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Why do evangelicals in the US do hella drugs and hookups but the ones in Latin America get so much into purity culture that they shun literal music
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Anonymous 2d

My grandma grew up in a Primitive Baptist church in Georgia that banned instruments and made all church music verbally sung lol

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Anonymous 2d

Idk evangelicals seem pretty uptight to me but I’m not Christian so idk

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Anonymous 2d

Evangelical Protestantism’s influence in Latin America is a Cold War era CIA psyop. That’s not an exaggeration, it’s literally true

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

sacred harp?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

Might have sung some of that yeah

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

damn if so that’d be so cool, v unique tradition with very dour songs, v usually sung by primitive baptists but is now spreading beyond to those outside the church

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

I guess I’m talking more abt the younger born again ones. Where im at they’re all Greek life ppl who go apeshit on Saturday and get forgiven on Sunday to repeat the cycle

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

Yeah I think it’s the distinct shift from the weird small Protestant churches to the media-heavy capitalist megachurch televangelism stuff

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

for sure, i know in Brazil at least it’s dominated by assemblies of god which i A Lot more strict and with a big heap of pentecostalism weirdness for flavor

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

whereas the US i think has a lot more baptists and non-denominational which lean into the capitalist structure

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