They should take a look at the Positivists: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/world/americas/nearly-in-ruins-the-church-where-sages-dreamed-of-a-modern-brazil.

They should take a look at the Positivists: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/world/americas/nearly-in-ruins-the-church-where-sages-dreamed-of-a-modern-brazil.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/world/americas/nearly-in-... The "Science Church" was once very important in Brazil, to the point that the words in Brazilian flags were from their movement motto.