Abandoned by U.S. and European Calvinists, South African Calvinists Seek Refuge in Russia
By
Julio
Severo
The
first families of Boers, descendants of Calvinist Dutch settlers in South
Africa, could soon be moving to Russia to escape rising murders, rapes and
violence against whites. Some 15,000 Boers want to leave South Africa and become
farmers in Russia.
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| South African white refugees |
The
Schlebusch family from South Africa’s Bloemfontein is going to be among first
50 Boer families to settle in Russia’s southwest. Like many other Boers, they
are seeking political asylum in Russia. They are facing violent attacks, rapes,
murders and death threats at home stemming from plans of the socialist government
to exterminate whites and expropriate their land.
A
2013 piece on WorldNetDaily quotes Ilana Mercer as
saying, with all her anti-apartheid chops, that “more people are murdered in
one week under African rule than died under detention of the Afrikaner
government over the course of roughly four decades.”
Unanswered Petitions
More
than 12,000 people have signed a petition asking President Donald Trump to let
white people in South Africa emigrate to the U.S. The online petition calls on
Trump to “take the steps necessary to initiate an emergency immigration plan
allowing white Boers to come to the United States.” Boer is the term used to
describe South Africans of Dutch, German or Huguenot descent, who are also
commonly referred to as Afrikaners.
A
similar petition, calling on European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May
to allow white South Africans into EU countries, has gained nearly
17,000 signatures.
So
far, Afrikaners have received no answer from Trump and Theresa May, who are
conservative and rule over nations that received a very large number of Muslim
“refugees” from Africa.
Left with no option, Afrikaners are seeking
refuge in Russia.
Earlier
this month, farmer Adi Schlebusch visited Russia’s farmbelt Stavropol Region. His
grandfather was murdered at his farm in South Africa.
Cyril Ramaphosa’s left-wing government
in South Africa has preached violence against whites.
Schlebusch
said that roughly 15,000 Boers are ready to leave their country and begin a new
life in Russia. He said,
“The reason I’m considering
immigration is honestly because I see dark clouds hanging over our future. The
reality is that we do fear for our lives. And the reality is that a white
farmer is attacked every day in South Africa. My grandfather was murdered on
this farm. The government is certainly responsible for creating that climate of
antagonism towards white farmers.”
Schlebusch
said he visited Russia with his family to explore the possibilities of
resettling in the area. He said,
“I know the growth of agricultural
production is immense in Russia. So, I think it’s the right time to buy in into
agriculture in Russia. And I think there’s a lot of potential.”
Stavropol
is ready to settle up to 50 Boer families, according to the region’s Deputy
Commissioner for human rights Vladimir Poluboyarenko. He told there is already
a plan for settlement of roughly 500 families with their own cattle near
Stavropol.
Russia
is the largest Christian Orthodox nation in the world, and I do not know if it
would be the best setting for Calvinists. The U.S. would be a better place,
especially because Trump is a Presbyterian (a kind of Calvinist), even though
not a committed Presbyterian, because he has divorced and his current wife is
Catholic.
Yet,
Trump is not helping Calvinists from South Africa.
In
fact, even other U.S. Calvinists are not helping them. For example, Calvinist
theologian John MacArthur has a whole book against Pentecostals, but no book
against the genocide of Calvinists in South Africa. Even in his other books he
never addresses the plight of Boers and Afrikaners.
I
have his MacArthur Study Bible and Strange Fire, where he attacks charismatics
and Pentecostals. No mention of helping Boers and Afrikaners.
It
is too much insensibility toward his Calvinist brothers and sisters, isn’t it?
I
am not a Calvinist, but if I were the president of the U.S., I would help South
African Calvinists. Years ago I talked to a major leader in the Christian
Orthodox Church in Russia. I asked him to talk to Putin about the plight of
South African whites, not because I think that Russia is the best nation for
them, but because they are abandoned and the U.S. and Europe do not want to
help them.
I
really think that Russia is a good place for Orthodox Christians, but not for
South African Calvinists, because their affinity is with American Pilgrims.
A South African Jew Speaks
In
her book “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid
South Africa” (Bytech Services, 2011), South African author Ilana Mercer said:
“The Judeo-Christian teachings
underpinned great moral struggles in both South Africa and America, separate
development in the former country, slavery and segregation in the latter.
There, I said it. Like early Americans, the Puritans of South Africa had a deep
affinity for the Mosaic faith and morals. In The Roots of American Order,
Russell Kirk traced the influence on the New England Puritans of the Hebraic
faith and traditions. For sustenance and guidance, the Puritans drew on
Exodus—whose theme is the flight from bondage to freedom—as did they on Kings
and Romans. Like the New England Puritans, the Dutch Calvinists who settled
South Africa were steeped in ‘John Calvin’s Hebrew scholarship.’ Both in Africa
and in America, the Puritans saw in the children of Israel and the story of the
Exodus a metaphor for their own quest; their Protestantism they considered as a
continuation of God’s covenant with the people of the Old Testament. As they
interpreted it, the preservation of their respective communities of believers
and its cultural characteristics was preordained.”
