Martin Niemöller, the anti-Nazi Lutheran minister who warned how Christians should speak out when people are persecuted. But how valid was his advice?

By Julio Severo

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a German Lutheran theologian and minister who criticized Nazism and was imprisoned by Nazis in 1937. He is more known for his famous declaration:

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.”

By “they,” he meant Nazis, who came after socialists, trade unionists and Jews. All these groups were basically socialists in Germany. Trade unionists are mostly socialists, and one example is former Brazilian socialist president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, who has a history as a trade unionist. And the Jewish preference for socialism has been a historical fact.

So what Niemöller meant was: Nazis were persecuting socialists.

What he meant is that many Germans did not care if Nazis were persecuting, imprisoning and killing socialists, trade unionists and Jews. But such indifference, as he pointed, would eventually bring persecution to Christians.

The Encyclopedia Britannica says about Niemöller:

“As founder and a leading member of the Bekennende Kirche [Confessing Church] within the larger Evangelical Church (Lutheran and Reformed) of Germany, Niemöller was influential in building opposition to Adolf Hitler's efforts to bring the German churches under control of the Nazis and the so-called German Christians. The resistance of the Confessing Church was openly declared and solidified at its Synod of Barmen in 1934. Niemöller continued to preach throughout Germany and in 1937 was arrested by Hitler’s secret police, the Gestapo. Eventually sent to the concentration camps at Sachsenhausen and then Dachau, he was moved in 1945 to the Tirol in Austria, where Allied forces freed him at the end of World War II. He helped rebuild the Evangelical Church in Germany.”

From his experience seeing Nazis persecuting, imprisoning and killing socialists, trade unionists and Jews, Niemöller understood that Christians could not be indifferent when such groups are persecuted.

Visitors stand in front of the quotation from Martin Niemöller that is on display in the Permanent Exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

He is seen as a good Christian example. His name and especially his famous declaration “First they came…” stand permanently in the Holocaust Museum in the United States. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, his declaration was also said in stronger terms than socialists:

“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist…”

So it is no wonder that Niemöller received in 1967the Lenin Peace Prize, the Soviet Union’s equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize. And from 1961 to 1968, he was president of the World Council of Churches, a socialist Protestant organization.

He was courageous for speaking out against Nazism, but because he saw the extremism of an anti-socialist and anti-communist political system, he fell into the polarization trap, and he chose the other extremism. Even so, his famous declaration “First they came…” is used today by left-wingers and right-wingers.

His declaration dispels confusion today among those who did not live in that time and try to see Nazism as a socialist movement. In fact, both Nazism and Italian fascism, which are identified by Jews as right-wing movements, received inspiration from a famous right-wing writer, Julius Evola, who was the guru of Benito Mussolini.

Francisco Franco, the dictator in Spain and one of the most prominent right-wing leaders in Europe in that time, received military assistance from Nazism in Germany. The Encyclopedia Britannica says that the main influence in his life was that he was “close to his mother, a pious and conservative upper middle-class Roman Catholic.”

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Franco, who followed the military career, was so intelligent that “In 1915 he became the youngest captain in the Spanish army” and “In May 1935 he was appointed chief of the Spanish army's general staff.”

The Encyclopedia Britannica also says Franco’s support was “derived mainly from the antileftist middle classes” and that he was “one of the world’s leading anticommunist statesmen.”

Modern right-wing readers just do not understand how Nazis militarily helped Franco and his anticommunism.

The problem with Nazism is that it was inspired by occultism, and Evola was also an occultist. And occultism always brings confusion.

One of these confusions was a very brief treaty between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939. Even though this treaty lasted less than six months, often it is used as an “evidence” that both were two kinds of socialism. Yet, if such short-lived union to the Soviet Union is an evidence that Nazi Germany was socialist, what would the same critics say about the U.S.-Soviet alliance, which lasted from 1941 to 1945 during the World War 2, for much more time than the short Soviet-Nazi alliance did?

And because the Soviet Union fought against Nazism, the U.S. put the Soviet Union in the foundation of the United Nations. This is the polarization trap.

You fall into the polarization trap only when you do not understand that there were higher forces operating in Germany. These forces were occultist, with its many pitfalls of confusion.

Martin Niemöller was unable to understand the political and spiritual tensions of this trap and these pitfalls.

