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Christianity reborn; Pentecostals.

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20061223
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A century after its birth Pentecostalism is redrawing the religious map of the world and undermining the notion that modernity is secular

N 1906 Ambrose Bierce, one of America's finest satirists, published a guide to bullshit, "The Cynic's Word Book" or, as it was later rechristened, "The Devil's Dictionary". Bierce reserved his sharpest barbs for religion. To pray, he said, is "to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy". Religion is "a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the ...

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