Showing posts with label Marxism. Show all posts
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Monday, June 04, 2018

Walter Altmann, World Council of Churches, Liberation Theology and Soviet Ghosts


Walter Altmann, World Council of Churches, Liberation Theology and Soviet Ghosts

By Julio Severo
To have a prominent leader of the powerful liberal World Council of Churches complaining that an article against Liberation Theology has impacted negatively his activities is no small honor to a conservative.
On a 30 May 2018 Facebook post, Rev. Walter Altmann, a former Moderator of the World Council of Churches, protested against an 2006 article titled “Soviet Ghosts Haunt the World Council of Churches,” written by Mark D. Tooley and published by FrontPage Magazine.
Perhaps, because Tooley’s article was in English, it would have had no impact in Brazil if it had not been translated into Portuguese.
I translated it and published it in Brazil in 2007. Since then, Altmann, who is a former president of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil (ECLCB, the largest Lutheran denomination in Brazil), has seen, as he told in his Facebook post, his own Facebook friends publishing my translation of Tooley’s article in his own Facebook page!
So at last he unburdened his heart to his Facebook friends, saying:
“When one intends to accuse another person of something that he is supposed to have committed, an elemental ethical principle is to give the person beforehand the opportunity to clarify and defend himself, for whoever makes the accusation public, if unfounded, will have incurred in slander and defamation. And, certainly, you have broken the biblical commandment to not bear false witness against anyone. Well, it happens routinely for one of my ‘friends’ to pass on as an indisputable truth the claim that I was a ‘Soviet agent’… They do so by reproducing a slanderous article, from a page of Washington’s extreme religious right, translated into Portuguese in 2007, by Julio Severo…”
Altmann’s Facebook post is interestingly titled “EU – FANTASMA SOVIÉTICO?” (AM I A SOVIET GHOST?)
In this point, I can clarify and even defend Altmann. He is not a Soviet ghost! In fact, Tooley’s article never said that Altmann was a Soviet ghost and did not target him mainly. It targeted the World Council of Churches (WCC), making it very clear that its reference to Soviet ghosts meant the Soviet influences in movements and conferences supported by WCC.
If Altmann’s friends are using my translation of Tooley’s article to request a biblical accountability from him, why doesn’t he listen to their plea?
Even if Altmann had never been the Moderator of the World Council of Churches and even if he never attended conferences influenced by Soviets, his spiritual problems are not solved.
In October 1999, when he was the president of the Latin American Council of Churches, Altmann met communist dictator Fidel Castro and gave him his book “Lutero e Libertação” (Luther and Liberation). So, even without Soviet ghosts, the hard truth is that Altmann, in his activities and books, has been an advocate of the Liberation Theology, which Luther never advocated.
In 2009, Mark D. Tooley published his article “Resurrecting Liberation Theology: The World Council of Churches tries to revive Marxism in religious garb,” in FrontPage Magazine, where Altmann was quoted as saying in a WCC publication:
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, twenty years ago, many critics have been quick to sign liberation theology’s death certificate. Most of them did so because they understood it to be an apology of bygone Soviet-style socialism. It seems, though, that this death certificate has been issued prematurely.”
According to Altmann, as quoted by Tooley,
“Liberation theology is spiritually grounded on — and gets its motivation from — the life changing encounter with Christ as liberator and with our neighbors,” whose suffering results from “systemic injustices and oppression.”
Alas for Altmann, I translated and published Tooley’s article in Brazil!
Even though Liberation Theology is not Protestant, because of his ecumenical involvements through WCC he eventually adapted it to the Lutheran perspective. The Protestant version of Liberation Theology is Theology of Integral Mission. The Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil is prominent in both liberal theologies, thanks to leaders like Altmann.
So am I accusing Altmann of being a former Soviet agent because he advocates Liberation Theology? No. Even though the KGB used Liberation Theology for its own advantage, it was not produced by the KGB. Such mistaken propaganda was probably created by a former communist who for years has been sponsored by the CIA. As recognized by a Brazilian traditionalist Catholic in the article “Liberation Theology, a KGB Invention? That Is Way Too Simple...,” Liberation Theology was born in the Catholic Church before the KGB.
If Altmann had got involved only in the Gospel, by proclaiming it, healing the sick and expelling demons — just as Jesus and his disciples did —, he would never have had time or interest to get involved in a political theology that uses the Gospel to proclaim Marxism and make Christians sick and demonized.
Ecumenism drew Altmann away from Jesus’s Gospel and brought him near “Christian” Marxism, or Liberation Theology.
Even if Soviets had never used Liberation Theology, it is not Christian, because it uses the Gospel as a left-wing political platform.
Liberation Theology is not spiritually grounded on Christ as liberator, as Altmann alleged, making Christ a political liberator at the service of the leftist ideology. He bore false witness. Is Christ a Deliverer? Certainly. He delivers people, even Christians, from diseases and demons. And Christians who preach Liberation Theology are spiritually oppressed and need to be delivered from demons.
I have publicly clarified that Altmann is not a Soviet ghost. But he was involved with Soviet ghosts and he was certainly influenced by the Catholic liberal theology through ecumenism.
So if these public accusations are based on Altmann’s public activities and writings, why does he insist on saying that these accusation are “unfounded” and that Tooley and I have “incurred in slander and defamation”?
If he actually believed in his own unfounded accusations, he would have long ago pressed charges against us.
Altmann should stop whining about the consequences of his ideological choices.
He should be kept accountable for having borne false witness against the Gospel of Jesus Christ by using it to promote Liberation Theology.
The Gospel belongs to Jesus Christ. Liberation Theology belongs to the Catholic Church. And Marxism belongs to Karl Marx. So give back to the Catholic Church what is Catholic Church’s. Give back to Marxism what is Marxism’s. And give back to Jesus Christ what is Jesus Christ’s.
The Lutheran Church does not need Liberation Theology imported, through ecumenism, from the Catholic Church. It needs deliverance from the demons of Liberation Theology and Marxism. It needs a charismatic renewal from the Holy Spirit.
Christians who live Spirit-filled lives do not need to be filled with liberal theological garbage.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2018

Dialogue of a Communist: Brazilian Congressman Roberto Freire Suggests that Both Jesus and Karl Marx Deserve to Be Celebrated


Dialogue of a Communist: Brazilian Congressman Roberto Freire Suggests that Both Jesus and Karl Marx Deserve to Be Celebrated

