Why Does The Christian Post Espouse Leftism in Brazil?
By Julio
Severo
The U.S. version
of The Christian Post rightly addressed the recent World Vision flap on gay
“marriage” by quoting prominent evangelical leaders. Their responses were
mostly conservative. The first World Vision (WV) stance favoring this faux
marriage was universally disapproved among conservative Christians. Its
repentance was welcome.
In a strange
twist, the Brazilian version of The Christian Post decided not only to publish
nothing from its U.S. version on the WV flap, but it also addressed it from a
liberal viewpoint. The only article by the Brazilian Christian Post on this
issue was
“Obsessão evangélica sobre homossexualidade está fora de controle, relata
autora” (Evangelical Obsession about Homosexuality Is Out of Control, Says
Author), by Luciano Portela.
The author is
Rachel Held Evans, who in a recent CNN article
said, “I then felt betrayed when World Vision backtracked” on gay “marriage.”
In this article,
she condemned conservative evangelicals as Albert Mohler and the Assemblies of
God denomination for their opposition to the initial WV pro-gay “marriage”
decision.
Evans’
liberalism is obvious. In her personal blog, she said,
“As I advocated for the election (and re-election) of President Obama, I
confess I grew somewhat embarrassed by the pro-life cause.” Of course, Obama is
an avid advocate of gay “marriage” and abortion.
Evans is a
columnist in the leftist The Huffington Post. She is scheduled to be a speaker at the Festival of Faith &
Writing, April 10-12, 2014. The event, which purposes to train a new generation
of Christian writers, will be held by the Calvin College, which is connected
with the Christian Reformed Church.
Portela, the
journalist of the Brazilian Christian Post, kept quiet about the endemic
liberalism among many American Calvinists in his “Evangelical Obsession about
Homosexuality Is Out of Control, Says Author.”
He also kept
quiet about the church affiliation of Richard Stearns, the president of World
Vision. Stearns attends the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A (PCUSA).
Most Brazilian
evangelicals, even Presbyterians, do not know that PCUSA is pro-sodomy,
liberal, anti-Israel, pro-abortion, etc.
A time ago, a
Presbyterian minister in Brazil told me that he did not know that PCUSA was so
liberal.
If Portela did
not quote prominent U.S. evangelical leaders and their views on the WV gay
“marriage” flap because Brazilian readers are not familiar with them, so why
did he choose an American liberal author who is less known?
Brazil has its
own liberal problems among evangelicals, including the Brazilian branch of
World Vision, whose director, Ariovaldo Ramos, said,
“Everybody who, in everyplace, fights against poverty,
for the human liberation, for justice and rights available to everybody had, in
Hugo Chávez, a reference of commitment to the poor and the oppressed.”
He also said,
“The best we could say of someone is that, because he
lived here, the world became better! We can say this of Hugo Chávez!”
Apparently, some
form of liberalism has hit the Brazilian Christian Post, which has published
articles by Rev. Johnny Bernardo, who has a long history of affiliation with
the Communist Party of Brazil and recently supported the decriminalization of
marijuana in Brazil.
Portela’s
article “Evangelical Obsession about Homosexuality Is Out of Control” is not a
condemnation of a liberal American author and her radical agenda, but of
conservative evangelicals who are fighting to preserve their churches of the
deluge of progressive obsessions.
Cristianismo Hoje, the Brazilian version of Christianity
Today, retweeted the article,
increasing still more the doubts of readers who see its difficulty of clearly
condemning the apostasy of those who call themselves Christian and support the
so called gay “marriage.”
“This whole
situation has left me feeling frustrated, heartbroken and lost. I don’t think
I’ve ever been more angry at the Church, particularly the Evangelical culture
in which I was raised and with which I for so long identified,” wrote Evans about evangelical leaders who opposed to the WV’s
initial pro-gay “marriage” stance.
“I confess I had
not realized the true extent of the disdain and stigmatization many
Evangelicals have toward LGBT people, nor had I expected World Vision to yield
to that disdain and stigmatization by reversing its decision under financial
pressure. Honestly, it feels like a betrayal from every side.”
For a “Christian”
author who is not frustrated and heartbroken over Obama and his pro-abortion
and pro-sodomy agenda, it is natural for her to want World Vision to remain
faithful to progressive principles, including gay “marriage.”
This is a
betrayal of the true Gospel. But who said that progressives have this Gospel?
Gay “marriage” will never be a betrayal of the progressive gospel.
Why is the
Brazilian Christian Post siding with it?
Christian Post
should do a necessary work of exposing U.S. Protestant liberalism among Brazilian
audiences, and vice-versa.
Brazil needs
less, not more, liberal evangelical examples.
Portuguese
version of this article: Por que o Christian Post adota o
esquerdismo no Brasil?
Source: Julio Severo in English
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