Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Olavo de Carvalho Praises Socialist Militant and Says He Would Even Work with Satan for Brazil


Olavo de Carvalho Praises Socialist Militant and Says He Would Even Work with Satan for Brazil

By Julio Severo
The title of this article was based on the original title of a BBC report in Portuguese that says, “Olavo de Carvalho Praises Suplicy and Says He Would Work with Satan for Brazil.” I had to replace Suplicy with socialist militant, because English-speaking readers do not know he is such a militant. The original BBC report covered an event called “Brazil Conference,” in Harvard. It is understandable why BBC used Suplicy. Its report, only in Portuguese, was not directed to an international audience.
BBC says,
“Reputed as an ideologically opposite extreme of councilman Eduardo Suplicy (PT-SP), philosopher Olavo de Carvalho declared that he approves the idea of a basic income of citizenship, which is a bill of Suplicy, a member of the Workers’ Party, advocating a minimum wage to every citizen in Brazil. Carvalho said that he would work with Suplicy to improve it.
“Suplicy is a very nice guy and his idea is not bad — everybody having an income,” said Carvalho in an exclusive interview to BBC Brazil in the Harvard University, in Massachusetts.
Suplicy mentioned basic income of citizenship in all of his answers. His bill proposes a basic income to every citizen, wealthy or poor, including foreigners living in Brazil for more than five years.
Carvalho added, “Basic income is morally right.”
In the ruling years of the Workers’ Party (2003-2016) Brazil began “bolsa-família,” a populist family-fund program from the Brazilian socialist government providing cash to millions of Brazilians. This program was directed only to poor families. Yet, Suplicy’s proposal is more socialistically ambitious and expansive and seeks to grant automatically free wages, or free money, to every Brazilian citizen. This is much more extensive and socialist than “bolsa-família,” which was funded by tax-payers.
Suplicy’s proposal would similarly be funded by tax-payers.
How could Carvalho improve such socialist proposal? If state socialism (funded by tax-payers) is abhorrent for him, what about Catholic socialism? Because Carvalho says that he is a Catholic, would his alternative get the Catholic Church to fund fully a free wage to every Brazilian citizen? Or what about a Masonic socialism? Considering that Carvalho has shown admiration for Freemasonry, would he interested in convincing Freemasonry to fund it?
Carvalho’s debate with Suplicy was just a microcosm of 100 other debates with Brazilian speakers and moderators. The event, held in Harvard by Harvard and MIT Brazilian students, brought together a very high number of Brazilian speakers, including former President Dilma Rousseff, Federal Judge Sérgio Moro, Supreme Court Justices Gilmar Mendes and Luís Roberto Barroso and former Senator Marina Silva. Each one of them took part in a debate with another individual with similar social prominence.
According to BBC:
The conference’s objective, according to its organizers, is to bring near individuals who are in opposite extremes.
“In Brazil, Right and Left just do not talk,” said researcher David Pares, one of the presidents of Brazil Conference, in the beginning of the week.
“People only share what they believe. We see it as an absence of dialogue between different ideals and this is the biggest problem in polarization. The conference’s idea is to help people to demystify the opposite extreme,” he said.
Carvalho fulfilled the event’s objective: he talked nicely about socialist Suplicy and about his socialist proposal. It is impressive that he called Suplicy “a very nice guy,” saying that his socialist idea “is not bad.” In contrast, he is not known for saying nice things to conservatives. In a December 2016 interview to BBC, Carvalho was presented as a right-winger fighting other prominent right-wingers in Brazil. In fact, he is known for saying not only unpleasing and immoral things about right-wing leaders, but also for actually reviling them.
Even though the event was held in Harvard, warranting spotlight and massive media visibility in the United States, the specific debate of Carvalho, held last Friday (April 7), had gained a limited spotlight only in the Portuguese service of BBC, whose English version made no report of it.
Google search shows (from a April 7-12 span in the search) no spotlight in the U.S. media for Carvalho’s debate, six days after the event.
Evidently, the American public had no interest in a Brazilian event in U.S. Even though some names of speakers are very famous in Brazil, 100 is too much to sort out through, and any name less known than Rousseff and Moro was not even considered for attention. At least, no member of the big U.S. media paid any attention.
Yet, even when the big U.S. media avoids an event, the American conservative media, which is very powerful, covers conservative speakers, especially if they are speaking in Harvard. But no member of the U.S. conservative media got involved.
