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Saturday, March 07, 2020

Former Brazilian Socialist President Lula Visits World Council of Churches in Geneva


Former Brazilian Socialist President Lula Visits World Council of Churches in Geneva

By Julio Severo
In visit to the World Council of Churches (WCC), former Brazilian Socialist President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was received by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit and Rev. Dr Martin Junge, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation. Tveit welcomed Lula at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland on 6 March 2020.
Lula and Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches
In Geneva Lula also met representatives of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, made up of Presbyterian churches.
Lula has been closely linked to the ecumenical groups in Brazil. Addressing the World Council of Churches’ 9th Assembly in 2006 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, he expressed special gratitude for the WCC’s welcome of Paulo Freire, a Brazilian “educator” known by a socialist educational method. What few people know is that Freire plagiarized the Bible-based method of the U.S. Protestant missionary Frank Charles Laubach (1884–1970).
Being considered a political “refugee” by WCC after his exile from the military rule in Brazil, Freire joined the WCC staff in Geneva as a consultant.
Geneva is the city of John Calvin, the founder of Calvinism. It is virtually the spiritual capital of Calvinism. It is also one of the capitals of traditional Protestantism. Today, it is a capital of ecumenical and socialist Protestantism.
Lula knows that he cannot defeat charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, who because of their fierce opposition to abortion and homosexuality have supported Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. Charismatics and Pentecostals are the majority of Protestants in Brazil.
Lula has a history of support of sodomy. Under his administration, Brazil was the first nation in the world to introduce in the United Nations a resolution treating homosexuality as an unalienable human right in 2004, while I campaigned against such resolution. So no real Christian could ever support him, even though Christians are free to pray for him and preach the Gospel to him.
Even though the main Christian support for Lula comes from Catholicism, Protestant support for Lula comes especially from mainline Protestant churches, which are a minority in Brazil. These churches are mostly ecumenical and socialist.
The Brazilian picture where most mainline Protestant churches support Lula and most charismatic and Pentecostal churches support right-wing Bolsonaro is explained by a new survey from LifeWay Research, which showed that Pentecostal Christians are much more conservative than traditional Protestant Christians.
Walter Altmann, a WCC official, has complained about my effort to expose his socialist activism. He, a traditional Protestant theologian. Me, a charismatic evangelical! So the results of the survey of LifeWay Research are absolutely right.
The Brazilian ecumenical denominations affiliated to WCC are:
* Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil
* Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
* Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil
* Methodist Church in Brazil
* United Presbyterian Church of Brazil
CONIC is also affiliated to WCC.
Only WCC and Pope Francis, whom Lula met in his international trip, can politically “save” Lula, because charismatic Christians will keep praying for him — and exposing his wicked deeds, and the wicked deeds of his supporters, including WCC.
With information from WCC.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Condemnation of Former Socialist President for Corruption in a Traditionally Corrupt Brazil


Condemnation of Former Socialist President for Corruption in a Traditionally Corrupt Brazil

