Daniel F. Cediel

Slower, Older, Smarter

[ordinary girl 🇵🇸 @lumazoncampos]

Que Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe livre a América Latina do neopentecostalismo 🙏🏻

[Sargón de Acad @Zyzzno1fan]

Mi abuela católica me avisaba a qué hora pasaban Dragon Ball, mi mamá católica, me grababa en VSH los capítulos.

La profesora evangélica sapa hijueputa de primaria que me vio haciendo un kameha: ESO ES DEL DIABLO POR ESO USTED SIEMPRE ESTÁ MOLESTANDO.

[Caraxes tomando agüita enjoyer @JuanmaIond]

Las sectas cristianas y evangélicas llevan ya DÉCADAS erosionando nuestro tejido cultural y comunitario:

Nos botaban los CDs, nos prohibían ver anime, leer manga y comics, consumir ciertos alimentos; nos alejaron de amigos y primos con los que crecimos porque “éramos mundanos”

[Camilo C. @caancapu]

Me parece terrible que la gente esté empezando a encaminar y hacer público su odio a las iglesias cristianas y evangélicas del continente...sin mí.

El neopentecostalismo es un cáncer en la región.

[Happy D. Bustamante @hapielo]

Me agrada que la eliminación de Brasil y Colombia nos esté haciendo reflexionar el daño que han hecho las ‘iglesias’ cristianas y evangélicas.

[A @Soy_Amazona]

Esta teoría se puede aplicar a la selección Colombia. Repito, el prostestantismo es un cancer

[Burako @BurakoMalvado]

Culpa católica "me equivoque y pague" > Predestinación neopentecostal "latimosamente e el plan de dio mí amol".

[gabriel @fulgonigabriel]

nunca imaginei que uma eliminação de Seleção Brasileira na Copa do Mundo faria o povo CLAMAR pela volta do CATOLICISMO como moldador do tecido social geral

dito isso, repudiem a heresia, abracem a TRADIÇÃO

[Serena Destripada🐰 @soymimila]

Rápido, cuenten cuantos jugadores evangélicos hay en la selección Colombia

[Ally-Seraphine main @allywooww]

Me fui a Twitter Brasil y están diciendo que el declive de su futbol es por el ascenso de los evangélicos en su país

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Nearly all of the Colombian team are neo-Pentecostalist evangelicals. Just sayin’

[Oscar @0k_arimno]

Para los católicos, la salvación y realización personal se alcanza mediante obras y la oración

Para los evangélicos la salvacion y realización personal son predestinacion divina

¿Para que hacer más si todo esta escrito? Mediocres desde lo espíritual hasta los futbolistico

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

EVANGELICALISM AND THE DECLINE OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL 🇧🇷

After yet another World Cup defeat Brazil is again soul searching - “Why has Brazil become so bad at one of the only things it still used to be good at?”

One of the most popular explanations among Brazilians this time is the rise of evangelicalism in Brazil, especially Pentecostalism. The argument goes that this has ‘spiritually’ undermined the Brazilian team. At the 2022 census about 27% of Brazil’s population over 10 identified as evangelical Protestants. In 2000 the percentage was 15.4% and in 1980 6.6%. A common explanation for this growth is that Pentecostal and evangelical churches were able to expand so rapidly over the past half century because they offered a new version of Christianity that prioritised close-knit local communities, energetic worship and a ‘message of personal transformation’ (and some also say in a derisive sense more ‘accessible’ ‘lower barrier to entry’ version of Christianity, with everything that entails) that especially resonated with ‘urban and lower-income’ Brazilians during Brazil’s comparatively economically and culturally stagnant recent history. In particular, with the kinds of demographics who lived in or adjacent to Brazilian favelas that football wunderkinds used to be drawn from

This is a kind of version of the other main explanation I have heard for Brazil’s decline; that it lost its swag, its samba, its Latin flair - or ‘duende’. You can’t really empirically prove these claims of course and both arguments (see more of this other argument below) make different root claims but the commonality they share is that Brazilian football used to have a kind of playful Latin - maybe you could say Catholic - magic to it. It was very flashy and improvised but it was also a sort of highly skilled dance that you ‘flowed’ with, it was almost liturgical. (Argentina for instance a team that still has a bit more of this)

The Evangelical argument extends into how it has affected social dynamics in the favelas too. I can’t really speak on how accurate these claims are but apparently it has made families more cautious and less communal, less inclined to ‘let kids go out and play’ ie play football with other favela kids - the focus is instead on ‘staying safe’ and ‘individual hard work at school’. For the players from this new milieu that still do get selected for top-flight football then the effect is it makes them more individualistic, less inclined to cooperate, less likely to see it as ‘a group dance’ and more inclined instead to ‘just charge in’ etc

This is what they say! You are free to buy into that however much you want. Possibly a lot of this is just ‘cope’ so-called from a country that maybe too much ties its entire identity to football. Does seem to me that part of the finger-pointing too is you can spin it as a kind of neo-colonialism, in a cultural sense. That it comes from America, from the West. You can see quite extreme left wing Brazilian accounts repeating this claim so you do have reason to be a little sceptical in that

In any case the decline is obviously multi-causal - you can also point to the rise of European football, lack of money, bad tactics or coaching, changing tactics worldwide that no longer favour Brazil, everybody else is just that good now etc. On the right, you will hear too that the decline is related to the decline of the Brazilian nation generally ie greater incompetence all round. It isn’t just that lost their Latin - or Catholic - flair, it is that they became more ‘Third World’. Evangelicalism in this sense then would be less a problem of Calvinist Predestination Teutonic Weberian Protestant Work Ethic Protestantism - more a problem of, in the extreme, Sub-Saharan African village church with a corrugated iron roof Evangelicalism

Either way there is a general feeling that the death of Brazil football represents the loss of a version of the national soul - that Brazil has now somehow changed for the worse

[Serena Destripada🐰 @soymimila]

A los católicos nos enseñan a asumir las fallas desde el arrepentimiento, la autoreflexión y la VOLUNTAD de cambiar y mejorar, mientras que los evangélicos cada que fallan pueden lavarse las manos atribuyendo su mediocridad a que “Esa era la voluntad de Dios” y listo🤡

[Daniel Andrés @dandressilva01]

“Ojalá la FIFA no robe tanto”.

La FIFA:

[Julio El Grande, Domador de Protestantes Herejes @julioel_domador]

@allywooww El declive de cualquier sociedad en el mundo, en especial cualquier sociedad hispana (aquí incluyo a españa) se debe al ascenso del protestantismo, sea cual sea la denominación de su secta

[Miguel Gomez M @miguel_gomez_m]

No existe el dinero público. El dinero que tiene el Estado es un dinero que sudaron los colombianos para pagar impuestos. Y por eso debe ser administrado con prudencia y rigor.

[Mike Moreno @MikeMoreno07]

Siempre quise leer esto de un ministro de Hacienda…