Lainie wrote:
Blackdog, might be interesting to note that most of the email scams I'm getting lately are coming from Africa. Is there a relationship? ;-)
Ah, the literally archetypal Nigerian scam...

Would it surprise you at all, to learn that Christianity in Nigeria is overflowing with Pentecostals?? An online forum I used to patronize got pretty much invaded by Pentecostals from all over the place...including Nigeria.

To be quite honest, the only person from Nigeria who I have ever known IRL, was a Pentecostal and attended the local wannabe megachurch. I worked with her for a few months before she got fired. She was a college student, and off and on was involved with another co-worker who (as he learned more about the history) eventually became pretty opposed to Christianity in general.

I have heard from other African people that I know, that in countries like Nigeria and Uganda the fastest way to get rich is to become a Pastor and most are what they call "Born agains" (That's what it translates into in English, I forget the African word) which generally means extreme Fundamentalists or (more often) Pentecostals. The people who have told me this are from South Africa and Zimbabwe, respectively and are Anglican and Catholic, respectively.
  

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