Nonpartisan School and the conservative lessons of Emmanuel

RICARDO VELEZ RODRIGUEZ, FUTURE MINISTER OF EDUCATION OF JAIR BOLSONARO'S GOVERNMENT - A FOLLOWER OF EMMANUEL, MENTOR OF CHICO XAVIER?

Brazilian Spiritism is a very conservative religion.

Unfortunately, few people are not afraid to recognize it.

But the practice of the brazilian religion popularized by Francisco Candido Xavier reportedly distanced too long from the original Spiritism's instructions.

The main principles from Chico Xavier's legacy, based to Theology of Suffering and expressed by quotes like "suffer in silence, without complaining", are confirmedly conservative.

No relativism can prove the opposite. "Suffer in silence and not complain" is not a progressive concept.

The Brazil that made Chico Xavier the pretense saint, through the status of "spirit of light", is the same country that made Jair Bolsonaro a political leader.

The inclination of lost of brazilians to glorify arrivists is so worrisome and that's the heat of the moment increased by social media's addicted uses and the fake news wave in those digital spots.

Chico Xavier made fake literature, writing, under assistance of other writers from FEB staff, and he's glorified in the fake news strongholds in WhatsApp, Facebook, Youtube and other social media servers.

Chico Xavier's conservative ideas had clearly expressed by his own words in his books and on a famous interview at Pinga Fogo show aired by Tupi Television, in 1971.

Chico Xavier's mentor, jesuit priest Manuel da Nobrega, very known by the Brazil's colonial history and renamed Emmanuel, was also a very conservative educator.

Brazilian spiritists believe that Emmanuel is reincarnated in a younger boy probably born in the late 1990s, in the Sao Paulo's interior zones and became an aspiring educator.

The alleged Chico Xavier's prophecies mentioned that a great educator will rise to take brazilian people to develop fraternity and high religious values, being the reincarnated Emmanuel.

But it's a myth, and Emmanuel was a very conservative spirit, expressing sexist conceptions in the book O Consolador (The Comforter), published in 1941:

"The feminist ideology from the modern times, however, with several political and social flags, can be a poison to the woman unadvised about her great spiritual duties in the face of Earth. If there's an authentic feminism, it can be for the reeducation of woman to home, never for an counter-producted action out there. That's because the female problems can't be solved by the male codes, but only under the tender and divine light of the Gospel".

There's a concept appropriate to the machism, and it is enough to prove how conservative Emmanuel still means, centuries after his jesuit times in Brazil's colonial age.

But Emmanuel brought his homofobic sight, in other book, Vida e Sexo (Life and Sex), published in 1970, at the peak of the hippie movement and after Counterculture years:

"The man that abused from his genetical abilities, ruining other people's existances with the destruction of constructive marriages and several homes, is, in the various cases, inducted to take new position, at the physical rebirth, in a female shape body, learning, in a prison regiment, to readjust his own feelings, similarly happening to the woman who acted in the same way".

That's other homofobic way, and so very conservative because the idea of "prison regiment" is very punitive, nearly to the Jean-Baptiste Roustaing's ideas from The Four Gospels, primary source to Chico Xavier's books.

Chico Xavier said that the gay community (currently LGBTQ community) "deserves so much respect by society", but he treated the gay choice as a "spiritual disease".

It's not a generous demonstration of tolerance gave by Chico Xavier to the gay society, but a subtle demonstration of homophobia, expressed by his soft comments.

Emmanuel and Chico Xavier were associated to phrases that claimed to people "never questionate" and "never complain against misfortunes in life".

They should be, surely, against the discuss of gender ideology in the schools. Chico and Emmanuel consider that the Education is only to teach and learn to reading, writing, working a job and having a religious faith.

It says so much to the pedagogical project defended by Jair Bolsonaro, a former Army's captain who had the same conservative roots of Chico Xavier.

This project, called Escola Sem Partido (Nonpartisan School), was originally created by attorney Miguel Najib and supported by politician and evangelican pastor Magno Malta, Jair Bolsonaro's friend and follower.

The Nonpartisan School is considered a brazilian form of Macarthism, a campaign to denunciate alleged communists in the USA, leaded by Republican Party's senator, Joseph McCarthy.

Nonpartisan School is a pedagogical pattern that reduces the Education to a simplist process to teach to read, to write and to work, but not to think and discuss the reality issues in life.

In the same way, Nonpartisan School can only teach the Family conservative values, the same ones that we can see easily on Chico Xavier's books and testimonies.

Emmanuel anticipated the job reforms from Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro's governments ("reforma trabalhista"), recommending: "Don't complain, keep working and pray".

The Chico Xavier's mentor condemned the discuss about reality. His only principle is to work, to serve anyone by any condition - even if such conditions were largest journey of work under low remuneration - and the only solution to the sufferance is to pray in silence in a lonely place.

Jair Bolsonaro named the colombian-born teacher Ricardo Velez Rodriguez to be the minister of Education. Velez Rodriguez is committed to the Nonpartisan School's principles.

Velez Rodriguez worked in the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.

Juiz de Fora is the city that Bolsonaro was stabbed by a misterious opposite, during a walk campaign during the presidential run.

The Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) is known to have a Nucleus of Health and Spirituality, a spot of Chico Xavier's followers and pretense researchers about his activities.

In the approach to the "limit-date" of 2019, the pedagogical project predicted by Chico Xavier about Emmanuel's reincarnated mission is, surely, the Nonpartisan School.

The joint of conservative ideas of Bolsonaro and Xavier proves that the Brazilian Spiritism is very tuned to the far-right brazilian project, despite the ingenuous sights of left-wing activists about the alleged medium from Pedro Leopoldo and Uberaba cities.

Behind the comfortable myth of pretense pacifist and philanthropist, Chico Xavier always were the very conservative person, at a level of calm-minded verson to conservative thinker Olavo de Carvalho, who indicated Velez Rodriguez to be Bolsonaro's minister.

Chico Xavier was conservative by his social roots, his catholical (medieval) education, his family tradiction and other reasons. There's no reason to consider him a progressist personality.

Progressist people must to learn too much about Chico Xavier's conservative profile. It's shocking and not pleasant, but it's realistic and logical.