We did a Christmas special for Netflix about Jesus’ youth titled “The First Temptation of Christ.” Mr. Porchat opens with the fact that the Bible has a glaring gap. Jesus is 12 and — bam — he’s already 30 years old being baptized in the River Jordan. Why is there no account of his youth? What were they trying to hide?

We hypothesized that Jesus loved men. We weren’t the first to come up with this, of course. Before us, Mark the Evangelist had already told us in that apocryphal text that “The youth came to him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the kingdom of God.”

Brazil’s evangelical bench may not know this passage, just as it certainly does not know of Monty Python, Mel Brooks, “South Park” and so many who have already poked fun at the sacred cows of Christendom before we did. Today, there are a dozen lawsuits and petitions demanding the content be taken down.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office accepted a petition from a Catholic organization that demanded not only censorship but also payment of a fine of nearly half a million dollars — two cents for each Brazilian who professes Catholicism in the country. I’m curious about this accounting. I was baptized in the Catholic Church, but I didn’t receive my first communion. Am I entitled to two cents? Does not receiving communion disqualify me, or am I eligible for one penny? Does the remaining penny go to those who were confirmed?

This is not new to us. What has changed is that since this president took office, the attacks have come in different forms. On Dec. 24, for example, a group of masked men attempted to set our offices on fire with Molotov cocktails. The security guard managed to put out the fire and no one was hurt.

The next day, a group that called itself Popular National Insurgence Command, inspired by the Integralist movement, claimed responsibility for the attack. Brazilian Integralism was a 1930s anti-Semitic movement — yes, there were many Brazilians, of mixed race themselves, who were sympathetic to a movement that would have sent them to a concentration camp.

We believed the movement had been eradicated along with syphilis and tuberculosis. But it seems all these evils are back in Mr. Bolsonaro’s Brazil.