By Julio Severo
All began with the article “Don’t celebrate Karl Marx. His Communism has a death count in the millions,” which I translated from USA Today. On the 200-year anniversary of the birth of the founder of Marxism, USA Today, which is not usually conservative, urged readers not to celebrate it.
Roberto Freire
Somehow, Brazilian Congressman Roberto Freire saw this article being shared by me and he said to me on Twitter saying,
“Sorry, but that statement does not fit your intelligence. It would be the same as asking not to celebrate Jesus because his religion promoted wars and deaths in history. Not to mention the holy inquisition. Or other prophets of other peoples still today, worldwide. Hugs.”
Freire, who has a history of involvement in the Brazilian Communist Party, founded the Popular Socialist Party (PSP). Today, he is a Representative in the Brazilian House of Representatives and the president of the PSP.
Between 2016 and 2017, he was Minister of Culture in Brazil. What kind of culture can a celebrant of Marx bring to Brazil, the largest Catholic nation in the world? In Brazilian politics, mostly Catholic, there are many celebrants of Marx and very few celebrants of Jesus.
My response to the communist Roberto Freire was:
“The difference is cosmic. Jesus Christ preached the Gospel, which freed millions of people. In contrast, Karl Marx preached Marxism, which deceived and enslaved millions of people. Compare the Gospel with Marxism for you to see. It is incomparable. Who promoted the Inquisition was not Christ. It was the Catholic Church. Did you know that many true Christians were tortured and killed by the Inquisition? As an evangelical, I represent a part of these victims. Thousands of evangelicals were tortured and killed by the Inquisition.”
To see the conversation between me and Roberto Freire on Twitter, go to this link: http://archive.is/hH0lv
Perhaps Freire thought that every Christian defends the Inquisition and that every Christian is a Catholic. The greatest advocate of the Inquisition in Brazil is pseudo-Catholic Olavo de Carvalho, whose spiritualist movie “The Garden of Afflictions” was boycotted by filmmakers in Pernambuco. Freire strongly criticized the boycott, calling the boycotters Stalinists. Although this film was released in New York in 2017, it did not make any success and did not draw the American public.
Perhaps Freire thought that Carvalho’s advocacy of the Inquisition represents Christianity. But if he thinks that the Inquisition committed crimes (and it actually did), why did he defend Carvalho?
Freire could not distinguish that what Jesus did and what the Catholic Church did are vastly different universes. Jesus never created an inquisition to torture and kill people who did not accept the Gospel. Therefore, when the Catholic Church, which claims to represent Christ on earth, created the Inquisition, it was in disobedience to the Gospel. Whether she wanted to or not, she represented Satan on earth by torturing and killing Jews and Protestants.
However, how could Freire criticize the Catholic Church? The overwhelming majority of Brazilians who became Marxists were Catholic and were influenced in this direction within the Catholic Church. Historically, the Catholic Church in Brazil, which is a champion of Liberation Theology, is a great facilitator of Marxism.
Had it not been for Catholicism, Freire and millions of Brazilians would never have become Marxists. And to make matters worse, many Catholics who are becoming right-winger have become stridently pro-Inquisition. They go from an extreme to another and, in both cases, they are very far from Jesus.
There is an immense difference not only between Jesus and Marx, but also between Jesus, who never created the Inquisition nor facilitated Marxism, and the Catholic Church, which created the Inquisition in the past and today facilitates Marxism in Brazil and throughout Latin America.
To celebrate Marx is to celebrate slavery and death. To celebrate Jesus is to celebrate deliverance and salvation.
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Thursday, May 03, 2018

