Biased Study by Feminist Theologian Has Viralized After Being Spread by the Largest Evangelical Websites in Brazil
Published by the largest Presbyterian university in Brazil, study by feminist theologian who left the church years ago made headlines in GospelPrime, GospelMais e Guiame, the largest evangelical websites in Brazil
By Julio
Severo
In an
interview last week for the Brazilian website UOL titled “‘When the church does
not discuss gender, it denies human rights,’ says evangelical feminist,” Valéria
Cristina Vilhena, who introduces herself as having connections to the Mackenzie
Presbyterian University, said that she sees with a great distress and as deep
retrocession the evangelical caucus in the Brazilian Congress taking a stand
against homosexual “marriage,” abortion and gender ideology.
She
complains that evangelical women “are
in the spaces of service, but not of church leadership.” She also complains that “the
theology being taught is the theology of wives’ submission to their husbands.”
In
2015, she founded the group Evangelicals for Gender Equality. Even though her
group operates to bring gender issues into churches, Vilhena said to UOL, “I was brought up in a church where was a sin
to have a haircut, to depilate, to use make-up, pants. I saw myself as a
feminist since early within the church… Today I attend no church.”
Even
though she has disliked the Pentecostal environment of her childhood, she does
not seem to be bothered by the environment in the Mackenzie Presbyterian
University in São Paulo, Brazil, or in the São Paulo Methodist University,
where she studied. That Methodist institution is one of the most liberal in
Brazil, and warmly welcomes Liberation Theology, feminism and homosexuality.
In
November 2016, Vilhena saw her study making headlines, with no credit to her
name, in major Brazilian evangelical websites, spread even by prominent
evangelical leaders. The study addressed the subject that “40% women who suffer
domestic violence are evangelical.”
When the
Mackenzie Presbyterian University published her study, prominent Brazilian
evangelical websites GospelPrime, GospelMais and Guiame spread the study by
crediting only the Presbyterian university. Many conservative evangelical
leaders massively spread it without questioning it, trusting completely in the largest
Calvinist institution in Brazil.
GospelPrime headline on November 10, 2016: “About 40% female victims of domestic
violence are Christian.” The
report begins, “A study by the
Mackenzie Presbyterian University…”
GospelMais headline on November 10, 2016: “40% women who suffer domestic violence are
evangelical, a new study says.”
The report says, “The find is the
result of a study by the Mackenzie Presbyterian University…”
Guiame headline on November 9, 2016: “About 40% female victims of domestic
violence are Christian, says study.”
The report says, “A study by the
Mackenzie Presbyterian University indicated…”
Vilhena
said to UOL, “What I wrote in the
study is that about 40% women assisted by Sofia House, which was my study
field, declared themselves evangelical. Then, it is a study sampling. This
viralized.”
Actually
it viralized, in the interest of the anti-Christian feminist agenda, thanks to
the massive promotion by the largest Calvinist institution in Brazil and GospelPrime,
GospelMais and Guiame.
Her
study was totally based in the sampling of one institution: Sofia House. In
contrast, when she studied another Brazilian institution, Eliane de Grammont
House, the result was equally strange. Vilhena said to UOL, “The difference is that most women in Eliane
de Grammont House, according to professionals, declared themselves Seicho-No-Ie.”
By
her study, then most Brazilian victims of domestic violence are evangelicals
and Seicho-No-Ie adherents, even though Brazil is the largest Catholic nation
in the world. Also, there are many Brazilians que follow pro-abortion Socialism
and witchcraft. But, apparently, evangelicals and Seicho-No-Ie adherents, who
have no significant demographic representation in Brazil, are the champions of
domestic violence.
How
explain her study? The first explanation is her militancy. She has had involvement
with Catholics for a Free Choice, which invited Vilhena as a special speaker
for the feminist congress “Religious Influence in the Dismantlement of Women’s
Politics,” to be held next November.
Catholics
for a Free Choice is not a truly Catholic group and it is not backed by the
Vatican. It is a pro-abortion, pro-sodomy and feminist group that uses the
label “Catholic” to deceive Catholics.
Dismantlement
is Vilhena’s mission. She does not speak as an evangelical and she does not
advocate evangelical values. In 2015, the São Paulo City Council held the event
“Evangelicals Debate the Gender Issue in the City School Curriculum,” which
addressed the introduction of the gender ideology (the gay agenda) in São Paulo
City’s school curriculum.
The
panelists were: Cristiano Valério, homosexual minister of the Metropolitan
Community Church; José Barbosa, pro-sodomy theologian who created the Brazilian
movement “Jesus Heals Homophobia”; and Valéria Vilhena, feminist theologian.
All these names are committed to the homosexual agenda, and as the mission of
Catholics for a Free Choice is to sabotage true Catholics, the mission of those
false evangelicals is to sabotage true evangelicals.
Sabotage
is already happening. The Azusa Magazine of Pentecostal Studies published an
article by David Mesquiati de Oliveira, where he said, “As declared by Valéria Vilhena, the
influence of a male chauvinist patriarchal and oppressing culture against women
was not superseded and, in some cases, the Christian institutions themselves
reproduce such institutional system.”