And today people do not care if Niemöller had embraced socialism. For them what matters is that he embraced anti-Nazism, which was an anti-socialist and anti-communist system, as Niemöller saw with his own eyes.

What did Niemöller miss that he did not understand that socialism was so destructive as Nazism? He lacked the anointing of the Holy Spirit and his supernatural gifts, which could have helped him see realities he was unable to see with his human eyes.

He embraced socialism because he saw the horror that socialists in Germany suffered from Nazis. But he never saw that socialists in the Soviet Union committed the same and bigger horrors.

So Niemöller’s famous declaration is spiritually wrong. Christians have no calling to defend communists and socialists. And they should be careful with groups using extreme anti-communism as a flag. Such flag was used in the past by groups, including Nazis and fascists, which got inspiration from Evola. The same flag is used today by groups with the same occult inspiration.

The calling of Christians is to preach the Gospel to communists, socialists, Nazis, right-wingers and left-wingers. Every sinner needs to hear the Gospel.

While you are busy with the preaching of the Gospel and are open to the Holy Spirit and his gifts, you will never fall into the polarization trap and occult pitfalls in this polarization.

Portuguese version of this article: Martin Niemöller, o pastor luterano anti-nazista que alertou como os cristãos precisam abrir a boca quando as pessoas são perseguidas. Mas até que ponto o conselho dele é válido?

Source: Last Days Watchman

Recommended Reading:

Nazism: Nationalism and Socialism at the Service of Occultism

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that Nazism was a left-wing movement after he visited the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. But the museum, which is a memorial of the Jewish victims of Nazism, says that Nazism was a right-wing movement. What about now?

Jewish Perspective: Hitler and Socialism

Hitler’s Strident Anti-Marxism

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

Billy Graham and The Forgotten Factor in the Overthrow of Soviet Communism

Rev. Larry Christenson, a Charismatic Lutheran Pioneer

Enemies Within the Church: Are People Influenced by Occultism Instigating Strident Anti-Marxism Among Evangelicals?

Occult Ties and Anti-Marxist Activism Among Christians

By Julio Severo

Marxism is satanic, a reality that no Christian who truly loves the Bible and Jesus Christ doubts. So an anti-Marxist flag draws especially evangelicals today for conservative action in the cultural wars.

Many would conclude that only God would use such flag, so that whenever it is used, conservative Christians listen to the call to fight Marxism. But not always is this so. Satan has also used this flag for his own conveniences.

While left-wingers and right-wingers hotly debate if Hitler was a left-winger or right-winger, in his book “Hitler’s Cross: How the Cross of Christ was used to promote the Nazi agenda” (Moody Press, 1995), Erwin Lutzer argues the case that Hitler was an eminently occult man who was nominally Catholic. He also highlights the anti-Marxist component in Hitler’s message.

Lutzer said,

“Many churchmen were duped. Father Falkan, a Catholic parish priest, said, ‘I must admit that I was glad to see the Nazis come to power, because at that time I felt that Hitler as a Catholic was a Godfearing individual who could battle communism for the Church … the anti-Semitism of the Nazis, as well as their anti-Marxism, appealed to the church.’”

Most victims of Hitler were Jews who were predominantly Marxist, and even today Jews, who predominantly identify themselves as Marxist, usually identify Hitler as an anti-Marxist right-winger. See one of Hitler’s speeches against Marxism that drew Catholic and Lutheran Germans in 1933: https://youtu.be/o_B7LJIV4l8

You can also read my article: Hitler’s Strident Anti-Marxism.

So not always anti-Marxism has a Christian base. Sometimes it can have a dubious base hiding an occult background. And what does the Bible say about dubious things? “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:22 AV)

Trevor Loudon, a prominent anti-Marxist, has produced, in a partnership with a Protestant church, the movie “Enemies Within the Church” to warn Christian leaders and churches. The problem, in my view, is that his background, experience and ties are not Christian, or Christian only in the appearance. Loudon himself said, “I have studied at Z.A.P. from 1976 to 1982, 1986/7 and 1999 to current. I am enjoying my studies immensely at the moment and plan to continue indefinitely.”

Zenith Applied Philosophy (ZAP) is a combination of Scientology, Eastern mysticism and the ideas of the American John Birch Society. The result of this combination is anti-communist esotericism. The John Birch Society does not seem to pose risk, but definitely Scientology and Eastern mysticism are a spiritual risk, in the Christian perspective.

