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.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Rev. Milton Ribeiro, the new Minister of Education

A minister in the Presbyterian Church in Santos, Brazil, Ribeiro is an attorney, retired military officer and has a degree in theology and was vice-chancellor of Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie), founded by U.S. Confederates who immigrated to Brazil after the U.S. Civil War. Among the qualities that made him a good choice is “appreciation for family and values.”

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.

Brazil needs an encounter with Christ.

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.

With information from UOL, BBC and G1.

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

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Brazilian Minister of Education Abraham Weintraub and His Right-Wing Socialism or Right-Wing Statism

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Brazilian top culture official fired after quoting Nazi Goebbels while talking about nationalist art in a video as Hitler’s favorite composer played in the background

Olavo de Carvalho and Julius Evola, parallels of two prominent right-wing occultists of the Traditionalist School

Biased Study by Feminist Theologian Has Viralized After Being Spread by the Largest Evangelical Websites in Brazil

Published by the largest Presbyterian university in Brazil, study by feminist theologian who left the church years ago made headlines in GospelPrime, GospelMais e Guiame, the largest evangelical websites in Brazil

By Julio Severo

In an interview last week for the Brazilian website UOL titled “‘When the church does not discuss gender, it denies human rights,’ says evangelical feminist,” Valéria Cristina Vilhena, who introduces herself as having connections to the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, said that she sees with a great distress and as deep retrocession the evangelical caucus in the Brazilian Congress taking a stand against homosexual “marriage,” abortion and gender ideology.

She said, “When the evangelical caucus preaches in their pulpits that it is in the Congress to represent God’s will or to protect the only family model, it is actually putting as a model homophobia, racism, sexism and violence inflicted because of those issues, which are also gender issues.”

She complains that evangelical women “are in the spaces of service, but not of church leadership.” She also complains that “the theology being taught is the theology of wives’ submission to their husbands.”

In 2015, she founded the group Evangelicals for Gender Equality. Even though her group operates to bring gender issues into churches, Vilhena said to UOL, “I was brought up in a church where was a sin to have a haircut, to depilate, to use make-up, pants. I saw myself as a feminist since early within the church… Today I attend no church.”

Even though she has disliked the Pentecostal environment of her childhood, she does not seem to be bothered by the environment in the Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo, Brazil, or in the São Paulo Methodist University, where she studied. That Methodist institution is one of the most liberal in Brazil, and warmly welcomes Liberation Theology, feminism and homosexuality.

In November 2016, Vilhena saw her study making headlines, with no credit to her name, in major Brazilian evangelical websites, spread even by prominent evangelical leaders. The study addressed the subject that “40% women who suffer domestic violence are evangelical.”

When the Mackenzie Presbyterian University published her study, prominent Brazilian evangelical websites GospelPrime, GospelMais and Guiame spread the study by crediting only the Presbyterian university. Many conservative evangelical leaders massively spread it without questioning it, trusting completely in the largest Calvinist institution in Brazil.

GospelPrime headline on November 10, 2016: “About 40% female victims of domestic violence are Christian.” The report begins, “A study by the Mackenzie Presbyterian University…”

GospelMais headline on November 10, 2016: “40% women who suffer domestic violence are evangelical, a new study says.” The report says, “The find is the result of a study by the Mackenzie Presbyterian University…”

Guiame headline on November 9, 2016: “About 40% female victims of domestic violence are Christian, says study.” The report says, “A study by the Mackenzie Presbyterian University indicated…”

Vilhena said to UOL, “What I wrote in the study is that about 40% women assisted by Sofia House, which was my study field, declared themselves evangelical. Then, it is a study sampling. This viralized.”

Actually it viralized, in the interest of the anti-Christian feminist agenda, thanks to the massive promotion by the largest Calvinist institution in Brazil and GospelPrime, GospelMais and Guiame.

Her study was totally based in the sampling of one institution: Sofia House. In contrast, when she studied another Brazilian institution, Eliane de Grammont House, the result was equally strange. Vilhena said to UOL, “The difference is that most women in Eliane de Grammont House, according to professionals, declared themselves Seicho-No-Ie.”

By her study, then most Brazilian victims of domestic violence are evangelicals and Seicho-No-Ie adherents, even though Brazil is the largest Catholic nation in the world. Also, there are many Brazilians que follow pro-abortion Socialism and witchcraft. But, apparently, evangelicals and Seicho-No-Ie adherents, who have no significant demographic representation in Brazil, are the champions of domestic violence.

