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Fight Nights and Reggae Pack Brazilian Churches

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO September 14, 2009.

Print: New York Times

The latest mutations in the Christianity meme-complex: in Brazil, where “more and more Brazilians want to experiment and choose their own religion,” the church has mated with pop culture to spawn two strange mutant children.  At the “Reborn in Christ Church” a pastor engages in bare-chested jujitsu fights.  At the “Bola de Neve Church” pastors lead the crowd in reggae sing-alongs.