BRAZIL: IDEOLOGICAL DIVISION, RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN PANDEMIC TIMES

Abstract

This article aims to create a space for reflection around the emergence in Brazil of a fundamentalist Christian right, the rise of Bolsonaro, and the performance of his government in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as his responsibility for the environmental degradation that the country has been suffering for the past two years. In addition, creating an atmosphere of debate and analysis, which can contribute to understanding the setbacks in socio-environmental policies, and social inclusion, which give rise to a questioned government program, in which the jargon “Brazil above all, and God above of all”, symbolize the values ​​of an evangelical wing, which opposes the concept of a pluralist state, conceived within the Brazilian constitution. The pandemic situation reveals the attitudes of a government that on the one hand minimizes the lethality of the virus, and on the other hand turns the health strategies created by technicians and specialists, into the object of political disputes, which we also intend to consider. Through bibliographic sources, and research carried out by different studies in Brazil, we seek to design a social, religious and political reality that can allow us to advance in the construction of a critical ideal of Bolsonaro's Brazil.