Recognizing Rightly Rev. Moon and His Former Personality Cult Among U.S. Conservatives, But Not Seeing Another Blatant, Emerging Messiah
How can the U.S. conservative
movement be prone to false messiahs? In fact, how can a man very familiar with
the influence of a false messiah among U.S. conservatives have no vision to see
another messiah emerging with opportunistic and occultist ambitions among
Catholic and Protestant conservatives?
In fact, Rev. Moon’s influence was
so incontestable that the largest conservative newspaper in America, the
Washington Times, was in his hands.
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IAI’s influential man is John
Haskins.
Yet, his vision, which was so sharp
regarding “apostate” evangelical leaders receiving money from the false
messiah, was myopic regarding IAI’s internal affairs and reality.
IAI director, Brazilian philosopher
Olavo de Carvalho, is hardly surpassed by Rev. Moon as far as esotericism,
occultism and megalomaniac messianism are concerned.
Carvalho founded in Brazil the
first school of astrologers some 30 years ago. A Carvalho’s interview with
Globo, the main news conglomerate in Brazil, published in May, 25, 2000, titled
“A Casual Philosopher” said of him:
“For a time, [Olavo de Carvalho] devoted
himself to Islamic studies — learned Arabic and recites the Koran passages —
and won an award in Saudi Arabia in 1985 for a 200-page book (unpublished)
about Muhammad, wherein he used knowledge of medieval symbolics to interpret
episodes from the life of the prophet. He practices Christianity, but he says
he would be comfortable to profess Islam. This is because, in his view,
Christianity, Islam and Judaism have basically the same goal. The existence of
God is to Olavo the supreme obviousness, the founding basis of everything.”
The interview was kept for 17 years
in Carvalho’s personal website but was immediately removed after the
publication of my article “What
Draws Olavo de Carvalho to the United States?”
Today, Carvalho brazenly says in
Portuguese: “Protestantism was born from hatred and blood thirst. Its Christian
inspiration is ZERO.”
Nevertheless, IAI Protestant
members cannot read and understand his nonsense and even foul language, because
he expresses them only in Portuguese.
His anti-Protestant diatribe is
brazen for his ingratitude. Even labeling himself a “Catholic” (who would be
comfortable to profess Islam), he did not want to stay in Brazil, the largest
Catholic nation in the world. Instead, he chose self-exile, living as an
immigrant in the largest Protestant nation in the world, even though he
despises Protestantism. His blatant inconsistency led me to write: “What
Draws Olavo de Carvalho to the United States?”
As to Haskins, his troubled soul
sees U.S. evangelical churches as “apostate” but is unable to see similar
spiritual deceitfulness and dishonesty in the Brazilian self-exiled immigrant
he chose to head IAI.
Why is not he able to see in
Carvalho the same spiritual fraudulence he rightly saw in Rev. Moon and his
conservative movement in America?
Has Carvalho funded him as Rev.
Moon allegedly, according to Haskins’s words, funded U.S. evangelical leaders?
Has Carvalho bought his silence?
Haskins knows that Carvalho is
wrong on important issues. In 2013, when Carvalho began to revile me and attack
me because I disagreed with him over his strident advocacy of the Inquisition’s
revisionism, Haskins, who also silently disagreed with Carvalho on this issue,
magnificently helped me write an article titled “Can
a Pro-Life Activist Defend The Inquisition?”
Many ideas in the article, including a comparison between the abortion industry
and the Inquisition, came directly from Haskins, who nevertheless did not want
to be credited for his extraordinary ideas. He preferred anonymity.
Carvalho is not a lesser bragging
megalomaniac than Rev. Moon was, especially as far as an exotic conservatism is
concerned. Carvalho’s alleged “anti-communism” came from what he learned in the
Traditionalist School, which fused anti-Marxism conservatism with New Age
ideas. The Traditionalist School was founded by the Islamic esotericist René
Guénon, and Carvalho was one of the main introducers of this sorcerer and his
New Age ideas in Brazil. Besides, he translated into Portuguese one of Guénon’s
books.
Carvalho’s spirituality is
syncretic, as syncretic are usually Catholics in Brazil. This is why
spiritualism, esotericism, astrology, New Age ideas and Afro-Brazilian
religions similar to voodoo are so popular among Brazilian Catholics. Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian esoteric writer, has books
published by HarperCollins, the biggest publishing house in the United States,
and among his admirers are Will Smith, Madonna and former U.S. President Bill
Clinton. Brazil is deeply esoteric and spiritualist and in this reality Coelho
is just a mystic “Catholic.” Even though he is not as popular as Coelho, is
it a wonder Carvalho’s considerable popularity among syncretic right-wing
Catholics in Brazil?
