U.S. foreign policy at the service of homosexual imperialism: U.S. ambassador to Brazil meets gay activists

By Julio Severo

When she was Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said that human rights are universal and gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights, meaning that if men and women can marry and adopt children, homosexuals have the same right.

With the end of Barack Hussein Obama’s left-wing administration, I and all conservative Christians thought that homosexual imperialism in U.S. foreign policy would end. I was wrong.

On July 28, 2020, Todd Chapman, U.S. ambassador to Brazil, said on Twitter:

“Human rights are universal. I talked today with representatives of the LGBTI community in Brazil about the challenges they face. It is important to promote human dignity and inalienable rights for everyone.”

In response, I said:

Mr. Ambassador, gay groups in Brazil have had too many rights and privileges for years. From the past socialist administrations, they received millions in funds, even to make school gay materials to indoctrinate children.

The language of “dignity” and “human rights” is used a lot by Brazilian socialists and was used a lot by Obama and Hillary Clinton to advance the gay agenda, and now do you, as an evangelical, do the same thing?

Lula, Brazil’s former socialist president, placed Brazil as the first nation in the world to introduce a proposal in the United Nations classifying homosexuality as an inalienable human right in 2004.

I led the Brazilian opposition to this, and U.S. evangelicals, including Focus on the Family, helped me in the opposition. Since Brazil does not advocate the execution of homosexuals, why do you want to support these groups that work against Christian values and families?

What is your real interest? I would understand if you went to Saudi Arabia to defend homosexuals, who are executed under Saudi Islamic laws. But defending gay groups in Brazil, where these groups have been persecuting Christians for years? What’s your interest?

In Brazil, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva ruled as a socialist president from 2003 to 2009. I spent every year of his administration hearing from him that gay rights were human rights. Lula was committed to this cause in Brazil and at the United Nations. There was even an alliance between Brazil’s socialist government and the Obama administration to advance homosexual causes at the United Nations.

Then, with the Obama administration (2009-2016), I spent years hearing, especially from Hillary, that human rights are gay rights.

Now, I see U.S. embassies under Trump campaigning for homosexuality all over the world.

In 2019 the Brazilian Supreme Court criminalized “homophobia,” at the request of a homosexual organization that years ago demanded actions from the Lula administration against me. “Homophobia” includes criticisms of homosexual depravities in its definition.

Gays in Brazil can get married. They can adopt children. But instead of defending the human rights of children who are condemned to adoption by homosexuals, the U.S. ambassador has sided with Brazilian homosexualists who are full of rights and privileges and want much more.

I would perfectly understand homosexual propaganda in U.S. embassies under the Obama administration, who was a leftist committed to destroying the family. But why is the Trump administration continuing Obama’s homosexualist legacy?

In June 2020, Ambassador Todd celebrated Gay “Pride” Day in Brazil, as if homosexuality was a source of pride.

In fact, in partnership with the United Nations and European nations, the U.S. Embassy in Brazil celebrated the Gay “Pride” Month.

As a nation with a strong evangelical and conservative history, the United States had strong laws against sodomy (homosexuality). These laws were overturned in the 1990s not by conservatives, but by leftists.

Therefore, I do not understand how Mr. Todd, who is evangelical and in the service of the Trump administration, which is allegedly against Marxism, is acting in the service of homosexual interests advanced by a left committed to destroying Christian values.

There is the human rights factor in the homosexual issue, and the focus of this factor is: Where are the human rights of the hundreds of thousands of boys who are victims of propaganda, psychological and even physical abuse by homosexual predators?

Why doesn’t the Trump administration strive to ban homosexual propaganda to children?

The school gay material was a didactic material to indoctrinate Brazilian children. This material received millions in funds from the former socialist administration in Brazil.

Brazilian evangelicals fought hard to stop this material.

Gay activists in Brazil have so many rights and privileges that their target now is children.

Why doesn’t the U.S. ambassador to Brazil visit boys abused by homosexual predators to see the other side of the homosexual drama?

Portuguese version of this article: Política externa dos EUA a serviço do imperialismo homossexual: Embaixador dos EUA no Brasil se encontra com ativistas gays

Source: Last Days Watchman

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From Conservative Pro-Life Presbyterian Champion to Hero of Gay Activists in the Reagan Administration

By Julio Severo

C. Everett Koop (1916-2013) was a devout Presbyterian, or conservative Reformed (as Calvinists choose to define themselves), physician who campaigned nationally against abortion and euthanasia in the 1970s. In that time, he published his books “The Right to Live, the Right to Die” and “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?,” which he co-authored with Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer.

