When she focuses on her own strength and ability, Ruth says that she is easily discouraged about the extent that Satan has gripped the city around her with spiritism, alcohol, drugs, prostitution, abuse, immorality, materialism and the prominence of the “prosperity gospel” among those who claim to be evangelicals.
As a reminder, this is an NTM description of Manaus
How are things in Detroit?
spiritism
http://www.detroitsp.com/ check (looks like it was imported from Manaus)
alcohol
http://www.ncadd-detroit.org/ check
drugs
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/det ... -drug-raid check (drugs and bombs)
prostitution
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/31 ... stitution/ check
abuse
http://datadrivendetroit.org/web_ftp/Pr ... _FINAL.pdf check
immorality
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2 ... 04,2762218 check
materialism
http://www.examiner.com/materialism-in-detroit check
prosperity gospel
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=c ... ity+gospel check