How explain her study? The first explanation is her militancy. She has had involvement with Catholics for a Free Choice, which invited Vilhena as a special speaker for the feminist congress “Religious Influence in the Dismantlement of Women’s Politics,” to be held next November.

Catholics for a Free Choice is not a truly Catholic group and it is not backed by the Vatican. It is a pro-abortion, pro-sodomy and feminist group that uses the label “Catholic” to deceive Catholics.

Dismantlement is Vilhena’s mission. She does not speak as an evangelical and she does not advocate evangelical values. In 2015, the São Paulo City Council held the event “Evangelicals Debate the Gender Issue in the City School Curriculum,” which addressed the introduction of the gender ideology (the gay agenda) in São Paulo City’s school curriculum.

The panelists were: Cristiano Valério, homosexual minister of the Metropolitan Community Church; José Barbosa, pro-sodomy theologian who created the Brazilian movement “Jesus Heals Homophobia”; and Valéria Vilhena, feminist theologian. All these names are committed to the homosexual agenda, and as the mission of Catholics for a Free Choice is to sabotage true Catholics, the mission of those false evangelicals is to sabotage true evangelicals.

Sabotage is already happening. The Azusa Magazine of Pentecostal Studies published an article by David Mesquiati de Oliveira, where he said, “As declared by Valéria Vilhena, the influence of a male chauvinist patriarchal and oppressing culture against women was not superseded and, in some cases, the Christian institutions themselves reproduce such institutional system.”

Oliveira is introduced as an Assemblies of God minister in Vitória, Brazil, and member of RELEP (Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Pentecostales [Latin American Network of Pentecostal Studies]) and FPLyC (Foro Pentecostal Latinoamericano y Caribeño [Pentecostal Latin American and Caribbean Forum]). He is a master of divinity by the Higher School of Theology in Brazil, one of the most liberal Lutheran institutions in the world and which has the only homossexualist theologian in Brazil. Oliveira is the author of the book “Missão, cultura e transformação” (Mission, Culture and Transformation), published by Sinodal, a Brazilian liberal Lutheran publishing house that publishes books advocating Marxism, feminism and gender ideology.

Oliveira is a Pentecostal activist citing a feminist activist, from the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, who attends no church.

Vilhena is an activist against Christian values and, with her study, she tried to portray evangelical churches as producers or facilitators of domestic violence in need of feminist or state intervention.

How explain that GospelPrime, GospelMais and Guiame, the most prominent evangelical websites in Brazil, have greatly spread her biased study without questioning her motivation, but crediting exclusively the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, institution where Vilhena has connections? Without perceiving, they, specially the Presbyterian university, helped promote a perverted propaganda that exploited the problem of domestic violence in the interest of the feminist sham.

Mackenzie Presbyterian University has been involved also in other scandals for hiring pro-abortion, Marxist and homosexualist professors.

How explain Vilhena’s sampling showing that evangelicals are almost 50% of victims of domestic violence? Of course, it is biased.

For some years, I was a leader of a church. Most attendees were new converts or people in need of conversion. There were women who were attending the services because they had domestic problems. If a poll asked in this point if they were evangelicals, they would answer positively. They had not a long evangelical history. Most them had husbands who were not Christian and they sought a church because of several problems: husband’s alcoholism, domestic violence, unemployment, drug problems in their children, etc.

In 2006, I knew an evangelical NGO in Rio de Janeiro that gave room to a women’s organization that made a community work of awareness against domestic violence. Women in the poor community who suffered such violence came to the group to be “counseled” and much of this work was made in the facility of the evangelical NGO.

I made a small investigation, and I found that the women’s group not only received state grants in its feminist objectives, but also it appeared in a list of many other feminist groups that, on March 18, demanded in the State Legislature the legalization of abortion as a fundamental women’s right.

I talked then to the director of the evangelical NGO and I explained that the facility of her organization was being used for feminist recruitment and indoctrination of poor women, who were seduced by the appeal of solution for “domestic violence,” a work that ultimately strengthened the state power and interventionism in families and also strengthened feminist strategists’ pro-abortion objectives.