Be it as it may, the microcosm of Carvalho’s debate with socialist Suplicy in no way resembled conservatism in defense or opposition to ideas. Suplicy’s proposal was not conservative.
Was Carvalho’s answer conservative? Hardly. In fact, his concept of conservatism is so misty as his esoteric past. Some weeks ago he said in his Facebook page:
So when I am introduced as a “conservative philosopher,” the only answer coming to my mind is: “Conservative is ‘puta que o pariu’ (an offensive Brazilian slang which means ‘son of a bitch’ or ‘fucking hell,’ but the real translation is: ‘a prostitute who gave birth’), who preserved you in her belly for nine months instead of dropping you in the toilet.”
With such dirty talk, it is understandable why Carvalho did not take advantage of the opportunity to defend conservative values. While Suplicy defended his socialist values, Carvalho limited himself to praise him.
In Brazil Carvalho is known for condemning “bolsa família,” but in Harvard he praised a worst socialist model of “bolsa família.” In Portuguese, never in English, Carvalho unjustly reviles Protestantism, Luther and Calvin with his typical foul mouth, but in Harvard he abstained himself from reviling this university, founded by a committed Protestant, which today is a center of Marxism, feminism, witchcraft, etc. Besides, Harvard receives funding from Saudi Arabia. Harvard deserves to be criticized.
This is not a problem for Carvalho: years ago he received an award from the Saudi dictatorship (which the U.S. media insists on calling “government”) for a biography of Mohammed he had written. If this is not to cooperate with Satan, I do not know what it is.
If, as affirmed by BBC, Carvalho would work with Satan in political dealings with socialists like Suplicy, it is something that remains to be seen, but many things have already been seen in Olavo’ history several times. According to BBC, he “worked with Satan” in the past. In his interview to the Portuguese service of BBC (not available in English) in December 2016, Carvalho talked about his involvement in astrology (he was the founder of the first school of astrologers in Brazil) and in Islamic witchcraft.
To BBC, he said that this experience was “absolutely indispensable” for his formation.
In the interview, BBC introduced Carvalho as follows:
Born in Campinas, SP, 69 years ago, a philosophy teacher having never graduated in a college and adherent of the theory that “the entity called the Inquisition is a fictional invention of Protestants,” Carvalho has been amassing opponents in the same intensity he is defended by his fans.
The BBC interview was a major breakthrough because even though Carvalho says that all the Left hates the Inquisition and uses it to attack Catholics, the massively left-wing Brazilian media has never used the Inquisition to attack Carvalho. BBC was the first major Portuguese channel to mention Carvalho and his defense of the Inquisition.
BBC said,
The views of this philosopher on the role of the Catholic Church have produced criticism from Brazilian evangelicals. Carvalho wrote in Twitter in 2013 that “the entity called the Inquisition is a fictional invention of Protestants.”
“Even in the popular image of the Inquisition fires, lies are predominant. Everybody believe that condemned individuals ‘died burned,’ amid horrible suffering. The flames were high, more than 16 feet high, to hinder suffering. The condemned individuals (less than ten a year in two dozen nations) died suffocated in a few minutes, before the flames could touch them.”
According to him, heretics — “less than ten a year in two dozen nations” — died suffocated before the flames could touch them. He has been criticized in the social media for such affirmation…
Two years later, he reviled Luther and Calvin, the main leaders of the Protestant Reformation. “The Catholic Church has been overcrowded by sons of bitches during the centuries, but the Protestant church was already born founded by two sons of a bitch.”
You can find more information, including a video, on his defense of the Inquisition in this article authored by me: “Olavo de Carvalho and the Inquisition.”
Carvalho is dividing the Brazilian Right on many conservative issues, including homosexuality, which he believes is natural, but he has had a major victory: he is unifying the Catholic Right with his strident pro-Inquisition discourse.
In my view, any individual who worked with the Inquisition 500 years ago worked with Satan. And any individual today who wants to sanitize the Inquisition actually works with Satan.
A deep esoteric background has made possible for Carvalho to work to rehabilitate the Inquisition.
If the Brazilian Left has never used the Inquisition to attack Carvalho, why would apostate Harvard, immersed in Marxism and Satanism, see a problem with a Brazilian working with Satan to advocate the revisionism of the Inquisition?
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Hank Hanegraaff, the Most Prominent Calvinist Theologian against Prosperity Gospel, Leaves Calvinism


