Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Left-wing Baptist theologian defends BLM against conservative evangelicals and says that pro-life and pro-family groups fit under Anti-Terrorism Law


Left-wing Baptist theologian defends BLM against conservative evangelicals and says that pro-life and pro-family groups fit under Anti-Terrorism Law

By Julio Severo
In his August 18, 2020 article “Brazilian Fundamentalist Evangelicals Aim at Black Lives Matter” in his column in the left-wing website The Intercept, Brazilian black activist and Baptist theologian Ronilso Pacheco talks about “persecution against BLM” (Black Lives Matter) by conservative evangelicals, whom he accuses of “white supremacists.” And he says that “Like their U.S. counterparts, fundamentalists in Brazil are accusing the anti-racist movement of fighting for the end of the traditional family and burning Bibles.”
Ronilso Pacheco
He said that conservative evangelicals, whom he accused of being “racist” and “fundamentalist,” use “fallacious arguments and lies,” but he himself used such arguments. His article declares BLM not guilty of burning Bibles in a “protest,” saying that anonymous protestors did it. Even so, he spent some time explaining that the fact that protestors burned the U.S. flag and a Bible is not a problem. He told that there would be a problem if they had burned several Bibles…
Ronilso Pacheco
Even knowing that BLM founder Patrisse Cullors said “We are trained Marxists,” Pacheco refuses the see reality just as it is. For him, BLM, which provokes riots and loots, is not a violent hate group. For him, conservative evangelicals, who provoke no riots and loots, are a violent hate group.
According to Alex Newman in The New American, Cullors also revealed that she is consulting spiritual entities and allowing them to “work through” her. “I’m calling for spirituality to be deeply radical,” she said. “We’re not just having a social justice movement, this is a spiritual movement.”
“What they [BLM adherents] are describing is their adherence to the Yoruba religion of Ifa, to where they are summoning dead spirits,” said talk-show host and Christian attorney Abraham Hamilton.
The Yoruba were known for practicing human sacrifice in Africa until Christianity became more prevalent and abolished the sacrifices.
According to Howard University:
“What is significant about the Yoruba people is that they kept their religion hidden under the guise of Catholicism, or [traditional] Protestantism… Cuban Santeria; Haitian Vodun (voodoo); Brazilian Candomble; Trinidad and Tobago Shango are all Yoruba or Orisha based. All of these religions are African derived religions having different names in different countries. They combine beliefs from the Kabbalah and Yoruba speaking peoples of West/Central Africa, with elements of Catholicism or Anglicanism.”
So it is not wonder that BLM is able to disguise its African witchcraft under some Christian elements.
Yoruba, with its orishas (called demons in Christianity), has brought untold misery, suffering, poverty and prostitution (including homosexual) to Africa and Latin America through Santeria, voodoo and Candomble.
The religion of Yoruba, with its Orishas, is the religion most loved by Nigerian mafias involved in sex trafficking and slavery in Nigeria and Europe. These mafias invoke Orishas to protect their criminal business and threaten victims. But probably BLM and Ronilso Pacheco would not be interested in African blacks sexually enslaving black women and girls.
Pacheco’s inflammatory language demonizing conservative evangelicals and justifying BLM is what any Marxist would do. And he demonizes pro-lifers too.
Based on the case of a Brazilian 10-year-old girl raped by her uncle, Pacheco defends abortion by saying that it was “[the girl’s] desire to terminate her pregnancy,” in a bizarre contrast in which at the same time as leftists claimed that the girl was too young to understand what pregnancy is, they also claim that she understood that forced abortion was necessary, justifying capital punishment for the baby who was a rape victim, but no capital punishment for the rapist.
In his article entitled “Pro-life and pro-family groups are hate groups that use the Bible as an alibi,” published on the Brazilian website UOL, Pacheco, who is a Baptist minister, expressed concern about “the extent and mobilization of the pro-life and pro -family movement.”
Among other far-left-wing statements, Pacheco said:
“Pro-life and pro-family groups fit much more into the so-called ‘Anti-Terrorism Law’ than many left-wing groups and social movements accused of using violence and vandalism.”