I take occultism very seriously. In fact, I do not see occultism as less threatening than Marxism, because God’s Word takes occultism very seriously. And as this term implies, occultism often has dark, hidden and evil realities. People can often have a Catholic appearance and sometimes a Protestant appearance, but they have an occult involvement, an occult influence.

A common method of Loudon is to show that if certain person exposed by him has ties with Marxists, then he is a Marxist too. According to him, as an incriminating factor, the ties of a person are an evidence of his real nature. I agree with him. If this can be applied to Marxism, why not also to occultism?

By using the same methodology of Loudon, cannot I pinpoint that his own ties with occultists are an evidence of his occult nature?

It is fascinating that instead of recognizing that he was involved in Z.A.P., Loudon said that he is “studying it” — for many years. He attended ZAP meetings with Ian Brackenbury Channell, known as The Wizard of New Zealand.

Another occultist who says that he “studied” occultism is Olavo Carvalho, when his background shows very clearly that he founded astrology schools and gave classes on astrology for years in Brazil and he has several books on astrology, alchemy and occultism in Portuguese. (See more about Carvalho on Conservapedia.) They obviously think that the use of “study” is savorier than involvement. So both employ the method of treating “involvement” with the innocent-sound word “study.” In fact, Loudon is connected to Carvalho through the Inter-American Institute (IAI), where he is a member. Are they “studying” together?

Although Carvalho, who has been a self-exiled Brazilian immigrant in the U.S. for 15 years, says that he founded IAI, the real founder is John Haskins, a former Calvinist who has abandoned (and attacked) all Protestant churches for considering them “apostate.”

If there is confusion about who founded IAI, there is much more confusion about the true ideology of Carvalho. If Americans were able to read Portuguese, they would see Carvalho saying very clearly that he is not a conservative, right-wing and left-wing Brazilian. More confusion than this only Hitler, who is accused simultaneously of being a right-winger and left-winger. The reality is that occultists live and speak in a state of confusion and they provoke confusion and chaos.

I am very admired that Loudon, who is able to research and find any obscure details of Marxists and their English and non-English views has been completely unable to research and find Carvalho’s sordid details in Portuguese.

Carvalho said famously September 2018: “Evangelical churches have done more harm to Brazil than the entire left” — implying that evangelical churches should be fought much more than Marxism is fought. He has also voiced a number of other anti-Protestant remarks. He has reviled evangelicals in spite of the fact that they are the main conservative force behind Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil, and they are beginning to voice criticism because the Bolsonaro administration has given them very little space.

“Enemies Within” let evangelicals gain the victory for Bolsonaro and next used and surfed on the wave of the conservative evangelical victory to proclaim themselves as “savior.”

And what has Loudon done for Carvalho? Loudon’s website has over 1,000 mentions of Carvalho, as recorded by Google. Their ties are not speaking; they are yelling.

If Loudon can connect the dots between two men because of their common Marxist ties, why cannot I connect the dots because of the ties between Loudon and Carvalho? If he is so careful about the ties of the Marxists he exposes, why is he so careless about his own ties?

Even though Carvalho could point to his Protestant adherents as an evidence that he is not anti-Protestant, socialists do the same thing. In fact, even though the Workers’ Party is a Brazilian socialist party that in its pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality stances is anti-Christian, they also point to its many Catholic supporters and few Protestant supporters as an evidence that they are not anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant. Ariovaldo Ramos, the former president of the Brazilian branch of World Vision, is the most prominent Protestant supporter of the Workers’ Party.

In both cases — Carvalho’s and Workers’ Party’s —, their Protestant adherents are an evidence that there are “Enemies Within the Church.”

So Carvalho, who fights Marxism, also fights Protestantism. And Loudon is connected to him. Is this the kind of appearance of evil that we are told to abstain by God?

Jesus also taught us to “watch and pray.” To watch is to observe closely in order to check for dangers, or appearances of evil, or “Enemies Within the Church.”

Jut to pray is not enough. It is necessary also to observe and verify very closely what you are seeing.

Before producing “Enemies Within the Church,” Loudon produced the movie “Enemies Within,” which also featured… Carvalho. In his turn, Carvalho said that Loudon is “by far, the world’s greatest specialist in communist hegemony.”

A “student” of occultism praising another “student” of occultism. Occultists always praise occultists. And Loudon is not the only “student” of occultism who has praised Carvalho. Wolfgang Smith and Steve Bannon have praised him too. Bannon is today persona no grata in the U.S. government after U.S. President Donald Trump expelled him from the White House, calling him an opportunist and leaker of confidential information.

