TO GOD'S WILL
Brazil is generally regarded as the largest Catholic country in the world. Thirty years ago were non-Catholics are a tiny minority. Within a generation this has changed dramatically from the perspective of the Vatican's impeccable image.
According to a study from March 2010 are just einma 61% of Brazilians as a Catholic. Decreasing trend. On the stock market, one would say that the downtrend is intact. With a population of just over 190 million, Brazil is so, in Mexico, although still the largest Catholic country. But with this development, there is only a matter of time before this title is lost.
exact figures on religious affiliation are difficult to determine because Brazil, like the vast majority all countries around the world, knows no church tax. As a result, the exodus from the Catholic Church is totally silent accomplished. A formal exit from the church in Germany is not required. As in Germany, including in this country takes only a small minority of the estimated 5% active part in the life of the community.
Financial reasons are not relevant for ensuring that more and more Brazilians return Rome back. If it is not the money, what is it?
The main cause is probably related to Deuschland to search among the growing alienation of the Catholic Church from the reality of life. Who cares really about the Catholic sexual teaching? Who cares what others have to say lonely old men in drag to marriage and family? Church takes place at baptism, at the wedding and the funeral. That's it then already. Closing time. to explain
If these conditions are not yet sufficient, the declining influence of the Holy Roman Catholic Church in Brazil, then do the news about sexual Abuse of children and young people by priests in Germany, Ireland, the United States, but in Brazil the rest.
Yes, Brazil is of such a crime not excluding, unfortunately. Nationally known, the case of a priest who abused children in 2001 and 2002 at the age of 13 and 5 (!) Years. 2005 witnessed the process. A judge sent him for almost 15 years behind bars. That's even a word.
A drama that the exodus from the Catholic Church certainly has accelerated in addition, occurred in early 2009 in the area of Recife, in northeastern Brazil. There, a 9-year-old girl was raped by her stepfather. The little girl was pregnant. The doctors saw the pregnancy for this child as a life-threatening risk, and took - thank God - before an abortion. Then, the doctors and the girl's mother - and not the stepfather - Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho the Lord excommunicated. Whose literal reasons: Abortion is a worse sin than rape.
Papst Benedikt XVI. trägt seinen Teil zum Niedergang bei, indem er Südamerika weitgehend ignoriert. So muss es nicht weiter verwundern, dass die katholische Kirche in Brasilien den Rückwärtsgang eingeschlagen hat. Die Ausnahme, welche die Regel bestätigt, heißt Marcelo Rossi, seines Zeichens ein charismatischer Priester in São Paulo, dessen Gottesdienste von mehreren zehntausend Menschen besucht werden. Doch Marcelo Rossi ist für die meisten Brasilianer weit weg.
Und so hat sich nach der oben zitierten Untersuchung bereits jeder vierte in Brasilien one of the many Protestant churches connected.
in the Brazilian language usage of the term "Igrejas evangélicas", or "Protestant churches", while a distinction in German between "evangelical" and "evangelical". Protestant churches include those religious groups who see themselves in the tradition of the Reformation. Evangelical churches are characterized by high levels of trust in biblical past. This characterization can obviously overlap. Thus belong in Germany as various evangelical churches of the Protestant churches.
In Brazil, "Igrejas evangélicas" are divided by officials in those missionary work which ("Igrejas de missão") and those who are in the Pentecostal movement of their monomer originating have. The first group includes the more traditional Protestants, therefore, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists and batiste.
In the second and much larger Group focus the believers on two heavyweights: the "Assembleia de Deus", the "Assembly of God" and the "Igreja Universal Reino de Deus Thurs," Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. " In addition, there are a huge number of smaller churches, which often are active only in one place.
The great visibility in Campo Grande has - over 50 "branches" - undoubtedly the "Igreja Universal Reino de Deus Thurs," Universal Church of the Empire of God. " The largest gathering place, a temple of colossal proportions in a central location, offers about 4,000 people comfortably.
This church, with its founder and self-appointed Bishop Edir Macedo in the lead, in recent years repeatedly come under criticism for alleged questionable practices in dealing with the faithful and their financial resources. In a secretly filmed video posted on YouTube and Macedo said his staff how they can maintain even in times of crisis, the willingness to donate the faithful.
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by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages practiced method to hell and eternal damnation if you do not - by paying a fee - paid for the indulgence of his sins, does not apply in Brazil. Brazilians are not to be motivated by looking at the world beyond threats. Rather, it is the "story" of this church like this: "Dedicate your life to the church, donating hard and plentiful, and your life will change for the better. So if you should you refuse to support with financial contributions from the great work of the church, God will another election, to help. And you're out. If your life this is going down -. You have willed it otherwise "
This video is a former confidant of the church's founder Macedo to speak, which demonstrates that it now would be a matter solely to take the faithful as much money. The church of its own as a lucrative business idea.
