I saw one today video where Pastor Paschoal Piragine Jr, president of the First Baptist Church of Curitiba, in one of his services, spoke about the 2010 elections. In his speech, Paschoal says that the People of God have to be careful about who they vote in these elections and for that , says that the Church has to know what iniquity is and comparing it to sin and saying that the people we vote for are the ones who will vote in the legislative houses for what he calls the “institutionalization of iniquity”.
Well then. To begin with, Pastor Piragine is mistaken with the meaning of inequity, which in a broad sense is the lack of equity. Equity, according to Aurélio, is “Willingness to equally recognize the rights of each person; Set of immutable principles of justice that induce the judge to adopt a criterion of moderation and equality, even to the detriment of objective law; Feeling of justice contrary to rigorous and strictly legal criteria of judgment or treatment; Equality, righteousness, equanimity.”
Pastor Paschoal calls on the People of God to join “the churches” in what he called a “crusade”. When thinking about what the Crusades were, the so-called “Holy Wars”, where many people died because the medieval Catholic Church fought against all people who did not pray according to its booklet – or Bible, whatever you want; My most restless question is: why haven't the churches also come together to combat pedophilia, which increasingly occurs within the churches themselves (evangelical and Catholic) and, unlike homosexuality, is considered a sexual deviation by the World Health Organization? – WHO? In fact, the same church has been trying to divert the focus from the pedophilia scandal by blaming homosexuality, by attributing it to homosexual practices. This is not only a lie, but every day it is proving to be sophistry. Cases of boys abused by priests and other ecclesiastical authorities are more frequently publicized than those of girls. Does anyone venture to try to say why? Being simplistic, I would say machismo, but I believe that this hole goes far beyond the lower abdomen...
In fact, machismo is a practice that the church itself is definitely in favor of. Let's see. Leviticus, the third book of the Old Testament, is one of those that condemns homosexuality, calling it an abomination, and also orders the Christian people to keep the Sabbath; that does not touch dead pig skin; admits the purchase and sale of slaves; indicates that adulteresses be stoned. In the same Bible there is no repeal of these “laws”, but have the churches stoned those who do not comply with them? In the New Testament, the apostle Paul orders women to be silent in the Church, for the woman to be submissive to her husband, to wear a veil in church... do women in the denominations that make up this “Crusade” observe these prohibitions? Are those who are pastors, singers, deacons and bishops not disobeying the “Law”? Apparently, for the Church, ONLY the sexual prescriptions in the Bible are untouchable, irrevocable, unquestionable and non-negotiable.
It is also interesting to hear Pr. Paschoal Piragine Jr demonize the PT (Workers' Party), because it is the only party that recommends that its parliamentarians vote in favor of issues such as the decriminalization of abortion and civil marriage between people of the same sex. , under penalty of expulsion from the Party; It makes me wonder how far free voting hours have come. I will not go into the merits of the campaign, as this is not the objective of this blog. In addition to thinking about intolerance against homosexuals and the way the church treats women, I also think about the mutilation of some children, who undergo mandatory circumcision and undergo this procedure without any anesthetic. Well… I think for most churches the unborn child is more human than the child.
The girl in the video shown by the Pastor at one point says that the People of God have to “take the blindfold off their eyes”. The Bible also says that the People of God should not judge other people and that it is necessary to first remove the plank from one's eye before talking about the speck in another's eye. This is in the gospels:
(Saint Matthew 7,1-5)
Do not judge to not be judged.
For with the judgment with which you judge you will be judged, and with the measure with which you have measured it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and do not consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself have a plank in yours?
Hypocritical! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
(Saint Luke 6,41-42)
Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, and do not consider the plank that is in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you do not understand the beam that is in your own eye? Hypocritical! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
I can only think that, word for word, long live the Federal Constitution which says that all people are equal before the law. Long live the principle of equality! Long live the secular state, which is the Rule of Law that has governed Brazil (or at least should) since the Proclamation of the Republic, back in 1889, which denotes how much this thinking can be even more retrograde in the most literal sense of the word , meaning a new “inquisitorial order”, which is to persecute everyone who does not follow the same sacrosanct bible.
