Evangelicalism: A worldwide epidemic

[aikido15]

Hundreds of protesters descended on Rio de Janeiro's legislative assembly yesterday, revolted by state proposals offering to bankroll the psychological "conversion" of homosexuals.

The controversial plans, which suggest using public funds to treat the "illness", have already been approved by three committees despite widespread condemnation. The act will be voted on today by state deputies.

"This is not just an offence to gays but to all citizens who will not tolerate discrimination," said Claudio Nascimento, president of the gay rights group Arco-Iris (Rainbow). "Today it's us, but tomorrow who knows?" Nascimento was joined at the demonstration by all walks of Rio society. Further protests are expected.

Rio's evangelical politicians are the target of much of the demonstrators' wrath. Edino Fonseca, who drafted the plans in September 2003, is a member of the enormous Assembleia de Deus (God's Assembly) church.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=590837

[Maple]

1. Future Shock

"Future shock will not be found in Index Medicus or in any listing of psychological abnormalities. Yet, unless intelligent steps are taken to combat it, millions of human beings will find themselves increasingly disoriented, progressively incompetent to deal rationally with their environments. The malaise, mass neurosis, irrationality, and free-floating violence already apparent in contemporary life are merely a foretaste of what may lie ahead unless we come to understand and treat this disease.

"Future shock is a time phenomenon, a product of the greatly accelerated rate of change in society. It arises from the superimposition of a new culture on an old one. It is culture shock in one's own society.But its impact is far worse. For most Peace Corps men, in fact most travelers, have the comforting knowledge that the culture they left behind will be there to return to. The victim of future shock does not.

"Take an individual out of his own culture and set him down suddenly in an environment sharply different from his own, with a different set of cues to react to - different conceptions of time, space, work, love, religion, sex, and everything else - then cut him off from any hope of retreat to a more familiar social landscape, and the dislocation he suffers is doubly severe. Moreover, if this new culture is itself in constant turmoil, and if - worse yet - its values are incessantly changing, the sense of disorientation will be still further intensified. Given few clues as to what kind of behavior is rational under the radically new circumstances, the victim may well become a hazard to himself and others.

"Now imagine not merely an individual but an entire society, and entire generation - including the weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational members - suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass disorientation, future shock on a grand scale.
"This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it."

Book: "Future Shock," by Alvin Toffler: 1970

[alittlelark]

2. I think of it more as 'History Shock'

but I get it.... even if I do not want to:scared:

[nofurylike]

3. rules for LBN. title is wrong for article. the title is

"Rio protesters oppose tax-funded 'cure' for gays"

you should fix that.

otherwise, disgusting piece, but thank you for the information.


peace!

[Lexingtonian]

4. ah yes....

The Modern world comes with a bow shock.

If people weren't getting horribly damaged by it, I'd say: let them figure out how "efficacious" all this crap really is. Exodus International has enough of a track record for them to be able to figure it out.

But they always have to reinvent the wheel, these bright religiously deluded sorts, and figure out that When Nature Says No, It's Unappealable.

[izzie]

5. Yes back to force feeding women because they wish to vote.

And please cover your head.

[UL_Approved]

6. Good find

This article points out many problems around the world. The new Jew: homosexuals.

BTW, Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Moderator]

7. Sadly

I have to lock this. Please follow LBN rules concerning titles and subjects. Anyone who cares to repost with the right subject is welcome to.