On a smaller scale can be found almost around every corner, a local, independent evangelikale Kirche, die dem jeweiligen Pastor dank der Spenden der Gläubigen sein Auskommen sichert.
Die älteste und mit über 8 Millionen zugleich mitgliederstärkste jener Kirchen ist die „Assembleia de Deus“, der brasilianische Ableger der US-amerikanischen „Assembly of God“. Im nächsten Jahr wird es 100 Jahre her sein, dass die ersten US-amerikanischen Missionare auf brasilianischem Boden ihre Gottesversammlungen errichteten. Auch dieser Kirche wird vorgehalten, dass es ihr weniger um das Seelenheil als mehr um den Inhalt des Portmonnaies der Gläubigen gehe, genährt durch Berichte über beachtlichen Reichtum der geistlichen Führer.
All diese kritische Berichterstattung tut dem Erfolg dieser Kirche jedoch keinen Abbruch. Das Erfolgsgeheimnis scheint nämlich darin zu bestehen, dass die Führer der evangelikalen Kirchen erkannt haben, was die Menschen Botschaften hören wollen: Botschaften, welche ihnen helfen, an sich selbst zu glauben. Folgerichtig wird ganz stark mit positivem Denken gearbeitet. „Du kannst das. Du schaffst das. Gott ist mit Dir.“
Now, let's face it: If I have a choice between "If you sin, you will burn in hell!" And "Believe in yourself because God believes in you! You can accomplish great because God intends great with you. "- As I'll decide that? And if it goes ahead in my life by, I believe that this is still well worth a small fee.
The "Igreja Universal" with Brazil far more than 2 million members, takes a year, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Finance about 1.4 Billion reais, up to date about 630 million Euro. That is one part a lot of money. On the other hand, however, per year, however, creditors and power with 300 € rather then just a tip, compared with the German church tax. Reminder: 8% (Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria) and 9% (remaining provinces) of income tax.
But then there's that uncomfortable, which is caused by reports like this: In the last week, a distraught mother chained for seven hours, the fence of the "Catedral da Fé ", the" Cathedral of Faith, "the central Temple of "Igreja Universal" here in Campo Grande to protest against the methods of this church. Her 17-year-old son lived for two years only for the church. His work has been stopped to collect money from morning to evening for the church.
this should not obscure the fact that evangelical churches also bring much good in social projects with vulnerable children and young people or even with Indians. As so often in life, even here the picture is not simply black or white, but rich in facets.
And then there are the spiritualists (Espíritas "), that those who invoke spirits to communicate this with the help of a medium. This has only just time to do anything with religion. The Brazilian spiritualists beams are, however, follow the teachings of the Frenchman Allan Kardec, a pupil of the pedagogue Pestalozzi, who in the nineteenth century spiritualist doctrine gave a theoretical foundation. In his book "The Book of Spirits" he answered more than a thousand questions about spirits. More than two million Brazilians are followers of this doctrine, the "Kardecianismus" (Kardecismo "). In many Brazilian cities to find streets named after him ("Rua Allan Kardec").
Kardec, the Christian ethics, especially the Ten Commandments in his spiritualist doctrine integrated. Therefore, the Brazilian spiritualists also understand, as Christians, just stop beyond the Catholic and Protestant denominations. Even here in Campo Grande you will find numerous "Centros Espírita. There, among other spiritualist "operations" carried out to treat physical ailments. It then flows no Blut. Stattdessen werden Geister angerufen, die helfen sollen, die spiritistische Seite des Patienten wieder ins Lot zu bringen, auf dass diese sich heilend auswirke auf die körperliche Verfassung. Hier geht es nun definitv nicht ums Geld. Für derartige Dienstleistungen wird keinerlei Honorar erhoben, lediglich freiwillige Spenden werden akzeptiert.
Wer bei diesem reichhaltigen Glaubensangebot noch immer nicht das Richtige gefunden hat, für den stehen noch ausgewiesene Wunderheiler bereit, wie etwas der selbst ernannte „Apostel“ Valdemiro Santiago, Gründer und Chef der „Weltkirche the power of God "(" Poder de Deus Igreja Mundial Thurs). Some twenty years he was for the above-mentioned "Igreja Universal" before joining in 1998, technically self-employed in faith. His church company now has more than 1,000 stores, so-called temple in the country.
this week he has been invited here in a large park on the outskirts of a "great gathering of faith and miracles." At the invitation poster will be delivered simultaneously with the "proof". A creditor holding up a note and announced that here in our Bundesstaat ein Blinder nun wieder sehen kann. Ein Wunder also. Mit der Rechtschreibung hapert es zwar noch ein bisschen, aber das wird sicher auch noch.
Und die Moral von der Geschicht´? Auch in Brasilien ist es nicht leicht, den richtigen Weg ins Himmelreich zu finden. Ach Gott.
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