Showing posts with label neo-Pentecostal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neo-Pentecostal. Show all posts

Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Gender Ideology Professor


Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Gender Ideology Professor

By Julio Severo
Brazilian news website UOL, in its section of child issues, addressed the gender ideology in the report titled “Nome neutro não basta para uma criação sem estereótipo de gênero, mas ajuda” (A Neuter Name Is Not Enough for an Upbringing Without Gender Stereotype, But It is Helpful).
The title opens no room for doubt that, for the homosexual militancy, to develop names’ neutrality for children is a first, insufficient step, by acknowledging a need for a broader fight. The article was also published by the Patrícia Galvão Institute, a Brazilian institution notorious for its pro-abortion advocacy.
The first paragraph in the text is excessively sentimental and clearly seeks to seduce readers, by saying: “Mica is a two-year old child and only the caregivers, as the biological parents prefer to be addressed, and the child know his sex. One day, Mica wears a pink flounced dress and, in the other day, he wears a blue Bermuda shorts. Except for the appearance, even his name does not betray his birth gender, because [the caregivers] chose a name sounding neuter.”
The child, who suffered the imposition of a neuter name, was called Mica, by parents who prefer equally the neuter names “caregivers,” instead of parents.
By the imposition of confused parents, the child is adapted and indoctrinated to greater sexual confusions, including regarding sex roles.
UOL also presents another couple who was ideologically indoctrinated into imposing sexual neutrality on their small son. The mother says, “Every day, when he goes to school, I need to talk to him again on how boy’s and girl’s toys do not exist. There are only children’s toys.”
Perhaps the worst part in the report was the official seal from a professor in the most important Calvinist university in Brazil.
According to UOL, Marcelo Moreira Neumann, a professor of psychology at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, in São Paulo, Brazil, and one of the authors of the study “Homophobic Bullying and School Performance,” said that neutrality in the registry would effectively facilitate the lives of people not identifying themselves with their birth gender.
“The individual would not have to go through a juridical process if he is a transgender and he would not face shameful situations regarding his name,” said the specialist.
A neutrality in the registry would effectively facilitate the homosexual activism’ objectives.
Neumann’s sheer presence as professor at a Protestant university is a sign of victory for homosexual militants and defeat for evangelicals, who should evangelize, not hire, propagandists of the gender ideology.
When Neumann chose the designation in the UOL report of “Mackenzie professor,” he fatally compromised the institution, which, because it is openly confessional (Mackenzie PRESBYTERIAN University), chose to hire a professor who is a gender agenda militant. The case is not that he deserves to be fired from Mackenzie. He never deserved to be hired.
The hired individual is not to blame. The contractor, which has poorly chosen its job applicants, is to blame.
Actually, Mackenzie has a big name in Brazil, and this name has been flaunted by pro-abortion, Marxist and homosexualist professors advocating their ideological evils.
What is fascinating is that Mackenzie, with all its Calvinist confession, and Calvinist leaders who have decision power to stop all this mess, are very fast and sharp to attack the conservative growth produced by neo-Pentecostals in Brazil, as reported recently by the Islamic news website Al Jazeera, where a Mackenzie professor criticized the neo-Pentecostal growth leading the Brazilian politics to the Right. But they have not the same power against real threats in their own institution.
What expect from a Calvinist institution that puts to shame the Christian witness with professors who attack conservatism, praise the gender ideology, abortion and Marxism?
Portuguese version of this article: O Mackenzie e seu professor de ideologia de gênero
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Victory of Marcelo Crivella for Rio Mayor Astonishes Conservatives in Brazil