Very
wisely, Mercer, who is a daughter of a rabbi, added,
“The Afrikaners illustrate perfectly
what has happened to the Protestant-Calvinist world; it has sunk into a
paralyzing paroxysm of guilt, for which there seems to be no cure.”
And
she explains, in the words of an African philosopher, why the genocide white
Calvinists are suffering in South Africa is a dark reality throughout the
African continent. She said,
“Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, a
Cameroonian thinker, and a former adviser to the World Bank, contends that ‘What
Africans are doing to one another defies credulity. Genocide, bloody civil
wars, and rampant violent crime suggest African societies at all social levels
are to some extent cannibalistic.’”
Mercer
argues that the transfer of power in South Africa to the black majority has
yielded disastrous results for them as well as for the white minority.
What
went wrong for Calvinists in South Africa?
Modern South Africa and Old Witchcraft
Nelson
Mandela inaugurated in South Africa an era where witchcraft was recognized and
respected by the state.
The
festivities in 2012 of the centenary of the ruling African National Congress, Mandela’s
socialist party, were marked by animal sacrifices and rituals held by witches
“to remember their ancestors and remember their own gods in a traditional way.”
This
“traditional way,” or African way, is known in Brazil: candomble and other
afro-Brazilian religions. By the way, if you disapprove this way by pointing
that in the Bible God condemns witchcraft, the Brazilian state response follows
the leftist mantra: criticism of the African worship and its gods and demons is
discrimination, even racism!
Two
goats, two chickens and a bull were sacrificed to communicate with supposed
dead ancestors in the centenary of the African National Congress. Witches were
hallucinating during the ritual, commemorating the “liberation” of South
Africa.
Rituals
at Mandela’s funeral in 2013 were similar. Animals were sacrificed. The
ceremonial slaughtering of animals is one of the ways the “ancestors” are
called upon for help. Guests in these rituals drink blood of the slaughtered
animals. Veneration for the world of the ancestral spirits plays an important
role in South African “culture.” (I know these terms very well. In Brazil, during
years Brazilians have been indoctrinated by their leftist government that
Christianity is a religion and African witchcraft is just “culture”!)
Following
this tradition, Mandela’s body was accompanied by individuals who kept
communication with his spirit and other spirits.
Witchcraft
is not the only problem. South Africa is under the powerful spell of the
Western Left.
Murderous Legacy
Mandela
and his African National Congress were about to turn South Africa into a
violent Marxist, communist country in the Soviet or Cuban model “when they were
bought off by the [socialist] American Democratic Party and big multi-national
business who showered the new black rulers with wealth and power, and, above
all, with favourable international media coverage,” according
to Rodney Atkinson. They were bought off by the Western Left. The result? They
became a violent socialist nation in the Western model.
Under
the spell of this socialist model, South Africa has been implementing moral
decadence as no other African nation has done. For Mr. Atkinson, Mandela has a murderous
legacy. In 1996, Mandela endorsed
one of world’s most liberal abortion laws.
The
same year, Mandela’s new constitution made, according to LifeSiteNews,
South Africa the first country in the world to place “sexual orientation”
alongside race and religion as a restricted grounds for discrimination —
something that was instrumental for the legalization of homosexual “marriage” a
decade later.
In
other words, while many other African nations follow the tradition of
protecting the family, including against gay “marriage” and abortion, in this
respect South Africa under Mandela followed the Western socialist model. Just
in regard to religion, Mandela opened the national doors for the traditional
African way and its demons.
Calvinism in South Africa
Just
as other African nations, South Africa was also strictly against sodomy and
abortion, under white administrations. White administration officials were
mostly Calvinist, and undeniably South Africa greatly flourished under
Calvinist inspiration. Their greatest challenge was to prevail over racial
barriers — a common problem in Africa, considering tribal wars where tribes have
hated, enslaved and massacred one another for racial and “cultural”
differences. Just consider Tutsis and Hutus. Blacks hated, enslaved and
massacred one another long before whites and long after them.
The
Calvinist difficulty to prevail over racial barriers opened the doors to
resistance, especially communist, and a gradual weakening of their own
religious tradition.
In
1985, while under white administration, 92% of Afrikaners (South African
whites) were members of Reformed (Calvinist) Churches. But after the pro-abortion
and pro-sodomy Mandela rule, everything changed. By late 2012, this figure had
dropped to 41%, while actual weekly church attendance of Reformed Churches is
estimated to be below 25%.
