Chico Xavier's idolatry reminds a comedy from Monty Python

Brazil has a ridiculous vocation to surrealism.

Recently, people elected a mediocre military during the presidential run.

Brazilians love arrivists? Maybe yes.

Another arrivist became a demigod and so few people can recognise it.

Francisco Candido Xavier, aka Chico Xavier, is officially known as the "major symbol of peace, love, charity and dedication to the poor", like Mother Teresa of Calcutta outside Brazil.

But Chico Xavier had an obscure life trajectory that included creepy details.

He made fake literature that included ambitious books like Parnaso de Alem-Tumulo (Post-Grave's Parnassus) and Brasil, Coração do Mundo, Patria do Evangelho (Brazil, World's Heart, Gospel's Nation), from the pretense "Humberto de Campos / Irmao X" series.

He subscribed attests from the pretext to "authenticate" false materialization's shows.

Those farces were made by models covered by white clothings with paper pictures from dead persons pasted on their heads.

There was also pretense mediums posed with open mouths when medical tapes and cotton and gaze lints were set to their tongues.

Chico Xavier knows about the farces but wrote little attests to say those were "materializations experiences".

Great illusion, big cheat, sad show to deceive any emotionally fragile human soul.

And who really was Chico Xavier?

He was a very conservative dude from a small then district from Santa Luzia's town, from Belo Horizonte's county. This district, Pedro Leopoldo, is now a city with almost-rural structure.

He never was the illuminated demigod or a "loveable humble man" who much people think he was.

He was only a catholic and conservative dude, a minor service provider, a religious blessed who only wants to pray and give devotion to God, Jesus Christ and his devoted saint, Nossa Senhora de Abadia (Holy Lady of Abbey).

He was not really a deep and flexile paranormal, he only talks to the spirit of his mother, Maria João de Deus, who passed away when he was a little child.

The "paranormal mission" is an ambitious plan made by his discoverer and manager, Brazilian Spiritist Federation's president, Antonio Wantuil de Freitas.

With the intentions to sell millions of books, Wantuil made Chico Xavier as a myth of "brazilian medium", in the country that people were not able to know their own lives and, thus, were less able to know about the life after death.

Desinformation by desinformation, Chico Xavier made what he wanted to rise as a religious idol, and use the conveniences to push down obstacles to his ascension.

A nephew, Amauri Xavier Pena, almost denunciated the entire farce, but this boy died strangely so young, with suspects of being poisoned in 1961, after beaten by a three-year humiliation campaign.

Chico Xavier is currently divinized by two ways.

First, he is seem as a "glorified genius of great virtues" and an alleged master and prophet.

Second, he is seem as a "humble man that dedicated to the poor, the sad and the sick" and has "little imperfections" like any human person.

But the both conceptions are so wrong and has ridiculous aspects.

In the first conception, people believe, for example, that Chico Xavier predicted that the aliens will replace the intelectual staff which will die too soon on Earth.

In the second conception, people believe that the "humble and imperfect" Chico Xavier can be a master even making a shameful collection of mistakes.

Chico Xavier's biography reminds the Monty Python's Life of Brian's possible free brazilian adaptation.

In the famous british comedian group's 1979 movie, a humble jewish man from Judea, Brian Cohen, was confuded by Jesus Christ and became as an alleged messiah.

Brian was manipulated by the wishful thinking of his followers and decided to pretend to be a preacher to run away from the Roman Empire's guard.

There's so much differences in details and aspects, but let's stop to think: Chico Xavier really deserves the idolatry that he receives, even posthumously, in Brazil?

Putting the passions aside, Chico Xavier never deserved and never deserves his idolatry.

And he never deserved even under the simple condition of "humble man susceptible to errors".

Chico Xavier is a worthless man who became a brazilian demigod, an alleged saint canonized by the brazilian spititists wishful thinkings.

Chico Xavier only became a post-truth preacher, in brazilian contexts. And a very conservative ideologist and an old-fashioned religious activist.

He was never progressist, futurist, modern of any advanced quality attributed oficially to him.

And his biography was so ridiculous to make him a "spirit of light" that so much people insist to think.

Brazil imitated a comedy movie and never knew about it. Sadly.