Why Call Names? An Answer to Olavo de Carvalho
By Julio
Severo
Public comment by Brazilian
philosopher Olavo de Carvalho in his Facebook profile (posted on November 25, 2015):
“Pope Francis may really be collaborating
with globalist ambitions, but the World Council of Churches (which is
Protestant) was already collaborating forty years ago. This the scoundrel Julio
Severo does not tell.”
In
this article, no profanity was used against the pope or the Catholic Church.
I do
not like and I do not use profanity. But even though I liked it, Barbwire,
where I am a columnist, has an inflexible posting policy, which says: “We have
no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, vulgarity, profanity,
all caps, or discourteous behavior. Thank you for partnering with us to
maintain a courteous and useful public environment where we can engage in
reasonable discourse.”
Courteous
behavior distinguishes conservatives from liberals. Profanity habit is proper
for liberals, not Christian conservatives.
Therefore,
if I called the pope, the Catholic Church or Olavo a “scoundrel,” I would
rightly be rebuked or expelled from Barbwire.
My
Barbwire article was based on exposés by Cliff Kincaid, a Catholic American who
has already interviewed Olavo. So my main source was Kincaid. How could not
Olavo perceive it if I made it clear, giving full credit to the source? If he
had not perceived it, what is he going to do now? To call Kincaid a “scoundrel”?
I
have publicized in Brazil some articles exposing Pope Francis’ collaboration with
globalist ambitions. Some of these articles are from Catholic pro-life sources.
Others are from WND (WorldNetDaily), especially the report “Vatican
aligns with U.N. on ‘world governance.’” (My
translation: “Vaticano se alinha com a ONU para a
formação do governo mundial.”) If Olavo is displeased with this
WND exposé, why revile the translator, not the original publisher?
About
the World Council of Churches, the most detailed and profound exposés in Brazil
against this apostate institution were translated and published by me.
In 2014,
I published in Portuguese the translation of “Resurrecting
Liberation Theology,” written by Mark D. Tooley and published by
FrontPage.
In 2007,
I published in Portuguese the translation of “Soviet
Ghosts Haunt the World Council of Churches,” by the same author and magazine.
In that time, Olavo’s website in Portuguese published
my translation.
Both
Tooley reports show that the World Council of Churches (WCC) is involved with
Liberation Theology, by mentioning especially Rev. Walter Altmann, who was then
the WCC Moderator.
Immediately
after I published a Tooley report in Brazil (July 2007), an assistant of the
WCC Moderator got in touch with me asking for “dialogue” between Altmann and me.
My
answer: “What is there to dialogue? Walter Altmann needs urgently to dialogue
with the Holy Spirit, repent from his many sins and change his course while
there is time. God is love and mercy, but also justice. Sooner or later,
Altmann is going to reap everything that he has planted, because God delays,
but he does not fail.”
There
are many other articles in my blog against WCC. No one of them reviles WCC or
Altmann.
In
America, Olavo’s name appears as president of the Inter-American Institute, a
conservative institution with prominent evangelical and catholic conservative figures.
Its mission is to attack the Left. But currently, its president is busy
attacking, with many dirty words for weeks, a man who fights the Left and
supports Ronald Reagan since the 1980s, when Olavo was still a left-winger in Brazil.
I
know personally some members of the Inter-American Institute. No one of them is
foul-mouthed. I have never heard, for example, evangelical John Haskins, who
had a vital role in the establishment of the institute, using dirty words.
But
when the president of this institute says publicly “This the scoundrel Julio
Severo does not tell,” he commits two sins: 1. He reviled a conservative
Christian. 2. He lied, because this same conservative has already told
everything that he needed to tell on WCC.
Yet,
different from the Catholic Church, where the pope rules, WCC does not rule all
churches in the Protestant and Pentecostal movement. It has influence only on affiliated
churches.
In my
case, I have never attended a WCC-affiliated evangelical church. Even so, I
have told everything about WCC that Brazil needed to know.
I
only did not use to tell in the U.S. that in Brazil Olavo is publicly a
foul-mouthed man who attacks conservatives.
Vulgarity
and profanity are behaviors improper for conservatives, in Brazil or the U.S.
Olavo, who has been reviling me since 2013 when I rejected the Catholic
Inquisition, needs to understand this fact.
Read also “Olavo de Carvalho” in Conservapedia.
Portuguese
version of this article: Por que xingar? Uma
resposta a Olavo de Carvalho
Source: Last Days Watchman
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