Jewish Perspective: Hitler and Socialism


Jewish Perspective: Hitler and Socialism

By Julio Severo
There is a perspective, defended by right-wing groups, that Adolf Hitler was exclusively Marxist. In the past, I also adhered to such perspective. But after understanding that Hitler was a religious man (a nominal Catholic, with deep occult beliefs), I concluded that his socialist imageries were a sham and propaganda.
Hitler was an esoteric man who knew how to manipulate politics and Catholics and Protestants.
In his book “Hitler’s Cross: How the Cross of Christ was used to promote the Nazi agenda” (Moody Publishers, 1995), Rev. Erwin W. Lutzer said,
Secular historians have admitted that Hitler cannot be explained merely as a shrewd politician who appeared in Germany at a time when the nation was ripe for a dictatorship. Allan Bullock, who wrote an extensive biography of Hitler, dutifully listed what Hitler studied in his youth: yoga, hypnotism, astrology, and various other forms of Eastern occultism…
[Germany’s] national obsession with occultism prepared the way for Hitler’s meteoric rise to world prominence. Heinrich Himmler’s masseur said that the nation was caught up in “the mysticism of a political movement” and in “no country were so many miracles performed, so many ghosts conjured, so many illnesses cured by magnetism, so many horoscopes read.” There were telepathy, séances, and spiritual experiences of every sort, which camouflaged Hitler’s deceptions. Just as the New Age movement today might well be preparing the world to accept the miracles of Antichrist, so the occultism of Germany made mass deception much more difficult to detect.
Another book that addresses Hitler’s occultism is “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party,” by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams.
Marxism eventually extinguishes religion. While Marxists are deeply atheist, Hitler was a deeply religious man. His occult religion helps us understand why he was not sincere about his alleged socialism. Insincerity is a trademark of esoteric groups and individuals.
Yet, there is a people who can say if Hitler was a right-winger or left-winger. Hitler’s main victims were the Jews, and they were hated not only because they were Jews, but also because most of them were socialist — as was Karl Marx, the father of Marxism, whose grandfather was a rabbi.
So it is no wonder that even today Jews are suspicious of right-wing politicians. Osias Wurman, who is Israel’s honorary consul in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, expressed concern about Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. in 2016. He said,
“Today, more than ever, it is necessary to warn the world public opinion about the dangerous change of course rightward that has been ravaging Europe and some nations in the American continent. A global poll, held in 2014, found that 46% respondents had never heard about the Holocaust!”
For Wurman, an increase in right-wing sentiments goes hand in hand with pro-Holocaust feelings.
What have the Jews to say about Hitler and socialism? To answer this question, I consulted a reliable Jewish source. So I bring here official information from the Jewish Virtual Library.
Four important points in the text on the Nazi Party of the Jewish Virtual Library are:
* Hitler had anti-Marxist speeches and actions. Even when he used socialist imageries, he violently persecuted socialists and communists.
* The fortunes of the NSDAP (the German acronym for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party or the Nazi Party) changed with the Wall Street Crash in October 1929, resulting in the Great Depression. Such powerful economic crisis was helpful for Hitler’s anti-Marxist propaganda.
* Hitler, who was considered a fool in 1928 when he predicted economic disaster, was seen as a brilliant political seer after the Wall Street Crash. People began to say that if he was clever enough to predict the Great Depression maybe he also knew how to solve it.
* “What Hitler said depended very much on the audience. In rural areas he promised tax cuts for farmers and government action to protect food prices. In working class areas he spoke of redistribution of wealth and attacked the high profits made by the large chain stores. When he spoke to industrialists, Hitler concentrated on his plans to destroy communism and to reduce the power of the trade union movement,” said the Jewish Virtual Library.
The Jewish perspective helps us understand how anti-Marxist propaganda and actions can disguise dark intents. And my perspective, as a conservative evangelical, can help us understand how esotericists can use anti-Marxist propaganda and actions to deceive Catholics and evangelicals.
Here are the best excerpts of the text of the Jewish Virtual Library on the Nazi Party:
Hitler had always been hostile to socialist ideas, especially those that involved racial or sexual equality. However, socialism was a popular political philosophy in Germany after the First World War. This was reflected in the growth in the German Social Democrat Party (SDP), the largest political party in Germany.
Hitler’s stormtroopers were often former members of the Freikorps (right-wing private armies who flourished during the period that followed the First World War) and had considerable experience in using violence against their rivals.
At the end of the march Hitler would make one of his passionate speeches that encouraged his supporters to carry out acts of violence against Jews and his left-wing political opponents. As this violence was often directed against Socialists and Communists, the local right-wing Bavarian government did not take action against the Nazi Party.
While Hitler had been appointing government ministers, Ernst Röhm, leading a group of stormtroopers, had seized the War Ministry and Rudolf Hess was arranging the arrest of Jews and left-wing political leaders in Bavaria.
Hitler believed that the Jews were involved with Communists in a joint conspiracy to take over the world. Like Henry Ford, Hitler claimed that 75% of all Communists were Jews. Hitler argued that the combination of Jews and Marxists had already been successful in Russia and now threatened the rest of Europe. He argued that the communist revolution was an act of revenge that attempted to disguise the inferiority of the Jews.
In Mein Kampf Hitler declared that: “The external security of a people is largely determined by the size of its territory.” If he won power Hitler promised to occupy Russian land that would provide protection and lebensraum (living space) for the German people. This action would help to destroy the Jewish/Marxist attempt to control the world: “The Russian Empire in the East is ripe for collapse; and the end of the Jewish domination of Russia will also be the end of Russia as a state.”
Hitler attempted to play down his extremist image, and claimed that he was no longer in favour of revolution but was willing to compete with other parties in democratic elections. This policy was unsuccessful and in the elections of December 1924 the NSDAP could only win 14 seats compared with the 131 obtained by the Socialists (German Social Democrat Party) and the 45 of the German Communist Party (KPD).
The German economy continued to improve and as unemployment fell, so did the support for extremist political parties such as the NSDAP. In the General Election held in May, 1928, the Nazi Party won only 14 seats, while the left-wing parties, the German Social Democrat Party (153) and the German Communist Party (54) still continued to grow in popularity.
The fortunes of the NSDAP changed with the Wall Street Crash in October 1929.
Before the crash, 1.25 million people were unemployed in Germany. By the end of 1930 the figure had reached nearly 4 million. Even those in work suffered as many were only working part-time. With the drop in demand for labour, wages also fell and those with full-time work had to survive on lower incomes. Hitler, who was considered a fool in 1928 when he predicted economic disaster, was now seen in a different light. People began to say that if he was clever enough to predict the depression maybe he also knew how to solve it.
In the General Election that took place in September 1930, the Nazi Party increased its number of representatives in parliament from 14 to 107.
What Hitler said depended very much on the audience. In rural areas he promised tax cuts for farmers and government action to protect food prices. In working class areas he spoke of redistribution of wealth and attacked the high profits made by the large chain stores. When he spoke to industrialists, Hitler concentrated on his plans to destroy communism and to reduce the power of the trade union movement.
In the past, those who feared communism were willing to put up with the SA [also known as stormtroopers or brownshirts] as they provided a useful barrier against the possibility of [communist] revolution.
[May 1932] saw open warfare on the streets between the Nazis and the Communists during which 86 people were killed.
The behaviour of the NSDAP became more violent. On one occasion, 167 Nazis beat up 57 members of the German Communist Party in the Reichstag. They were then physically thrown out of the building.
The stormtroopers also carried out terrible acts of violence against socialists and communists. In one incident in Silesia, a young member of the KPD [German Communist Party] had his eyes poked out with a billiard cue and was then stabbed to death in front of his mother. Four members of the SA were convicted of the crime. Many people were shocked when Hitler sent a letter of support for the four men and promised to do what he could to get them released.
Incidents such as these worried many Germans, and in the elections that took place in November 1932 the support for the Nazi Party fell. The German Communist Party made substantial gains in the election winning 100 seats. Hitler used this to create a sense of panic by claiming that Germany was on the verge of a Bolshevik Revolution and only the NSDAP could prevent this happening.
A group of prominent industrialists who feared such a [communist] revolution sent a petition to Paul von Hindenburg asking for Hitler to become Chancellor. Hindenberg reluctantly agreed to their request and at the age of forty-three, Hitler became the new Chancellor of Germany.
Portuguese version of this article: Perspectiva judaica: Hitler e o socialismo
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017

What Draws Olavo de Carvalho to the United States?


What Draws Olavo de Carvalho to the United States?

Anti-Marxist and Anti-Protestant Esoteric Confusion in a Brazilian “Conservative” Immigrant Unsatisfied in the Largest Protestant Nation in the World

By Julio Severo
“Protestantism was born from hatred and blood thirst. Its Christian inspiration is ZERO,” said last month Olavo de Carvalho, a Brazilian philosopher who became known in the 1980s for having founded in Brazil the first school of astrologers.
Real picture of Olavo de Carvalho’s esoteric course
What draws him to the U.S., considering that he has despised Protestantism, which is America’s soul and essence? Homosexual activists, Satanists and Marxists have the same disdain for the American Protestant soul, which gave origin to most U.S. conservative values.
In 2016, Carvalho said,
“Luther and Calvin were hatred-filled souls. The former was guilty of genocide, the latter the creator of totalitarian government. Their followers are on the way of Hell, and if it is necessary to revile them using all the curse words to take them from this mess, I will do it pitilessly.”