Hank Hanegraaff, the Most Prominent Calvinist Apologist against Prosperity Gospel, Leaves Calvinism

By Julio Severo
Additional Reading: Hank Hanegraaff and Confusions
Known as the “Bible Answer Man,” Hank Hanegraaff was received this week, through chrismation, in the Orthodox Church. Originally a Reformed Presbyterian, he became famous in the Christian Research Institute (CRI), the conservative Protestant countercult and apologetic ministry which Walter Martin founded in 1960.
While the CRI’ founder focused on real heresies, after Martin’s death Hanegraaff became president of CRI and expanded its focus to perceived heresies, especially among Pentecostals and charismatics. Differently from Martin, the Prosperity Gospel was Hanegraaff’s special negative attention.
In contrast, his special positive attention was Calvinism. CRI published the article “Why I Am a Calvinist,” which said, “I’m not afraid to be called a Calvinist. I’ve read the Institutes multiple times, most of Calvin’s commentaries, and was voted ‘Calvin Clone’ by my peers at seminary. I thank God for Calvin.”
Hanegraaff turned CRI into a war machine against the Prosperity Gospel. He became a main reference against this theology. Even the Lausanne Movement, of the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, quoted him in the article “The Prosperity Gospel: A Critique of the Way the Bible is Used,” saying that “Hank Hanegraaff has traced the roots of many of these prosperity and faith teachers to the metaphysical cults.”
The most important meeting held by the Lausanne Movement against the Prosperity Gospel happened in Brazil in 2014, and it was led by Rev. Valdir Steuernagel, a Brazilian Lutheran minister who is a militant of the Theology of Integral Mission (TIM), which is the Protestant version of Liberation Theology.
Steuernagel’s denomination in Brazil is heavily involved in Liberation Theology, Gay Theology and TIM, but his worry is the Prosperity Gospel, which is not present in his church and has not brought the Gay Theology to his denomination.
In Brazil, Marxists and TIM militants hate the Prosperity Gospel and Marxist philosopher Marilena Chaui said that this theology is the number 1 enemy of the socialist revolution in Brazil. I do not understand this theology completely, but I see positively that it is a resistance to the socialist revolution in Brazil.
In the CRI’s list of heresies is “Charismatic/Pentecostal.” Hanegraaff even criticizes John Wimber over signs and wonders. Wimber was a Calvinist.
What kind of Calvinist was Hanegraaff if he could not accept Calvinist Wimber doing signs and wonders in the name of Jesus? Are signs and wonders against the Bible? If so, Jesus and his apostles were against the Bible.
Yet, Hanegraaff seems to have no difficulty to endorse Protestants activists who fight Israel and promote the Palestinian cause.
Hanegraaff was committed and solid in his Calvinist faith. What has happened? I do not know, but in Brazil many cessationist Calvinists who say that they have a “apologetic ministry” have focused on the Prosperity Gospel. Interestingly, this theology does not affect Calvinist churches in Brazil, Europe and America. Even so, these churches are victims of the theological liberalism brought specially by the Social Gospel (very similar to TIM), and the result is: support to abortion, sodomy, stances against Israel, etc.
The Prosperity Gospel has zero influence in these liberal problems in Calvinist churches. So it is surprising that Calvinist apologetic ministries focus on this theology and largely dismiss the Social Gospel, which affects these churches.
Hanegraaff seems to have burnt out himself advocating Calvinism and fighting the charismatic and Pentecostal movement. If he wanted traditionalism, actually a Presbyterian church is only midway to it. The Catholic Church, or the Orthodox Church, is the only way for those wanting to embrace total traditionalism. This was Hanegraaff’s choice.
Hank Hanegraaff being received in the Orthodox Church
Do not get me wrong. I appreciate Wimber’s Calvinism. But a Christianity without signs and wonders leaves its adherents disorientated and dry. This was Hanegraaff’s case.
Hanegraaff turned the Christian Research Institute into a war machine against Pentecostals and charismatics because he was a Calvinist.
Hanegraaff turned the Christian Research Institute into a war machine against the Prosperity Gospel because he was a Calvinist.
What about now that he has left Calvinism?
For him, was Calvinism wrong after all?
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Monday, April 10, 2017