By Julio Severo
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been condemned on corruption charges. His condemnation carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Lula
Lula, who served two terms in office (2003-2010), had campaigned on a platform of honesty, in a nation plagued, since its birth 500 years ago, by corruption.
There is a culture of corruption in Brazil that is evident not only in politics, but also in people’s behavior. When a truck capsizes in a crash, often the reaction of the local population is to loot it.
Lula promised to bring into earth a paradise of honesty in Brazil, but what he did was to capsize the Brazilian State in a greater moral and ethical disaster. He eventually brought into a spotlight his own corruption. He was condemned because he received millions of illegal dollars for personal use.
He was the man whom former U.S. socialist Barack Obama called “the most popular politician on Earth.” He was featured in Time’s 2010 The 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Yet, his socialist politics threw Brazil into a quagmire of moral and economic corruption. Not that Brazil had no corruption before. Brazil was essentially colonized by criminals from Portugal, which chastised the colonial Brazil with excruciating taxes, which continue an excruciating chastisement on Brazil even today.
Lula’s socialist politics, even though mocking U.S. imperialism (the conservative aspects of America), accelerated the Brazilian cultural and legal importation and assimilation of many left-wing items from the American culture, including on abortion and the homosexual agenda. In fact, the Lula administration was one of the strongest allies of the Obama administration at the United Nations on the defense of abortion and the homosexual agenda.
In 2006 the late Calvinist theologian Harold O. J. Brown invited me to write an extensive feature report in his The Religion & Society Report. The report, titled “Behind the homosexual tsunami in Brazil,” dealt with Lula administration’s obsessive politics advocating the homosexual agenda. Brown wanted my report to show to the conservative world the Lula that the mainstream media did not show. I disclosed then to the American conservative public who Lula actually was.
Besides, the Lula administration was hostile to Israel. Such hostility is not new in Brazil, where the Catholic culture traditionally does not sympathize with Israel. All the Catholic Latin America does not sympathize with Israel. So it is no surprise the first Latin American nation to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a country that is trying to leave Catholicism behind: Guatemala, which has an evangelical president and whose population is 50 percent Protestant (especially Pentecostal and charismatic).
Lula, who founded the Workers’ Party, with the kind assistance of Catholic bishops, has seen his party shipwreck in corruption. Several of the most prominent leaders of his party are in jail.
All of them deserve their fate. Socialism and corruption are inseparable.
Yet, in the context of the Brazilian culture, corruption, which exists long before socialism, is an epidemic problem in the behavior of politicians and the people, probably also fueled by the traditional heavy taxes and a Christian culture based on mostly nominal Catholic values.
Corruption is rampant in Brazil.
The successor of Lula in the Brazilian government was socialist Dilma Rousseff, a leading member of Workers’ Party. Her administration (2010-2016) was plagued by corruption and she was impeached in 2016.
Her impeachment was made possible because Congressman Eduardo Cunha, a Pentecostal, fought against her agenda and her corruption. While she was pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality, he was pro-life and pro-family.
She fell. And next, he also fell, and today he is jailed on minor corruption charges — which are vastly lesser than the charges against Lula and Rousseff. Yet, he was arrested as soon as he was accused, while Rousseff remains free, and Lula is not jailed, even though he has been very tardily condemned by a court.
Even Sergio Moro, the judge who has condemned Lula and Cunha, does not have escaped the blemish of “corruption.” Brazilian judges who have no house or apartment receive a housing aid from the government that, in Moro’s case, amounted to thousands of dollars. The problem is: He had a house during all the years he received the housing aid.
Lula cannot accuse Moro of corruption because during his two terms as Brazil’s president, he could have terminated the immoral house aid for judges, but he did not so. Besides, Moro’s moral “corruption” pales in comparison to Lula’s corruption.
Moro’s case perfectly exemplifies the Brazilian quagmire: Corruption in the Brazilian culture touches everybody and everything.
A perfectly honest judge would never accept a housing aid when he already has a house.
A perfectly honest people would never elect Lula.
Of course, as a Pentecostal, Eduardo Cunha also knew that corruption is wrong. His activism as a congressman was so fundamental for Rousseff’s impeachment and the promotion of pro-life values that the Workers’ Party labeled him in 2015 as the most dangerous man in Brazil! He was the only conservative leader mentioned nine times in a strategic guide of Workers’ Party on how to fight right-wingers, while Jair Bolsonaro was mentioned just one time.
Corruption is in the Brazilian DNA since Brazil’s birth. Even evangelical politicians do not escape its tentacles. In the traditional survival efforts to avoid excruciating taxes inherited from a Portugal that exploited and abused Brazil, Brazilians continue perfecting their survival efforts and the government continues exploiting and abusing Brazilians through excruciating taxes.
Cunha was quickly condemned because he had secret accounts in Swish banks — to protect his money from excruciating taxes. There are no Brazilians who do not want to be free from such oppressive taxes, which are also corruption. High taxes are a powerful enemy of the Brazilian economy, of the Brazilian people and free enterprise. Brazil is always in poor economic condition because of high taxes.
An American once asked me how to vote in this context, as corruption is rampant. I answered that there is no option: Or you elect a pro-abortion corrupt candidate or a pro-life corrupt candidate.
Corruption is in the DNA of the Brazilian politics, culture, society and, above all, the excruciating taxes.
Lula and his socialist comrades fully deserve their condemnations because they amplified the exploitation of an exploitative political system inherited from Portugal 500 years ago.
Do Moro and Cunha deserve a condemnation? I do not think so, because they just exemplify that corruption is so rampant in the Brazilian history and culture that no one goes untouched. They should be given an opportunity to correct themselves.
In comparison to Lula, whose corruption involved millions of dollars and sank Brazil in greater corruptions that deprived the Brazilian economy from billions of dollars, Moro and Cunha are saints.
Brazil, the largest Catholic nation in the world, colonized by criminals, needs to know the liberating power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to make Brazil free of spiritual and moral slavery among its people and politicians. Without Jesus, there is no solution.
About 500 years ago, the first Protestant service in the Americans was held — exactly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was a privilege. But Catholics led by Jesuits and its machine of the Inquisition were quick to torture and kill the first Protestant missionaries to Brazil. They had been sent by Calvin.
About 400 years ago, the Netherlands formed its first Protestant colony in Northeast Brazil. In this colony, Catholics, Protestants and Jews enjoyed the first system of religious freedom in Brazil. But again Catholics, led by Jesuits and its machine of the Inquisition, were quick to kill and expel the Dutch “heretics,” and Brazil returned to its routine of corruption, excruciating taxes, Inquisition, persecution of the Jews and no religious freedom. The surviving Brazilian Jews, transported by the Dutch Protestants, headed to New York, where they established a flourishing Jewish community and the first robust financial system in New York.
Brazilian Catholics, oppressed by the Catholic Portugal, could have given these Jews and the Dutch Protestants freedom, and they would have established in Brazil, not New York, their financial system. The opportunity the Catholic Brazil rejected, the Protestant America welcomed and was blessed. Northeast is today one of the most cursed and poorest regions in Brazil.
Brazil could have become what America became: powerful. But Catholic corruption hindered Brazil from prospering.
In the Dutch Protestant colony in Northeast Brazil, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, erected in 1636, was the first synagogue built in the Americas, which was eventually closed, because the Brazilian Jews had to flee to New York to save their lives from the Jesuits and their Inquisition.
Even today, historians recognize that the most important progress Brazil had in culture, architecture, religious freedom and non-persecution of the Jews was during the Protestant Dutch administration in Northeast Brazil.
All that is left is a sad memory. Brazil has today the Museum of the Inquisition to remind Brazilians of the horrors Brazilian Jews suffered from Jesuits, and Pernambuco, a state in Northeast Brazil, has a Memorial Day of Jewish Victims of the Inquisition.
The Gospel brings transformation, but Brazil preferred corruption, excruciating taxes, Inquisition, persecution of the Jews and no religious freedom.
Who can say that Brazil does not deserve what it is suffering?
Corrupt Lula is a result of the Brazilian DNA.
Moro’s opportunism comes also from this DNA.
Cunha’s minor involvement in corruption has also the same cause.
In fact, Jair Bolsonaro, who is today a candidate for the Brazilian presidency representing right-wingers, said years ago: “I evade all taxes that I can.” He said that he did it for survival and also because politicians use taxes for corruption, and he advised the public to evade too. Cunha seems to have followed his advice.
My worry about Bolsonaro is not tax evasion, but the Inquisition and its horrible marks against the Jews in the Brazilian history. Bolsonaro has praised a revisionist of the Inquisition. This is very worrying because there is an increasing Brazilian movement of pro-Inquisition right-wing Catholics.
In the past, Bolsonaro praised Lula as an honest politician!
Bolsonaro was not arrested for his tax-evasion comment. But Cunha is jailed for it.
While Lula and Rousseff are not jailed for his big crimes, Cunha is. It seems that Cunha’s real “crime” — opposition to abortion and the homosexual agenda in a corrupt and politically correct Brazilian culture and be the number 1 enemy of Brazilian left-wingers — was worse than all Lula’s socialist crimes.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Socialism, Islam and Hell

