Sunday, July 12, 2020

Brazil’s new Education Minister is a Presbyterian minister and is already drawing the fury from the left by preaching that children need the discipline rod


Brazil’s new Education Minister is a Presbyterian minister and is already drawing the fury from the left by preaching that children need the discipline rod

By Julio Severo
On July 10, 2020, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro chose Milton Ribeiro to be the new Minister of Education in Brazil.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Rev. Milton Ribeiro, the new Minister of Education
A minister in the Presbyterian Church in Santos, Brazil, Ribeiro is an attorney, retired military officer and has a degree in theology and was vice-chancellor of Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie), founded by U.S. Confederates who immigrated to Brazil after the U.S. Civil War. Among the qualities that made him a good choice is “appreciation for family and values.”
One of those values, which is detested by feminism, is the role of the husband as head in the family. Ribeiro said that the father figure should direct the home, through imposition. “When the father is absent inside the house, the enemy attacks,” said Ribeiro. “The father, according to the Bible, is the one who points the way the family goes.”
Perhaps the greatest fury from the left against him came because in 2016, inside a Presbyterian church, he preached a sermon titled “The Rod of Discipline.” In this sermon, he made statements that horrified left-wingers. Among the statements are:
“The idea of many that the child is innocent is relative.”
“Punish your son while there is hope, but don’t go so far as to kill him.”
“I’m not here teaching a child beating class, but the discipline rod cannot be removed from our homes.”
“Perhaps a percentage of very small children, of precocious, gifted children, will understand your argument. There should be rigor, sorry, severity. And I’m going to take it a step further, maybe some mothers are going even to be angry with me: they should feel pain.”
However, this biblical stance is at odds with the current Brazilian law, which prohibits all kinds of physical discipline in children, including through slap, slipper or rod. This law was passed by socialists during the administration of socialist Dilma Rousseff in 2014.
Left-wingers often treat physical discipline as “violence,” but they get shocked when reality shows that abortion that they passionately defend is real violence, with a lot of pain, suffering and bloodshed. Aborting an innocent child is a million times worse than taking corrections by rod and any individual who advocates abortion should be jailed for child abuse. Individuals who advocate homosexual indoctrination for children should also be jailed for child abuse. But it is exactly these unbalanced and violent individuals who preach that parental discipline by rod is “violence.”
Just for the courage of Rev. Milton Ribeiro to defend the discipline rod at risk of being lynched by socialists who love to slaughter babies through abortion, he deserves the support of Christians.
I just have some doubts. Since he was vice-chancellor of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, was he never able to stop or at least protest against Marxist, homosexualist and pro-abortion professors there? Mackenzie Presbyterian University even hired professor Márcia Tiburi, one of the most prominent abortion activists in Brazil.
Mackenzie Presbyterian University is so liberal in hiring left-wing professors that a Presbyterian pastor, who identifies himself as a gay activist, defended that university and attacked me.
What is the stance of Rev. Ribeiro regarding the notorious liberalism of Mackenzie Presbyterian University? I do not know.
Also, as a Calvinist Ribeiro does not represent the profile of Brazilian evangelicals, who are overwhelmingly Pentecostal and charismatic. Even as a minority among Brazilian Protestants, Calvinists were not prominent voters of Bolsonaro. Yet, most charismatics and Pentecostals voted for him out of a lack of option and because they hate homosexualist and abortion activism in the Brazilian government.
Perhaps President Jair Bolsonaro has appointed Ribeiro as Minister of Education out of respect for evangelicals, who were his main voters in 2018. But it seems that this respect is not very great. Apparently, he does not want to let evangelicals influence the Ministry of Education a lot.
Just before appointing Ribeiro, Bolsonaro appointed several adherents of Olavo de Carvalho to the National Education Council to ensure that Carvalho’s influence continues in the Brazilian education.
The National Council of Education is an agency in the Ministry of Education that formulates and evaluates the national education policy in Brazil. Thus, the Ministry of Education will be under the direction of a Presbyterian, but the formulation of the national education policy will in practice be under the direction of adherents of Carvalho.
