Its origin with strong Black Slaves input:[url] http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/race/060400sack-church-side.html[/url]

3.3 The African Roots

There are several theories about the origins of Pentecostalism (Robeck 1993:166), but the generation of the movement from a black church rooted in the African American culture of the nineteenth century is an extremely significant fact. Many early manifestations of Pentecostalism were found in the religious expressions of the slaves and were themselves a reflection of the African religious culture from which they had been wrenched (Anderson 1991:27). Seymour himself was deeply affected by black slave spirituality (Nelson 1981: 157-158). Black pentecostal scholar Leonard Lovett said that “black Pentecostalism emerged out of the context of the brokenness of black existence... their holistic view of religion had its roots in African religion” (MacRobert 1988:77-78). Hollenweger (1986:5-6) considers the main features of this African American spirituality to be oral liturgy, narrative theology and witness, the maximum participation of the whole community in worship and service, the inclusion of visions and dreams into public worship, and understanding the relationship between body and mind manifested by healing through prayer. MacRobert (1988:29) adds that rhythmic hand clapping, the antiphonal participation of the congregation in the sermon, the immediacy of God in the services and baptism by immersion (all common pentecostal practices) are “survivals of Africanisms”. These expressions were fundamental to early Pentecostalism and remain in the movement to this day. The African roots of Pentecostalism help explain its significance in the Third World today. But as Robert Anderson (1979:222) observes, a movement which was “born of radical social discontent ... expended its revolutionary impulses in veiled, ineffectual, displaced attacks that amounted to withdrawal from the social struggle” in its subsequent history. This originally working class and racially integrated movement was designed to protest against the social system which marginalised its members, but it eventually “functioned in a way that perpetuated that very system”.

http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/aanderson/Publications/origins.htm


Pentecostalism used to control South America by US

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The evangelical groups tried to dissuade Central Americans from joining movements for social change, by holding out the hope of spiritual alternatives to political action. They were the cheerleaders for US military intervention. Many North American missionary organisations were CIA fronts following orders from Washington. Evangelical growth was the direct result of strategic US planning.
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http://zingcreed./2013/10/23/i-accuse-7-cia-behind-missionaries-in-latin-america/

My case with Nigerian

From my understanding of people and the way we react, Pentecostal wins over the youths because the have the "feel good factor" lacking in the older churches. The churches are porch unlike the traditional churches. The pastors look and dresses porch. They fake American civilised accents. They wear the best dresses on sundays and encourages their members to do so. Infact they all fake to be all good.

Their message is all about prosperity. They make you believe you life is changing even when you are dying. These are tools that can be perfectly used by con-masters.

Everything smells fishy to me as an independent observer. remember they hardly criticise the powerful; they court them. They fashion their message to suit the rich and powerful. They are pro-government in power. They encourage the poor to believe that all riches are from God; denying them the ability to criticise to crooks among us.

It seems a tool fashioned to maintain the status-quo. A tool to make the poor happy in his povert; in a false belief that God is already changing their poor status, without their working hard.

I wanted to investigate Idahosa more since all the Pentecostals leaders are linked to him.

This is what is startling.

In 1971, he earned a diploma in Divinity from Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas.
In 1981, he earned a Doctorate of Divinity from the Word of Faith College in New Orleans.
In 1984, he earned a Doctorate in Law at the Oral Roberts University.
He was the founding president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN)
He was a member of the College of Bishops of the International Communion of Christian Churches.
He was once the President of All Nations for Christ Bible Institute.

He had strong American contacts; his prosperity preaching is different from what is said in the Bible (especially the message of Christ).

I will be searching for material on this and will update you guys.

let all work and see how this false culture is taking over our land.

I myself had these curious suspicions:
Adeboye had to go to Kenneth Hagins before his ministry started growing
There was a rumour that the Christian Union initially got their fundings from America, used in evangelism and numerous love(food)feasts , which were used to entice people into the born-again movement.

I have also some informations about penecostal and that many of them study in ile ife.

I will also help because i know that could help to open they eyes.

I have also some informations from america about penecostal and who they work.

Pentecostalism only forms a negliglible proportion of the american population(just about 5%).I wonder how they could control the american life.You can hardly find pentecosctal churches with up to 1m in Population in the US.A few years ago they were estimated at 15m people out of a total population of about 300m.