The Church is the cover job for big business to move in and gut the place. History repeats itself. But this time, Evangelicals are playing the role Jesuits used to play in the operation.

Deep in the Amazon, the Gospel Arrives by Boat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/deep-in-the-amazon-the-gospel-arrives-by-boat/ar-AA1KdpXy

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The spiritual battle in the Amazon is also reshaping the world’s biggest rainforest, environmentalists and indigenous leaders say. Brazil’s evangelicals have forged alliances with right-wing agribusiness groups and landowners who have thwarted moves in Congress to protect the forest.

Missionary activity could accelerate the erasure of indigenous culture, threatening communities that environmentalists say safeguard the Amazon. Deforestation rates in indigenous lands are more than 80% lower than elsewhere in the Amazon, a 2024 study by U.K. and Brazilian researchers showed.

“We’re facing extinction,” said Eládio Curico, a leader of the Kokama people.

He said he considers preachers with Bibles as threatening as loggers with chain saws. In the 1970s, he said, Catholic missionaries nearly destroyed his village near Brazil’s border with Colombia and Peru. They persuaded some Kokama to abandon their culture, sparking family feuds and spurring many to leave. It took decades to persuade younger generations to come back, he said.
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