Tag: Christianity



No âmbito da política externa, uma aliança fundamentalista não seria novidade. O melhor exemplo disso é o apoio dos EUA aos jihadistas afegãos contra a União Soviética.

Liberation theology brought liberalism to the Church. And every social organization that liberalism touches crumbles.

Thus, neo-Pentecostalism provided the ingredients for evangelicals to live in a holy war against their neighbors. Their victory, however, consisted of being wealthy.

I don’t mean the people depicted in stone in the British Museum, with angular beards riding chariots surrounded by lions – although there is an interesting scholarly debate about whether these are their direct descendants – but the few thousand Christians scattered among a few dozen villages in the hills of Tur Abdin in south east Turkey, a stone’s throw from the Syrian border.