C. Everett Koop

Before becoming a celebrity, Koop was a very successful and respected pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, with almost 300 academic articles to his name. He pioneered surgery on newborns. In the 1950s, he drew national headlines for innovative surgeries by successfully separating three sets of conjoined twins and by reconstructing the chest of a baby born with the heart outside the body. He was known for his support of the rights of disabled children.

He became the first editor of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery when it was founded in 1966.

He was one of the most prominent and respected leaders in the Christian pro-life movement.

So it is no wonder that as soon as Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) became the President of the United States in 1981, he appointed Koop as Surgeon General to bring his strong pro-life convictions to the conservative administration and also to bring the influence of Schaeffer.

The fact that Reagan appointed a famous pro-life evangelical surgeon as the highest medical authority in the United States is a testament to his commitment to conservative evangelicals and their pro-life values. In fact, Reagan himself was the first president to write a pro-life book, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation,” published by Thomas Nelson Publishers, a leading Calvinist publishing house.

Dr. C. Everett Koop is widely regarded as the most influential surgeon general in American history and played a crucial role in changing public attitudes about smoking.

He served as surgeon general from 1982 to 1989, under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Even though Presbyterians or Calvinists are known as tolerant of smoking, as a former pipe smoker Presbyterian Koop carried out a crusade to end smoking in the United States. He said cigarettes were as addictive as heroin and cocaine.

“Smoking kills 300,000 Americans a year,” he said in one talk. “Smokers are 10 times more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers, two times more likely to develop heart disease. Smoking a pack a day takes six years off a person’s life.”

When Koop took office, 33 percent of Americans smoked; when he left, the percentage had dropped to 26. By 1987, 40 states had restricted smoking in public places, 33 had prohibited it on public conveyances and 17 had banned it in offices and other work sites. More than 800 local antismoking ordinances had been passed, and the Reagan administration had restricted smoking in 6,800 federal buildings. Antismoking campaigns by private groups like the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association had accelerated.

In taking on the tobacco lobby, he was also taking on powerful politicians from tobacco-growing states. After he accused the tobacco industry of directing advertising at children and threatening human lives, Gov. Jim Hunt of North Carolina, a Democrat, called for his impeachment.

In 1996, he rapped Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole for suggesting that tobacco was not invariably addictive, saying Dole’s comments “either exposed his abysmal lack of knowledge of nicotine addiction or his blind support of the tobacco industry.”

Today conservatives understand the need of antismoking laws. President Donald Trump also restricted smoking in 2019.

Even though Koop was right on smoking, the heavy pressure on him, especially coming from powerful pro-abortion groups and journalists, took a heavy toll.

President Ronald Reagan asked Koop to write a report about the impact of abortion on the physical, emotional and psychological health of women.

This was a big chance for Koop to put his famous convictions into action, but he declined the historic opportunity. He sent a letter back to Reagan stating that there was insufficient research to write a report. Pro-abortion activists celebrated his answer as astounding victory. Angered prolife leaders could hardly believe that this was the same man who ten years earlier had compared abortion to Nazi genocide in the movie and book “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?”

Now, conservatives were asking the question: “Whatever happened to conservative pro-life Presbyterian C. Everett Koop?”

Koop traveled the country in 1979 and 1980 giving speeches that predicted a progression “from liberalized abortion to infanticide to passive euthanasia to active euthanasia, indeed to the very beginnings of the political climate that led to Auschwitz, Dachau and Belsen.”

Koop represented the best hopes of the pro-life movement in the conservative Reagan administration. Because of his high pro-life credentials, probably any conservative president would have appointed this pro-life champion to any government post.

Reagan gave him a golden chance to implement his pro-life principles. But what Reagan discovered is that the powerful pro-life leader he saw with Francis Schaeffer lost his pro-life content when appointed to a high-level office in the U.S. government.

At least, Koop could have applied to the abortion issue the same principles he rightly applied to the smoking issue. But he never did it. He was defeated by the left-wing pressures on him.

As many Presbyterians Koop maintained his personal opposition to abortion as a private matter. After he left office, he told medical students abortion violated their Hippocratic oath.

Koop also shocked the Left and the Right (especially the Right) alike in the 1980s exactly when the AIDS epidemic began by presenting HIV and AIDS not as moral issues, but as a health issue. He shocked the Left because left-wingers did not expect him to support homosexuality, and he shocked the Right because right-wingers expected him to oppose homosexuality.