Carvalho, a Brazilian “Catholic” Immigrant Unsatisfied in a Most Protestant Nation

What will Carvalho do? Will he revile U.S. presidents who mentioned positively Protestantism? In fact, upon signing the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams stated: “This day, I trust, the reign of political Protestantism will commence.” The 56 signers were mostly Protestant.
According to New York University Professor Emeritus Patricia Bonomi: “The colonists were about 98 percent Protestant.”
“Luther and Calvin were hatred-filled souls. The former was guilty of genocide, the latter the creator of totalitarian government. Their followers are on the way of Hell, and if it is necessary to revile them using all the curse words to take them from this mess, I will do it pitilessly.”
Will Carvalho revile U.S. the courageous American colonists? Will he say that all of them are already in the Hell?
Addressing directly the U.S., Carvalho said,
“One of the favorite myths of the American culture is that the Protestant Reformation was one of the main sources of religious freedom, individual rights and protections against abuses from a central government. Add to it the Weberian (or semi-Weberian) false belief that the ‘Protestant ethics’ created capitalism, and the only possible conclusion is that today’s citizen is indebted to Luther and Calvin, after all, for virtually all the legal, political and economic benefits of living in a modern democracy. But all of this is propaganda, not History.”
Is such behavior different from communists’ behavior? During the military administration in Brazil, communists chose exile in capitalist nations, including the U.S. Eventually they lived in a nation whose capitalist system they despised and condemned.
“Protestantism was born from hatred and blood thirst. Its Christian inspiration is ZERO.”
Carvalho, who despises and reviles Protestantism, self-exiled in the largest Protestant nation in the world. He did, in his inconsistency typical of communists, what any Brazilian communist would have done. While communists despise America’s capitalism, Carvalho despises America’s Protestantism. Both apparently were drawn by America’s affluence.
If Carvalho is just drawn by the American capitalism and its affluence, the U.S. capitalism without its Jewish-Protestant foundation is useless and dangerous. Protestantism, with its conservative values, is the capitalism’s life.

Carvalho’s Controversial and Foul Comments

Yet, Carvalho does not make absurd and immoral comments only against Protestantism. Here is a small sample of his controversial comments (translated for the first time into English, so forgive me for having to expose his vulgar language) in his Facebook in Brazil:
“Freedom of opinion is the last refuge of idiots.”
“I kneel down before the priest to receive the communion, but if after the Mass I feel necessary to tell him ‘f**k you,’ I will do it with full tranquility: Look, you fool. There you were Jesus Christ, but here you are just a little shit.”
“As far as I know, only Portugal, Spain, Hungry and Poland had brave Christians. The remaining world has a multitude of faggots.”
“If I had a cunt, I would sexually blackmail all congressmen and destroy the whole political class.”
“I repeat: there was never an entity called ‘the Inquisition’ and much less ‘Holy Inquisition.’”
“Bergoglio should be kicked out with our feet from Peter’s throne as soon as possible.”
“After someone is raped, he/she can find some retroactive consolation in the idea that a cock had always been his/her secret wish.”
“I am not a right-winger or a left-winger.”
“The Catholic Church was born offering martyrs, the protestant church was born killing.”
“Herod saved many souls: he killed little children before they could sin.”
“Do you think that it is sheer coincidence that the brutal growth of criminality and especially political corruption have happened at the same time that Liberation Theology destroyed internally the Catholic Church and makeshift ‘evangelical’ churches, filled of swindling ministers, had a widespread growth?”
“Stupid evangelicals listen with so much naivety to ministers who are semiliterate, junkies, thieves and prostitutes that it is the world’s eighth wonder.”
“In the Hollywood movies, for each three words, two are ‘fuck.’ This is what isolates and debilitates American conservatives.”
“Lenin knew that, in politics, he who reviles the most always runs ahead.”
“While I have strength left, I will systematically profane all rules of good verbal behavior that I come to know of.”
How can a man with such foul language have achieved some success among Catholic conservatives in Brazil? I do not know, just as I do not know how a false messiah deceived U.S. conservatives. In his book “Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom” (PoliPointPress, 2008), author John Gorenfeld tells how powerful U.S. evangelicals were seduced by the false messiah Moon. Just as Moon used U.S. conservative evangelicals to grow, Carvalho has used Brazilian Catholics to grow.
In the U.S., where Carvalho loves to live as an immigrant, he has an organization called the Inter-American Institute, whose members are 50 percent Protestants who, because they do not understand Portuguese, totally ignore the statements and views of its director, who does not publish them in English.
The U.S., which in its foundation had a population 98% Protestant, is the largest Protestant nation in the world, with a vast historical evangelical influence in its social, cultural and political customs. But evidently it is not the evangelical predominance that draws Carvalho to the U.S.

Is Carvalho drawn by Catholicism?

So is it Catholicism? If it were, he would be in the Vatican, or in Brazil, which is the largest Catholic nation in the world. Carvalho said, “Have you observed that only in Catholic nations it was possible to make a serious resistance to communism?” Even so, he prefers to live as an immigrant in the largest Protestant nation than living in the largest Catholic nation.
Euphoric Brazilian Catholics prefer to look to U.S. white Catholics, who are for them the true reference, identity and hope of authentic Catholicism and conservatism. Is this Carvalho’s case? Actually, as reported by the DailyMail, you should not, in studies on the U.S. Catholicism, take in consideration white Catholics, because they are “much more intermixed with, and influenced by, the wider Protestant culture.” This is, the U.S. white Catholics’ conservatism reflects the original U.S. Protestantism!
Moreover, the DailyMail ascribes the American creative spirit, which is an essential foundation of the U.S., to the Protestantism in the American culture.
What would Carvalho call this creativity? A deceiving propaganda? After all, for centuries Americans actually were the biggest promoters of a propaganda exposing the Inquisition in its bloody nature. The opposite side of the issue is that the Vatican, with its vast political, financial and religious power for centuries, was the biggest promoter of a propaganda of a benevolent and humanitarian Inquisition. While the Vatican’s propaganda benefited just the Vatican, the U.S. propaganda benefited Protestants and Jews, who were the biggest victims of the Inquisition.

Carvalho, the Jews and the Inquisition

Different from the Vatican, the U.S. has a long history of friendship and partnership with the Jews. While the U.S. was one of the first countries to recognize the modern state of Israel, the Vatican was one of the last ones.
The Jews never made accusations against the American Protestant propaganda of a bloody Inquisition, because they knew and know that it is not propaganda. It is truth. But even today they have many accusations against the Catholic propaganda of a benevolent and humanitarian Inquisition.
Different from the Jews, who for centuries accuse and condemn the Inquisition, Carvalho has for years accused and condemned people who accuse and condemn the Inquisition, calling the Inquisition a “black legend,” “myth,” “campaign of slander and defamation” and “fabrication.”