Victory of Marcelo Crivella for Rio Mayor Astonishes Conservatives in Brazil

By Julio Severo
Being used to the shamefully pro-abortion stances of Bishop Edir Macedo, the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), it was a big surprise, for me and other Brazilian pro-life leaders, to see the candidate for Rio de Janeiro mayor, Marcelo Crivella, delivering a speech after his election Sunday honoring the constituents who chose him. Crivella is a Macedo’s relative and a former UCKG bishop.
Marcelo Crivella
In a Facebook vídeo, Crivella said that the constituents’ choice of him was a “No” to abortion, a “No” to drug liberation and a “No” to gender ideology. This public acknowledgement was very important, because elected candidates today have no interest in citizens’ concerns. Crivella, even being a moderate socialist, had this concern.
In fact, the rival candidate promised to promote the abortion, drug and gender ideology. He was a radical socialist.
To bring to a good end, Crivella prayed the Lord’s Prayer with Catholics, evangelicals and people of other religions, not without firstly showing his gratitude to Pastor Silas Malafaia, the Catholic Church, Apostle Valdomiro Santiago of God’s Power World Church and International Grace Church, of R. R. Soares, for their support.
A moderate socialist, who esteems Christian values and respects citizens’ pro-life and pro-family will is much more necessary and important than atheistic socialists who run over the people’s will and despise God’s will.
The socialist or Marxist ideology, when handled by non-Christians, produces death. When handled by an evangelical as Martin Luther King (who was a Social Gospel adherent), produces apparently good social results, with consequences hard to measure, but never blatantly lethal as a total atheistic socialism.
This does not make the socialist ideology good, but the Gospel always mitigates socialism’s malignancy.
My will was for Rio and the whole Brazil to have real Christian conservatives ruling, but if God wanted a moderate socialist who respects Christian values, we should praise Him. At least, he is more open for dialogue than a stubborn atheistic socialist candidate.
A conservative tsunami is sweeping Brazil. According to the British newspaper Financial Times, “Brazil’s Evangelicals Push Politics to the Right.”
Financial Times said that the massive evangelical growth in Brazil is producing a swerve to the Right. The victory of Marcelo Crivella for Rio mayor is its evidence. The swerve to the Right is benefitting evangelical candidates as Crivella, who were not much conservative, but the swerve is producing miracles.
The swerve has everything to do with neo-Pentecostals. “Christian Century” magazine said, “Neo-Pentecostals have led the evangelical boom and have uniquely contributed to the development of an evangelical political ideology.”
In his speech of victory, Crivella began very well and very humble. May God help him to remain so. Brazil needs such courage. If he remains so, he easily reaches Brazil’s presidency.
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Financial Times: Brazil’s Evangelicals Push Politics to the Right