Islamic and Christian Syrian Reaction to Trump’s Airstrike over a Suspicious Chemical Attack


Islamic and Christian Syrian Reaction to Trump’s Airstrike over a Suspicious Chemical Attack

By Julio Severo
A Syrian who introduces himself as a “medical doctor trained in the UK” and “humanitarian aid worker” was a key eyewitness on the ground during an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian government, offering himself for media video interviews and uploading mobile phone footage of victims which was shared thousands of times.
His footage of people and children dying from gas shocked the world, and mobilized U.S. President Donald Trump into action. Trump ordered airstrikes against a base of the Syrian government.
Previous claims that Assad had launched chemical attacks turned out to be shaky at best. A WND (WorldNetDaily) report said, “Evidence: Syria Gas Attack Work of U.S. Allies.” And a DailyMail report said, “President Obama accused of LYING about intelligence which he said proved Assad was behind sarin gas attacks in Syria.”
The supposedly kind Syrian who made the footage is Shajul Islam. According to conservative Jewish-American writer Pamela Geller, “Islam, described as a ‘committed jihadist’ by foreign intelligence agency MI6, was tried for kidnapping John Cantlie and Jeroen Oerlemans, journalists from the UK and the Netherlands, while fighting with an Islamist group in northern Syria.”
Even so, Islam was interviewed by a number of U.S. mainstream broadcasters, including NBC News, as a reliable source for the alleged attack by Assad. After allegedly seeing one of these news shows, Trump launched missiles on the Syrian government.
The big U.S. media was careful not to reveal the terrorist identity of Islam. And it has been equally careful not to reveal that most Syrians interviewed showing support for Trump’s airstrikes are… Muslims.
According to U.S. conservative writer Don Hank,
The Saudi online news site Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (meaning “the Middle East”) ran an article under the headline “Syrian Opposition Welcomes US Strike on Regime Airbase, Urges More.” The article said, “‘Hitting one airbase is not enough, there are 26 airbases that target civilians,’ a key figure in the Army of Islam faction, Mohamed Alloush, said on his Twitter account. ‘The whole world should save the Syrian people from the clutches of the killer Bashar (al-Assad) and his aides.’”
So who is this Mohammed Alloush, that Saudi Arabia chooses to quote? The BBC reports that “Mohammed Alloush is the political leader of the powerful, Saudi-backed group Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam). Both the Syrian government and its staunch ally, Russia, consider Jaysh al-Islam a terrorist organisation.”
RT, along with other sources, says about Jaysh al-Islam: “The Islamist group Jaysh al-Islam admitted to using chemical weapons against Kurdish militias in Aleppo. It also uses human shields and publishes execution videos – yet it has a delegation at the UN-backed Syria peace talks in Geneva.
So Islamic radicals welcomed Trump’s airstrikes. They use chemical weapons, but they accuse their main enemy: the Syrian government.

Have Syrian Christians also welcomed Trump’s airstrikes?