“Pro-family and pro-life groups are hate groups. They were born that way in the United States, they remain that way in Brazil. It is not by chance that its emergence in the 1940s and 1950s and its hardening in the 1960s and 1970s is directly linked to a conservative and white reaction in the United States. And its roots go even further, in the slavery period.”
Framing the pro-life movement as a terrorist movement is an idea accepted only among the most radical extremists on the left.
Actually, the modern pro-life movement was born in the U.S., but Pacheco was wrong to say that this movement was born in the 1940s. It was actually born in the late 19th century, as I demonstrate in my article “Anthony Comstock: the first pro-life activist in the modern history.”
By trying to link the pro-life movement to issues of slavery, Pacheco only proves that he imported the black supremacist agenda from the U.S., which uses any and all issues to blame whites for everything that is bad and to portray the black supremacist movement as eternally deserving tax money, political advantages and treats from the leftist media.
Pacheco’s ideological blindness prevents him from seeing that black women abort their babies almost five times more than white women. Thus, when the pro-life movement fights to save babies, black baby lives are especially benefited. Accusing anyone who saves these babies from having slavery connections is an insanity worthy of the extremism of black supremacism.
With a typical far-left-wing imagination, Pacheco argues that “abortion was known to be one of the many strategies that enslaved black women in the United States found to stop the enslavement of their descendants.”
For Pacheco, abortion for black women is justified because they use it to save their future generations from white oppression!
Going even further in his extremism, Pacheco says: “Pro-life groups are emerging as a reaction to civil rights movements.” He argues that a movement that saves the lives of black babies is a movement against black rights. I’ve read a lot of madness in leftist texts, but Pacheco’s statements, 100 percent imported from the black supremacist movement in the U.S., deserve the Oscar of aberrations.
Pacheco then says:
“In the 1960s and 1970s, the Civil Rights movement, which left the traditional white family at bay, would be added by the sexual liberation movement, the first gay parade after the Stonewall episode, the feminist fight for women’s autonomy and the first decision in the history of the Supreme Court in 1973 to liberalize legal abortion. It is not by chance that the oldest pro-life and pro-family organizations appear in this period. It is not a recovery of religious order, it is not just a preservation of morality, it is the maintenance of a structure of violence and subjection in which the Bible will only appear as an alibi, and not as a principle.”
It is obvious that Pacheco is receiving training from U.S. black supremacist movements. It is impossible to say that he is not receiving funds and other economic incentives as an evangelist for this extremism. After all, who is paying his bills while he is living in New York? Who is paying his bills while he, as an immigrant in the U.S., uses his articles and Twitter to attack Trump and praise the Democratic Party?
Pacheco raises the ideas of the black American supremacist movement as if they had been the decisive factor for the liberation of black slaves, when history clearly shows that white evangelicals started this fight. If it depended on blacks, slavery would exist in the U.S. and Brazil today. In fact, today Africa continues with its ancient tradition, existing long before the first European stepped on African soil, of slavery. Blacks enslaving blacks.
According to the Global Slavery Index,
“On any given day in 2016, an estimated 9.2 million men, women, and children were living in modern slavery in Africa. The region has the highest rate of prevalence, with 7.6 people living in modern slavery for every 1,000 people in the region.”
That is, right in the 21st century, Africa has the highest global rate of modern slavery. To this day, Africa does not celebrate the end of slavery because blacks have never stopped enslaving blacks.
However, instead of moving to Africa to help blacks who now live as slaves under black bosses, Pacheco prefers to embrace the radicalism of U.S. black supremacism, which uses issues of over 150 years ago to profit from companies and government.
If Pacheco does not want to move to Africa because of its endemic poverty, he can move to oil-rich Saudi Arabia where blacks desperately need help. According to a 2020 report from the British newspaper The Telegraph titled “Investigation: African migrants ‘left to die’ in Saudi Arabia’s hellish Covid detention centres,” African immigrants in Saudi Arabia are suffering unimaginable horrors. The report said,
Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest countries on earth, is keeping hundreds if not thousands of African migrants locked in heinous conditions reminiscent of Libya’s slave camps as part of a drive to stop the spread of Covid-19, an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found.
