Religious intolerance is a term that describes the mental attitude characterized by lack of ability or willingness to recognize and respect differences and religious beliefs of others. May have originated in their own religious beliefs on someone or being motivated by intolerance against religious beliefs and practices of others. (Wikipedia)
have religious persecution, is an extreme case of intolerance, and abuse is the persistent drive a group to another group or an individual because of their religious belief.
Usually, persecution Such flourishes because of the lack of religious tolerance, freedom of religion and religious pluralism.
In ancient times there was much talk in the persecution of early Christians by Jews, the Nazis developed methods of mass destruction and killed millions of Jews, the followers of the cult african Brazilians were persecuted and criminalized for long periods, especially Umbanda and Candomble which were harshly persecuted in the past half century and listed as enemies of the Catholics.
With the growth of Umbanda, the Catholic Church gone there for 50 years of the last century decided to set up a special secretariat aimed at CNBB to tackle the growing number of faithful of Umbanda and other mediumistic cults. Had the pompous name SECRETARIAT NATIONAL DEFENCE OF THE FAITH.
For Catholics the Umbanda, or spirit, was in a situation marked by material and moral poverty. what was said the Archbishop of Porto Alegre Dom Vicente Scherer in 1957, and more: " Umbanda is the revival of the absurd beliefs that the unhappy slaves brought from the jungles of his martyred African homeland. Encourage the Umbanda is decay, is to increase ignorance, is aggravate. "
At the end of the last century spiritualists have come under constant attack of Charismatic Churches, more especially, by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, founded by Bishop Edir Macedo but also by the International Church of the Grace of God led by Pastor RRSoares, a relative of Bishop Macedo.
Neopentescostais These churches did not even spare the Catholic Church accused the pastors of these churches of Catholics "idolaters and heretics." Was the famous episode in which the Bishop Sergio Vom Helder, the Church Universal kicks an image of Our Lady of Aparecida live on the Awakening of Faith, with transmission by the Record TV network, owned by the Church Universal, October 12 day of the Saint. Said the bishop: "For those who like, who is addicted to those in need, who is dependent on plaster figurines, faith and plasticized plaster, faith visible, palpable ... For those who enjoy all this and defends tooth and nail, run to the Church ". This caused great repercussions in the season with a fierce indignation, not only by Catholics but on people in general.
Hebe Camargo, known television presenter said in an interview: "I sometimes wonder how the evangelical churches are able to brainwash thousands of people. The faithful are completely obsessed and not realize they are leaving pastors getting richer at the expense of "mensalinho the devil."
Brazil is a Secular State, ie, separated, divorced from any religion, with the right to religious freedom guaranteed by the Constitution but with constant clashes between Catholics and evangelical spirit, accusing each other for favors both state organs as individuals. Clashes between the Globo Television Network and the Universal Church, or Church Universal and Spiritualists, are listed in the media and in our courts.
In our country we have legal standards that aim to punish those religious intolerance, among them the Law 7.716/89, which was amended by Law 9.459/97, which criminalizes the practice of discrimination or prejudice against religions. Among many assurances given by such a rule, this does not remove the right to criticize what you can do in a follower of one religion to another religion, it is the free expression of thought, and many of the allegations of a supposed "religious intolerance" are indeed, cases of criticism of religions, these criticisms constitutionally protected. Interestingly, the act of "intolerance" ends up being just the part that accuses the author of the critique of "religious intolerance" by not knowing how to live with differences opinions, something proper to a democracy.
Therefore, this "holy war", we adopt the strategy of demonizing the symbolic universe of the other's religion, and especially the african-Brazilian religions, whose motive may be the historical racism, which is rooted in Brazilian culture, since the religious matrix African country that came with the slaves, who were viewed as inferior with their religion and culture in relation to the religion of "sir" ruler who was a Christian.
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