Has Obama failed to advance leftism in America?

By Julio Severo

Roberto Unger, a prominent Brazilian politician and an adviser to Obama in 2008, said that “President Obama must be defeated in the coming election” because “he has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States,” according to a Daily Mail report.

Roberto Unger: Obama “failed” in the progressive cause

He also said that, “despite their fierce rivalry, the Democrats’ agenda is little different to that of the Republicans”.

In this point, he just confirmed my suspicion: the leftist agenda was advanced in different degrees, by Democrats and Republicans, throughout the world through the US government. (Of course, Ronald Reagan is a notable exception.)

Daily Mail said that “Mr. Unger is a renowned politician in his native Brazil. He has twice run for president of Brazil… Unger was one of the founding members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party”.

With his impressive credentials as a professor at Harvard Law since 1976, “he has also advised on politics throughout Latin America.” Has his advice failed to help advance the progressive cause in this region? In any case, Latin America is becoming a Union of Latin American Socialist Republics.

He has taught law with a progressive bias for more than 35 years, and has no one in America noticed? Other prominent Brazilian Marxists, including Fernando Henrique Cardoso, have also been professors in prominent American universities.

Harvard, established in 1636, was named after Puritan minister John Harvard (1607–38), who bequeathed to the school his books and half of his estate. Although never formally affiliated with a church, Harvard primarily trained Protestant ministers. Today, although never formally avowing Marxism, Harvard primarily trains leftists…

If the original intent of Harvard’s Pilgrim founders were implemented, Unger would have gotten the boot. If Unger’s original intent were implemented, Obama would get the boot for being a “weak” progressive. As for the Pilgrims, Unger would have expelled them from Harvard and America because they were not progressive at all!

Mr. Unger’s most famous student was Barack Obama, who attended Harvard Law School in 1988. He studied jurisprudence and the art of “reinventing democracy.”

Obama has indeed reinvented the de facto leftist democracy built up over for decades by Democrats and Republicans, but this is not enough for Professor Unger, who is a respected author having published dozens of books on economics, philosophy and politics.

In his view, Obama “has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.” Apparently Unger expects his students to establish “democratic” governments in the model of the Soviet Union!

In Unger’s thinking, Stalin should no doubt have been defeated because he “failed” to advance the communist cause in Russia, and Hitler “failed” to advance Nazi ideology in Germany…

Unger reminds me of Anglican Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti, founder of the Progressive Evangelical Movement, a NGO composed of leftist Protestant militants in Brazil. Cavalvanti was a member of the socialist Workers’ Party, founded by former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva. It is the ruling party in Brazil today. Cavalcanti left this party because, in his view, it betrayed socialism!

I just wonder why Cavalcanti failed to get a professor’s chair in Harvard to teach Obama and others.

If America had followed the intent of her Christian founders, she would never have had an Unger in Harvard or an Obama in the White House. Harvard would keep training ministers, not leftists. The White House would stop being a house of horrors advocating internationally sodomy and abortion. And Reagans would be the rule, not the exception.

Portuguese version of this article: Obama fracassou em avançar o esquerdismo nos EUA?

Spanish version of this article: Fracasó Obama en hacer avanzar el izquierdismo en Estados Unidos?

Source: Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

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Brazilian Marxist Anglican Bishop Killed by Adopted Son

Brazilian Marxist Bishop Killed by Adopted Son

By Julio Severo

The Anglican bishop for Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco was killed along with his wife by their son.

Edward Robinson Cavalcanti, 68, and his 64-year-old wife Miriam were stabbed to death on Sunday, February 26, in their home in the city of Olinda.

After killing his parents, Eduardo Olímpio Cotias Cavalcanti, 29, tried to commit suicide by drinking poison, and was hospitalized.

His father frequently wrote and preached diatribes against the United States as a “white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, conservative” nation. Yet, strangely, he visited the US regularly. And when his son was 16 years old, he sent him to study and live in the US.