By calling Bannon, who is a Guenonian conservative, an opportunist, Trump defined very well Guenonian conservatives, including Carvalho, who has portrayed himself as the man behind the current conservative wave in Brazil when reality points to evangelicals and their traditional conservatism. In fact, he has trained his adherents to see him as a “savior” against Marxism.

Bannon, Smith and Carvalho share the same background: They were inspired by René Guénon, an Islamic occultist who founded the Traditionalist School to promote esoteric conservatism and fight Marxism. When are they going to say that Guénon also “studied” occultism? Bannon, Smith, Carvalho and Guénon came from the same Catholic background.

I call their influence “Enemies Within the Church” or appearance of evil.

I call Loudon’s ties with Carvalho and his occult background “Enemies Within the Church” or appearance of evil.

But there is a difference. While left-wingers among Christians are honest about their left-wing leanings, occultists among Christians never admit to Christians that they are involved in occultism. They always manage to find an elegant excuse. “Study” is only one of their many subterfuges. If Marxists among Christians are “Enemies Within the Church,” what are occultists among Christians? Secret Enemies Within the Church? Are not they worse than Marxists because they hide their occult nature and use anti-Marxism to portray themselves as better than Marxists?

How can a Protestant church make a partnership with a man with an occult background and involvement to produce the movie “Enemies Within the Church” to warn Christians while they are at the same time ignoring “Enemies Within the Church” in his occult ties?

How can a Protestant church make a partnership with a man with an occult background and involvement without proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God to him and expelling his demons?

How can a Protestant church make a partnership with a man with ties to a Brazilian immigrant who reviles Protestantism and Protestants?

Carvalho is unknown in the U.S., but his anti-Protestant views are very known in Brazil, including his statement: “Protestantism was born from hatred and blood thirst. Its Christian inspiration is ZERO.”

Carvalho not only reviles Protestants in general, but he also reviles and threatens me specifically. See this article: Astrologer Olavo de Carvalho calls for Brazilian Federal Police to investigate Julio Severo on the allegation that accusations against him involving the Inquisition and occultism are collusions paid by the Russian government.

By “Enemies Within the Church” I see Marxism and occultism infiltrated in the Church. I have fought both for years. I fight their Marxist and occult ideologies, but I am always open to help them, because Jesus Christ has empowered every Christian to expel demons from people, even from people who have a Christian appearance, but are involved (“studying”) occultism or Marxism.

Any contact between a Christian and an occultist should be an opportunity for deliverance of the oppressed occultist, not for the occultist to use the church for his activities.

Christians should be spiritually smart in their contacts with occultists, but some are negligent. Over 24 years ago a Presbyterian family invited me for a meeting. All of them, about 7 people, had been born in the Presbyterian Church. I talked to them about what Jesus could do for them through the Holy Spirit and, as I was spiritually guided, I explained about the danger of attending spiritualist places.

There are spiritualist places with large halls in Brazil that are used for spiritualistic mediums to channel their spirits during their religious meetings and also for social events, such as a spiritualistic lecturer addressing the evils of drug abuse. There is nothing wrong about inviting people around the city to hear a lecture against drugs. But the place is a place of demons.

I told just it to the Presbyterians gathered to hear me: A spiritualist place is a place of demons. They said that they rejected mediums and spiritualistic beliefs, but adding that to attend their social meetings against drugs posed absolutely no spiritual risk.

So I challenged them: “Let us give the Lord an opportunity to show what is hidden. Let us pray and He will show.” Next, I asked them to close their eyes and pray. In my audible prayer, I invited the Holy Spirit to make His presence real. Very fast, some of them began to be sick and throw up. They said that they were feeling a bad presence within them.

I explained that the “bad presence” within them was not obviously the Lord. It was what they had received when attending the spiritualistic place, that no one going to these places goes out without receiving something within. I said that the Holy Spirit revealed what was hidden: Demonic influence. They understood. I told them never to attend such places, except for preaching the Gospel, and I proceeded to expel demonic influences from them.

Loudon, Carvalho and Bannon need deliverance. Occultism is not just an intellectual interest that you can choose and next leave. The spirits in it never leave the person who got involved, by interest or not, in occultism. Occultism is not merely a philosophy, it is demonic involvement. With deliverance, they will stop deceive themselves and others by not recognizing that what they are doing is not just “study,” it is demonic involvement.