Gandhi, Apartheid and Racism
The
weakening of Calvinists follows a strange societal idea that Apartheid is worse
than any evil South Africa has been suffering since the end of Apartheid.
Apartheid
has been elevated above the rampant rapes, including of children and babies, in
South Africa.
Apartheid
has been elevated above the troublesome personal life of its greatest opponent,
Mandela, described by DailyMail
as a “womanizing wife-beater.” He was also a communist involved in many
terrorist attacks.
Apartheid
has been elevated above the evil of socialism, abortion and other threats.
And
it is very suspicious that Marxism, adhered by Mandela, embraced a supposed
fight against racism. According to American Black academic Walter Williams, Karl Marx was a racist man.
How then did Mandela espouse Marxism to fight Apartheid and, later, used
Marxism to legalize abortion?
And
now, Marxists, whose father was a racist, put Mandela in the same mythical
level of Mahatma Gandhi — another racist. For Gandhi, who had visited South Africa,
Africans were no better than the “Untouchables” of India. He thought black
people were subhuman.
The
deification of Gandhi intentionally eclipsed the real Gandhi, just as the
deification of Mandela has intentionally eclipsed the real Mandela: the
high-rank member in the South African Communist Party and an abortion and
homosexuality advocate.
Gandhi
was, according to HuffingtonPost,
elevated to a 20th century messiah by both European and American Protestant
clerics and missionaries. For example, John H. Holmes, a liberal Unitarian
pastor from New York, praised Gandhi in his writings and sermons with titles
like “Gandhi: The Modern Christ” and “Mahatma Gandhi: The Greatest Man since
Jesus Christ.”
Will
Mandela be the new messiah deified by liberal Protestant clerics and
missionaries? Any doubts?
Calvinism and Pentecostalism
Perhaps
Calvinists in South Africa might have averted the catastrophic destiny of their
nation by opening the doors for spiritual revival. Some 100 years ago, when the
African National Congress began its fight against Apartheid, the United States
began to experience an abundant outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and the
Pentecostal movement was born. The Holy Spirit did no distinction of race and
color: whites and blacks were baptized in the Holy Spirit and whites and blacks
became leaders in the Pentecostal church.
While
left-wing and feminist birth control campaigner Margaret Sanger preached the
extinction of blacks through birth control some 100 years ago, poor whites and blacks
were united in their Pentecostal experiences.
Pentecostalism,
rejected by many affluent and proud Calvinists, has been God’s way to address racial
issues since the early 1900s.
Calvinists,
who blessed South Africa over three centuries with their capitalism and hard
work, needed such Pentecostal experiences to face the 20th century challenges.
Failure to do so eventually became victory for Marxist idols and their
“liberation” with epidemic rapes, abortion and homosexuality.
A revival, with abundant supernatural
gifts, could also help Calvinists to confront one of the greatest evils in the
African culture: Witchcraft and demons. Real Christianity always includes
demon-expelling, just as Jesus did, but Calvinists in South Africa did not know
such power, which was so necessary for them.
Christians heavily armed with
supernatural gifts are also harder to fall prey to Marxism, which is rampant in
South Africa.
Yet, Calvinists in South Africa lacked
such power.
Under
Calvinists, South Africa was pro-Israel. Since Mandela, South Africa is
anti-Israel. South African Calvinists are much more conservative than their
U.S. and European counterparts. They are so conservative as Russian Christians
are.
In my view, the best place for Calvinist
refugees of South African is not Russia. It is America or Europe. But what to
do? The U.S. has received millions of Muslim immigrants in the last
40 years. Europe has also received millions of Muslim immigrants from Africa. But
they do not want to receive white refugees who have their same ethnic, cultural
and religious origins. They reject real refugees and embrace fake refugees.
Muslim
“refugees” in the U.S. and Europe are busy destroying the nations helping them.
In contrast, white refugees from South Africa would work hard.
Why
are the U.S. and Europe rejecting conservative hard-working Calvinists from
South Africa for the sake of left-wing free-loaders, troublemakers and even
terrorists?
If
Muslims label themselves victims of genocide, with no evidence, the West
welcomes them. If Calvinist whites show evidence that they are victims of
genocide by Marxists, the West just does not care.
At least once in his lifetime I would
like Trump to remember his Calvinist origins. I would like him to remember the
terrible plight of South African Calvinists. Trump can help these real refugees.
Charismatic
Christians around the world should pray for revival among South African Calvinists
and prophesy the defeat of the demonic Marxist genocidal forces in the South
African government.
With information
from Russia Today, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from
Post-Apartheid South Africa,” National Review, NewsWeek and Wikipedia.
Portuguese
version of this article: Abandonados por calvinistas americanos e europeus, calvinistas
sul-africanos buscam refúgio na Rússia
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