I think this is a really concerning development if you haven't noticed this by now, especially considering the election in Brazil, where almost every evangelical voted for Bolsonaro, and almost every catholic for Lula.
This sudden explosion in hyper-reactionary evangelism in Latin America (even more reactionary than Brazilian integralism) seems not entirely organic. Liberation theology was always a thorn in the side of the US aspirations on the continent, and none of the communist leaders in Latin America was an atheist (I am not sure about Che). Countering this with evangelical influence is something the CIA has tried for a long time, but this time a lot of the money these communities seem to receive comes from private American Christian think tanks.
I live in Germany and the liberal party (FDP) here has opened some "liberal house" near the train station - on Sunday, I noticed, it is rented out to a Brazilian pentacostal evangelist community, so it seems that there is an international network behind it as well.
One of the hallmarks is their ultra-zionism, which makes sense, as a lot of Latin American governments used to support Palestine, even the right-wing Catholic ones. Guatemala was hit especially hard, and the indigenous there already survived an US-backed genocide.
Take the Brazilian football team, they used to be entirely Catholic when they won their last World Cup in 2002. Now it's dominated by evangelicals, who also appear as "Christian incluencers" off the pitch, and they all support Bolsonaro. Same in Colombia.
>>2927490luckily religion is declining in general so the horse race between various forms of abrahamic spooks is largely irrelevant.
>>2927491>luckily religion is declining in generalExcept it literally isn't.
>>2927498The proof is the birthrates. Religion is growing as a function of religious countries still having very high birthrates. You are very ignorant if you think the drop of religion in developed countries puts a dent into that and a huge chunk of Africa is full of schizo evangelicals as well.
>>2927504If I were to do that I would probably still notice a rise in secularism although before you say personal bias I will since that first. It could easily be a function of me spending less time in more southern rural areas than I did when I was younger.
>>2927508I think this one is kind of a toss-up if the countries with these big surges in population with very religious populations either really go to shit from the double whammy of imperialism and climate change(religion goes up) or become more developed and urbanized(religion goes down). I could see it going either way honestly.
>>2927519>to shit from the double whammy of imperialism and climate change(religion goes up) or become more developed and urbanized(religion goes down). I could see it going either way honestly.I don't know what you mean by that. Countries going to shit correlates with both religousness and and increase in birth rates so you are just bolstering my argument.
>>2927531israelism's growth in brazil has greatly slowed down and their numbers were 5% lower than this graph predicted according to the 2022 census
>>2927554Just Nigeria alone is going to have more people than all of the Americas combined in 30 years. Brazil is fucking irrelevant bruh.
>>2927531Ig so? I literally said I think it can go either way depending on if countries like Nigeria develop to the same extent the USA,USSR or PRC did. If they don't and end up more like India your arguement will probably come true.