The migrants, several displaying scars on their backs, claim they are beaten by guards who hurl racial abuse at them. “It’s hell in here. We are treated like animals and beaten every day,” said Abebe, an Ethiopian who has been held at one of the centres for more than four months. “My only crime is leaving my country in search of a better life. But they beat us with whips and electric cords as if we were murderers.”
Oil-rich Saudi Arabia has long exploited migrant labour from Africa and Asia. In June 2019, an estimated 6.6m foreign workers made up about 20 per cent of the Gulf nation’s population, most occupying low paid and often physically arduous jobs.
“We eat a tiny piece of bread in the day and rice in the evening. There’s almost no water, and the toilets are overflowing. It spills over to where we eat. The smell, we grow accustomed to. But there’s over a hundred of us in a room, and the heat is killing us,” said another young Ethiopian man.
African migrants enjoy few legal rights and many complain of exploitation, sexual and racial abuse from employers.
African Muslims know very well that they are mistreated in Saudi Arabia. Even so, they immigrate to this dictatorial Islamic nation because in Africa they have lived virtually in poverty and slavery for thousands of years.
Pacheco and his BLM allies should be challenged to move to Saudi Arabia and help blacks. Or at least they could travel to Saudi Arabia to do some protests.
Pacheco then concludes his far-left-wing text against pro-life and pro-family groups by saying:
“It is not possible to demand consistency in the messages of Jesus by fundamentalist evangelical groups in the pro-life and pro-family movements… The best thing to do is to face the fact that a group of racist, sexist, classist, violent and rights-denying origin it is increasingly stronger, more aggressive, and they will use from the Bible to Constitutional Law to maintain their ideal society project.”
It is a shame for the Baptist Church to keep Pacheco as a minister as his real occupation is U.S. black supremacist activism.
According to the far-left-wing website Intercept, where Pacheco is a columnist, he is:
“Theologian formed by the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio, activist, assistant minister in the Baptist Church in São Gonçalo, author of ‘Occupy, Resist, Subvert’ (2016) and ‘Black Theology: The Anti-Racist-Breath of the Spirit’ (2019); studying theology at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University) in NY.”
The Union Theological Seminary is one of the oldest and left-wing theological institutions in the United States.
According to The Christian Post:
“A New York Times interview with the theologian Serene Jones, the current president of Union Theological Seminary, is getting some attention given that Jones enthusiastically tosses multiple cherished doctrines of Christian orthodoxy. Virgin birth? ‘Bizarre,’ she says. God as omnipotent and omniscient? ‘A fabrication of Roman juridical theory and Greek mythology.’ The resurrection of Jesus? Pfft! ‘For me, the message of Easter is that love is stronger than life or death. That’s a much more awesome claim than that they put Jesus in the tomb and three days later he wasn’t there.’”
The president of the Union Theological Seminary believes that Jesus was not born of a virgin and still finds this idea “bizarre.” She believes that God’s omnipotence and omniscience are fabrications. And she doesn’t believe in Jesus’ resurrection.
So Pacheco is graduating from a radically left-wing theological institution, importing all this extremism into Brazil, and he wants to convince the Brazilian evangelical public that his import is good, but that the import of the U.S. pro-life movement is bad.
The rise of Pacheco as a prominent left-wing evangelical, who is now a Brazilian immigrant in the U.S., was a problem created by the U.S. In 2017, to cover the fantastic phenomenon that “Evangelical Christians are the fastest-growing political movement in Brazil,” the National Public Radio, owned by the U.S. government, produced the report “Brazilian Street Preacher Spreads Progressive Message,” totally dedicated to Ronilso Pacheco, whom NPR described as “A preacher in Rio de Janeiro [who] is attracting crowds through a combination of evangelical traditions and liberation theology.”
NPR also said, “Pacheco, a Brazilian Baptist, is part of a growing group of progressive evangelicals who go against the current of conservative evangelical megachurches,” adding, “He finds inspiration from the 1960s in Brazil when progressive Protestants mixed with Catholic liberation theologists to become major players in leftist organizing.”