Police inspector Joao Brito Alves told the Globo television network that he had learned that the son had a “violent temper and was frequently under the influence of drugs.”

Cavalcanti headed the Philosophy and Human Sciences Department of the Federal University of Pernambuco. He was a columnist in the leftist Calvinist magazine Ultimato. He was also the founder of Movimento Evangélico Progressista (Progressive Evangelical Movement), a NGO composed of leftist Protestant militants in Brazil. Today the Progressive Evangelical Movement has changed its name for “Evangelicals for Social Justice”.

In the past, Cavalcanti was an active member of the socialist Workers’ Party, of Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, who even visited him. The Anglican bishop said that he left the Workers’ Party because, in his view, the party softened its socialist speech:

Since 1997, I am no longer a member of the Workers’ Party, because I was elected as an Anglican bishop. I have positive memoirs of my past of fights for the democratic State, for national sovereignty and for social justice. I also have increasingly negative perceptions of the ideological and programmatic rupture of that party. (Ultimato magazine, September/October 2004)

His diatribes against American conservatives consistently plagued his articles and sermons for years.

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Rev. Fernando Saburido, said Cavalcanti’s death was a “loss for Christianity.”

“He was sensitive to social issues and concerned with problems that affected the poor,” Saburido told G1, Globo TV’s Internet portal. “He will be sorely missed.”

Saburido is best known in Brazil as a liberal Catholic. In 2011, the Catholic university under his responsibility hosted a symposium on “homoaffective law” that gave advocates of the homosexual agenda a platform for promoting their ideology.

In the same year, the archbishop also led a march under the banner, “The Cry of the Excluded” (Grito dos Excluídos), in which pro-abortion, homosexualist, and socialist organizations had freely participated. 

The killing of Cavalcanti shocked progressive evangelicals in Brazil.

With information of The Huffington Post, an American leftist website that has also lamented his loss.

Source: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Robinson Cavalcanti: always a Socialist, never a conservative

Robinson Cavalcanti: always a Socialist, never a conservative

Edson Camargo

Anglican bishop Robinson Cavalcanti, one of the most prominent leftists in the Brazilian Protestant church, has been mistakenly taken as a conservative. A light approach, in the tone of his speech, to the conservative ideals was enough to get one of his articles published in a major conservative website in Brazil. But not only Brazilians were misled. In the United States, something similar happened. Therefore, here is a warning: no, gentlemen, Anglican bishop Robinson Cavalcanti is not a conservative. He is and has always been a socialist.

Cavalcanti has certainly noticed that he has been taken as a conservative, because of his article against homosexuality, but until now he has made no statement to undo such misunderstanding. Could he be acting strategically? Presumably so.

A former politician militant of PT (Workers’ Party, founded by socialist president Lula), a pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality party allied with Latin American leftist terrorist groups like Colombian FARC and Sendero Luminoso in the Foro de São Paulo, Cavalcanti, who is also a political scientist, was the mentor and founder of MEP (Movimento Evangélico Progressista — Progressist Evangelical Movement), a NGO composed of leftist Christian militants. He has said that he left PT because he was elected as an Anglican bishop and also because, in his view, the party softened its socialist speech:

Since 1997, I am no longer a member of the Workers’ Party, because I was elected as an Anglican bishop. I have positive memoirs of my past of fights for the democratic State, for national sovereignty and for social justice. I also have increasingly negative perceptions of the ideological and programmatic rupture of that party. (Ultimato magazine, September/October 2004)

During the Lula’s reelection campaign in 2006, in the same sense, Cavalcanti wrote:

After wearing out me traveling throughout Brazil in the 1989 and 1994 electoral campaigns, I am surprised by Lula’s admission: “I have never been a leftist… As middle-class public official, college professor, retired, democratic socialist and evangelical socialist, I had no more reason to vote for Lula. (Ultimato magazine, January/February 2006)