Gay activists have used the AIDS issue for decades as a tool to get millions in taxpayer dollars to fund their movement and agenda, and their victory was thanks to Koop.

Koop also maneuvered around uncooperative Reagan administration officials in 1988 to send a pro-sodomy AIDS pamphlet to more than 100 million U.S. households, the largest public “health” campaign ever made by mailing. He promoted condoms, “protected” sodomy and sex education to children to “stop” the spread of AIDS. Actually, his campaign increased homosexual activity and activism.

Then, in the midst of a heated national debate about how best to halt the spread of AIDS, Koop blocked the Reagan administration’s plans for extensive testing. To the applause of gay groups, Koop said the disclosure of the test results could ruin the careers of those tested.

Koop’s speeches made him a hero to gay and left-wing groups of America, including journalists. Gay activists chanted “Koop, Koop” at his appearances and booed other officials of the Reagan administration.

Christian conservatives were furious, saying Koop was promoting the gay agenda, while he kept pushing for condoms, “protected” sodomy and sex education for schoolchildren.

Media coverage was generally quite positive, with journalists defending Koop and attacking his Christian critics. He became loved by journalists.

Koop personally opposed homosexuality and believed sex should be saved for marriage. Yet, he never let his conservative principles guide him in the Reagan administration, even though he was appointed exclusively for his strong pro-life stances. He kept his conservative convictions a private matter. The outspoken conservative of the 1970s disappeared in his private life and never appeared in the public life of the Reagan administration.

At least, Koop could have applied to the AIDS and homosexual issues the same principles he rightly applied to the smoking issue. But he never did it. He was defeated by the left-wing pressures on him.

So the greatest victory ever to the homosexual movement, granting it the privilege to use the AIDS issue as a propaganda machine to make gay groups wealthy, did not come from a left-wing leader in a left-wing administration. It came from a devout, conservative pro-life Presbyterian in the conservative Reagan administration. It came from a pro-life leader who had been directly supervised by Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984), the famous Presbyterian theologian.

Koop in a government post is also a lesson for pro-lifers and Christians. There are people fighting for pro-life and Christian values just for opportunism. You cannot see their hearts, but if given a government post, they will have no problem to let their hearts show their real motivation.

The massive pro-life propaganda of Koop, in books and movies, in the 1970s brought him massive fame, especially because he was with Schaeffer. This propaganda was instrumental for Reagan to appoint him. Yet, Koop disappointed Reagan and conservative Christians in the abortion and homosexual issues.

The Koop case was a moral tragedy in the Reagan administration and in the pro-life movement. He could have used his principles — which he used successfully against smoking — against abortion, AIDS and homosexuality, but he never did it.

If smoking is harmful, what is abortion? What is sodomy? What is AIDS? Actually, it made no sense to condemn smoking and exempt abortion and sodomy.

Koop was appointed by Reagan to show his conservative stances, but he chose to hide them, for fear of left-wing journalists and homosexualists.

Because of Koop, the most conservative Republican administration in the modern U.S. history displeased conservatives and pleased left-wingers as far as abortion, AIDS and homosexuality are concerned. It is not what you expect when a conservative administration appoints a conservative pro-life evangelical champion, but it is what you get when the convictions of the conservative champion get heavily tested through too much power in a government post.

With information from The Daily Beast, Associated Press, ABC News, CNN, New York Times, Reuters and Banner of Truth.

Portuguese version of this article: De campeão presbiteriano conservador pró-vida a herói de ativistas gays no governo Reagan

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While black lives are lost in abortion and broken homes, “Black Lives Matter” movement preaches Marxism, which fuels the destruction of the black family through abortion and broken homes

By Julio Severo

Violent riots, loots, burned buildings, violent confrontation with police, killed civilians and police officers — this is the “trademark” of violent individuals brought up in broken homes. And, by chance, it is also the “trademark” of a Marxist movement called “Black Lives Matter.”

BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and Karl Marx

“Black Lives Matter” seeks to destroy the U.S. Law & Order, originally based on Christian principles (of Protestant orientation), and replace it with the Marxist Law & Order. Every Marxist nation has a tight control over their citizens, or slaves, through the Marxist Law & Order. The Soviet Union, which had excessive Marxist Law & Order, is an example.

To destroy the U.S. Law & Order and establish the Marxist Law & Order, what does “Black Lives Matter” preach?

