Anybody know why there’s such a big difference?
Protestant work ethic is a hell of a drug
Same reasons evangelicals flocked to trump, or more accurately, because of how trump and bolsonaro both sucked up the them to win their votes
Catholics are taught the ten commandments and have some general idea of caring for others .
Where as evangelicals are told they can do what ever they want and as long as they say they are Christian they will get into heaven. 🤷
American Catholics are basically evangelicals
Could also do with the fact that the Catholic Church actually converted indigenous people. Where as evangelicas just seem to be European colonizing descendents.
It’s probably the latter
I’d like to point out that’s modern US Evangelicals as a whole. Plenty of other Protestants have a concerningly complete command of the bible (Sola Scriptura will do that) and The Quakers and Diggers and many others have been staunch champions of the working classes.
The “Option for the Poor” is a key Catholic doctrine and in South America especially leads to a Liberation Theology approach. Catholicism is a broad church, and judging it based on US tradcaths who think the only Church Council that counts is Vatican I is a mistake.
There is also the fact that the poorer classes tend to be Catholic and the richer Protestant.
The preferential option for the poor is my favorite part of Catholicism. It is a truly radical piece of doctrine. While calvinists here in the states will tell you that their wealth is their just reward for living a good Christian life, the catholics straight up say “no, God loves poor people more than you.”
Not exactly sure what that means for the folks in the Vatican… but it’s such a powerful tool for liberation theologians.
Also, I think every rich calvinist who gets the wall deserves a chance to try to fit a camel through the eye of a needle. Let them marinate in the fact that their next stop is hell.
If we blend the rich, we can use capillary action to pass them through the eye of a needle.
a lot of the time religious differences will follow class differences for example in the UK the majority of Christians are Catholic but Catholics tend to be poor, working class and often immigrants, whereas protestants are more likely to be members of the bourgoise.
Without looking it up it’s very likely that in Brazil Catholics are poorer on average than Evangelicals who are wealthy immigrants from America so have different class interests