But
not only syncretic Catholics have been affected by his ideas. Fábio Blanco, one
of the most passionate evangelical followers of Carvalho, even calling him a
“father” in the Father’s Day, produced two revealing texts on May 2017. In one,
titled “The Scientist and The Occultist,” he said, “The occultist is just a
scientist.” In another, titled “Esotericism and Reformed Principles,” he
complained, “In the Protestant view, there is just a simple division: believers
and non-believers. To address esotericism, in this context, is impossible.”
In
his search for conservative knowledge, he was engulfed by a seductive gnosis
that drew him always from the Bible knowledge and the genuine conservatism the
Bible produces in its readers.
Carvalho’s “philosophical”
influence exhales esotericism on his Catholic and Protestant followers, drawing
them away from the Bible and bringing them more and more to him and his gnostic
ideas.
Haskins
is a very intelligent man and he has invaluable insights but his misguided
vision, perhaps impaired by mysterious interests, has hindered him from seeing
in Carvalho the same opportunistic and spiritually harmful conservatism he sees
in Rev. Moon.
Yet, if he can accept Carvalho with
his occult, mysterious and suspicious background, why cannot he accept Pat
Robertson, Matt Barber, Scott Lively and other fine evangelical leaders? They
are not apostate.
If he is able to see the damaging
nature of Rev. Moon’s anticommunist messianism, why cannot he see the damaging
nature of Carvalho’s anticommunist messianism? After all, he is not so smart as
he imagines to be.
A self-professing Christian who
does not see Carvalho’s spiritually syncretic, occult and damaging
“conservatism” may be in a serious state of apostasy and, certainly, his
spiritual vision is impaired.
If Robertson, Barber, Lively and
other U.S. evangelical leaders are in an apostate pit, where is Carvalho? Where
is Haskins?
Jesus said,
If,
as Haskins believes, Rev. Moon’s influence on the U.S. conservative movement
was damaging, what kind of influence does he think Carvalho has had on the
Catholic conservative movement in Brazil?
How to explain that the man who is
right on the false messiah in America has chosen not to see the exotic
conservative messianism in a pseudo-Catholic self-exiled immigrant from Brazil?
If Carvalho’s influence on Catholic
Brazilians is harmful, why has Haskins been working to extend it in America?
Recently, Carvalho launched a
Brazilian movie, titled “The Garden of Afflictions,” exalting himself — a
personality cult that is a typical behavior of Marxists and false messiahs as
Rev. Moon, who was as conservative and anti-communist as Carvalho alleges to
be. Knowingly or not, Haskins has worked to extend this Brazilian version of
personality cult to America by propagandizing IAI.
The
movie was directed by Josias Teófilo, whose main occupation was
to lecture in theosophical lodges in several Brazilian cities. In
2014, in a speech at the Sírius Theosophical Lodge in Campina Grande, he spoke
about the importance of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s spiritualist vision.
Blavatsky, a pioneer in the New Age movement and the co-founder of the
Theosophical Society in 1875, was an occultist, spirit medium. So no one better
than Teófilo, an esotericist, to introduce another esotericist, Carvalho.
The
movie was produced thanks to the donations of Carvalho’s followers, who follow
him just as Moonies follow Rev. Moon and do whatever he commands them. By the
way, one of the most prominent Brazilian Moonies was José Osvaldo de Meira
Penna, who was profoundly connected to Carvalho.
Carvalho’s
daughter Heloisa De Carvalho Martin Arribas has publicly exposed,
on a June 27, 2017 Facebook post, that there was no accountability for the
donations, adding that “he who takes money from honest people and deceives them
is in the least a swindler.”
Not much different from the past.
Students in the old school of astrologers sued their teacher, Carvalho, for
swindle.
Not much different from Rev. Moon,
who also was sued for swindle.
Carvalho’s daughter confirmed, in a
Facebook post,
that the movement of her father is similar to Rev. Moon’s movement.
Evidently, Carvalho is not as
famous, in the U.S. and internationally, as Rev. Moon is. But what is Haskins
waiting to see in him the same fraudulence and personality cult he sees in Rev.
Moon?
Yet,
an awareness effort can help. About ten years ago, I
launched a successful campaign
in Brazil about Rev. Moon’s harmful influence among evangelical conservative
leaders, even in the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus. Many evangelicals were
warned.
I had also been invited by Moonies
to be a part of their movement, with tempting offers, and their special
temptation was an official invitation for me to write in the Washington Times.
I refused the invitations, because I cannot work for false messiahs.
May my new awareness effort, about
an emerging messiah, be helpful to evangelicals in Brazil.
Updated on September 28, 2017.
Portuguese version of this article: Reconhecendo acertadamente o Rev. Moon e seu ex-culto
à personalidade entre conservadores americanos, mas não vendo outro messias
descarado emergindo
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