It is worth to stress that Robinson Cavalcanti is not a conservative even in theological terms. He is one of the major references in Brazil when the subject is Integral Mission Theology, a Protestant version of the Liberation Theology, through which socialist militants transformed thousands of Latin American parishes in mere think-tanks of the political subversion. The worsening of the gayzist agitprop has left Cavalcanti alarmed, but even so he did not abandon the socialist ideenkleid. Openly, he has not done it. And even if he did so, those who know the history of communism know that after the public rejection of his old and vile ideals, a former militant should be under attentive observation. In the case of Cavalcanti, such attention is unnecessary, for he has not denied anything of what is in his books, articles and speeches, in which he merges and associates socialism and Christianity.

Robinson Cavalcanti’s theology, and some of his positions regarding the family and sexuality, also affront not only conservatism, but also the historical Christianity. On monogamy, he affirms:

The ideal exists, but its historical manifestation may hurt other so many divine ideals: sanity, love, faith, because monogamy can be, in many cases, just arithmetic (1+1) and no qualitative. The maintenance of others divine ideals has led, in turn, to the need of non-monogamic models that make possible the preservation and the promotion of those other values and ideas against the historical and short-run impossibility of the simultaneity of all the values (for example, Israel in the Old Testament). (E-book Libertação e Sexualidade [Liberation and Sexuality, pages 71 and 72)

Of course, he overlooks the biblical passage where Jesus Christ restates to Pharisees the irrevocable divine commandment: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his [one] wife: and they shall be one flesh. He also makes no mention of the pattern of Apostle Paul for bishops and deacons: husbands of one woman.

On the contrary, Cavalcanti’ concern is merely igualitarian, and it results in the assumption that God established impossible patterns of behavior which could not be lived throughout the History:

Is the divine ideal, from Eden, monogamic marriages? Yes, but for everybody. In other words, the requirement of that absolute model would be historically legitimate if, concomitantly, there were objective conditions so that everybody might enjoy it, leaving no one marriageless, just as, equally, the ideal couple in the Eden. It would not be theologically correct, or ethically honest, to require an aspect without taking into account the totality of the Creation order. (Liberation and Sexuality, page 72)

Here it is obvious the transposition of the “democratic socialist” mindset of Cavalcanti to the theological sphere, with all its spiritually and morally disastrous consequences. “It is not a sin only if everybody has a right to it”. But nothing supports that communistic reasoning in the Scriptures. “The social manifestations of sin, the perversions, as wars, epidemics, illnesses, accidents, inequalities and prejudices have made impossible the other side of that ideal”, the bishop declares in the following paragraph — as if the presence of sin in the world was able to relativize the divine commandment, the only source where one can understand the notion of sin itself. The irrationality of the assertion borders ridiculous.

That is the true and known Robinson Cavalcanti, although making good criticisms against the gay dictatorship (which, actually, he helped to build, for he always insisted that evangelical Brazilians had to support leftist candidates) and acknowledging that, ultimately, truth and absolute justice are in God’s hands. This is not enough to make him a conservative. In other words: he is an individual that makes compromises to ideologies, to the increasingly larger state interventionism and to the relativizing of spiritual and moral values. Cavalcanti is one additional example of those Christians that were influenced by the secular mindset in many of his positions.

A reprimand is left to the authentic conservatives: more attention, more discernment and more historical knowledge are necessary. Don’t believe immediately in any assertion of doubtful source, no matter how much it resembles the conservative postulates. The history of the world revolutionary movement is marked by hate and perversion disguised as charity and moral zeal. The left has no interest in speech, provided it is able to herd militants and sow the Gnostic and revolutionary urges in the soul of its listeners, with one objective: the revolution, the “new order”. Let us be attentive.

Translated by Julio Severo: juliosevero@gmail.com

Portuguese version: Robinson Cavalcanti: sempre socialista, nunca conservador

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