Carvalho: U.S. Evangelicals Are Worse Than Communists

While addressing the Inquisition in 2016, Carvalho publicly said that people opposing the Inquisition, whom he called “paladins of faith,” are much worse than communists. He said,
“I have never seen a communist, when using the fiercest and most slanderous revolutionary verbiage, descending the depths of malice and perversity enjoyed, in this nation, by the paladins of faith.”
Because Carvalho lives in the U.S., “in this nation” probably means the U.S.
If anti-Inquisition evangelicals (and also Jews) are worse than communists, what is Carvalho doing by living as an immigrant in the largest Protestant country in the world? Why does not he move to the communist Cuba, considering that the Protestant America is worse?
Carvalho said,
“Without the black legend of the Inquisition, the Protestant churches would never have achieved the success they did. Who does not want to flee from the torturers’ bloody hands to the arms of Our Lord? Legend is an integral component of the Protestant prestige and, if the legend falls, the Protestant prestige falls together.”
What Carvalho means is that the U.S. would never have achieved the success of becoming the greatest Protestant power in the world if it were not the predominant U.S. role in the denunciation against the Inquisition. Carvalho also said,
“The myth of the Inquisition was the vastest and lasting campaign of slander and defamation of all time, until today, with multi-million dollar funding, and it seems that it is going never to run out. This myth was not concocted by Illuminists and communists. It was concocted by Protestants, who continue promoting it until now, and their irradiant center are U.S. churches.”
“Five centuries of fierce and constant (even today) anti-Catholic lies make Protestants the ultimate champions of character assassination — much above, in this respect, to Illuminists and communists.”
This is one of the most ridiculously pompous conspiracy theories I have heard of. So Carvalho sees evangelicals generally and U.S. evangelicals particularly as worse than communists. If it were so, the largest Protestant nation in the world would be a real Soviet Union. It is not. The largest Protestant nation in the world is the U.S. and Carvalho loves to live as an immigrant there.
Carvalho treats U.S. evangelicals as liars who concocted an Inquisition that never existed, as if multitudes of Jews had never been victims of what Carvalho insists in calling legend and myth. But what he calls lying propaganda of U.S. evangelicals against the Inquisition the Jews call truth.
In fact, even the Brazilian history exposes a brutal and bloody Inquisition against the Jews. Many Brazilian Jews were tortured and killed by the Inquisition. And the first Jewish colonists in New York were Brazilian Jews who had fled the Inquisition in Brazil. The first Jewish cemetery in New York has Brazilian names. Those Brazilian Jews found refuge and peace among American Protestants! In Brazil, they faced constantly threats of loot, torture and death. So the Brazilian history itself opposes Carvalho’s obsession.

Carvalho: To Defend the Inquisition Is Infinitely More Important Than Defeating Communism

His obsession to sanitize and rehabilitate the Inquisition is so big that in July 2016 he said that “to remove from the popular conscience myths as the Inquisition” is infinitely more important than removing socialist President Dilma Rousseff from the Brazilian government. Many Brazilians and Americans thought that his priority and goal were Rousseff, but he confessed himself that it is the Inquisition’s rehabilitation. He said,
“Whoever has studied the Soviet cultural offensive and the posterior Gramscian strategy understands something that seems still totally ignored by 100 percent of liberals and conservatives in this nation: to remove from the popular conscience myths as the ‘Inquisition’… is infinitely more important than removing socialist President Dilma Rousseff from the Brazilian government.’”
In the 1980s and 1990s, I was actively involved in the Brazilian pro-life movement and I had never heard Carvalho’s name. But from 2000 he appeared with a pro-life, pro-family, pro-homeschooling, anti-vaccine and anti-communist discourse. This discourse drew pro-family leaders like me. But later, with a fame already established, he made it clear, according to his words, that to remove an alleged myth of the Inquisition is infinitely more important than defeating communism.
In the past, whoever wanted to defeat communism would have to overthrow the Soviet Union, the most prominent propagandist of communism. Ronald Reagan did it. Whoever wants to defeat the propaganda against the Inquisition should overthrow the U.S., the most prominent propagandist for centuries of the Inquisition’s evils?
Will it be a task for Carvalho, who sees himself charged with a mission more important than Reagan’s mission?
The Inquisition was not the only goal in the U.S. propaganda. The U.S. also was the biggest propagandist against Soviet Marxism and today (at least its conservative population) it is the biggest propagandist against abortion.
Before the U.S. focus on communism as an enemy, the biggest focus of the U.S. society was the Vatican and its Inquisition. In fact, the Inquisition’s past was what most made difficult in the U.S.-Vatican relations. It was especially the Inquisition issue that made the U.S. sever diplomatic relations with the Vatican in the 1860s, because for the U.S., the Vatican and the Inquisition were one and the same thing. The U.S. only resumed relations with the Vatican in the 1980s, in the administration of Ronald Reagan, who had as focus the fight against communism. Communism made the U.S. forget the root of its old hostility against the Vatican.
What draws Carvalho to the U.S.? The Jews? No one who does love the Jews advocates or excuses the Inquisition, which slaughtered thousands of Jews, always looting their riches.

U.S. Esotericism

What then draws Carvalho to the U.S.? My suspicion is esotericism. Carvalho has a deep esoteric history and the U.S., parallel to the Protestant influence, has also a deep esoteric history.
The U.S. is not only the largest Protestant nation in the world, but also the most Masonic nation in the world, according to the book “Christianity and American Freemasonry,” written by the Catholic author William Whalen and published by the prominent Catholic publishing house Ignatius Press. Whalen says that most Freemasons in the world live in the U.S. and that the Masonic influence in the U.S. society is so widespread that even churches that ban Freemasonry have at least 90 million Masonic members.
More revealing still is that author Thomas Horn claims, in a WND (WorldNetDaily) intervivew, that from its founding the United States has been manipulated toward one goal: building an occult society that would one day welcome the spirit and person of the Antichrist.
Horn is the author of the book “Apollyon Rising 2012,” which explains that Masons incorporated in the U.S. republic many esoteric symbols that, more than 200 years ago, already predicted that the U.S. would lead the world in a global new order. What these “prophecies” most foretold was the U.S. hegemony and supremacy. Horn points out those “prophecies,” which are present in the U.S. currency and government symbols, as demonic.
Right in the beginning of his book, Horn mentions U.S. President George W. Bush, who in his second inaugural address, January 20, 2005, said, “When our founders declared a new order of the ages… they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled.” Horn says that this “ancient hope” was the Masons’ esoteric “prophecies” made more than 200 about the future U.S. hegemony.
Sadly, even a conservative evangelical president as Bush accepted the Masonic “prophecies” about its god, Satan, giving the U.S. the global government supremacy.
I have “Apollyon Rising 2012.” By curiosity, I asked Carvalho years ago what he thought about this book, and his answer was that it was not recommendable for reading… In contrast, the Islamic sorcerer René Guénon’s books were always positively recommended by him.