The appointment of adherents of Carvalho in the National Education Council may indicate that Bolsonaro is mesmerized by Carvalho’s esoteric fascism, as all of his appointments of such adherents were a failure. There is no justification to continue such failures.
It is not new that evangelicals, who were considered vital for Bolsonaro’s election, yearned for a position as Minister of Education. Early in 2019, televangelist Silas Malafaia had recommended evangelical Guilherme Schelb to the Ministry of Education, but his recommendation was defeated under the influence of esoteric guru Olavo de Carvalho, who chose his adherent Ricardo Vélez.
A good quality of Velez: he did not like socialism. Two bad qualities about him: He didn’t like Trump, but he liked Hillary Clinton.
When Vélez became a disaster at the Ministry of Education, Bolsonaro himself confessed that he had chosen him blindly. He said:
“I was wrong at the beginning when I appointed Ricardo Vélez as minister. Was it an indication of Olavo de Carvalho? It was, I won’t deny it… Then I called him: ‘Olavo, where did you know Vélez from?’”
Despite Vélez’s failure, Bolsonaro gave a new opportunity to Carvalho, who chose Abraham Weintraub in May 2019. Without delay, Weintraub announced that one of his priorities would be to increase the number of daycare centers. My reaction came in the article “Brazilian Minister of Education Abraham Weintraub and His Right-Wing Socialism or Right-Wing Statism,” in which I said:
“The concept of daycare — to move the child away from the mother as early as possible — is a concept embraced, defended and widely practiced in socialism.”
With Vélez and Weintraub, the tentacles of Olavo de Carvalho’s ideological indoctrination threatened 57 million children and young people in schools in Brazil.
It is assumed that Bolsonaro did not give Carvalho the opportunity to make a third (disastrous) choice because right at the beginning of June 2020, Carvalho called the Bolsonaro administration “sh*t,” saying he can overthrow it.
In June, Bolsonaro chose black traditional Baptist Carlos Decotelli. It was a disastrous choice, as Decotelli was dishonest. Bolsonaro seems unable to make choices that are not disastrous in the Ministry of Education, and by far the biggest disasters came from Carvalho’s adherents.
On January 2020 Bolsonaro fired Roberto Alvim, the Brazilian top culture official, after Alvim quoted Nazi Goebbels while talking about nationalist art in a video as Hitler’s favorite composer played in the background. Alvim is a hard-core adherent of Carvalho.
For the National Art Foundation, Bolsonaro appointed Dante Mantovani, a hard-core adherent of Carvalho. After Mantovani talked about what he should never talk, he was fired. After intense pressure of Carvalho, he was reinstalled, and again fired.
Among stupid statements of Mantovani are:
“People who believe that the Earth is a globe are great at making jokes about the self-evident flatness of the Earth’s surface, but they are absolutely unable to come up with a single argument or proof of Earth’s delusional sphericity. The closest they get to an argument supporting the spinning ball are the computer graphics made by NASA, the Cold War propaganda and disinformation organization, whose authors themselves have come out to say that it’s all fake.”
Olavo de Carvalho, the guru of Mantovani, Alvim and other officials in the Brazilian government, at last recognized that he did a wrong recommendation in the case of the minister of Education. He confessed that he recommended Vélez to Bolsonaro even though he had no contact with Vélez for over 20 years! That was his excuse.
Yet, in the case of Ernesto Araújo, whom he recommended to Bolsonaro as foreign affair minister, he said that he hit the bull’s eyes. Araújo has openly praised Julius Evola, the guru of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Evola is the author of several right-wing, anti-Marxist and occult books. Yes, he advocated at the same time the right-wing, anti-Marxist ideology and witchcraft.
I am sure that he hit the bull’s eyes, because Araújo has the same occult preferences Carvalho has.
If occultism was bad luck for Evola and Mussolini, how can it represent good luck for Brazil?
Brazil does not need adherents of Carvalho in the National Education Council to keep bringing disasters.
Brazil does not need people with occult history to harm its society.
Brazil needs integrity and real Christianity — without syncretism.
Brazil needs an encounter with Christ.
I hope that Presbyterian minister Milton Ribeiro may be better than Decotelli, than Carvalho’s adherents and than the notorious liberalism of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University. And I also hope that he will continue to preach about the importance of the discipline rod, which parents can use to correct their children, and which God can sovereignly use to discipline rulers.
With information from UOL, BBC and G1.
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