> ... since the Brazilian coup of 1964, the churches have been pressed into opposition to subfascism, just as under #Nazism, as the last institutional refuge of the population against state terror and state-protected and state-sponsored exploitation. Initially, again in close analogy with Nazi experience, the coming into power of the #NationalSecurityState was greeted by the church in a country like Brazil with mixed feelings, and some positive expectations..[from] conservative church leaders.🧵