Carvalho, Nancy Pearcey and René Guénon

Why did a detailed evangelical exposé against the occultist and esoteric premonitions in the U.S. history leave Carvalho so troubled? Why does he call, in Portuguese, sorcerer Guénon’s premonitions “magistral,” especially a premonition that the only salvation for Europe is the Catholic Church?
In his book “As Garras da Esfinge” (The Sphinx’s Grip, 2017), page 25, Carvalho confirms this “premonition,” saying:
“The maze of impossibilities has one exit: Catholicism can only be returned to its original integrity if it consents to submit itself to Islamic masters’ guidance. Or this, or the occupation of the West by Muslims.”
Then he adds, in the same page:
“No one in his sound mind can deny… that, en passant, Guénon and his disciples have made several valuable contributions, even to our understanding of Catholicism.”
I do not know if the Islamic sorcerer Guénon made the alleged “valuable” contributions to Catholicism, but it is indisputable that Carvalho, who translated into Portuguese one of Guénon’s books, has fixation on him.
Carvalho sees the supernatural issues in the metaphysical sense understood by Guénon. In “As Garras da Esfinge,” page 14, Carvalho says,
“What is properly metaphysics? I do not use the term as a designation of an academic discipline, but in the very special and exact sense present in the works of Guénon and Schuon.”
U.S. conservative evangelical author Nancy Pearcey identifies Guénon as a New Age advocate. But Carvalho disagrees. He said, in Portuguese: “To confound Guénon with New Age is akin to thinking that Karl Marx was the Beatles.”
With his potty mouth that antagonizes evangelicals generally (Luther, a genocide, Calvin, a tyrant), Carvalho said,
“Julio Severo’s problem is that, besides being a cheater from DNA, he is very unschooled. He writes brazenly (or in a perverted innocence) on subjects that are unattainably above not only his ability, but even his imagination. In one example he called René Guénon an ‘occultist’ and ‘New Age proponent’ (expression he copied from Nancy Pearcey).”
His current name-calling is shocking, because for ten years (2003-2013) I had been an official columnist in his website Mídia Sem Máscara, which had invited me to be a member of its team of writers, most of whom were then fiscal conservatives, and they were supportive of some items of the gay agenda, which is opposed by me. I accepted the invitation and I worked for free for one decade.
In my capacity as the first evangelical columnist in Mídia Sem Máscara, I drew many evangelicals, including from the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus, where I was very known because of my book O Movimento Homossexual (The Homosexual Movement), published by the Brazilian branch of Bethany House Publishers. In the first congress of the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus in 2003, I delivered the opening address and this was one of the reasons for Mídia Sem Máscara to invite me.
Yet, Carvalho’s website was not my only media platform. I was already a columnist in JesusSite, which was in the early 2000s the most important evangelical website in Brazil. I was already a contributor to Pro-Vida-Familia, the largest Catholic pro-life website in Brazil. And I also contributed to any evangelical and Catholic website that invited me to write pro-life articles.
With my long experience (since the 1980s) of pro-life alliance with prominent Catholic leaders in Brazil, I had thought that with Carvalho, who said that he was a Catholic, I would have the same good experience I had with Catholic pro-lifers. For some time, there was tolerance, even though I often made requests for him to avoid foul language — a bad habit I had never seen in any other Catholic leader in Brazil. Furthermore, in all my years of pro-life alliance with Catholics, I had never seen any of them advocating or excusing the Inquisition.
For over ten years, Carvalho praised my work. But a mere disagreement between him and me over his advocacy of the Inquisition’s revisionism in 2013 was enough for him to launch a lasting and persistent foul-mouthed campaign of character assassination against me.
His case makes me wonder if it is really worthwhile an alliance between evangelicals and (esoteric) Catholics, even for the sake of a pro-life cause.
In my 10 years as a columnist in Mídia Sem Máscara, I did not know that Carvalho had already been sued, by his former astrology students, for swindling. So his accusation (“cheater”) against me is akin to Lenin accusing anti-communists from being what he was.
I had never come to understand, until 2013, the depths of his passion for the Inquisition’s revisionism and involvement with Guénon’s ideas.
René Guénon (1886-1951) was a Catholic who converted to one of the most occultist and esoteric forms of Islam and he died in the Islamic Egypt. According to Andrew Phillip Smith, in his “A Dictionary of Gnosticism” (Quest Books, Theosophical Publishing House Wheaton, Illinois, 2009), Guénon was a “French metaphysical author and founder of the traditionalist movement. He was involved in the French Gnostic Church and published a journal called Gnosis.” No one else did more to make this king of Gnosticism known in Brazil than Carvalho did. According to Nancy Pearcey, Guénon was a New Age advocate.
Pearcey has a book titled “Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity,” published by Crossway Books in 2004. This book has an Appendix titled “Modern Islam and the New Age Movement,” where Pearcey shows how a blend of Plato’s ideas and Hinduism and Islam (a genuine New Age salad) is transforming Catholic intellectuals into heretics. She says:
“During the Golden Age of Islam in the seventh and eighth centuries, Muhammad's armies swept out from the Arabian Peninsula, annexing territory from Spain to Persia. In the process, we might say, they also annexed the works of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and other Greek thinkers. As a result, the Arab world had a rich tradition of commentary on the Greek philosophers long before Europe did. In college history courses, we often learn that the Renaissance was sparked by the recovery of ancient classical writings. But we rarely learn that it was Muslim philosophers who had preserved those texts and who reintroduced them to the West.”
“Neo-Platonism became a strong influence on Islamic thought. Today several leading Muslim philosophers have embraced perennial philosophy, with its merging of Western and Eastern pantheism. In fact, the early proponents of this philosophy, who were Europeans, all ended up converting to Islam! (Prominent European proponents of perennial philosophy who converted to Islam include Rene Guenon, Fritjol Schuon, and Martin Lings. Today the best-known Muslim proponent of perennial philosophy is Sayyed Hossien Nasr.) To complete the circle, the man who launched perennial philosophy (a Frenchman named Rene Guenon) believed there was actually a common core uniting all three: neo-Platonism in the West, Hinduism in the East, and Islam in the Middle East.”

