Brazilian televangelist Silas Malafaia says that it is just ridiculous to discard evangelicals to credit Bolsonaro’s victory to astrologer Olavo de Carvalho
By Julio Severo
When Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the Brazilian
president Jair Bolsonaro, said that “without Olavo, there would be no election
of Jair Bolsonaro,” his remark shocked me, and I published the following
article: Eduardo
Bolsonaro says that “without Olavo, there would be no election of Jair
Bolsonaro”.
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| Silas Malafaia supporting Jair Bolsonaro during the election |
In
a 18 March 2019 tweet, Rev. Silas Malafaia, a Pentecostal televangelist who is
known throughout Brazil and other nations, said
that Bolsonaro personally told him several times that if 80 percent
of evangelicals supported him, he would be elected president. According to the
Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo,
Bolsonaro got at least 70 percent of the evangelical vote, and he was elected.
Malafaia, who is a conservative evangelical
heavy-weight in Brazil, added,
“Now comes his son, an apprentice of politician,
to say that Olavo de Carvalho is the man most responsible for his father’s
victory. SIMPLY RIDICULOUS!”
Malafaia’s intervention on Twitter has dispelled
the anti-evangelical FakeNews that Olavo de Carvalho, who has a background in Islamic
occultism and astrology, was the man responsible for Bolsonaro’s election.
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| WHAT PRESIDENT BOLSONARO TOLD SEVERAL TIMES: If 80% of evangelicals support me, I will be elected president. That is what happened. Now comes his son, an apprentice of politician, to say that Olavo de Carvalho is the one most responsible for his father's victory. SIMPLY RIDICULOUS! |
In 2011, the New York Times interviewed Malafaia
in a report headlined “Evangelical
Leader Rises in Brazil’s Culture Wars.” So Malafaia’s international fame in
the cultural wars against abortion and the gay agenda is not something new. And
it is by his own merits.
During the Brazilian presidential election,
the New
York Times showed the decisive role of Malafaia to elect Bolsonaro.
Obviously, evangelicals, who were
ambitiously coveted by Bolsonaro during the election, have had very little
space now that the government power is firmly in his hands.
For some reason, after the election Bolsonaro
stopped valuing his evangelical supporters and began to glorify astrologer Olavo,
who has lived as a self-exiled immigrant in the U.S. for 15 years, but he was
never able to achieve fame by his own merits.
Perhaps now, with Bolsonaro making free
propaganda to him, he may achieve some fame. Besides, Steve
Bannon, who had been expelled by Trump for leaking secret information, has
promised to make Carvalho famous in the U.S. Bannon is now close to Bolsonaro,
because of Carvalho and Eduardo.
After being
fired by Trump, Bannon created a movement to influence right-wingers in
Europe and Latin America. Bannon chose Eduardo to represent his movement in
Brazil and Latin America.
Bannon
and Carvalho had two meetings last January. Both share the same background:
They were inspired by René Guénon, an Islamic occultist who founded the
Traditionalist School to promote esoteric conservatism and fight Marxism.
Bannon, Carvalho and Guénon came from the same Catholic background.
Bannon, Carvalho and Eduardo are doing everything
possible to expand Bannon’s Guenonian movement — at the expense of evangelicals
who elected Bolsonaro.
Their big problem is that the astrologer
whom they credit for Bolsonaro’s victory does not have millions of followers. In
contrast, evangelicals represent millions of voters in Brazil.
The Facebook fanpage of astrologer
Olavo has over 500,000 followers, virtually the same number of fans of Walter
Mercado, a Puerto Rican astrologer who became famous on Brazilian TV in the
1990s.
So to say that a Brazilian astrologer was
responsible for the election of the Brazilian president is akin to say that a Puerto
Rican astrologer was responsible for the election of the U.S. president.
Only people under a powerful spell see reality
reversely. Rasputin
kept the Russian czar under such spell. This is the reason I call Carvalho
Bolsonaro’s Rasputin. Others call him “guru of Bolsonaro.” Carvalho rejects
and calls these names FakeNews.
Now Carvalho is in the uneasy situation to
accuse the Trump administration of producing FakeNews after the Voice of America
(VOA) reported that Bolsonaro was Sunday at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington
with:
“Bannon
and U.S.-based Brazilian writer Olavo de Carvalho, considered Bolsonaro's
ideological guru.”
VOA, the largest U.S. international
broadcaster, officially called
Carvalho “Bolsonaro's ideological guru.” VOA belongs the U.S. government and it
broadcasts U.S. government views. So the most powerful broadcaster of the U.S.
government broadcast to the whole world that Bolsonaro is dependent on a guru.
Bolsonaro cannot complain that he was internationally
portrayed by the U.S. government as dependent on a guru. His decision to have Bannon
in an exclusive dinner at the Brazilian Embassy on the eve of his meeting with
Trump was a slap in the face of Trump.
And to say that an astrologer, not
millions of evangelicals, was the man responsible for Bolsonaro’s election was a
slap in the face of evangelicals.
Bannon was expelled by Trump for
opportunism. Trump said,
“Steve
pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet
he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to
make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does
well.”
Such opportunism is a perfect description
of Carvalho and how he and his adherents are taking advantage of Brazilian
evangelicals by “leaking false information to the media” (“without Olavo, there
would be no election of Jair Bolsonaro”) to make themselves seem far more
important than they are.
Trump did very well by firing one Guenonian
opportunist: Bannon. But Bolsonaro is sowing troubles to himself by making
himself dependent on two Guenonian opportunists: Bannon and Carvalho.
Portuguese version of this article: Televangelista
Silas Malafaia diz que é simplesmente ridículo descartar os evangélicos para
creditar a vitória de Bolsonaro ao astrólogo Olavo de Carvalho
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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