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 It all must have started with the first college of Theology. In establishing a university institution where faith themes are studied and there’s no room for doubt, the doors are open to all kinds of schemes and scams. Surfacing in Brazil, like mushrooms after the rain, confessional schools.
I commented, last year, the Education Ministry’s authorization of FTU, the Umbanda (a popular Afro-Brazilian religion) Theology College. Well – I said at the time – if Christians have their theology, why shouldn’t animist African cults have? The question is opportune, but has issues.
The Christian God, besides being the only one, has as biography one of the most ancient books. The Africans, besides being many, need more biographical evidences and supporting bibliography. Much digging into documentation out of nowhere will be necessary, in order to well define Ogun, Oxóssi, Iemanjá, Exu, old black men, Indians, caboclos, gypsies.
Soon we’ll have doctors in Umbanda Theology and, why not, Theology Colleges on Candomblé. If Europeans created science out of what does not exist, theology, why can’t Africans come up with another scientology out of nothing?
As if this wholesale of religious cult were not enough, the “Arautos do Evangelho” (Gospel Heralds) inaugurated last month their first school, in Cotia, in São Paulo metropolitan area.
In case anyone isn’t familiar with the sect, let me clarify: they are the fanatics that walk around wearing black and red cassocks, small military boots, iron chains, and chimed belts.
They claim to be conservative Catholics – as if that were not a tautology – and are dissidents from the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, the famous TFP, which congregates those stern, unsmiling, suited-up grown men who believe in Mary’s virginity. They already have representation in 50 countries.
Because as the twig is bent, so grows the tree, the Heralds invested in the field of education. “Our objective is to raise youngsters with self-discipline and morals, with the Heralds’ charisma,” declares the school’s principal, Marcos Antônio Gagliardi Cascino.
“The Heralds’ charisma urges - beyond the act of prayer and attending one mass a month - lessons in behavior, respect, and the rescue of ethical, moral, and spiritual values. Let’s be clear: ethical, moral, and spiritual values here stand for Christianity’s historical refuse.
The school’s capacity, with eleven buildings, is 1,500 students. In 2006 they may open up for middle education as well. In religion classes, in line with top Bushist ideology, creationism will be taught.
Were these madrassases not enough, which aim at extinguishing any weak moment of independent reasoning, the MST (Landless Movement) has just inaugurated in Guararema (in the state of São Paulo) a school of politics, the National School Florestan Fernandes, hoping to educate militants in the fields of politics and sociology.
Translated to good English: a school on Marxism that aims to create segments capable of invading properties, of breaking up the nation’s agricultural structure, and of installing among us a regime that went wayward last century, not before carrying dozens of countries into misery.
The school cost US$ 1.3 million and was banked by a European Union’s social fund, the MST itself, and the Christian NGOs Caritas, from Germany, and Frères Dês Hommes, from France.
Which only proves the theory that I’m always repeating: Europeans love socialist regimes, as long as they are far from them. And European Catholics, instead of combating ideologies that lead countries into poverty, very coherently encourage such ideologies, so that countries emerge, where they, Catholics, can practice this inebriating virtue - charity.
The school’s name is emblematic. It honors one of the most backward thinking professors of USP (University of São Paulo), seen as a great revolutionary scholar by widows – today decrepit – of communism.
Not by chance, it was USP the major force of the totalitarian doctrine’s dissemination in the country. Old trees don’t stoop, they crack. As long as these ill-smelling cadavers still have voice, Brazil will continue to skate around “forever in splendid cradle” (words from the national anthem).
The Catholic guerilla now has school, professors, curriculum grid, and regular classes. And their tutoring masters: Marx, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Frei Betto, etc. To salute the nativity of the new madrassas, USP’s ancient mummy was invoked – Marxist, Professor Antonio Cândido.
On top of establishing a guerilla school in the country, current Education Minister, an implausible double of a Jew and Maoist, Tarso Fernando Hertz Genro, wants by all means to validate the medical diploma of forty graduating students from Cuba’s ELAM (Latin-American School of Medicine), not bothered by the demands imposed to graduating students from any other nation.
In other words, if a professional gets his/her degree in Paris, London, or New York, he/she will have to undergo a series of exams and even take some courses over again in order to have his studies validated in Brazil.
Cuba will receive different treatment, if it goes according to the Maoist minister. The general practitioners – for that is what Cuba prepares – will be able to arrive in Brazil and start practicing like a doctor educated here, without passing any examination, for such – seemingly – is the excellence of Cuba’s medical courses.
We already have quotas for blacks, bugres (native Indians), and recruits from public schools. Now comes one more, quotas for Cuba.
Not satisfied with the creation of a Cuban quota, to Castro’s island are sent only those appointed by the MST (Landless Movement), PC do B (Communist Party of Brazil), and PT (Workers Party).
That is, if you want to be a doctor, you must be from the Left and be recommended by communist organizations that still remain in control of the country. Or else, good luck at the college entrance exams, like all other poor devils.
The sad truth is that our nation already is infested with general practitioners educated in Cuba, practicing medicine irregularly among us. Why are they tolerated? Because they are Cubans, of course. It would not be surprising if the godchildren of the left, recently arrived from Cuba, cried out the vested rights theory.
The devious formula to bypass the college entrance exam and other requisites to practice medicine is in advanced stages of labor at the President’s official quarters. For the Maoist minister, it’s a question of honor to qualify the general practitioners. Will they pass? If they pass, this nation will have lost any trace of shame. Which would not amaze me.
A representative from the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the National Commission of Medical Residency, Doctor Flávio José Mombru Job, resigned from the post recently, in protest against the shenanigans. Reserves of shame we still have. What remains to be seen is if they will prevail.
Janer Cristaldo—he holds a PhD from University of Paris, Sorbonne—is an author, translator, lawyer, philosopher and journalist and lives in São Paulo. His e-mail address is janercr@terra.com.br.
Translated from the Portuguese by Eduardo Assumpção de Queiroz. He is a freelance translator, with a degree in Business and almost 20 years of experience working in the fields of economics, communications, social and political sciences, and sports. He lives in São Paulo, Brazil. His email: eaqus@terra.com.br.
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