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Brazilian Marxist Bishop Killed by Adopted Son
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| Julio Severo
Posted on 03/01/2012 1:54:06 PM PST by juliosevero
Edited on 03/01/2012 5:14:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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Brazilian Marxist Bishop Killed by Adopted Son
By Julio Severo
The Anglican bishop for Brazils northeastern state of Pernambuco was killed along with his wife by their son.
Edward Robinson Cavalcanti, 68, and his 64-year-old wife Miriam were stabbed to death on Sunday, February 26, in their home in the city of Olinda.
After killing his parents, Eduardo Olímpio Cotias Cavalcanti, 29, tried to commit suicide by drinking poison, and was hospitalized.
His father frequently wrote and preached diatribes against the United States as a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, conservative nation. Yet, strangely, he visited the US regularly. And when his son was 16 years old, he sent him to study and live in the US.
Police inspector Joao Brito Alves told the Globo television network that he had learned that the son had a violent temper and was frequently under the influence of drugs.
Cavalcanti headed the Philosophy and Human Sciences Department of the Federal University of Pernambuco. He was a columnist in the leftist Calvinist magazine Ultimato. He was also the founder of Movimento Evangélico Progressista (Progressive Evangelical Movement), a NGO composed of leftist Protestant militants in Brazil. Today the Progressive Evangelical Movement has changed its name for Evangelicals for Social Justice.
In the past, Cavalcanti was an active member of the socialist Workers Party, of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who even visited him. The Anglican bishop said that he left the Workers Party because, in his view, the party softened its socialist speech:
Since 1997, I am no longer a member of the Workers Party, because I was elected as an Anglican bishop. I have positive memoirs of my past of fights for the democratic State, for national sovereignty and for social justice. I also have increasingly negative perceptions of the ideological and programmatic rupture of that party. (Ultimato magazine, September/October 2004)
His diatribes against American conservatives consistently plagued his articles and sermons for years.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Rev. Fernando Saburido, said Cavalcantis death was a loss for Christianity.
He was sensitive to social issues and concerned with problems that affected the poor, Saburido told G1, Globo TVs Internet portal. He will be sorely missed.
Saburido is best known in Brazil as a liberal Catholic. In 2011, the Catholic university under his responsibility hosted a symposium on homoaffective law that gave advocates of the homosexual agenda a platform for promoting their ideology.
In the same year, the archbishop also led a march under the banner, The Cry of the Excluded (Grito dos Excluídos), in which pro-abortion, homosexualist, and socialist organizations had freely participated.
The killing of Cavalcanti shocked progressive evangelicals in Brazil.
With information of The Huffington Post, an American leftist website that has also lamented his loss.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Reference; Religion
KEYWORDS: anglican; brazil; evangelicals; progressive
To: juliosevero
I guess this could be labeled an “abortion-in-reverse.”
To: juliosevero
Like all good lefty anti-Americans, he had to come here regularly to do research on just how evil we are.
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posted on
03/01/2012 1:59:55 PM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty and Justice for ALL)
To: juliosevero
Pity theres no more Paul Harvey to do the other side of this story..
This story screams that there is another side to it..
This story has Vampire bats hanging on it like a spooky church belfry..
Starting... “on a dark stormy night the Bishop...” yada yada yada..
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posted on
03/01/2012 2:04:35 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: juliosevero
The killings happened last Sunday Feb. 26, not
March 26.
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posted on
03/01/2012 2:06:00 PM PST
by
iowamark
(The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves)
To: juliosevero
Did he mean FEBRUARY 26? Otherwise, this is hopelessly outdated...
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posted on
03/01/2012 2:08:38 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: juliosevero
Mixed emotions this time.
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posted on
03/01/2012 2:13:28 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
To: iowamark
Thank you very much! It a pity that I cannot change it here. Is it possible?
To: juliosevero
Sounds like the devil took advantage of a lot of confusion, miseducation, and contradictions within that household
I’m a Christian
I’m a Marxist
I’m against Sin
I’m all for Homosexuality and Abortion
I hate the USA
I’m going to live in the USA
I’m White
I dislike white people
etc. etc.
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posted on
03/01/2012 2:31:04 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: juliosevero
You could post to the Administrative Moderator and ask.
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posted on
03/01/2012 2:31:24 PM PST
by
iowamark
(The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves)
To: juliosevero
I’m assuming he didn’t kill them with a gun or else it would be in the headline?
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posted on
03/01/2012 2:33:52 PM PST
by
Leep
(Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
To: Leep
Oops, I don’t know how I missed it..he stabbed them to death.
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posted on
03/01/2012 2:35:35 PM PST
by
Leep
(Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
To: juliosevero; Admin Moderator
Thank you very much! It a pity that I cannot change it here. Is it possible? Let's see if we can ask the nice Moderator to change March 26 to February in the second sentence of the posted article.
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:30:38 PM PST
by
iowamark
(The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves)
To: juliosevero
Judging from the behavior of this bishop, he sounds like somebody with a martyrdom complex. Those are odd people, who seemingly want to be killed thinking that it will make people realize how important they were. Overly elaborate suicide.
They’re also dangerous to be around, because they often take innocent bystanders with them.
To: juliosevero
Prayers for these deeply misguided souls.
To: Admin Moderator
Please, Moderator, change March 26 to February 26. Thanks!!!
To: juliosevero; Admin Moderator
Please, Moderator, change March 26 to February 26. Thanks!!! The Mods have a TIME MACHINE??!!
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posted on
03/01/2012 4:56:10 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: juliosevero
'Ta muito triste...
Nos nao temos muitos Brasileiros neste forum. Bom te ver aqui. Que lugar no paraiso voce mora?
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posted on
03/01/2012 5:53:27 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
(I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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