Posted on 02/23/2017 10:50:25 AM PST by C19fan
While campaigning last year to become Rio de Janeiro's mayor, Marcelo Crivella, a retired Pentecostal bishop, insisted his faith would not get in the way of governing the nation's most famous city.
The former gospel singer and missionary, a high-profile member of one of Brazil's most powerful evangelical churches, captured 59 percent of the vote and took office Jan. 1. But less than two months into his four-year term, Crivella's promises are about to be tested by Carnival, Rio's annual weeklong party often marked by heavy drinking and drug use, wild sex and round-the-clock dancing.
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You ain’t seen nothin’ ‘til you’ve experienced fantasy fest in Key West. True debauchery.
mardi gras aint no church picnic either
We can’t tell the difference anymore between harmless enjoyment and feasting before the rigors of Lent, and heathen debauchery.
Not to mention: how many of the chuckleheads out feasting on Tuesday will be fasting on Wednesday? Not too many I’d wager.
Yeah, nekkid elderly Ernest Hemingway lookalikes schtuping in the streets is real purty.
Rio is pagan-Catholic and always has been.
The church was actually rather weak in the Americas through a lack of clergy, it was nothing like semi-puritanical 19th century rural Portugal.
Yes it is debauchery, but it is traditional there.
The best way to fight the grotesque is to offer something much better. The way this could be done by a Pentacostal is to cooperate with other more conservative churches to create a far more “family friendly” version of Shrovetide, separate and apart from the disorderly crowd. And even encourage parents with small children to leave them in the “safe place” as the parents go to attend the party.
Instead of the excess, they could offer more nutritious food and drink, religious spirituality expressed through quality sacred music, friendliness and kindness instead of excess and revelry.
This is a “long game”, to teach children a more polite way to live, which they can consider as adults. The assumption that people are naturally attracted to extremes is not true, especially if they know of better ways.
Seriously, have you been to both? I have several times. There is simply no comparison of key west to the entire nation of Brasil celebrating Carnaval. Do yourself a favor, be safe about it because it is much more dangerous now, but go and see for yourself. I went and mentally never came back and still love it to this day. Crappy country, great party...
Yep, never really had much of an interest in going to new Orleans. I might go to try a few restaurants but that’s about it.
Thanks for that visual. :)
Support for temperance, modesty, and chastity is always going to be an unpopular position. I wish the mayor well.
I remember the first time I stumbled across a nude beach in Europe for the first time, back in 1990.
I still get convulsive shutters.
Some things just brief better than they turn out to be.
Not me! ☺
“Yep, never really had much of an interest in going to new Orleans. I might go to try a few restaurants but that’s about it.”
It’s worth going to once to enjoy the architecture and food. I’ve been five or six times on business trips, most recently about 15 months ago. The French Quarter and the waterfront were cleaned up somewhat in the rebuilding after Katrina. I would avoid it at Mardi Gras and in the summer, however.
Those that should be nekkid, aren’t.
Those that shouldn’t be nekkid, ever, are.
Crime was horrible when I used to go. My friends tell me it is far worse. They have seemingly converted to right wing politics and have come to openly hate socialists. This is a big turn of things, they used to tell me they loved Clinton. Total turnaround. I guess they needed to experience the hell of socialism before their revelation.
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