It is impossible to touch fire without being burned. It is impossible to enter the fire without being seriously burned. Loudon entered the fire. Demons will not leave him until properly expelled and until he receives a proper discipleship.

Jesus spent much time preaching the Gospel, healing the sick and expelling demons. Have you ever wondered that when Jesus was expelling demons, as recorded in the New Testament, He was not doing it to pagan people, but to Jewish people who attended the weekly meetings of Bible reading? There were many pagan people who worshiped demons in Jesus’s time, but He did not expel demons from them. He expelled demons from people who listened the Bible every week — but, certainly, were involved (“studying”) in some serious stuff!

The Jewish meetings were radically conservative and traditionalist. No one of them would support abortion and homosexuality. Never.

If mere nominal attendance in Bible meetings, which are filled with the Bible, but not with the Holy Spirit, can open you to demons, guess what happens when you get involved (“study”) in ZAP or other occult meetings!

Mere religious commitment is not enough to keep demons away or out. It is necessary to be filled with God’s Word and the Holy Spirit.

This is the reason I recommend the book “Power Evangelism,” by John Wimber, published by HarperCollins, to help Christians understand deep spiritual realities and empower them to help oppressed persons.

Occultism, which the Bible calls witchcraft, is worse than Marxism. If you attend a Marxist meeting, you do not become a Marxist. But if you attend just one occult meeting, you never leave without one or more demons and their influence. And if you do it for years, as it is Loudon’s case, there are definitely demons.

Christians should not sanctify occult persons and movements just because they fight Marxism. Rev. Moon and his cult fought Marxism and had close ties to the Republican Party and U.S. conservatives. But they caused extensive spiritual and psychological havoc in countless families. They led people to Hell.

In this perspective, there are “Enemies Within Loudon” and there are “Enemies Within Bannon” and there are “Enemies Within Carvalho” and there are “Enemies Within Rev. Moon’s Cult” and through them and their “conservative” activities in churches, there are “Enemies Within the Church.”

If a church wants to fight Marxism without watching and praying, they will ignore appearances of evil and they will not expel demons from people with an occult background. They will even let such people to lead them in anti-Marxist activism. Is not this also “Enemies Within the Church”?

Occultists and people with occult ties have, for the sake of the anti-Marxist fight, had a free ride among conservative evangelicals. I just saw a friend praising Trevor Loudon. He does an astounding work against the Gospel Coalition, exposing its flirting with the gay agenda. But, for the sake of conservatism, he is unable to see evangelical flirting with occultists or people with occult ties.

I understand his concern over evangelical flirting with the gay agenda. This is the reason I have written an article titled “Ed Shaw, Gospel Coalition and Homosexual Feelings: What They Say and What Jesus Said,” about the Gospel Coalition. And I understand also the dangers of flirting with occultists and people with occult ties. This is the reason I wrote this article.

Expelling demons, within and outside churches, is so important as proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. In fact, this is so important that Jesus spent his time just doing it. To preach the Gospel without expelling demons is not the Gospel at all.

Marxists need such ministry. And anti-Marxists with an occult background also need it.

After all, Jesus came to save Marxists and anti-Marxists. And he came to save left-wingers and right-wingers, whether they have a Christian or occult background.

“Enemies Within the Church” have no chance to fool Christians when Christians are fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit and His Word, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, healing the sick and expelling demons.

Portuguese version of this article: Inimigos dentro da Igreja: pessoas influenciadas pelo ocultismo estão instigando antimarxismo estridente entre evangélicos?

Source: Last Days Watchman

Recommended Reading:

Steve Bannon and Olavo de Carvalho Together: Two Occultists Promoting an Occult “Conservatism”

Steve Bannon’s Occult Movement, Brazil and Conservative Evangelicals

How the Powerful Union of Trump with Evangelicals Saved the U.S. from Steve Bannon and His Occult Plan of a “Traditionalist” Government

Evangelical Leaders Vent Criticism of Brazil’s Bolsonaro Administration for Giving Them Very Little Space

Disgruntled with very few posts in the government, Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus promises to support the Bolsonaro administration only on issues such as abortion and gay agenda

By Julio Severo

Disgruntled with the fact that the Brazilian government has not talked to evangelical leaders and has given very little space for evangelicals in its high-profile posts, the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus, traditionally the most conservative force in the Brazilian Congress, has decided to support the Bolsonaro administration only on ethical issues such as abortion and the gay agenda. Congressmen elected with support from evangelical churches are not sparing President Jair Bolsonaro, whom they helped elect, from public criticism on social networks.