The leaders of Syria’s local Christians churches have generally looked to President Bashar al-Assad as their protector.
Assad is of the Baath Party. The founder of this party, which has ruled Syria since 1963, was a Christian, and Christians rose to senior positions in the party, government and security forces.
In spite of the old Christian influence in Syria, the Syrian Christian community, which is a cradle of Christianity, is dying.
One year ago, Chaldean bishop of Aleppo, Antoine Audo, said that the Christian population in Syria has been reduced by two-thirds in five years — from 1.5 million to only 500,000.
Speaking at a press conference at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Audo said that only in Aleppo the Christian population was reduced from 160,000 to 40,000. According to Breitbart, these remaining 40,000 Christians are pro-Assad and fear the Islamic rebels backed by the U.S. They fear that if these rebels gain ground, Christians will become targets, both for their faith and their support of the Syrian government.
Who can blame Syrian Christians? If with Assad is bad, with ISIS and U.S.-backed Islamic rebels is much worse.
ISIS, which according to Trump was founded by the Obama administration, has been accused of carrying out genocide against Syrian Christians. The Syrian government has been fighting ISIS and Islamic rebels at the same time. This is the major reason why Syrian Christians support Assad.
“We are facing terrorist action in the whole geography of Syria,” Rev. Ibrahim Nseir, pastor of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon and the Presbyterian Church in Aleppo, told Fox News from the ISIS de-facto Syrian capital of Raqqa last year. “They are destroying our churches, killing and kidnapping Christians, stealing our homes and our businesses.”
“It was on the road to Damascus that the Apostle Paul experienced his conversion to Christianity, and Syria remains one of the few sacred locales where the language of Aramaic — the language of Jesus — can still be heard,” noted Fox News.
“In the 1920s, Christians — mainly Greek Catholic and Greek Orthodox — made up nearly a third of the Syrian population,” it added. “By the time civil war erupted in 2011, Christians in Syria numbered just 2.2 million, or less than 10 percent of the nation’s population. Experts now estimate that the Christians make up less than five percent of the population.”
ISIS and Islamic rebels are devastating the Christian population in Syria.
Differently from Syria, in Saudi Arabia there is no Christian churches, and the Bible is banned. Even though Saudi Arabia is the main sponsor of global Islamic terrorism and Saudi terrorists made the 9/11 attack in New York, Bush, Obama and Trump have never launched airstrikes on Saudi Arabia.

What do Muslim Syrians in the U.S. think about Trump’s airstrikes?

“I think it is a very good thing, to put it in a short answer,” said Hussein Assaf, a Syrian-American Muslim who lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania. “It is a very overdue step, a step that should have been taken years ago.”
“What I would like to see is a comprehensive military and security plan where they would put an end to Assad's killing machine,” Assaf said.
Assaf, a Hillary voter, admitted he has to give Trump some credit for taking a stand against Assad in this instance. “I have to give Mr. Trump a lot of respect,” he said.

What do Christian Syrians in the U.S. think about Trump’s airstrikes?

“The U.S. is not the world’s policeman and has no right to insert itself, uninvited, into Syria’s internal affairs,” said the Very Rev. Anthony Sabbagh, pastor of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Allentown, which is the cultural center of Allentown’s Syrian Christian community.
“His action is not going to strengthen the Syrian government, which is protecting the Christians,” Sabbagh said. “It will strengthen ISIS, which is killing the Christians.”
Sabbagh said he voted for Trump thinking he would let the Syrian people determine their own fate, but he’s now regrets casting that ballot. In his mind, Assad is the only leader standing in the way of chaos fueled by ISIS and Islamic rebels.
With information from Breitbart, MCall, Pamela Geller and Laigle’s Forum.
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Saturday, April 08, 2017

Why Is Trump Helping Obama’s Islamists in Syria?


Why Is Trump Helping Obama’s Islamists in Syria?