Carvalho and Islamic Esotericism

Besides recommending Guénon, Carvalho also recommended esoteric Muslim Seyyed Hossein Nasr. He said in his personal website,
“Read, for example, ‘Knowledge and the Sacred’ or ‘Man and Nature’ by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, who was the minister of culture in Iran in the time of Reza Pahlevi. Books like these bring back to us, in the reflow of a historic tide launched by a big lie, truths that were betrayed and forgotten in the process’ beginning. ‘Ex Oriente lux’: the light coming from East. It should be of little importance that it has been brought smuggled in the baggage of thieves, genocidal murders and Stalinists. This is not enough to eclipse it. Today, dependent on it is largely the reconquest of the Western ideals forsaken by the immanentist culture of the last two centuries.”
Carvalho has always felt comfortable with Islamic studies. His personal website also says:
“For a time, [Olavo de Carvalho] devoted himself to Islamic studies — learned Arabic and recites the Koran passages — and won an award in Saudi Arabia in 1985 for a 200-page book (unpublished) about Muhammad, wherein he used knowledge of medieval symbolics to interpret episodes from the life of the prophet. He practices Christianity, but he says he would be comfortable to profess Islam. This is because, in his view, Christianity, Islam and Judaism have basically the same goal. The existence of God is to Olavo the supreme obviousness, the founding basis of everything.”
In 2016, Carvalho bragged that the only serious effort to understand the communist strategy in Latin America was the Ibn Khaldun Study Group, in the honor of an Arab Muslim. This secretive group was created by Carvalho in 2003. Can an anti-Marxist strategy that at the same time pays homage to Muslims have a Catholic appearance?
Guénon is very rarely mentioned in the evangelical literature because the penetration of this occultist among evangelicals is non-existent. He is unknown. But it seems that among Catholics the reverse is happening.
Guénon has been known in Brazil just by evangelicals who follow Carvalho, who is also influencing them through other esotericists, including Mario Ferreira. Carvalho said,
“Very good that people get interested in the writings of the ‘Traditionalist School,’ but everything René Guénon, Titus Burckhardt and ‘tutti quanti’ wrote about the symbolism of numbers — the essential language of all esotericism — is just a kindergarten’s play when compared to what Mário Ferreira dos Santos did in ‘Pitágoras e o Tema do Número’ (Pythagoras and the Subject of Number) and especially ‘A Sabedoria das Leis Eternas’ (The Wisdom of Eternal Laws) and additional works of the series ‘Mathesis.’”
“A valuable document I have in my files (now kept in storage) is Mário Ferreira dos Santos’ horoscope.”

Olavism’s Effects

And what is the effect of all this esoteric weight on Carvalho’s adherents?
A Brazilian Catholic priest said recently in his Facebook:
Excerpts from a text on Olavo de Carvalho by one of his students. This shows very well that the cult of personality had advanced…
“All these symbols are valid and true, but the many times we Olavo de Carvalho’s students employ them only shows how hard is still, how complicated is still, to describe the greatness of the personality of this man — our literature and our language have not reached Olavo de Carvalho and, possibly, will delay. This is the reason I cannot write about Olavo; so, it is better to preserve the unspeakable experience of the personality of this man than running the risk to achieve a distorted definition of what we are not still able to describe literally.”
“No one is the same individual after knowing Olavo de Carvalho, because no one can be the same when facing a visible, palpable, flesh and blood Reality, which smokes and swears — a person and not only an abstract concept or a tavern’s bald thinker.”
This is a result of sheer propaganda. And Carvalho and his team are investing much in more propaganda, and their latest effort is “The Garden of Afflictions” (whose Portuguese original is “Jardim das Aflições”), which is not a documentary with a critical vision, but a propaganda movie about the life of an esoteric leader who transformed his large experience in esotericism into a political movement. Conveniently, the movie does not show that Carvalho founded and headed the first organization of astrology in Brazil and that he founded and headed the first Brazilian school of astrologers.
Long before he used his seductive skill to draw philosophy students, he drew astrology students.
Even though Carvalho does not label himself a messiah, he has received, from his adherents, the same treatment and money Rev. Moon used to receive from his own adherents. He is the supreme spiritual leader for them. It is not easy to exit his movement. An evangelical psychologist said recently in his Facebook:
“Even today I am in the process of spiritual recovery, Olavism went so far as to destroy almost my whole spiritual life and drew away most my old friends. I had become a religious evangelical and intolerant over minimal dissent. Now I am in the process of recovery, and God has opened doors in several areas to me after I left his tenet and intellectual influence on me. It was not easy, but I have successfully largely extricated me from it. Two incredible things: God only opened doors for me when I renounced Olavism. In every minute I hear the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking kindly to my heart: ‘Make an apology to the people you disparaged and hurt.’ My friend, the list is huge, but I have already begun to make apologies.”
“This is what happens to all people who are influenced and blinded by Olavism; they become intolerable.”

Esoteric Anti-Marxism: Occultist Traditionalism and Conservatism

Long before his involvement with anti-Marxist discourse, Carvalho was already involved with the Traditionalist School, which blends esotericism with anti-Marxist discourse. The Traditionalist School was founded by Guénon to promote an esoteric conservatism against Marxism. So it is easy to understand why Carvalho said to his followers: “Very good that people get interested in the writings of the ‘Traditionalist School.’” His anti-Marxism is based on this esoteric school.
Carvalho is not the only example of an esotericist becoming an anti-Marxist activist. New Zealander author Trevor Loudon also is an esotericist and an anti-Marxist activist, and very anti-Russian, as every neocon is. Esoteric Loudon has praised Carvalho.
Carvalho is known for a stridently anti-Russian geopolitical view. In Brazil, his geopolitical view is seen as original. But in America, any conservative would recognize it as a neocon view. Carvalho is probably the first Brazilian neocon and Brazilian Catholic conservatives are having for the first time contact with the U.S. neocon worldview through him. Yet, if his “philosophical” stridency were reserved only to Russians, he would never say that U.S. Protestants who oppose the Inquisition are worse than communists.
If an anti-Marxist discourse were synonymous of conservatism, Hitler, who was an esoteric Catholic, would have been one of the most prominent conservatives in the world. In fact, he had an incredible anti-Marxist discourse. Check here: http://bit.ly/1KlZBjp

A Foul-Mouthed Conservatism?