Oliveira
is introduced as an Assemblies of God minister in Vitória, Brazil, and member
of RELEP (Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Pentecostales [Latin American Network
of Pentecostal Studies]) and FPLyC (Foro Pentecostal Latinoamericano y Caribeño
[Pentecostal Latin American and Caribbean Forum]). He is a master of divinity
by the Higher
School of Theology in Brazil, one of the most liberal Lutheran institutions in
the world and which has the only homossexualist theologian in Brazil.
Oliveira is the author of the book “Missão,
cultura e transformação” (Mission, Culture and Transformation), published by
Sinodal, a Brazilian liberal Lutheran publishing house that publishes books
advocating Marxism, feminism and gender ideology.
Oliveira
is a Pentecostal activist citing a feminist activist, from the Mackenzie
Presbyterian University, who attends no church.
Vilhena
is an activist against Christian values and, with her study, she tried to portray
evangelical churches as producers or facilitators of domestic violence in need
of feminist or state intervention.
How
explain that GospelPrime, GospelMais and Guiame, the most prominent evangelical
websites in Brazil, have greatly spread her biased study without questioning
her motivation, but crediting exclusively the Mackenzie Presbyterian
University, institution where Vilhena has connections? Without perceiving,
they, specially the Presbyterian university, helped promote a perverted
propaganda that exploited the problem of domestic violence in the interest of
the feminist sham.
Mackenzie
Presbyterian University has been involved also in other scandals for
hiring pro-abortion, Marxist and homosexualist professors.
How
explain Vilhena’s sampling showing that evangelicals are almost 50% of
victims of domestic violence? Of course, it is biased.
For
some years, I was a leader of a church. Most attendees were new converts or
people in need of conversion. There were women who were attending the services
because they had domestic problems. If a poll asked in this point if they were
evangelicals, they would answer positively. They had not a long evangelical
history. Most them had husbands who were not Christian and they sought a church
because of several problems: husband’s alcoholism, domestic violence,
unemployment, drug problems in their children, etc.
In
2006, I knew an evangelical NGO in Rio de Janeiro that gave room to a women’s
organization that made a community work of awareness against domestic violence.
Women in the poor community who suffered such violence came to the group to be
“counseled” and much of this work was made in the facility of the evangelical
NGO.
I
made a small investigation, and I found that the women’s group not only
received state grants in its feminist objectives, but also it appeared in a
list of many other feminist groups that, on March 18, demanded in the State
Legislature the legalization of abortion as a fundamental women’s right.
I
talked then to the director of the evangelical NGO and I explained that the
facility of her organization was being used for feminist recruitment and
indoctrination of poor women, who were seduced by the appeal of solution for
“domestic violence,” a work that ultimately strengthened the state power and
interventionism in families and also strengthened feminist strategists’
pro-abortion objectives.
The
evangelical NGO’s director thanked me and eliminated the room for the women’s
group. She had never imagined that a group supposedly fighting domestic
violence had much more sinister motivations and ambitions. This case helped her
not to trust in facades
So
cases of domestic violence (which the Bible does not approve) eventually become
an excuse and maneuver recourse for feminists and the State to intervene to
destroy the role of a husband as head of his family and demand the right of
women to abort their unborn children. The husband who slaps his wife becomes a
criminal, but the woman who cowardly kills her children through abortion has
committed no crime: she is just exercising a legal right! The woman goes from
“oppressed” to oppressor and murderer of her own children.
Valéria
Cristina Vilhena says that she attends no church, but she uses a facade of
“theologian” to advance her feminism among Brazilian evangelicals. Yet, the
incompatibility between feminism and the Gospel is vast.
Last
December, a 23 year old woman was raped and murdered at a bar in São Paulo,
Brazil. She spent the night in a nightclub with friends and at dawn, she went
with a young man to a bar, where both used drugs and where she was raped and
murdered. The Brazilian press identified her as an “evangelical feminist.”
She
was the mother of two small children, but she was hanging about in nightclubs
and bars.
Even
though nightclubs and bars are a perfect environment for the depraved life of
feminists, they are not an environment for mothers, much less evangelicals.
Undoubtedly,
the death of that young woman is regrettable, but if she occupied herself with
her mission as a mother, she would not spend the night in a nightclub or use
drugs in a bar. If she occupied herself with the Gospel, which should be the
mission of every evangelical, she would not waste her life in feminism, which
rapes and exploits the women’s cause and even the Gospel in the interest of
charlatans’ depraved agenda.
GospelPrime,
GospelMais, Guiame and Brazilian conservative evangelical leaders should watch
and pray, so that they may not fall into temptations of academic studies from
the Mackenzie Presbyterian University and other institutions that have an
evangelical name, but do not honor the Gospel. One of those studies came
directly from Valéria Cristina Vilhena, who wants to advance feminism in the
Brazilian evangelical churches.
While
Vilhena wants to transmit the idea that the evangelical culture provokes or
facilitates domestic violence, the fact is that women with domestic violence
problems seek evangelical churches because the government or feminist answer
always brings more problems.
Meanwhile,
evangelical young women deceived by feminism search for satisfaction in nightclubs
and die drugged in bars.
Portuguese
version of this article: Pesquisa tendenciosa de
teóloga feminista viralizou depois de divulgada nos maiores sites evangélicos
do Brasil
Source: Last Days Watchman
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