By Julio Severo
U.S. President Donald Trump took the world by surprise when he ordered the U.S. military to launch a cruise missile strike on a Syrian airbase Thursday in reaction to a deadly chemical attack, allegedly by the Syrian government, on Islamic rebels formerly supported by Obama and now by Trump.
Dozens of rebels were killed, and at least 10 children. Republican neocons led by Senator John McCain used the attack to push Trump to attack the Syrian government. Hillary Clinton called for bombing of Assad’s airfields hours before Trump’s airstrike. 
The major problem that Trump faces in foreign policy is neocons, and he clearly identified it before his election. But now he does not recognize this problem anymore.
Yet, the reason for Trump’s attack on Syria has been disputed.
Former senator Ron Paul said:
“[I]t doesn’t make any sense for Assad under these conditions to all of a sudden use poison gasses. I think there is a zero chance he would have done, you know, this deliberately.”
Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily (WND) chief, said:
“I strongly disagree with President Trump’s decision to attack Syria… There are two warring parties in Syria – the Syrian government, which is attempting to repulse an invasion and partial occupation of Syrian territory, and ISIS, a terrorist plague on the entire world, not just Assad’s regime… Both of those parties have been accused of deploying sarin weapons against civilians, though I have yet to see any proof that Assad ever did… ISIS is the primary opposition to Assad.”
According to Infowars:
“The White Helmets, a al-Qaeda affiliated group funded by George Soros and the British government, reportedly staged the sarin attack on civilians in the Syrian city of Khan Shaykhun to lay blame on the Syrian government.”
The Syrian government has been in a deadly war against two enemies: ISIS and Islamic rebels supported formerly by Obama and now by Trump. In 2015 Obama gave to these rebels $500 million for “training.” A multimillion dollar investment against a government fighting ISIS.
To fight only against ISIS is a huge challenge. How to fight at the same time against two enemies facilitated or trained by the U.S.? Even Trump recognized last year that ISIS was founded by Obama. But he never attacked ISIS as he is attacking Syria. By attacking Syria, he is automatically helping ISIS.
Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Paul Ryan and leftists have praised Trump’s attack on Syria. Incidentally, all of them were or are in George Soros’s payroll.
But praises are not coming from conservatives.
Michael Savage, a powerful anti-neocon writer, had called Trump the “Winston Churchill of our time” in July 2015. But now, on his Thursday radio show, Savage complained, “The generals have gotten to him and turned him from peace with Russia. And the people standing in the way of war, like Steve Bannon, are being shown the door. This beating of the war drums with Russia has to stop.”
Alex Jones, of Infowars, said in February that he was “ready to die for Trump.” Now that Trump launched airstrikes against Syria, Jones said on a Friday livestream, “Trump is really disintegrating in my eyes on many levels.”
Ann Coulter, U.S. conservative author and political commentator who had been an ardent Trump supporter and wrote a book titled “In Trump We Trust” last year, has used social media to criticize the Trump’s decision. “Those who wanted us meddling in the Middle East voted for other candidates,” she wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Friday morning, adding:
“Trump campaigned on not getting involved in Mideast. Said it always helps our enemies & creates more refugees. Then he saw a picture on TV.”
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 7, 2017
“Christians who live in Syria are terrified of what will happen if Assad is gone.”
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 7, 2017
“What follows Assad? What followed Saddam? Gaddafi? 15 yrs, 6k lost heroes 500k massacred Christians $5 Trill--for what?”
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 7, 2017
Coulter and a number of Trump’s well-known supporters have expressed their surprise — and fear — at Trump’s hasty decision, which is totally at odds with his previous stance on interventionism. As a presidential candidate, Trump campaigned against military exploits abroad, often railing against Bush and his war in Iraq. In December, shortly after winning election, he said “we will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.”
When Obama was considering military action against Syria in 2013, Trump strongly urged him not to do it.
In one September 5, 2013 all-caps criticism, Trump tweeted, “AGAIN, TO OUR VERY FOOLISH LEADER, DO NOT ATTACK SYRIA – IF YOU DO MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN & FROM THAT FIGHT THE U.S. GETS NOTHING!”
“Don’t attack Syria – an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for the U.S. Focus on making our country strong and great again!” Trump tweeted four days later.
During the presidential campaign, Trump also bashed Hillary Clinton for her disastrous foreign policy, tweeting, “Crooked Hillary Clinton’s foreign interventions unleashed ISIS in Syria, Iraq and Libya. She is reckless and dangerous!”
What has made Trump change his mind and act as Hillary would have done, by helping ISIS in Syria? What has made him listen to neocons?
After all, what is the point of being pro-life within the United States and not being pro-life for Christians directly threatened by ISIS in Syria?
What is for sure is that the Trump who attacked Syria and helped ISIS is not the same Trump who lambasted neocons last year. Where is the original anti-neocon Trump?
With information from Charisma, Breitbart, DailyWire, DailyMail, Time and WND.
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Friday, April 07, 2017

