This data file may not be used without the permission of the Christian Research Institute for resale or the enhancement of any other product sold. This includes all of its content with the exception of a few brief quotations not to exceed more than 500 words. P.O. Box 500-TC, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693. The editor of the Christian Research Newsletter is Ron Rhodes. To the newcomer arriving after sunset, the beach has a nightmarish quality.
Christians immediately sense the spiritual oppression of the place.
The filthy sand is strewn with idols and candles. In Africa, Iemanja had earlier been portrayed as rotund, black, and adorned with fish. This Brazilian rendition of the goddess, however, is slender, Caucasian, her gaze cold and empty, dressed in a flowing blue dress, pearls falling from her outstretched palms. In centuries past, Iemanja was pleased to receive not only trinkets, but squealing children as well. They stop and converse with spiritists and bystanders, asking questions and offering alternatives.