The evangelical NGO’s director thanked me and eliminated the room for the women’s group. She had never imagined that a group supposedly fighting domestic violence had much more sinister motivations and ambitions. This case helped her not to trust in facades

So cases of domestic violence (which the Bible does not approve) eventually become an excuse and maneuver recourse for feminists and the State to intervene to destroy the role of a husband as head of his family and demand the right of women to abort their unborn children. The husband who slaps his wife becomes a criminal, but the woman who cowardly kills her children through abortion has committed no crime: she is just exercising a legal right! The woman goes from “oppressed” to oppressor and murderer of her own children.

Valéria Cristina Vilhena says that she attends no church, but she uses a facade of “theologian” to advance her feminism among Brazilian evangelicals. Yet, the incompatibility between feminism and the Gospel is vast.

Last December, a 23 year old woman was raped and murdered at a bar in São Paulo, Brazil. She spent the night in a nightclub with friends and at dawn, she went with a young man to a bar, where both used drugs and where she was raped and murdered. The Brazilian press identified her as an “evangelical feminist.”

She was the mother of two small children, but she was hanging about in nightclubs and bars.

Even though nightclubs and bars are a perfect environment for the depraved life of feminists, they are not an environment for mothers, much less evangelicals.

Undoubtedly, the death of that young woman is regrettable, but if she occupied herself with her mission as a mother, she would not spend the night in a nightclub or use drugs in a bar. If she occupied herself with the Gospel, which should be the mission of every evangelical, she would not waste her life in feminism, which rapes and exploits the women’s cause and even the Gospel in the interest of charlatans’ depraved agenda.

GospelPrime, GospelMais, Guiame and Brazilian conservative evangelical leaders should watch and pray, so that they may not fall into temptations of academic studies from the Mackenzie Presbyterian University and other institutions that have an evangelical name, but do not honor the Gospel. One of those studies came directly from Valéria Cristina Vilhena, who wants to advance feminism in the Brazilian evangelical churches.

While Vilhena wants to transmit the idea that the evangelical culture provokes or facilitates domestic violence, the fact is that women with domestic violence problems seek evangelical churches because the government or feminist answer always brings more problems.

Meanwhile, evangelical young women deceived by feminism search for satisfaction in nightclubs and die drugged in bars.

Portuguese version of this article: Pesquisa tendenciosa de teóloga feminista viralizou depois de divulgada nos maiores sites evangélicos do Brasil

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Radical Gay Activist Defends Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University

By Julio Severo

In 2012, Brazilian gay activist Márcio Retamero became famous by defending armed violence against Christian opponents of the gay “marriage.”

Now he is defending the Mackenzie Presbyterian University (MPU), in São Paulo, Brazil, because I said that as a Protestant institution, the Presbyterian university should honor its evangelical commitments. Retamero defends that, because MPU is connected to the Brazilian Department of Education, it should honor “secular” commitments.

This MPU is doing very well. MPU professors have been defending abortion, homosexuality and Marxism.

In a Senate hearing on August 6, 2015, MPU professor Márcia Tiburi said, “To vociferate against abortion is just a biopolitical way to control women’s lives. Abortion legalization is a fundamental part of a socially responsible democratic process.”

MPU professor Osvaldo Coggiola has several books defending Marxism, including the Cuban Revolution.

MPU professor Marcelo Moreira Neumann, author of the Brazilian study “Homophobic Bullying and School Performance,” defends automatic gender neutrality in birth registries.

Mackenzie Presbyterian University is the most prominent Calvinist or Presbyterian educational institution in Brazil.

What is fascinating is that Mackenzie, with all its Calvinist confession, and Calvinist leaders who have decision power to stop all this mess, are very fast and sharp to attack the conservative growth produced by neo-Pentecostals (charismatics) in Brazil, as reported recently by the Islamic news website Al Jazeera, where a Mackenzie professor criticized the neo-Pentecostal (charismatic) growth leading the Brazilian politics to the Right.

If the MPU owner (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) is actually evangelical, why has it allowed this to happen? Lack of vision?

Lack of vision, to those who do not believe in vision, is normal. MPU had been headed for many years by Rev. Augustus Nicodemus, who had authority in the hiring of professors opposed to Marxism and abortion, but he preferred to occupy himself with his cessationist theology, which denies that the Holy Spirit grants today gifts as vision and prophecy. Nicodemus is the greatest cessationist theologian in Brazil.