Socialism, Islam and Hell

Liberals and their paranoia

By Julio Severo
The same socialism condemning conservative Christians as “fundamentalists” and “fanatics” protects Islam by calling it a “religion of peace” — while its adherents persistently take away the peace and lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people yearly.
That protection is largely an effect of the effort of some Western liberal Jews, who managed to establish laws to protect minorities. Those laws are today exploited by homosexual and Islamic activists to protect their own interests and impose on the Western societies the homosexual and Islamic ideology. Christians eventually pay the bill, suffering pressures and oppressions from completely antagonistic groups.
By contrast, Christians are routinely persecuted in Islamic nations. But, incredibly, now Islamic groups demand an international law against “Islamophobia”, because they say that Islam needs protection from people that do not like terror and terrorists produced by the “religion of peace”. Muslims, with the support of socialists, have learnt how to exploit the Western paranoia against intolerance, prejudice and discrimination and they are being able to persecute and oppress Christians and Jews in their own turf.
When it comes to paranoia, the Islamic mind is not much different from the socialist mind.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran that denies the Holocaust and says that he wants do destroy Israel, has an administration that sees no problem in the torture and murder of homosexuals. But Ahmadinejad was never annoyed by the same socialist human right groups that routinely blame Christians for “crimes” against homosexuals. Those Christian “crimes” do not consist in acts of real violence, but exclusively in views that reflect the Bible condemnation of homosexual practices. That is the socialist reality: silence about what Islamic Iran does, and many coward charges against Christians. 

