially as a gay man MisterP May 2016 #3

The right-wing Representative Jair Bolsonaro claimed he would have killed his son if he were gay. Judi Lynn May 2016 #4

sounds like either a saint-kicking Neopentecostal or one of those TFP freaks MisterP May 2016 #5

Interesting term, "religious engineering." Very appropriate. Judi Lynn May 2016 #6

the US Religious Right was the first example--the fundies even had a coup in the MisterP May 2016 #7