Russia Is the First Nation in the World to Recognize West Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital


Russia Is the First Nation in the World to Recognize West Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital

By Julio Severo
The Jerusalem Post, one of the most prominent Israeli newspapers, said yesterday that Russia announced that it now recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
No nation in the world recognizes the Holy City as Israel’s capital. In fact, no nation in the world recognizes any part of Jerusalem as belonging to Israel. Even though many U.S. presidents have promised, in their campaigns, to make such acknowledgment, no one of them was able or wanted to fulfill their own promises.
The latest promiser, U.S. President Donald Trump, was before his inauguration very enthusiastic about moving the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But as soon he was inaugurated his enthusiasm disappeared. Today, there is no talk in the Trump administration about such move, which could jeopardize the two-state solution, which according to the Israeli historical and political analyst Caroline Glick, has been the centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy for decades.
According to WND (WorldNetDaily), Glick said,
“Ironically, the two-state solution is among the most irrational, unsuccessful policies the United States has ever adopted. For the past ninety years, the two-state solution has been tried more than a dozen times, and every time it has failed, abysmally. Between 1970 and 2013, the United States presented nine different peace plans for Israel and the Palestinians, all based on the two-state solution – and for the past twenty years, the two-state solution has been the centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy.”
Left-wing and right-wing U.S. presidents have followed for decades the failed two-state solution. Conservative and liberal U.S. presidents have for decades promised to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital…
And now Russia under President Vladimir Putin went ahead the many U.S. promises about Jerusalem without, sadly, disrespecting the traditional failed two-state solution for Israel, faithfully followed by the U.S.
Even Trump’s promise, if it had been fulfilled, of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would constitute recognizing, according to the Jerusalem Post, only west Jerusalem, without including east Jerusalem, as Israel’s capital.
The two-state solution for Israel and Jerusalem is not accepted by God and his Word, the Bible. The two-state solution, as seen and planned by the U.S. and Russia, is not what God intends.
It is a shame that the United States, the largest Protestant nation in the world, does not recognize any part of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Russia is the largest Orthodox Christian nation in the world and it is understandable that it has not the evangelical vision about Israel and Jerusalem. Brazil, the largest Catholic nation in the world, has no interest in recognizing any part of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But the U.S., with its beautiful evangelical legacy, should do more than Russia and Brazil. It should totally reject the two-state solution and should recognize the whole (west and east) Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Sadly, Trump’s unfulfilled promise of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was applicable only to west Jerusalem. In this respect, Putin surpassed him in a great way.
Russia recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated in a surprise announcement on Thursday, obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post.
The announcement comes as US President Donald Trump’s administration is agonizing over whether to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that would constitute recognizing west Jerusalem as the country’s capital. No other country in the world recognizes any part of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry reads, “We reaffirm our commitment to the UN-approved principles for a Palestinian-Israeli settlement, which include the status of East Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state. At the same time, we must state that in this context we view West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”
This is a sharp shift in Russian policy, which until now has formally held that Jerusalem should eventually be under a permanent international regime. The statement appears in English on the Russian Foreign Ministry's Russian web site.
While officials in Jerusalem interpreted this to mean that recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital will only come once east Jerusalem becomes the capital of a Palestinian state, The Jerusalem Post has learned that Moscow intends this recognition to go into effect immediately.
Russia's ambassador to Israel will meet with Foreign Ministry officials in the coming days to discuss Moscow's decision and its ramifications...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Brazilian Catholic Blogger Condemned to Pay US$ 6,000 for View Contrary to Homosexuality


