Myth of "beloved medium" from Chico Xavier is a mainstream media hoax

MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE, BRAZILIAN BUSINESSMAN ROBERTO MARINHO, CHICO XAVIER AND MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTÁ - WHEN RELIGION IS USED TO ALIENATE PEOPLE.

Some people outside Brazil could be heard about the late Roberto Marinho, famous brazilian businessman, owner of the powerful Globo Organizations, corporate group that includes the O Globo newspaper, the popular Globo TV Network and the hard news channel Globo News.

Roberto Marinho supported the brazilian dictatorship and the military government helped the businessman so much, increasing money and support to the Globo Organizations growth.

Currently, three of Roberto's four sons (one of them, Paulo Roberto Marinho, passed away so young), João Roberto, José Roberto and Roberto Irineu, control the company left by their dad.

A documentary called Beyond Citizen Kane, written and directed by the late british filmmaker Simon Hartog, released in 1993, shows the dark side of Globo Organizations.

The comparison from Roberto Marinho as a "brazilian Citizen Kane" refers to the character of actor and director Orson Welles, Charles Foster Kane, based from the life of the media businessman William Handolph Hearst. Kane was the title character from Welles' 1941 movie.

And what relation can have Roberto Marinho to the alleged medium Francisco Candido Xavier, aka Chico Xavier?

So much things. And there was different relationships between Globo and Chico Xavier.

In first, between the middle 1930s to early 1950s, Globo Organization (which has composed by O Globo newspaper and Radio Globo AM station) saw Chico Xavier as an exotic paranormal.

From the middle 1950s to the end of sixties, Globo has influenced by orthodox catholics that had O Globo's columnists, as Alceu Amoroso Lima and Gustavo Corção, and manifested repudiation to Chico Xavier, seeing him as an excentric mystifying man.

In true, Chico Xavier was also an orthodox catholic, but his alleged paranormality - manifest in childhood when the little boy kept conversations to his dead mom's spirit - made the Catholic Church from his birth town, Pedro Leopoldo (then a Santa Luzia's discrit) at Minas Gerais, refuse him.

Chico was excommunicated after his nephew, Amauri Xavier, scandal, after the former Chico's pupil decided to reveal frauds from his uncle and the FEB and Minas Gerais spiritist federation's staff.

Amauri died misteriously in 1961, being uncomplete 28 years-old. He was allegedly only an alcohol addicted, but he died strangely young to a person tipically being just alcoholic. There's no information that Amauri used drugs. He maybe could be died by poisoning.

Globo got to publish the information that Chico Xavier was definitvely unmasked by his nephew, giving an impression that the farse was ended.

Chico Xavier's followers and supporters refused it and made to go forward the sweetened image from the "beloved medium" that involves him.

Some years passed and Globo, in the mid-1970s, adopted Chico Xavier with the aim of competing to pentecostal TV preachers like R. R. Soares (Ronildo Ribeiro Soares) and Edir Macedo.

Soares, bishop from Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus, and Edir, bishop from Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, rented TV hours to produce shows of religious preaches.

Currently, Edir Macedo is the owner of traditional TV network Record TV . Record is one of the remaining first TV stations appeared in the 1950s.

Globo Organizations supports a catholic religious choice. But the corporation, which adopts a secular position, can't assume the religious option, avoiding the rivals reactions.

Brazilian Spiritists is a generic of Catholic Church and the Chico Xavier's religion inherited the medieval catholic values, due to the jesuit heritage hosted by brasilian spiritists since priest Manuel da Nobrega, renamed Emmanuel as Chico Xavier's mentor.

The advantage from Brazilian Spiritism is that this religion has not an ostensive appearance nor ritualistic shows like the Catholicism.

Its houses don't show spectacular architecture and art ornaments like the catholic churchs. Brazilian spiritism has the smart aspect of pretending to be humble, modest and simple.

Globo found the way of being religious seeming so secular. And Chico Xavier was made to be ecumenical, a good strategy to run ahead the pentecostal TV preachers.

And Globo got the same script the british journalist, catholic and right-wing activist and presenter Malcolm Muggeridge, provided for Mother Teresa of Calcutta in documentary and book both called Something Beautiful for God (film from 1969 and book from 1971).

There's a spectacular myth of pretense philanthropist, associated to the charity of low results, comforting the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.

There's a pretense charity which benefactor obtains too much protagonism that causes extreme idolatry, while poor people were assisted in a mediocre way.

Chico Xavier and Mother Teresa are very compared to each other and the Calcutta's alleged phylanthropist is adopted by Brazilian Spiritism as one of favourite religious idols.

Chico Xavier was a reationary and fake-texts writer, but he became the most adored religious idol, because his sweetened image worked by media and the FEB institution during decades.

It was an organized and well-planned marketing work, and Chico Xavier forged a pretended unanimity, served to seduce even left-wing activists and atheist and scepticals.

But it's a perfect hoax, in Brazil marked by the less-informated people and recognized as the third ignorant nation of the world. Nation where people prefer to go deep into emotional blindness and refuse to clarify their minds with uncomfortable trues.

Ignorant people is weak to fall to the temptation of religious idolatry, including threacherous personas like Chico Xavier.