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

By Julio Severo
A recent report from the British newspaper Financial Times (FT) accurately said that Brazil’s evangelicals are pushing politics to the right, but it used an inaccurate example: Marcelo Crivella.
FT said, “An evangelical missionary in Africa for several years, Brazilian senator Marcelo Crivella once described Catholics and other Christian denominations as demonic and condemned homosexuality as a terrible evil. Such opinions — outlined in his book documenting his time in Africa — would raise eyebrows coming from any politician. But Mr Crivella, a gospel singer from Brazil’s evangelical Universal church, is the overwhelming favourite to become the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, one of the Americas’ most racially and socially diverse cities.”
FT then says, “His imminent victory in second-round elections on 30 October reflects the emergence of an evangelical bloc that is driving Brazilian politics to the right, analysts say, and is set to become more powerful and influential.”
Even though Crivella is being helped by the emergence of a powerful Brazilian right energized by evangelicals and their pro-family activism, he and his church have stances hardly resembling conservative or right-wing stances. In the Brazilian Senate floor in 2007, then Senator Crivella boldly said, “The Gospel is the most communist handbook that exists.”
In communist ideas, he does not represent most Brazilian evangelicals, who are conservative, even though most Catholic bishops would agree with him. And the Brazilian evangelical Right does not represent him.   
He is a relative of Bishop Edir Macedo, the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG). Macedo has been notorious for his opposition to pro-life causes, conservatives and the gift of prophecy. In his 2007 official biography, he said, “I support abortion, yes. The Bible also does it… A woman needs to have the right to choose.”
Crivella’s history includes his role as a UCKG bishop.
When the socialist administration of impeached President Dilma Rousseff wanted to pass a anti-“homophobia” bill that would endanger religious freedom in Brazil, Crivella did not know if he should side with his socialist ally Rousseff or conservative evangelicals.
Even so, the Financial Times, pretending impartiality, presented the opposing view of Jean Wyllys, the only openly gay member of the Brazilian Congress who is a lawmaker from the leftist Socialism and Liberty party. In the FT report, Wyllys, who supports homosexual indoctrination of children and their annihilation through legal abortion, is quoted as saying: “It’s not enough for them to evangelise — they also want to influence the law.”
In Wyllys’ view, only his homosexual activism should direct laws. Christians should be banned.
FT acknowledges that the evangelical bloc, represented especially by the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus, is an influential power in the Brazilian Congress and that “it played a key role in the impeachment of leftist former president Dilma Rousseff.” In an April report titled “President’s Impeachment Shows Growing Evangelical Power in Brazil,” CBN had also acknowledged it.
FT says that in the 513-seat lower house, the House of Representatives, evangelical politicians form the “evangelical bloc,” accounting for a total of 199 seats.
FT said that the impeachment itself was led by one of the Congress’ most prominent evangelical leaders, Eduardo Cunha, then house speaker, previously known for championing bills against the gay agenda and abortion. Yet, FT reminds that he was arrested in relation to a corruption scandal at Petrobras, the state-owned oil company — a scandal that has engulfed the most powerful Brazilian socialists who were involved in larger corruption cases.
“The rise of evangelical politicians reflects in part demographic changes in Brazil. While still home to the world’s largest population of Catholics, the last Brazilian census in 2010 showed that evangelical churchgoers had risen to 22.2 per cent of the population from 15.4 per cent a decade earlier,” said FT.
U.S. magazine Christian Century seems to agree with FT by saying, “Some of the most vocal politicians in favor of the impeachment were evangelical leaders. In 2010, 44 million Brazilians, or about 22 percent of the entire population, identified themselves as evangelical or Protestant, and that growth has led to political influence. Neo-Pentecostals have led the evangelical boom and have uniquely contributed to the development of an evangelical political ideology.”
“Their growing influence is causing some concern,” said the Islamic news site Al Jazeera.
“The growth in evangelical Christianity is taking place without a deep discussion of the values enshrined in our historical character,” said Rogerio Baptistini, of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, a mixed liberal and conservative Calvinist institution that does not accept the neo-Pentecostal growth.
“We are an open and tolerant society, but this sudden growth threatens rationality,” added Baptistini, according to Al Jazeera.
If Marcelo Crivella would depend on communism, which he praised, to be the next mayor of Rio de Janeiro, he would surely lose votes from most evangelicals. But he is facing a more radical socialist opponent. FT says, “In Rio de Janeiro, better known for its city beaches crowded with scantily clad bathers than its deeply Catholic Portuguese past, polls suggest that Mr Crivella is leading with 46 per cent support, compared with 29 per cent for his rival, leftist candidate Marcelo Freixo.”
FT said, “Mr Crivella has sought to distance himself from his more extreme statements. In his book, first published in 1999, Mr Crivella wrote that… public health could be improved by expelling the demons that caused disease. He said African religions were based on ‘evil spirits,’ a controversial claim in Brazil, where half of the population has some African blood.”
Even though half of the Brazilian population has some African blood, FT infers that there is an automatic obligation to portray and label blacks as members of African religions. Most Pentecostal churches in Brazil, including the Assemblies of God, which is the largest Brazilian evangelical denomination, have a membership and leadership of many blacks and people who have African blood.
“Mr Crivella has apologised profusely for what he wrote, saying the book was the work of a young missionary, ‘whose immature seal led him to commit this lamentable error.’ The book was published when he was 42. ‘I love Catholics, spiritualists, evangelicals, everyone. If I have on any occasion caused offence, I ask for pardon. The same in relation to homosexuality,’ he said,” according to the Financial Times.
Yet, Crivella has never apologized for praising communism, even though his candidacy is being propelled by conservative evangelicals who hate communism.
Will the emergence of a powerful Brazilian evangelical conservatism push Crivella to the right?
With information from the Financial Times, Christian Century and Al Jazeera.
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