The visit of president of Iran to his friend Lula in Brazil

Speaking about Ahmadinejad, he visited Brazil November 23. He was warmly welcomed by his socialist friend Lula.
Ahmadinejad funds terrorist groups against Israel, because he ignores and rejects God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Lula has friendship with Ahmadinejad because… Why? Choose the reason:
Lula does not care about God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Lula does not care about the human rights abuses, torture and murder of Christians in Iran.
Lula does not care about the human rights abuses of Jews in Iran.
Lula does not care about torture and murder of homosexuals in Iran.
Lula does not care about the Iranian sponsorship of Islamic terrorist groups against Israel.
You could present a long list of problems in the Islamic Iranian Dictatorship, but Lula does not care. Socialists act this way: they do not care about God, about moral values, about hell and about their own socialist friends — unless they have significant personal interests involved. There is nothing more important for an ambitious socialist than to promote his own glory.

Socialist Shimon Peres visits Lula

Attempting perhaps to weaken the visit Ahmadinejad to Brazil, Israeli president Shimon Peres visited Brazil before Ahmadinejad, November 10. Yet, Lula does not also care about the fact that Peres has the same “democratic” socialist feelings regarding to abortion and homosexuality.
Nevertheless the ideological, moral, political and ethical affinity with Peres, Lula prefers friendship with Ahmadinejad, whose stances are opposed to the stances of Lula and Peres in the abortion and homosexual issues. Would Lula fail to hug Ahmadinejad only because socialist comrade Peres is not easy with the wish of Ahmadinejad to destroy Israel? For some reason, Lula sees in Ahmadinejad another expedient to promote his own glory.
In turn, Shimon Peres does not care much about the fact that, in his about eight-year administration and having visited several Islamic nations near of Israel, Lula has never had the least willingness to visit Israel. In response to the apparent disregard of Lula toward Israel, Peres said, “He has his agenda and priorities. I am not supposed to lecture him. We consider him a friend. We know one another for a long time. We began in the same socialist path. So I can say that I remember him ‘since his childhood’. He has his own way of priorizing things”.
Liberal mind lives hand in hand with paranoia — whether in Brazil, US and even in Israel. Liberal mind does not care about evil when it sees it. When a homosexual rapes a 6-year-old boy, liberal journalism sees only a generic “rape against a child”, without mentioning specific identifications compromising the gay agenda. When an Islamic terrorist murders innocents, liberal journalism applies the same measure, reporting only “the bomb that murdered several people” or the “terror that murdered several people”, leaving radical Islam completely untouched and protected.
Conversely, any crime against a homosexual is used as an opportunity to launch against Christians a specific and detailed blame for the crime, even though no Christian were involved and criminal circumstances suggested possibility of violence among homosexuals. This is part of the liberal paranoia.