Márcio Retamero is very satisfied with the MPU’s current secularized state. But he is not happy about my comments. Days ago, I said in my Facebook:

“What kind of gospel is this? Certain Brazilian Calvinists talk crudely about Brazilian Assemblies of God minister Silas Malafaia and other charismatics. Very easily, they label everything in them ‘heresy.’ But when they talk about the Mackenzie Presbyterian University (MPU), which has Marxist, pro-abortion and homosexualist professors, those same Calvinists use respectful and pleasing terms. Is apostasy only sanctified and approved when it brings Calvin’s seal? If Malafaia and charismatics had the belligerent and quarrelsome spirit of those Brazilian Calvinists, they would say week after week that MPU is a pit of apostasy — a labeling in harmony with Bible’s reality, because no evangelical educational institution can have Marxist, pro-abortion and homosexualist professors.”

Retamero answered:

“Wait! One thing is a confessional, denomination seminary, etc. Another thing very different is a college, which even though is an autarchy or belonging to a denomination, has a secular character, is connected to the Department of Education and laws and the Constitution. In seminary is valid the faith principles of a church, usually these are not connected to the Department of Education (in the Presbyterian Church of Brazil is this way, later its students make a test of validation of the course made at the seminary). Little Severo always talking little nonsense… Some people do not learn.”

I said,

“It does not matter the standard of the Department of Education. The important thing is that having Marxist, pro-abortion and homosexualist professors, the Mackenzie Presbyterian University attempts against God’s standard, peddling itself and prostituting itself for a plate of lentils. To those who are not faithful to the Bible, this is nothing. But to those who are faithful, this is apostasy.”

Retamero answered,

“What does [Julio] recommend? That MPU severs relations with the Department of Education and goes bankrupt?! Notify this fundamentalist fanatical Taliban madman that the Bible is not — thank God — the Constitution of this nation, because in this country the State is still secular. This guy irritates in a high degree!”

A Secular State is helpful for keeping the most prominent Calvinist institution in Brazil in the orbit of Marxist, pro-abortion and homosexualist professors, according to Retamero’s view. And he defends his “secular” ideas with the typical violence of Marxists.

In a hearing at the House of Representatives in Brazil in 2012, Retamero said that he is willing to take up arms against Christians that defend natural family. You can watch him saying this in this video: http://youtu.be/dg1P7osbwSQ

Retamero, who uses the title “reverend” and proclaims that he is the minister of the Presbyterian Church of the Botafogo Beach and of the Metropolitan Community Church in Rio de Janeiro, praises the secularized state of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, but he mocks real Christians. In 2009, he published an article entitled “Open Letter to Julio Severo, a Religious Fundamentalist and Homophobic,” where, by accusing my blog of spreading hatred against homosexuals, he said “I ask federal prosecutors to keep their efforts to find him, and bring him back, even by extradition.”

Nicodemus, the most prominent Presbyterian theologian in Brazil who has criticized by name C. Peter Wagner and other charismatics, has never criticized by name Retamero, the most prominent Presbyterian gay activist in Brazil.

Portuguese version of this article: Ativista gay radical defende a Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Gay minister says that he is willing to take up arms against pro-family Christians

Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Gender Ideology Professor

By Julio Severo

Brazilian news website UOL, in its section of child issues, addressed the gender ideology in the report titled “Nome neutro não basta para uma criação sem estereótipo de gênero, mas ajuda” (A Neuter Name Is Not Enough for an Upbringing Without Gender Stereotype, But It is Helpful).

The title opens no room for doubt that, for the homosexual militancy, to develop names’ neutrality for children is a first, insufficient step, by acknowledging a need for a broader fight. The article was also published by the Patrícia Galvão Institute, a Brazilian institution notorious for its pro-abortion advocacy.

The first paragraph in the text is excessively sentimental and clearly seeks to seduce readers, by saying: “Mica is a two-year old child and only the caregivers, as the biological parents prefer to be addressed, and the child know his sex. One day, Mica wears a pink flounced dress and, in the other day, he wears a blue Bermuda shorts. Except for the appearance, even his name does not betray his birth gender, because [the caregivers] chose a name sounding neuter.”

The child, who suffered the imposition of a neuter name, was called Mica, by parents who prefer equally the neuter names “caregivers,” instead of parents.

