Paulo Bittencourt

Paulo Bittencourt (also known as Paulo Bitencourt) is a Brazil-born Austrian freethinker, humanist and atheist.
==Background==
Paulo Bittencourt says he was “abused” as a child, that is, subjected to child indoctrination.Paulo Bitencourt’s article in the “Free Inquiry” magazine His mother took him to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which teaches that Earth was created in 6 days, is 6,000 years old and dinosaurs became extinct because they did not fit into Noah’s big boat.Paulo Bitencourt’s book “Wasting Time on God”, p. 125 Led to believe from the cradle that working for a celestial invisible man is the most noble of all professions, in 1987 Bittencourt enrolled at an Adventist college, in São Paulo, to study Theology. With three semesters left to becoming a man of God, the Bible stories began to seem ridiculous to him and the degree of control the church exercised over his life, excessive. For this reason, he abandoned his studies and moved to Europe, eventually settling in Vienna, Austria, where he graduated from the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien as an opera singer. In 1995, Bittencourt became part of the ensemble of the largest German-language theater, the Burgtheater, both as a singer and actor.Paulo Bitencourt with the Burgtheater at the Mülheim Theater Festival, Germany
==Views==
Although he had left the church and started living without caring about religion and belief in God, Paulo Bittencourt had reservations about considering himself an atheist. That changed when he read the book Ethics, by Bento de Espinosa (Baruch Spinoza). When, with the massive help from Evangelical churches, Jair Bolsonaro, a cheap but no less dangerous copy of Donald Trump, was elected president of Brazil, a country in which 25 new Evangelical churches are started a day,In Brazil, 25 new Evangelical churches are started a day Bittencourt began calling himself “terribly atheistic”, a mockery he makes of Bolsonaro’s “terribly Evangelical”.
The rise to power of ultraconservative and radical right-winger Bolsonaro compelled Paulo Bittencourt to make videos and write about the evils of religion and the benefits of being a freethinker.Paulo Bitencourt’s YouTube channel “Paulo Bittencourt, Freethinker”
Horrified by the explosive growth of Evangelicals and the ever-increasing imposition of religion on politics, Paulo Bittencourt says Brazil is being transformed into a Protestant Saudi Arabia, an Evangelical Iran and a Pentecostal Afghanistan.Paulo Bitencourt’s Facebook Page “Madnesses of the Belief in God”: “Arábia Saudita protestante, Irã evangélico, Afeganistão pentecostal. É nisso que o Brasil está sendo transformado.”
==Books==
Paulo Bittencourt is the author of the books:
*Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker
*Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist
*(Only in Portuguese) Com Zeus Não Se Brinca: Loucuras da Crença em Deus (Zeus Is Not to Be Played With: Madnesses of the Belief in God).Paulo Bittencourt’s Author Page on Amazon
==Quotes from Paulo Bittencourt's books==
==Music==
Paulo Bittencourt sings Brazilian music as well, notably bossa nova, like the songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto, accompanying himself on the guitar.Paulo Bittencourt’s bossa nova interpretations
==See also==
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==External links==
* Quotes from Paulo Bittencourt’s books
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