Brazilian Catholic Blogger Condemned to Pay US$ 6,000 for View Contrary to Homosexuality

By Julio Severo
In a lawsuit by the Federal Prosecutors’ Office in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil, a Catholic citizen of Rio de Janeiro was condemned to pay US$ 6,000 in reparation for moral and collective damages for having published an article mobilizing the population against a measure granting taxpayer funds to a homosexual group.
The article, published in 2007, was enough for Judge David de Oliveira Gomes Filho, of Campo Grande city, to condemn blogger Roberto Flávio Cavalcanti and his blog “Catolicismo e Conservadorismo” (Catholicism and Conservatism), hosted by Google.
Ten years ago, “Catholicism and Conservatism” criticized a public hearing discussing taxpayer funding to TTAMGS (Tranvestite and Transexual Association of Mato Grosso do Sul).
From a complaint of TTAMGS, the article “Campo Grande City May Fund Transvestite Association,” published in the blog “Catholicism and Conservatism,” was targeted by authorities. Jaceguara Dantas Passos, chief in the Federal Prosecutors’ Office, labeled the article as “clear hate speech and incompatible with human respect and dignity.”
The lawsuit by the Federal Prosecutors’ Office also included Google, responsible for hosting Cavalcanti’s blog, summoning it to deliver all condemned blogger’s data.
The condemned article had this information:
It is the limit of villainy to consider giving taxpayer money to the main hosts of infectious and communicable diseases as AIDS and syphilis. Understand that the verbiage of the homosexual advocacy always includes soft words as “tolerance” and “elimination of prejudice and fight against discrimination.”
If a citizen of Campo Grande does not agree with this, he can express his view in a poll in the website of the Campo Grande City Hall, which asks if the visitor supports or not the Transvestite Association being granted public status — a title allowing it to receive public funding.
Evidently, Campo Grande has more moral and urgent needs for tax money than funding an association of transvestites. In a little while they may propose tax money to pedophiles. If you are also against the State funding homosexuality and faggoting, visit the website and vote NO.
Even though the language in the text is forceful, worse behaviors against Christians and Christianity have been shown without authorities and media being able to interpret hate and instigation to hate. Left-wing activists who advocate the homosexualist movement have inserted, publicly, crucifixes in their anuses as a form of protest, with no fear of being prosecuted.
In his contention, the Federal Prosecutors’ Office remarked, “The criminalization of discrimination for sexual orientation is nothing more than a state imposition of tolerance toward any individual regardless his sexual orientation, meaning that the State will not tolerate an individual being discriminated because he has a determined sexual orientation instead of another,” adding that “Roberto Flávio Cavalcanti is a provoker of moral pain and suffering to the LGBT community in Campo Grande through this offense against the rights of personhood of those people.”
The heavy view of authorities against a Catholic blogger is strange, because it can be much more rightly said that homosexuality is a provoker of moral pain and suffering to society. In fact, acknowledging those damages, Russia approved in 2013 a law banning homosexual propaganda to children and adolescents, to protect them exactly from the moral, physical and spiritual damages of homosexual acts.
A Catholic blogger’s condemnation shows that if homosexuality is not recognized in its due place of provoker of moral, physical and spiritual damages, opposition to homosexuality will be forced to occupy this place.
In his defense, Cavalcanti, who is a journalist and lawyer, said that, even though he created blog “Catholicism and Conservatism,” there were other contributors. The condemned article had been written by one of those contributors. Cavalcanti said, “There is no penal law in Brazil to punish ‘discrimination for sexual orientation,’ especially in a Catholic-oriented blog.”
Cavalcanti also explained that the judge who sentenced him appears publicly in TV newscasts advocating the gay agenda.
With information from TopMídiaNews.
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