Even though he feels comfortable with his esoteric history, Carvalho sometimes demonstrates not to feel comfortable with the label “conservative.” He said,
“So when I am introduced as a ‘conservative philosopher,’ the only answer coming to my mind is: ‘Conservative is ‘puta que o pariu’ (an offensive Brazilian expletive which means “son of a bitch” or “fucking hell,” but the real translation is: “a prostitute who gave birth”), who preserved you in her belly for nine months instead of dropping you in the toilet.’”
Carvalho said to his Brazilian audience in Facebook that the big disadvantage of U.S. conservatives is that they do not use filthy language. He said,
“In the U.S. only the Left utters profanity. This is enough to explain why U.S. conservatives, even when they are the majority, are always disadvantaged.”
Foul language is very natural for Communists and Satanists, but not for real Christians.
“After someone is raped, he/she can find some retroactive consolation in the idea that a cock had always been his/her secret wish.”
Carvalho’s hope, as a Brazilian immigrant in the U.S., is to change the U.S. conservative culture to accept filthy language as a tool to advance conservatism. He hopes also to deliver America from the “myth” of the Inquisition.

What then draws Carvalho to the U.S.?

What then draws Carvalho to the U.S. is not evangelicals, whose propaganda against the bloody Inquisition is lying and abominable to him. It is not the Jews, who always agreed with the propaganda of his U.S. evangelical friends and partners.
And it is not U.S. Catholics who follow the pope, because Carvalho’s public wish is to kick out with his own feet Pope Francis from the Vatican.
“Bergoglio should be kicked out with our feet from Peter’s throne as soon as possible.”
Like attracts like. Evangelical attracts evangelical. Catholic attracts Catholic. And esotericist attracts esotericist. What draws me to the U.S. is its evangelical tradition. But if I were Catholic, I would want to live in Italy, near the Vatican, or in the largest Catholic nation in the world, Brazil. If I were an esotericist, I would feel comfortable in the largest Masonic nation in the world. And if I were Carvalho, I would feel comfortable with the ancient esoteric and Masonic tradition of the U.S., excellently exposed by Thomas Horn.
Esotericism, including Freemasonry, becomes all in everyone, obtaining any suitable appearance and mask. In June 2015, Carvalho stated publicly,
“I have not the least difficulty to think as a communist, a fascist, a militant atheist, a Masonic Grand-Master, an occultist or anyone else.”
Esotericism infiltrates, deceives and turns its victims into blind spiritual slaves at its service. Such is the Masonic reality of the U.S. Such is Carvalho’s esoteric reality.
Esotericism deceives and uses deceived individuals to deceive. Carvalho created an esoteric movement with a conservative appearance.
But some are seeing the truth. Former Carvalho’s students produced a documentary titled “Adubando o Jardim das Aflições” containing abundant alleged evidences of his esotericism. The full documentary in Portuguese (accessible in English by YouTube’s automatic translation) is in this link: https://youtu.be/_suLdFqZlSI
Sometimes, Carvalho tries to portray himself as a good sorcerer. In 2016, he said, “My lifetime dream was to be like the magician Merlin of ‘Excalibur’: a dream for some, a nightmare for others. It has been fulfilled.” In movies, there is an imaginary distinction between good and evil witchcraft. There are good and evil sorcerers. Yet, in real life, there is no such distinction, and the Christian worldview accurately and realistically sees all witchcraft as intrinsically evil.

A Strident Advocacy of the Inquisition Does Not Make Carvalho a Genuine Catholic

Some want to see Carvalho as a “Catholic” who, with his propaganda of the Inquisition’s revisionism, is bringing a Catholic “revival” in Brazil. But a revival based on the Inquisition’s advocacy? A Catholic pro-life leader explained to me:
The Inquisition appeared only in the 1200s. For twelve centuries, the Catholic Church did not dare to defend the Catholic Faith through forceful ways. In 385, when Emperor Maximo condemned heretic Priscillian to death, Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan, by the general agreement of almost all bishops of his time, condemned capital punishment as contrary to the Gospel’s gentleness. In 866, Pope Nicholas I, consulted by the King of Bulgaria on if the king could use force to convert the heathen in his kingdom, answered that “God loves spontaneous homage, because if he wished to use force, no one could resist his omnipotence.”
It is from the coexistence with Muslims that the idea appears of a coercive tribunal of inquisition, which condemns unrepentant heretics to be burned and tarnishes the Catholic Church’s history with a shameful stain. It is from Muslims that Catholics also learned the idea of “holy war.”
The Catholic Church, through official statements from the last popes, has already recognized that the Inquisition was “inconsistent with the Gospel’s gentleness” (to quote Saint Ambrose’s words). Carvalho’s advocacy of the Inquisition, in my humble view, intends to kill two birds with one stone:
1) To get right-wing Catholics accustomed to a kind of bloody and violent religiosity, more proper to Mohammad’s adherents than to Christ’s followers (it is enough to observe how Carvalho’s adherents behave belligerently, especially against those who dare to contest their master, just as Muslims do when defending their masters).
2) Just as in the case of a supposed excommunication of communists, the Inquisition’s advocacy demoralizes the Catholic hierarchy’s spiritual authority, which is portrayed by Carvalho as an irrational institution that makes apology for things it made and that, moreover, for something righteous, beautiful and good.
When I denounce Carvalho in the Catholic Church, most answer me that he “converts” many people to Catholicism. I stress that it is a very odd Catholicism, at best, because no one can be a Catholic without hierarchy.

Catholic Cuba Was More Oppressed Than Communist Cuba

The advocacy of a pro-Inquisition Catholicism does not seem that it will produce better results than Marxism. It is enough to look at Cuba’s example. In just two years, between 1896 and 1897, the government of Spain detained over a third of Cuba’s population in concentration camps. Over 225,000 died from starvation, exposure and yellow fever. This radical Spain, formerly an absolute champion of the Catholic Inquisition, was predominantly Catholic. Hardly you can say that the Catholic Spanish rule in Cuba was better than Fidel Castro’s communism.
Catholic Cuba was saved from the cruel Catholic Spain champion of the Inquisition by the U.S., which in that time had a population with an overwhelmingly Protestant majority, accused by Carvalho of propagandists of a myth and legend of the Catholic Inquisition, as if the bloody Spain had not any willingness to use the Inquisition as a killing machine and as if the Catholic Spain were unable to commit mass murders.
We should pray very much for the U.S., chosen by “illuminated” esoteric spirits to lead the hegemonic world government, highly exemplified by the United Nations, whose headquarters is in the U.S. and whose foundation happened thanks to ancient Masonic “prophecies” and to the ambitious U.S. globalist project of Masonic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
And we Brazilians should pray very much for Carvalho, who even though labeling himself a Catholic, has much affinity with those deceiving spirits and their false wisdom. He is a passionate advocate of the neocon and Masonic nature of the U.S., but he is a major hater of the U.S. Protestant history.
With information from American Minute of Bill Federer.
Portuguese version of this article: O que atrai Olavo de Carvalho aos Estados Unidos?
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