By the imposition of confused parents, the child is adapted and indoctrinated to greater sexual confusions, including regarding sex roles.

UOL also presents another couple who was ideologically indoctrinated into imposing sexual neutrality on their small son. The mother says, “Every day, when he goes to school, I need to talk to him again on how boy’s and girl’s toys do not exist. There are only children’s toys.”

Perhaps the worst part in the report was the official seal from a professor in the most important Calvinist university in Brazil.

According to UOL, Marcelo Moreira Neumann, a professor of psychology at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, in São Paulo, Brazil, and one of the authors of the study “Homophobic Bullying and School Performance,” said that neutrality in the registry would effectively facilitate the lives of people not identifying themselves with their birth gender.

“The individual would not have to go through a juridical process if he is a transgender and he would not face shameful situations regarding his name,” said the specialist.

A neutrality in the registry would effectively facilitate the homosexual activism’ objectives.

Neumann’s sheer presence as professor at a Protestant university is a sign of victory for homosexual militants and defeat for evangelicals, who should evangelize, not hire, propagandists of the gender ideology.

When Neumann chose the designation in the UOL report of “Mackenzie professor,” he fatally compromised the institution, which, because it is openly confessional (Mackenzie PRESBYTERIAN University), chose to hire a professor who is a gender agenda militant. The case is not that he deserves to be fired from Mackenzie. He never deserved to be hired.

The hired individual is not to blame. The contractor, which has poorly chosen its job applicants, is to blame.

Actually, Mackenzie has a big name in Brazil, and this name has been flaunted by pro-abortion, Marxist and homosexualist professors advocating their ideological evils.

What is fascinating is that Mackenzie, with all its Calvinist confession, and Calvinist leaders who have decision power to stop all this mess, are very fast and sharp to attack the conservative growth produced by neo-Pentecostals in Brazil, as reported recently by the Islamic news website Al Jazeera, where a Mackenzie professor criticized the neo-Pentecostal growth leading the Brazilian politics to the Right. But they have not the same power against real threats in their own institution.

What expect from a Calvinist institution that puts to shame the Christian witness with professors who attack conservatism, praise the gender ideology, abortion and Marxism?

Portuguese version of this article: O Mackenzie e seu professor de ideologia de gênero

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Financial Times: Brazil’s Evangelicals Push Politics to the Right

Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Marxist Professor

Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Pro-Abortion Professor

Gay militant Jean Wyllys at Brazilian Presbyterian University

A Charismatic Response to “The Growing Crisis Behind Brazil’s Evangelical Success

Financial Times: Brazil’s Evangelicals Push Politics to the Right

By Julio Severo

A recent report from the British newspaper Financial Times (FT) accurately said that Brazil’s evangelicals are pushing politics to the right, but it used an inaccurate example: Marcelo Crivella.

FT said, “An evangelical missionary in Africa for several years, Brazilian senator Marcelo Crivella once described Catholics and other Christian denominations as demonic and condemned homosexuality as a terrible evil. Such opinions — outlined in his book documenting his time in Africa — would raise eyebrows coming from any politician. But Mr Crivella, a gospel singer from Brazil’s evangelical Universal church, is the overwhelming favourite to become the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, one of the Americas’ most racially and socially diverse cities.”

FT then says, “His imminent victory in second-round elections on 30 October reflects the emergence of an evangelical bloc that is driving Brazilian politics to the right, analysts say, and is set to become more powerful and influential.”

Even though Crivella is being helped by the emergence of a powerful Brazilian right energized by evangelicals and their pro-family activism, he and his church have stances hardly resembling conservative or right-wing stances. In the Brazilian Senate floor in 2007, then Senator Crivella boldly said, “The Gospel is the most communist handbook that exists.”

In communist ideas, he does not represent most Brazilian evangelicals, who are conservative, even though most Catholic bishops would agree with him. And the Brazilian evangelical Right does not represent him.   

He is a relative of Bishop Edir Macedo, the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG). Macedo has been notorious for his opposition to pro-life causes, conservatives and the gift of prophecy. In his 2007 official biography, he said, “I support abortion, yes. The Bible also does it… A woman needs to have the right to choose.”

Crivella’s history includes his role as a UCKG bishop.