The official website of “Black Lives Matter” says:

“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure…”

“We foster a [homosexualist] queer‐affirming network.”

“We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression…”

All of these ideas are Marxist. And they are no wonder, because “Black Lives Matter” was founded in Marxist principles.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said on July 22, 2015,

“We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia [Garza] in particular, we're trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super versed on ideological theories.”

There is a huge rage in the U.S. black population. This rage has been channeled to Marxism.

The website Afro says,

“Only 38.7 Percent of African-American Minors Live with Both Parents.”

“… more than one-third of all Black children in the United States under the age of 18 live with unmarried mothers—compared to 6.5 percent of White children.”

And an abortion group said,

“In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women.”

Even though there are more white women than black women in the U.S., the fact is that more black women kill their babies through abortion than white women do.

For the Marxist “Black Lives Matter,” the thousands and thousands of lives of black unborn babies do not matter. So clearly it is not a movement with a real interest in defending black lives.

The main culprit for the destruction of black homes and abortion is the U.S. government. In the 1960s, the U.S. government launched a comprehensive social program, in answer to Martin Luther King, to make “reparations” to the black population by giving them many social aids.

With this “reparations,” black single mothers would receive government aid: cash, food, housing, job and whatever they needed. Yet, instead of helping, this social program normalized bad choices, broken homes and single parenting.

In the past, a young black woman should look for a responsible man to feed and support her. With the social program, she was free to choose any man or no man. With government support, such women had a legion of fatherless children, the main component of gangs and criminality.

To “help” such women not have so many fatherless children, the U.S. government has given to them the taxpayer “privilege” to abort their children. That is, the U.S. government has paid for their abortion.

The biggest tragedy in the U.S. black population was government interventions to “help” them. In the process of such help, the black family has been destroyed and black babies have been massively aborted.

And a huge legion of fatherless blacks live in rage and revolt as direct consequence of government interventions and aids, and Marxism and its groups, including “Black Lives Matter,” have channeled their rage.

I have fought abortion for over 30 years. And because abortion kills many black babies, my fight shows that black lives matter. But Marxist movements, including “Black Lives Matter,” have no real concern for black lives, especially black babies.

The “Black Lives Matter” movement has been free, in a U.S. society founded on Christian principles, to incite black people into provoking violent riots, burning buildings, making violent confrontation with police and killing civilians and police officers. They have rejected the traditional Law & Order.

In an Islamic society as Saudi Arabia where Islamic Law & Order rule supremely, they would be executed long before thinking about inciting black people to riots.

In a Marxist society where Marxist Law & Order rule supremely, they would have no freedom to preach riots. They would be executed.

“Black Lives Matter” have been able to do riots and much more in the United States because they have been given excessive freedom, they have received excessive government aid and because the traditional male authority has been destroyed in the black homes and in the larger society.

A healthy male authority is essential for a health Law & Order. But what can be seen in the U.S., especially in the broken fatherless black homes, is women leading. In the larger society, women and homosexuals are presented as the perfect and moderate authority figures.

Without strong male authority, it is impossible for the U.S. to control the rage of fatherless blacks controlled by Marxism.

Without stopping funding single-parenting, broken homes and abortion among blacks, it is impossible for the U.S. government to stop Marxism from channeling rage among them.

Portuguese version of this article: Enquanto vidas negras são perdidas no aborto e em lares desfeitos, o movimento “Vidas Negras Importam” prega o marxismo, que alimenta a destruição da família negra através do aborto e de lares desfeitos

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Matthew Paul Turner, Christian author of children’s books, announced that he has embraced the gay lifestyle and divorce

By Julio Severo

Noted Christian author Matthew Paul Turner dropped a bombshell on the evangelical community on July 17, 2020 when he revealed he is homosexual. The author of the books “When God Made Light” and “Our Great Big American God” shocked his followers when he made the announcement on social media, and then added he is divorcing his wife, fellow writer Jessica M. Turner.

Matthew Paul Turner and his wife, from whom he has divorced to embrace homosexuality

Gay, left-wing and Christian left-wing groups were excited about his announcement.

Turner is the former editor of CCM, a magazine covering contemporary Christian music, but he is best known for his rhyming children’s books published through Convergent, an imprint of Penguin Random House. His 2019 book “When I Pray for You” is a Today, Publisher’s Weekly and Wall Street Journal bestseller with more than 100,000 copies in print.

