Brazil’s new Minister of Education is evangelical black
By
Julio
Severo
ATTENTION: After
the countless scandals that were revealed about Professor Decotelli after the
publication of this article, it was necessary to write another article, which
is found here: Brazil’s first black evangelical
minister of Education fell for cheating with fake credentials before being
inaugurated.
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| Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Carlos Alberto Decotelli |
In
an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Estado de S. Paulo on June 26, 2020,
Decotelli said:
“I
grew up inside the First Baptist Church in Rio and I am focused on New
Testament issues in the traditional evangelical core, such as the Baptist,
Methodist, Presbyterian churches. I attended Sunday school since I was two
years old and today I am a member of the First Baptist Church of Curitiba,
Brazil. In the convictions that are in the Bible, in the New Testament, I
believe. A matter of faith. This is how I proceed in my life.”
With
these principles, there is hope that he will take stances against gender
ideology. There is no better and greater moral and ethical manual than the
Bible. All who follow it are honored. Despite this, in the interview he favored
a notoriously left-wing point: the quota system. He said:
“The
quota system is one of the public policies that are positive.”
However,
because he respects the Bible, evangelicals can guide him to examine all
issues, including quotas, under the guidance of the Bible, which values merit,
work and personal effort.
It
is not new that evangelicals, who were considered
vital for Bolsonaro’s election,
yearned for a position as Minister of Education. Early in 2019, televangelist Silas Malafaia had recommended evangelical
Guilherme Schelb to the Ministry of Education, but his recommendation was
defeated under the influence of esoteric guru Olavo de Carvalho, who chose his adherent Ricardo
Vélez.
A
good quality of Velez: he did not like socialism. Two bad qualities about him: He didn’t like Trump, but he liked
Hillary Clinton.
When
Vélez became a disaster at the Ministry of Education, Bolsonaro himself
confessed that he had chosen him blindly. He said:
“I
was wrong at the beginning when I appointed Ricardo Vélez as minister. Was it
an indication of Olavo de Carvalho? It was, I won’t deny it… Then I called him:
‘Olavo, where did you know Vélez from?’”
Despite
Vélez’s failure, Bolsonaro gave a new opportunity to Carvalho, who chose
Abraham Weintraub in May 2019. Without delay, Weintraub announced that one of
his priorities would be to increase the number of daycare centers. My reaction
came in the article “Brazilian Minister of Education
Abraham Weintraub and His Right-Wing Socialism or Right-Wing Statism,” in which I said:
“The
concept of daycare — to move the child away from the mother as early as
possible — is a concept embraced, defended and widely practiced in socialism.”
In
July 2019, under Weintraub, Brazil’s Ministry of Education
launched astrology campaign for students on the internet, but it deleted posts
shortly after criticism from readers that such a campaign was born of the
influence of Olavo de Carvalho, who has a history of astrologer, on the former
Minister of Education.
Weintraub’s
last problem was in May 2020, where he was criticized by the Israeli
Embassy in Brazil and by Jewish organizations in Brazil and the U.S. for
comparing police raids against allies to Nazi persecution against Jews.
With
Vélez and Weintraub, the tentacles of Olavo de Carvalho’s ideological
indoctrination threatened 57 million children and young people in schools in
Brazil.
It
is assumed that Bolsonaro did not give Carvalho the opportunity to make a third
(disastrous) choice because right at the beginning of June 2020, Carvalho called the Bolsonaro
administration “sh*t,” saying he can overthrow it.
Now
Bolsonaro has decided to give evangelicals a chance.
Although
Professor Carlos Alberto Decotelli is black, left-wing organizations in Brazil
and the U.S., who love to praise every rise of blacks to power in Western
nations, have not praised the rise of this evangelical black Brazilian. On the
contrary, the Brazilian left is constantly criticizing him.
With
prayer and wisdom from the Word of God, he will overcome obstacles and bless
the education of millions of children in Brazil.
Recommended
Reading on Brazil’s Ministry of Education:
New Brazilian Education Minister:
Hostile to Socialism and Trump, Friendly with Bolsonaro and Hillary
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