There Is Nothing More Anti-Christian Than Andre Fallada’s Hate Speech – 7/5/2023

I had to go through the glass door to understand what it was like on the other side.

In the little town, where I was visiting some relatives, I accompanied my mother for a walk through the shops on the lane, near the square and Igrija Matriz, when in the distance I saw the boys leaving the school.

As a group, they yelled insults at the store, where a boy a little older than me was attending to my mother. He was the object of ridicule.

The boys shouted: “Fagot”, imitating female voices.

The employee explained that every day was like this.

I had to be on that side to understand what he felt, a mixture of shame and fear of what these kids might do when they grow up.

If I lived there and attended that school, I would probably be in that class, never knowing what goes on inside that shop.

Yeah, even then I was just hanging around outside doing similar, if not worse, things as if I needed to act this way to get the respect of the “guys” at school (read: not get spanked).

I don’t remember how old I was. fifteen? sixteen?

I did not completely get rid of the prejudices in which I was immersed since birth. Sometimes these prejudices arise, and the life of an adult did not rid me of them. Especially when I tell my son he needs to “raise the man” at the slightest sign of weakness.

But I never forgot that episode. Show me how homophobic hurts, even when it seems like a joke, the kind everyone plays to prove they’re a man.

I left this shop without any doubt, the son of a catechist and brought up in the Church, on what side Christ would be if he lived among us. My mother also had no doubts.

The Gospel of Matthew, chapter 11, verse 28 says: “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

I never stopped praying for this boy or for all his friends who one day had to flee their native land to escape being stoned by those who judged them to be sick or sinful.

For as long as I can remember, I don’t remember a single moment when I heard the word “hate” during a celebration. on the contrary. I grew up hearing that God is love.

and that we have, below, a duty to love. Because love comes from God and everything that loves is born of God. The Song, quoting 1 John 4, says: “He who does not love does not know God.”

This is why the words of a religious leader, during a mass held in Orlando, USA, insinuating that evangelicals should kill LGBT people, sound so preposterous.

Induction isn’t even covered. André Valadão says, in Pedestrian Logic, that “the door” opened when society came to tolerate and normalize same-sex marriage. This door, he said, has now led to men and women “walking around naked with their genitals” in front of children at LGBTIGA+ performances. (A scene, of course, only exists in the priest’s head.)

“This door was opened when we treated what the Bible condemns as normal,” he said, before arguing that it was time to “restore the strings.”

In Valadao’s words, God has a deal with humanity and cannot “reset” what He created, as promised in His alliance with the people, who are symbolized by the rainbow.

But Valadao guarantees that if God could, “he would kill and start over.” But since she can’t, the message is now with you – in this case, the faithful. As if facing an army, he said, “Let’s go upstairs. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

The incitement is clear and has been analyzed before Federal Public Prosecution As well as deputies and disavow famous people.

As a coward, Valadao said his statement was taken out of context and he blamed the mainstream media for the repercussions of his speech.

The priest stressed that “murder” in this case does not refer to the extermination of people. He just wanted to say that “it is up to us to bring humans to a principle of what God’s will is” – in this case, killing those who strike terror in us, we can hear it more than once, just to be sure.

Criticism and a clear desire for punishment is all Valadao needs to put himself in the shoes of a “martyr” after his defense of violence.

Make no mistake: there is no more anti-Christian rhetoric than that of a pastor when referring to a social group already sufficiently stoned for the false morality that Christ himself fought against.

It was, after all, the one who discouraged the guards of his day from throwing stones at a woman deemed “wrong”.

In the Bible, one of the only places Jesus shows anger is when he sees what the usurers are doing in the Temple. Other than that, it is clear in his message that we should love each other, without any asterisks and with fine print distinctions at the bottom of the page about anyone.

On his Instagram profile, pastor and theologian Hermes Carvalho Fernandez was blunt when he said that phrases like Valadão actually encourage parents to kick gay children out of the home and friends to sever ties. For Jesus, this is also murder.

Fernandez calls “messengers of Satan” those who “continue to spread hatred against a vulnerable minority, pit parents against children and children against parents, and incite violence, prejudice and discrimination.”

He concluded by saying, “Jesus, get away from this filth.”

As I said, also in his networks friend and pastor Ranieri Costa, collaborator of UOLThe lesson of the episode is that we should not listen to those who hate to use God’s name. “There is not a single LGTBQIAPN+ person whom God would not love deeply,” he wrote.

It is a lesson (should be) essential, but it must be repeated every time many false prophets appear, deceive and mislead many people in this world of persecution, multiply evil and cool love, as described in Matthew chapter 24.

I don’t know Valadao or its nature. But I can’t watch her perform nor imagine that she’s the opposite of everything she taught me, including at home, about God and about love.