“[A]s someone who spent 30+ years in fundamentalist/evangelical churches, exploring God through conservative theologies, I’ve lived many days overwhelmed by fear, shame and self-hatred,” Turner wrote in his Facebook post. “But for the first time in my life, despite the sadness and grief I’m feeling right now, I can say with confidence that I’m ready to embrace freedom, hope and God as a gay man.”

Matthew and Jessica were married in 2004 after meeting online and quickly bonding over their interest and involvement in CCM.

“Despite her own grief and pain, she has loved and encouraged me to be fully me.” The couple live in Nashville, Tennessee, with their three children.

In his book, “Fear No Evil,” Turner describes growing up in a conservative Independent Fundamental Baptist Church where he said his belief in God was rooted in fear of damnation. He wrote that his faith evolved over the years, and this “evolvement” is that eventually he became a part of more progressive Christian circles.

“Though my own faith evolved long ago to become LGBTQ+ affirming, my journey toward recognizing, accepting and embracing myself took much longer,” Turner wrote in his post.

His progressive faith is reflected in his children’s books — which emphasize that God’s love accepts everyone just as they are, including homosexuals — as well as his other writings.

His book “When God Made You” was an Evangelical Christian Publishing Association bestseller and described as “Oh, the Places You’ll Go meets The Divine” by recording artist Amy Grant.

Turner has been described as “one of the most influential progressive Christian voices in media.” The author of 16 books including “The Christian Culture Survival Guide,” “The Coffeehouse Gospel,” and “Provocative Faith,” Turner previously served as the entertainment editor for Crosswalk and was a frequent contributor to Relevant magazine.

The challenge of modern Christians is to fix their eyes on Jesus. When they fix their eyes on the trends of this world, they are engulfed by them. One of these trends is the progressive ideology, which is socialism.

When a Christian fixes his eyes on Jesus, he is encouraged to fight temptations. But when he fixes his eyes on the worldly trends, he is discouraged from fighting the temptations and he is encouraged to yield to them.

It seems that Turner fixed too much his eyes on what the world has to offer, including misinterpretations of God’s Word.

What do the trends of this world say? Often they say that you can be a homosexual. But what does God’s Word say? It says:

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NKJV)

While world and its trends enslave people to every kind of sin — including the lie that a man can be a homosexual and a Christian at the same time —, Jesus Christ delivers people from every kind of sin — including homosexuality, its agenda and lies.

Some of the people in the Church of Corinth had been homosexuals in the past. But they embraced the Gospel and the deliverance Jesus offers. And they “were washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.” So there is freedom from homosexual slavery and its sins.

Perhaps the people who did not choose embrace the Gospel and its freedom from homosexuality thought that they could remain as Christians. But God’s Word says — and so we should agree and say too — that those who remain in their homosexual sins and other sins will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Today, those who make their bad choices have the Big Media to applaud their blend of homosexuality with their fake christianity. Meanwhile, Christians should use all the media available to announce that such blend it is impossible and that freedom from homosexuality is always possible in Jesus Christ.

With information from Charisma News, The Advocate and Christian Post.

Portuguese version of this article: Matthew Paul Turner, autor cristão de livros infantis, anunciou que adotou o estilo de vida gay e o divórcio

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Martin Niemöller, the anti-Nazi Lutheran minister who warned how Christians should speak out when people are persecuted. But how valid was his advice?

By Julio Severo

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a German Lutheran theologian and minister who criticized Nazism and was imprisoned by Nazis in 1937. He is more known for his famous declaration:

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.”

By “they,” he meant Nazis, who came after socialists, trade unionists and Jews. All these groups were basically socialists in Germany. Trade unionists are mostly socialists, and one example is former Brazilian socialist president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, who has a history as a trade unionist. And the Jewish preference for socialism has been a historical fact.

So what Niemöller meant was: Nazis were persecuting socialists.

What he meant is that many Germans did not care if Nazis were persecuting, imprisoning and killing socialists, trade unionists and Jews. But such indifference, as he pointed, would eventually bring persecution to Christians.

The Encyclopedia Britannica says about Niemöller:

“As founder and a leading member of the Bekennende Kirche [Confessing Church] within the larger Evangelical Church (Lutheran and Reformed) of Germany, Niemöller was influential in building opposition to Adolf Hitler's efforts to bring the German churches under control of the Nazis and the so-called German Christians. The resistance of the Confessing Church was openly declared and solidified at its Synod of Barmen in 1934. Niemöller continued to preach throughout Germany and in 1937 was arrested by Hitler’s secret police, the Gestapo. Eventually sent to the concentration camps at Sachsenhausen and then Dachau, he was moved in 1945 to the Tirol in Austria, where Allied forces freed him at the end of World War II. He helped rebuild the Evangelical Church in Germany.”