When the socialist administration of impeached President Dilma Rousseff wanted to pass a anti-“homophobia” bill that would endanger religious freedom in Brazil, Crivella did not know if he should side with his socialist ally Rousseff or conservative evangelicals.

Even so, the Financial Times, pretending impartiality, presented the opposing view of Jean Wyllys, the only openly gay member of the Brazilian Congress who is a lawmaker from the leftist Socialism and Liberty party. In the FT report, Wyllys, who supports homosexual indoctrination of children and their annihilation through legal abortion, is quoted as saying: “It’s not enough for them to evangelise — they also want to influence the law.”

In Wyllys’ view, only his homosexual activism should direct laws. Christians should be banned.

FT acknowledges that the evangelical bloc, represented especially by the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus, is an influential power in the Brazilian Congress and that “it played a key role in the impeachment of leftist former president Dilma Rousseff.” In an April report titled “President’s Impeachment Shows Growing Evangelical Power in Brazil,” CBN had also acknowledged it.

FT says that in the 513-seat lower house, the House of Representatives, evangelical politicians form the “evangelical bloc,” accounting for a total of 199 seats.

FT said that the impeachment itself was led by one of the Congress’ most prominent evangelical leaders, Eduardo Cunha, then house speaker, previously known for championing bills against the gay agenda and abortion. Yet, FT reminds that he was arrested in relation to a corruption scandal at Petrobras, the state-owned oil company — a scandal that has engulfed the most powerful Brazilian socialists who were involved in larger corruption cases.

“The rise of evangelical politicians reflects in part demographic changes in Brazil. While still home to the world’s largest population of Catholics, the last Brazilian census in 2010 showed that evangelical churchgoers had risen to 22.2 per cent of the population from 15.4 per cent a decade earlier,” said FT.

U.S. magazine Christian Century seems to agree with FT by saying, “Some of the most vocal politicians in favor of the impeachment were evangelical leaders. In 2010, 44 million Brazilians, or about 22 percent of the entire population, identified themselves as evangelical or Protestant, and that growth has led to political influence. Neo-Pentecostals have led the evangelical boom and have uniquely contributed to the development of an evangelical political ideology.”

“Their growing influence is causing some concern,” said the Islamic news site Al Jazeera.

“The growth in evangelical Christianity is taking place without a deep discussion of the values enshrined in our historical character,” said Rogerio Baptistini, of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, a mixed liberal and conservative Calvinist institution that does not accept the neo-Pentecostal growth.

“We are an open and tolerant society, but this sudden growth threatens rationality,” added Baptistini, according to Al Jazeera.

If Marcelo Crivella would depend on communism, which he praised, to be the next mayor of Rio de Janeiro, he would surely lose votes from most evangelicals. But he is facing a more radical socialist opponent. FT says, “In Rio de Janeiro, better known for its city beaches crowded with scantily clad bathers than its deeply Catholic Portuguese past, polls suggest that Mr Crivella is leading with 46 per cent support, compared with 29 per cent for his rival, leftist candidate Marcelo Freixo.”

FT said, “Mr Crivella has sought to distance himself from his more extreme statements. In his book, first published in 1999, Mr Crivella wrote that… public health could be improved by expelling the demons that caused disease. He said African religions were based on ‘evil spirits,’ a controversial claim in Brazil, where half of the population has some African blood.”

Even though half of the Brazilian population has some African blood, FT infers that there is an automatic obligation to portray and label blacks as members of African religions. Most Pentecostal churches in Brazil, including the Assemblies of God, which is the largest Brazilian evangelical denomination, have a membership and leadership of many blacks and people who have African blood.

“Mr Crivella has apologised profusely for what he wrote, saying the book was the work of a young missionary, ‘whose immature seal led him to commit this lamentable error.’ The book was published when he was 42. ‘I love Catholics, spiritualists, evangelicals, everyone. If I have on any occasion caused offence, I ask for pardon. The same in relation to homosexuality,’ he said,” according to the Financial Times.

Yet, Crivella has never apologized for praising communism, even though his candidacy is being propelled by conservative evangelicals who hate communism.

Will the emergence of a powerful Brazilian evangelical conservatism push Crivella to the right?

With information from the Financial Times, Christian Century and Al Jazeera.

Portuguese version of this article: Financial Times: Evangélicos do Brasil estão empurrando a política para a Direita

Source: Last Days Watchman

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