Brazil’s new Education Minister is a Presbyterian minister and is already drawing the fury from the left by preaching that children need the discipline rod
By Julio Severo
On July 10, 2020, Brazilian President Jair
Bolsonaro chose Milton Ribeiro to be the new Minister of Education in Brazil.
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| Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Rev. Milton Ribeiro, the new Minister of Education |
One of those values, which is detested by
feminism, is the role of the husband as head in the family. Ribeiro said that
the father figure should direct the home, through imposition. “When the father
is absent inside the house, the enemy attacks,” said Ribeiro. “The father,
according to the Bible, is the one who points the way the family goes.”
Perhaps the greatest fury from the left
against him came because in 2016, inside a Presbyterian church, he preached a
sermon titled “The Rod of Discipline.” In this sermon, he made statements that
horrified left-wingers. Among the statements are:
“The idea of many that the child is
innocent is relative.”
“Punish your son while there is hope, but
don’t go so far as to kill him.”
“I’m not here teaching a child beating
class, but the discipline rod cannot be removed from our homes.”
“Perhaps a percentage of very small
children, of precocious, gifted children, will understand your argument. There should
be rigor, sorry, severity. And I’m going to take it a step further, maybe some
mothers are going even to be angry with me: they should feel pain.”
Biblically, his sermon is not wrong, as there
are many Bible verses that confirm the need and importance of the correction
rod to help children.
However, this biblical stance is at odds
with the current Brazilian law, which prohibits all kinds of physical
discipline in children, including through slap, slipper or rod. This law was
passed by socialists during the administration of socialist Dilma Rousseff in
2014.
Left-wingers often treat physical
discipline as “violence,” but they get shocked when reality shows that abortion
that they passionately defend is real violence, with a lot of pain, suffering
and bloodshed. Aborting an innocent child is a million times worse than taking
corrections by rod and any individual who advocates abortion should be jailed
for child abuse. Individuals who advocate homosexual indoctrination for
children should also be jailed for child abuse. But it is exactly these
unbalanced and violent individuals who preach that parental discipline by rod
is “violence.”
Just for the courage of Rev. Milton
Ribeiro to defend the discipline rod at risk of being lynched by socialists who
love to slaughter babies through abortion, he deserves the support of
Christians.
I just have some doubts. Since he was
vice-chancellor of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, was he never able to stop
or at least protest against Marxist,
homosexualist
and pro-abortion professors there? Mackenzie
Presbyterian University even hired professor Márcia Tiburi, one of the most
prominent abortion activists in Brazil.
Mackenzie Presbyterian University is so
liberal in hiring left-wing professors that a Presbyterian
pastor, who identifies himself as a gay activist, defended that university and
attacked me.
What is the stance of Rev. Ribeiro regarding
the notorious liberalism of Mackenzie Presbyterian University? I do not know.
Also,
as a Calvinist Ribeiro does not represent the profile of Brazilian
evangelicals, who are overwhelmingly Pentecostal and charismatic. Even as a minority
among Brazilian Protestants, Calvinists were not prominent voters of Bolsonaro.
Yet, most charismatics and Pentecostals voted for him out of a lack of option
and because they hate homosexualist and abortion activism in the Brazilian
government.
Perhaps President Jair Bolsonaro has
appointed Ribeiro as Minister of Education out of respect for evangelicals, who
were his main voters in 2018. But it seems that this respect is not very great.
Apparently, he does not want to let evangelicals influence the Ministry of
Education a lot.
Just before appointing Ribeiro, Bolsonaro
appointed several adherents of Olavo
de Carvalho to the National Education Council to ensure that Carvalho’s
influence continues in the Brazilian education.
The
National Council of Education is an agency in the Ministry of Education that formulates
and evaluates the national education policy in Brazil. Thus, the Ministry of
Education will be under the direction of a Presbyterian, but the formulation of
the national education policy will in practice be under the direction of adherents
of Carvalho.
The appointment of adherents of
Carvalho in the National Education Council may indicate that Bolsonaro is
mesmerized by Carvalho’s
esoteric fascism, as all of his
appointments of such adherents were a failure.
There is no justification to continue such failures.
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.
In June, Bolsonaro chose black traditional
Baptist Carlos Decotelli. It
was a disastrous choice, as Decotelli was dishonest. Bolsonaro seems unable
to make choices that are not disastrous in the Ministry of Education, and by
far the biggest disasters came from Carvalho’s adherents.
On January 2020 Bolsonaro fired
Roberto Alvim, the Brazilian top culture official, after Alvim quoted Nazi
Goebbels while talking about nationalist art in a video as Hitler’s
favorite composer played in the background. Alvim is a hard-core adherent of
Carvalho.
For the National Art Foundation, Bolsonaro
appointed Dante Mantovani, a hard-core adherent of Carvalho. After Mantovani
talked about what he should never talk, he was fired. After intense pressure of
Carvalho, he was reinstalled, and again fired.
Among stupid statements of Mantovani are:
“People who believe that the Earth is a
globe are great at making jokes about the self-evident flatness of the Earth’s
surface, but they are absolutely unable to come up with a single argument or
proof of Earth’s delusional sphericity. The closest they get to an argument
supporting the spinning ball are the computer graphics made by NASA, the Cold
War propaganda and disinformation organization, whose authors themselves have
come out to say that it’s all fake.”
Olavo de Carvalho, the guru of Mantovani,
Alvim and other officials in the Brazilian government, at last recognized that
he did a wrong recommendation in the case of the minister of Education. He
confessed that he recommended Vélez to Bolsonaro even though he had no contact
with Vélez for over 20 years! That was his excuse.
Yet, in the case of Ernesto
Araújo, whom he recommended to Bolsonaro as foreign affair minister, he
said that he hit the bull’s eyes. Araújo has openly praised Julius
Evola, the guru of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Evola is the
author of several right-wing, anti-Marxist and occult books. Yes, he
advocated at the same time the right-wing, anti-Marxist ideology and
witchcraft.
I am sure that he hit the bull’s eyes,
because Araújo has the same occult preferences Carvalho has.
If occultism was bad luck for Evola and
Mussolini, how can it represent good luck for Brazil?
Brazil does not need adherents of Carvalho
in the National Education Council to keep bringing disasters.
Brazil does not need people with occult
history to harm its society.
Brazil needs integrity and real
Christianity — without syncretism.
I
hope that Presbyterian minister Milton Ribeiro may be better than Decotelli,
than Carvalho’s adherents and than the notorious liberalism of the Mackenzie
Presbyterian University. And I also hope that he will continue to preach about the
importance of the discipline rod, which parents can use to correct their
children, and which God can sovereignly use to discipline rulers.
Portuguese
version of this article: Novo ministro da Educação é pastor presbiteriano e já
está atraindo a fúria da esquerda ao pregar que crianças precisam da vara da disciplina
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