Evangelicals raise their hands in prayer as they listen to a song during a service at the Assembly of God Victory in Christ Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Representative Marco Feliciano (Podemos-SP) used Twitter to send a message: “The communication has been terrible. When the government decides to rule alone, it becomes a giant with muddy feet.”

Representative Sóstenes Cavalcante (DEM-RJ) said that “ideologically, never” the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus will “sabotage the government,” but he warned that “politics is done with dialogue or each one will take care of his tenure.”

Sóstenes, who is connected with Assemblies of God televangelist Silas Malafaia, added sadly: “The (evangelical) caucus never had space, but now it is worse.”

It was for Bolsonaro, who was elected largely by evangelicals — a fact acknowledged even by his socialist political enemy Fernando Haddad —, to give more space to his supporters. But he has not done so. Because his administration has proclaimed itself conservative, it was for him to at least give post to his more conservative supporters, who are just evangelicals.

However, it is not what is happening. If before Bolsonaro, evangelical leaders had little place in the government, now, as Sóstenes has pointed out, they have much less.

To make up for the very few posts he has given to evangelicals in government, some interpret that President Bolsonaro has appealed for another strategy to try to please the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus: the moral discourse. There have been many government speeches showing that the conservative tone will have priority.

Bolsonaro’s effort today to keep evangelicals out of most of his ministries is a contrast with his attitude of seeking evangelical support during his campaign in 2018. He was even baptized by a Pentecostal minister in the Jordan River in Israel in 2016 in a clear political ploy to draw evangelicals. It worked. The U.S., Brazilian and Israeli press credited evangelicals for his victory.

Yet, if evangelicals are not getting the preference to fill the most important positions in the Bolsonaro administration, who is getting them? The two key government posts — Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs — were granted to adherents of the astrologer Olavo de Carvalho, a Brazilian immigrant self-exiled in the United States for 15 years who is known in Brazil for profanity, advocacy of the Inquisition, advocacy of smoking and Guenonian anti-Marxism.

While evangelicals have only one representative in a high-profile government ministry — Dr. Damares Alves, who is a Pentecostal minister and heads the Ministry of Family and Human Rights — olavetes, as the astrologer’s adherents are called, have received far more post to the detriment of evangelicals that elected Bolsonaro.

Olavetes brought with them all their well-known radicalism, including advocates of the Inquisition, who tortured and killed Jews and Protestants. One of these advocates was exposed by me in this recent article: An Undercover Agent of the Inquisition in Brazil’s Ministry of Education?

Such radicalism usually provokes crises, which are only avoided when there are authorities with open eyes. It was no different in that case. Last week, under pressure from the Brazilian military, all the adherents of the astrologer Olavo who had vital and strategic posts in the Ministry of Education were demoted to insignificant posts.

Silvio Grimaldo, an activist directly associated to the astrologer, complained on his Facebook page: “The purge of Olavo de Carvalho’ students from the Ministry of Education is the biggest betrayal within the Bolsonaro administration that has been seen so far.”

He has his reasons for complaining. He held a very high position in the Ministry of Education. He was demoted to a small and useless position and resigned.

However, he has no right to complain as if he and other adherents of the astrologer were owners of the Brazilian government. Who should complain of “betrayal” are evangelicals who were largely forgotten by Bolsonaro and besides not getting important positions, had to watch quietly important posts being delivered to olavetes submissive to an astrologer who advocates the Inquisition and attacks evangelicals.

Olavetes could perhaps speak in betrayal if they had been vital to the election of Bolsonaro. They were not.

Who was vital to Bolsonaro’s election were evangelicals, according to a New York Times report, which cited the name of Pentecostal minister Silas Malafaia as the evangelical leader who led millions of evangelicals to vote for Bolsonaro. But even the name of Malafaia has been little honored in the Bolsonaro administration, which prefers to often glorify the astrologer Olavo. Evangelicals might call it betrayal, but they do not do it.

What evangelical leaders are doing in the face of the obvious “betrayal” is to support the Bolsonaro administration, for the sake of Brazil, only on ethical issues such as abortion and the gay agenda. They will not support Bolsonaro on other political issues precisely because Bolsonaro gave preference to those who were not vital to his election — olavetes — to the detriment of those who were vital to his election — evangelicals.

