Paulo Bittencourt

**“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.”** — Paulo Bittencourt Paulo Bittencourt (also known as Paulo Bitencourt) is an Austrian freethinker, humanist and atheist. He was raised Seventh-day Adventist and studied Theology, but left the church just before becoming a pastor. The explosive growth of Evangelicals, the rise to power of ultraconservative and radical right-winger Jair Bolsonaro and the ever-increasing imposition of religion on politics in Brazil, Paulo Bitencourt's birth country, compelled him to write about the dangers …