2023-10-23 18:09:42
In a text whose objective would, in theory, be to draw a parallel between the influencing factors in the presidential dispute in Argentina and the Brazilian political context, sociologist Muniz Sodré ended up transforming his article into a free pamphlet attacking national Pentecostalism, which means to Pentecostals.
Linking Pentecostalism to conservatism, Sodré begins the text by seeing “bad omens” about Argentina’s political future. Recalling a statement by the PT’s communications secretary, the writer insinuates that a large part of the Argentine population would be incapable of accepting “civilizing goods”.
To try to justify his thinking, Sodré goes back to the past, the time of the Vargas dictatorship in Brazil, as well as the Nazi period, citing the “mental state of the German people” to draw a parallel with the current political context in Brazil and Argentina.
In case the reader has not understood: the sociologist associates Pentecostalism, precisely its power of influence over “the masses”, with the Nazi ideology responsible for the Jewish Holocaust, when at least 6 million lives were lost at the hands of the murderous regime led by Adolf Hitler.
“Jecas and brucutus”
Continuing with his text, Muniz Sodré says that “in fact, there is a language of faith, which escapes the only rationalist evaluations of the left. In the devout hearts of all eras the mystical blood of ‘some order of knights’ (Klemperer) pumps, which, although pagan, articulates with Christian representations. Among us, Pentecostalism is the incubator of those submissive to regression.”
The author, therefore, implies that the Brazilian Pentecostal population, made up of millions of people from the most different sociocultural conditions, would represent the “failed mass” of a people who are intellectually inferior and, therefore, “without a will of their own”.
Finally, as if trying to mask the tone of religious intolerance and intellectual rudeness through more elaborate language, the author still refers to the followers of Pentecostalism as people “angry viragos, jecas and brucutus”, concluding with a warning to Argentines about the “clown” Javier Milei, right-wing candidate for President of the country.
In reply to Publication made by Folha de S. Paulo, a follower questioned the motivation of the text about the influence of Pentecostals in national politics: “I can classify this matter as religious intolerance, religious prejudice or it only applies when [sic] Is the subject another Afro-descendant religion?”
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