Dialogue of a Communist: Brazilian Congressman Roberto Freire Suggests that Both Jesus and Karl Marx Deserve to Be Celebrated
By
Julio
Severo
All
began with the article “Don’t celebrate Karl Marx. His
Communism has a death count in the millions,”
which I translated from USA Today. On the 200-year anniversary of the birth of
the founder of Marxism, USA Today, which is not usually conservative, urged
readers not to celebrate it.
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| Roberto Freire |
“Sorry, but that statement does not
fit your intelligence. It would be the same as asking not to celebrate Jesus
because his religion promoted wars and deaths in history. Not to mention the
holy inquisition. Or other prophets of other peoples still today, worldwide. Hugs.”
Freire,
who has a history of involvement in the Brazilian Communist Party, founded the
Popular Socialist Party (PSP). Today, he is a Representative in the Brazilian
House of Representatives and the president of the PSP.
Between
2016 and 2017, he was Minister of Culture in Brazil. What kind of culture can a
celebrant of Marx bring to Brazil, the largest Catholic nation in the world? In
Brazilian politics, mostly Catholic, there are many celebrants of Marx and very
few celebrants of Jesus.
My
response to the communist Roberto Freire was:
“The difference is cosmic. Jesus
Christ preached the Gospel, which freed millions of people. In contrast, Karl
Marx preached Marxism, which deceived and enslaved millions of people. Compare
the Gospel with Marxism for you to see. It is incomparable. Who promoted the
Inquisition was not Christ. It was the Catholic Church. Did you know that many
true Christians were tortured and killed by the Inquisition? As an evangelical,
I represent a part of these victims. Thousands of evangelicals were tortured
and killed by the Inquisition.”
To
see the conversation between me and Roberto Freire on Twitter, go to this link:
http://archive.is/hH0lv
Perhaps
Freire thought that every Christian defends the Inquisition and that every
Christian is a Catholic. The greatest advocate of the Inquisition in Brazil is
pseudo-Catholic Olavo de Carvalho, whose spiritualist movie “The Garden of Afflictions”
was boycotted by filmmakers in Pernambuco. Freire strongly criticized the
boycott, calling the boycotters Stalinists. Although this film was released in
New York in 2017, it did not make any success and did not draw the American
public.
Perhaps
Freire thought that Carvalho’s advocacy of the Inquisition represents
Christianity. But if he thinks that the Inquisition committed crimes (and it
actually did), why did he defend Carvalho?
Freire
could not distinguish that what Jesus did and what the Catholic Church did are
vastly different universes. Jesus never created an inquisition to torture and
kill people who did not accept the Gospel. Therefore, when the Catholic Church,
which claims to represent Christ on earth, created the Inquisition, it was in
disobedience to the Gospel. Whether she wanted to or not, she represented Satan
on earth by torturing and killing Jews and Protestants.
However,
how could Freire criticize the Catholic Church? The overwhelming majority of
Brazilians who became Marxists were Catholic and were influenced in this
direction within the Catholic Church. Historically, the Catholic Church in
Brazil, which is a champion of Liberation Theology, is a great facilitator of
Marxism.
Had
it not been for Catholicism, Freire and millions of Brazilians would never have
become Marxists. And to make matters worse, many Catholics who are becoming
right-winger have become stridently
pro-Inquisition. They go from an extreme to another
and, in both cases, they are very far from Jesus.
There
is an immense difference not only between Jesus and Marx, but also between
Jesus, who never created the Inquisition nor facilitated Marxism, and the
Catholic Church, which created the Inquisition in the past and today
facilitates Marxism in Brazil and throughout Latin America.
To celebrate Marx is to celebrate
slavery and death. To celebrate Jesus is to celebrate deliverance and
salvation.
Portuguese
version of this article: Dialogo de um comunista: Dep. Roberto Freire sugere que
tanto Jesus quanto Karl Marx merecem ser celebrados
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