Radical Theology: The New “White” Religion?

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11. Pentecostalism isn't just light on theology it is a virulent form of anti-intellectualism

and is almost always mixed up with extreme right wing politics.


The decline in mainline Protestant denominations is happening at the same time community 'bible' churches have grown as individual community churches are not constrained with connectional ecclesiastical structures that will force them to face issues like abortion and same sex marriage that the want to avoid. Pentecostalism is an even more virulent form of this but tends to draw from different populations that are less educated, more impoverished, and in the US more immigrant based.

If you have not gone to a full blown Pentecostal church service, you should, it is an eye opening cultural shock that will leave you with an appreciation of just how deep and wide the religious mumbo jumbo is.