In contrast, olavetes, as Grimaldo’s outburst showed, are revolted at losing vital positions they did not deserve.

The military who expelled olavetes from the Ministry of Education leadership did a great good to Brazil, because olavism is problematic in all its nature, especially since the source of its anti-Marxism is the Islamic sorcerer René Guénon, who founded the Traditionalist School, to promote a fascist esoteric “conservatism” to fight Marxism. Guenonianism has no shortage of fascism. Guénon’s greatest adherent, Julius Evola, was an advisor to the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and to Nazism itself.

Activists influenced by Guénon cause chaos and confusion wherever they go. One of them passed through the White House and caused chaos and confusion. His name is Steve Bannon, who is now persona non grata in the U.S. government after President Donald Trump drove him out of the White House, calling him an opportunist and leaker of secret information to self-promote. Supported by evangelicals, Protestant Trump managed to get rid of Bannon’s craftiness and opportunism.

Coincidence or not, Bannon and Carvalho are today friends and united to promote their “conservatism,” and they are winning the hearts of Bolsonaro and his sons. Even supported by evangelicals, Bolsonaro and his sons have been unable to get rid of the craftiness and opportunism of Carvalho and Bannon.

Trump identified very well the opportunist and treacherous nature of Bannon, who is an adherent of Guénon and even praised Guénon and Evola at a Vatican conference in 2014. The nature of fascist esoteric “conservatives” is opportunistic and treacherous. This is the nature of Olavo de Carvalho. This is the nature of olavetes.

Yet, this is not the nature of evangelical leaders who worked so hard for the election of Bolsonaro and are now forgotten in vital government positions. The anti-Marxism of evangelical leaders and the evangelical population has no roots in Guénon and his “traditionalism,” a “conservatism” that has much more of esotericism and fascism in its soul than the alleged (syncretic) Catholicism that Bannon, Carvalho, and others Guenonians proclaim.

Evangelicals offered Bolsonaro an anti-Marxism based on the Bible. He largely rejected it.

Carvalho and Bannon offered Bolsonaro and his sons a Guenonian-based anti-Marxism. He largely accepted.

Anti-Marxism with evangelical foundations leads to good results. The United States, the most Protestant and most anti-Marxist nation in the world, is a good example, especially with President Ronald Reagan, who was a Protestant. American evangelical anti-Marxism is the greatest inspiration for Brazilian evangelical anti-Marxism. In fact, American anti-Marxism is traditionally the greatest ally of evangelical churches in Latin America.

Anti-Marxism with occult bases leads to disaster. Hitler, who was an anti-Marxist occultist, is an example.

In the 1960s, the military saved Brazil from communism. This is an undeniable truth. And now, with its pressure to destroy the influence of olavetes in the Ministry of Education, the Brazilian military is saving Brazil from the Guenonian anti-Marxism and its fascist esoteric “conservatism.”

Such a military intervention came in good time because Olavo de Carvalho was so self-assured that the Bolsonaro administration was under his spell that days ago he publicly called for the Federal Police to investigate me under the allegation that my denunciations against him involving the Inquisition and occultism are collusions paid by the Russian government that threaten national security. That is, he tried to use his influence on Bolsonaro to portray me as an enemy of the Brazilian government and to “encourage” the Brazilian State to persecute me.

Like many evangelicals, I voted for Bolsonaro. Like other evangelicals, I am saddened to see how olavetes, who are anti-evangelical opportunists, have won government offices.

Perhaps the necessary intervention of the military is the prayer of evangelicals being answered. With more prayers, Bolsonaro may someday remember evangelicals who supported him, and that the occupation of government posts by Carvalho’s activists is at the expense of evangelicals.

While Grimaldo and other olavetes complain and revolt because they lost posts they have never deserved and treat as “betrayal” their loss of undeserved privileges, fueling chaos and confusion against the government, evangelicals who deserved vital posts and did not win are not slandering the Bolsonaro administration as traitor and are not fueling any chaos and confusion. They are praying for the Brazilian president and will continue doing what they have always done: working against abortion and the gay agenda.

With information from Estadão.

Portuguese version of this article: Líderes evangélicos desabafam críticas ao governo Bolsonaro por lhes dar pouquíssimo espaço

Source: Last Days Watchman

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