Paranoia of the diversity and tolerance ideology

In nations where socialism controls everything, the enemies of the system are eliminated for any and every reason. See Cuba, North Korea, etc. In nations where the population is under gradual conditioning to embrace socialism, society is firstly led to paranoia. It is sheer paranoia to approve laws condemning Christians for the fictitious crime of “homophobia”, because Christians do not have a tradition of murdering homosexuals. But Obama and Lula act this way.
Homeland Security Department says that a true terrorist can be identified by some special characteristics: he can be an individual opposing abortion and homosexuality. Adherence to Islam cannot be considered as terrorist characteristic, because Muslims are minority and they deserve protection. Therefore, even though all the 9/11 terrorists were Islamic and even though all the terrorists attacking Israel are Islamic, liberal ethics orders the establishment to ignore this fact. Similarly, it orders the press to omit the word “homosexual” or “homosexuality” in all violent crimes where young boys were victims of a homosexual.
Recently, Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab tried to blow away a jet heading to Detroit. American service secret had information on him for at least two years, but they had a hard time to give exclusive attention to him, because the Muslim individual was in a politically-correct, broad security watch list containing more than 500,000 other threats: conservative Christians, abortion and homosexuality opponents, etc. How to sort out from this massive database the real threats without singling out the followers of the religion of peace?
Mutallab could not be halted months earlier because it would be very expensive to probe all of these “threats” together. Besides, he could not be screened by his Islamic name and religion, because — for the overjoyed followers of the religion of peace — profiling is a crime in the US. In their typical ideological paranoia, American liberals do not care if 100% suicide terrorists against the US have consistently been followers of the religion of peace.
In fact, Obama administration cannot profile people with Muslim names — because Obama is one of them. (Can you convincingly prove that some of the acts of Obama put America at risk?) But Obama administration can freely profile abortion and homosexuality opponents — because Obama is not one of them, being a fervent abortion and homosexuality promoter.
Yet, after this recent terrorist attack, Homeland Security Department is likely to launch more aggressive measures against all the other “threats” in its database without profiling any Islamic name and origin! This makes me wonder who will defeat America first, al Qaeda or PC paranoia? I certainly doubt al Qaeda is stronger than PC paranoia.
If the US had embraced PC ban on profiling in the World War 2, American military would be trying until this day to figure out their real enemies from some another PC massive database containing thousands of thousands of fictitious enemies, and World War 2 would be the perpetual, endless World War. PC paranoia is the best way to perpetuate criminals and their crimes.
In World War 2, Americans forgot only to profile communists, and for such negligence they — and the world — paid an excessively high bloody cost for the next decades. Liberal America creates her own nightmares.
The protection of diversity and tolerance toward perversion in Brazil, US and Europe while supporting Iran and other Islamic nations that hate diversity and tolerance is a trademark of the liberal paranoia. Liberals may criticize, condemn and revile God and his followers, but for them diversity and tolerance are sacred — only in Brazil, US and Europe, and never in Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, etc. I know it for experience, because my blog has been targeted by federal prosecutors in Brazil for criticism of homosexuality and Islam. On March 2008, four Islamic journalists in São Paulo filed a complaint requesting federal prosecutors to shut down my blog for prejudice against Islam, because I denounced Islamic terrorists.
Right to free speech to criticize homosexuality and Islam? This is capitalist talk!
In July 2007, in the same time when Google interdicted my blog for some days because of charges and defamations of homosexual activists, I denounced the homosexual website ParouTudo for posting “Amando Garotos: Pedofilia e a Intolerância Contemporânea” (Loving Boys: Pedophilia and the Contemporary Intolerance), an article defending openly pedophilia. (See more information here: http://lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-sex-between-men-and-boys-is-no.html) I had requested authorities to investigate and take action, but today, more than two years later, nothing was done. Is diversity and tolerance paranoia a free way for homosexuals to advocate pedophilia?
ParouTudo remains active on the internet, without any problem, but my blog has been under risk of being closed by federal prosecutors.
So if you think that it is paranoid for Lula to hug Ahmadinejad (whose administration hates Christians, Israel and homosexuals), this is socialism. If you think that it is paranoid for Obama to profile conservative Christians opposed to abortion and homosexuality and not to profile terrorists whose common identification is the “religion of peace”, this is socialism. If you think that it is paranoid for Shimon Peres to humble himself before a Lula that wants alliance with Ahmadinejad, this is socialism.
Modern Israel, dominated by socialism, has gay parades and legal abortion. But with all this incredible ideological affinity, Lula prefers Ahmadinejad, who does not allow abortion and homosexuality in the Islamic Iranian dictatorship. For the sake of his own glory, a socialist — whether atheist, Catholic, Islamic or evangelical — could deliver his own mother and homeland to the devil.
Rebel Jews in the old Israel, whose history of apostasy is found in the Old Testament, belittled hell, where they eventually ended. Today, even knowing in lesser or greater measure this account, Lula, Obama e Shimon Peres equally belittle hell and fall down before the same socialism that is selling their nations to the fatal deceitfulness of the homosexual, abortion and Islamic ideology.
Portuguese version of this article: O socialismo, o islamismo e o inferno
Spanish version of this article: El socialismo, el islamismo y el infierno
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