Liberation theology preached by Pacheco has nothing to do with the evangelical growth in Brazil. This massive evangelical growth is conservative, not liberal. So NPR should spotlight conservative evangelicals. But NPR decided to spotlight a radical left-wing evangelical against such movement.
It is not the first time the U.S. government grants prominence to left-wing blacks who are against conservative evangelicals. In 2019, the Trump administration awarded a Brazilian left-wing black sorcerer with a history of fight against conservative evangelicals.
A 29 July 2020 report titled “Brazil: How progressive theologians hope to re-establish dialogue with the Christian right” in the Sight magazine mentioned several left-wing Catholics and Protestants. Among Protestants, it mentioned Ariovaldo Ramos, former director of World Vision Brazil, and Ronilso Pacheco, described by Sight as the author of “a book about black Liberation Theology in Brazil.”
Sight should be renamed Blindness, because it was unable to see the Marxist dangers of Liberation Theology. Sight said,
“The [Liberation Theology] movement also suffered with the offensive of the neo-Pentecostal churches that began to grow in poor, working-class neighbourhoods all over Brazil in the 1980s. Since then, Liberation Theology declined as a social phenomenon…”
Quoting Ariovaldo Ramos, Sight complained:
“Most of the flourishing Brazilian neo-Pentecostalists gradually allied with far right-wing ideas, reacting with particular criticism to moral changes in society and in Christianism, explains pastor Ramos.”
Interestingly, many Brazilian conservative mega-churches are led by black charismatic ministers. But Pacheco and Ramos condemn them just because they do not follow Liberation Theology. Pacheco is working to lead black evangelicals in Brazil to his Liberation Theology.
Pacheco has been propagandized by many other left-wing publications. The Immanent Frame said,
“A significant bloc of evangelicals diverges from the fundamentalist Pentecostalism described above. [Left-wing] Benedita da Silva, Brazil’s first Black woman deputy, senator, and Rio state governor, has for decades invoked her evangelical [Presbyterian] faith and collaboration with liberationist Catholics in her social struggles and political career. She even drew the attention of Jesse Jackson, who wrote the English-edition preface to her biography. [Left-wing] Baptist pastors such as Jardim Gramacho, RJ’s Waldimir de Souza, São Gonçalo’s Ronilso Pacheco, and Niteroi’s Henrique Viera continue efforts to ‘marry’ evangelical faith and social awareness [Liberation Theology], a regional effort among prominent socially minded Latin American evangelicals since the 1974 First International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Evangelical pastors help to rebuild terreiros [temples of voodoo] that militias burnt down. Black Baptist pastors also lead the field of anti-racist education. Babalawo [sorcerer], racial justice [black Liberation Theology] advocate, and educator Ivanir dos Santos even won a 2019 religious liberty award from Trump’s State Department—ostensibly Bolsonaro’s geopolitical ally.”
Even a left-wing publication found a perplexing case that the Trump administration awarding a left-wing sorcerer.
The fact that left-wingers use Lausanne as base for their left-wing activism is explained by my article: “Karl Marx’s Spirit in Lausanne: Theology of Integral Mission.”
Ronilso Pacheco’s “Black Theology” is black, but not from skin-colored. It is sheer black Liberation Theology. It is black from the dense leftist darkness of a white European man named Karl Marx, who fills with hatred and revolts all the hearts idolizing him. Pacheco has become one of those idolaters.
If instead of spending money and staying at the liberal Union Theological Seminary in NY, Pacheco had gone to Africa as a missionary to free slaves, the investment would have been much more useful. But unlike Brazil and the U.S., where extremists use the theme of slavery to get money and funds without suffering violence, in Africa they would be beaten or lynched by black bosses who refuse to free their black slaves.
While Pacheco is busy importing extremism from the American left into Brazil, we in the pro-life movement will continue to be busy saving the lives of babies — including black babies, who are among the biggest victims of legal abortion.
And we conservative evangelicals will keep proclaiming the Gospel, healing the sick and casting out demons, including from pseudo-Christians who mix ideas of Christianity with Marxism, orishas and other demons.
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