From his experience seeing Nazis persecuting, imprisoning and killing socialists, trade unionists and Jews, Niemöller understood that Christians could not be indifferent when such groups are persecuted.

Visitors stand in front of the quotation from Martin Niemöller that is on display in the Permanent Exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

He is seen as a good Christian example. His name and especially his famous declaration “First they came…” stand permanently in the Holocaust Museum in the United States. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, his declaration was also said in stronger terms than socialists:

“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist…”

So it is no wonder that Niemöller received in 1967the Lenin Peace Prize, the Soviet Union’s equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize. And from 1961 to 1968, he was president of the World Council of Churches, a socialist Protestant organization.

He was courageous for speaking out against Nazism, but because he saw the extremism of an anti-socialist and anti-communist political system, he fell into the polarization trap, and he chose the other extremism. Even so, his famous declaration “First they came…” is used today by left-wingers and right-wingers.

His declaration dispels confusion today among those who did not live in that time and try to see Nazism as a socialist movement. In fact, both Nazism and Italian fascism, which are identified by Jews as right-wing movements, received inspiration from a famous right-wing writer, Julius Evola, who was the guru of Benito Mussolini.

Francisco Franco, the dictator in Spain and one of the most prominent right-wing leaders in Europe in that time, received military assistance from Nazism in Germany. The Encyclopedia Britannica says that the main influence in his life was that he was “close to his mother, a pious and conservative upper middle-class Roman Catholic.”

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Franco, who followed the military career, was so intelligent that “In 1915 he became the youngest captain in the Spanish army” and “In May 1935 he was appointed chief of the Spanish army's general staff.”

The Encyclopedia Britannica also says Franco’s support was “derived mainly from the antileftist middle classes” and that he was “one of the world’s leading anticommunist statesmen.”

Modern right-wing readers just do not understand how Nazis militarily helped Franco and his anticommunism.

The problem with Nazism is that it was inspired by occultism, and Evola was also an occultist. And occultism always brings confusion.

One of these confusions was a very brief treaty between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939. Even though this treaty lasted less than six months, often it is used as an “evidence” that both were two kinds of socialism. Yet, if such short-lived union to the Soviet Union is an evidence that Nazi Germany was socialist, what would the same critics say about the U.S.-Soviet alliance, which lasted from 1941 to 1945 during the World War 2, for much more time than the short Soviet-Nazi alliance did?

And because the Soviet Union fought against Nazism, the U.S. put the Soviet Union in the foundation of the United Nations. This is the polarization trap.

You fall into the polarization trap only when you do not understand that there were higher forces operating in Germany. These forces were occultist, with its many pitfalls of confusion.

Martin Niemöller was unable to understand the political and spiritual tensions of this trap and these pitfalls.

And today people do not care if Niemöller had embraced socialism. For them what matters is that he embraced anti-Nazism, which was an anti-socialist and anti-communist system, as Niemöller saw with his own eyes.

What did Niemöller miss that he did not understand that socialism was so destructive as Nazism? He lacked the anointing of the Holy Spirit and his supernatural gifts, which could have helped him see realities he was unable to see with his human eyes.

He embraced socialism because he saw the horror that socialists in Germany suffered from Nazis. But he never saw that socialists in the Soviet Union committed the same and bigger horrors.

So Niemöller’s famous declaration is spiritually wrong. Christians have no calling to defend communists and socialists. And they should be careful with groups using extreme anti-communism as a flag. Such flag was used in the past by groups, including Nazis and fascists, which got inspiration from Evola. The same flag is used today by groups with the same occult inspiration.

The calling of Christians is to preach the Gospel to communists, socialists, Nazis, right-wingers and left-wingers. Every sinner needs to hear the Gospel.

While you are busy with the preaching of the Gospel and are open to the Holy Spirit and his gifts, you will never fall into the polarization trap and occult pitfalls in this polarization.

Portuguese version of this article: Martin Niemöller, o pastor luterano anti-nazista que alertou como os cristãos precisam abrir a boca quando as pessoas são perseguidas. Mas até que ponto o conselho dele é válido?

Source: Last Days Watchman

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