SIN, POLITICS, CHURCH, PREGNANCY AND HOMOSEXUALITY: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO, BUT WHO DOES IT!

SIN, POLITICS, CHURCH, PREGNANCY, AND HOMOSEXUALITY:

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO, BUT WHO DOES IT!

"If you avoid sin, God will honor you!"

"God has something great for you! Just follow his teachings!"

 
In the 21st century, July 2025, and we still believe in motivational phrases and, worse, religious motivational phrases? We live in the real world, and in this world, it doesn't matter what you do. What matters is who does it.
 
A practical example of this can be seen in churches: the same 'sin' committed by different people has different consequences. For example: how many Christian girls, through carelessness, become pregnant before marriage and are beaten, abandoned by their husbands, and kicked out of their homes by their parents? On the other hand, there are Christian girls who get pregnant before marriage, and both their family and their church overlook this, perhaps because they are the daughter of a leader, or perhaps because they are part of an ‘elite family’.
 
Another example we can analyze is during election season. In 2018, extremism began to take hold in our country. And anyone who said they would vote for candidate X was automatically canceled by the voters of candidate Y. I had an acquaintance who said she would exclude everyone who voted for Bolsonaro. I, of course, was excluded, and so were others. But do you really think she excluded everyone who voted for Bolsonaro? Of course not! She acted like a "badass" (excuse the vulgar term!) to some and gave in to others. In other words: it all depends on who speaks, not what is said/preached.
 
[In fact, this is very common in our tragic Brazilian politics, especially from the left. Bolsonaro is a jerk, and part of his defeat in the 2022 elections is due to his idiotic statements. And, of course, the left is all over him, shining a spotlight on these statements. But what about when Lula says/does things that are incoherent? Obviously, the left covers it up and defends it.]
 
Another classic example is the 'friendship' between a straight man and a gay man. If a straight man makes a joke about another straight man, he'll take it in stride. At most, he might not find it funny and tell his friend what he thought. Conversely, if a gay man makes the same joke about a straight man, he won't even warn you: you'll be completely excluded from his life, regardless of the length of your friendship, regardless of any circumstances. [After all, a straight man will almost always be wary of a gay man. This is reality! And a straight man often doesn't set boundaries and lets things flow. But when the gay person 'crosses the line' (which only exists in the straight person's mind), the gay person will be eliminated from their life. (But this is a topic for another post.)]
 
Anyway... in the real world, it doesn't matter what you do/say. What matters is who does/says it!
 

Rio de Janeiro, July 17th, 2025

Raphael Paiva

 
*Image: https://ibrateo.org.br/teologia-crista-e-a-relacao-do-pecado-com-o-fim-ultimo-do-ser-humano/

HOMOPHOBIA HURTS, EXCLUDES, AND CONTRADICTS THE CHRISTIAN CALL TO LOVE!

July 6, 2025 – Sunday

Biblical Text:

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”

(1 Peter 4:8)

 

Reflection:

Homophobia hurts, excludes, and contradicts the Christian call to love. Truly loving is an act of courage, especially when the environment around us is one of rejection. If you have ever been hurt by hateful religious speech, know this: God is love and His dignity is non-negotiable. And if you struggle with prejudiced attitudes within yourself, pray that the love of Christ will transform your outlook and your words. Love is always greater.

*Text: Instagram profile TEOLOGIA DO BEN

* image taken from the website https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/colunistas/paulo-germano/noticia/2019/06/por-que-jesus-nunca-reprovaria-um-gay-em-2019-cjxg88hu901vt01pkvivl9h2y.html

'HAPPINESS CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED WITH GOD!' - REALLY?

'Happiness can only be achieved with God!'

 

We have to be very careful with this type of statement, because, for Christians (I include myself in this), God is the Truth. However, from the moment it is stated that 'Happiness can only be achieved with God!', all other knowledge, truths and other 'happiness' are belittled!

 

Christians have this habit of saying that only those who follow Jesus/God/the Bible are happy. Which is a LIE! In fact, it is an egocentrism based on fallacies, tending towards religiosity and fundamentalism. 'Living with God' and/or TRYING to 'follow the Bible' is just another way of living, it is just another way of achieving the famous 'happiness'. To present this as the absolute truth is to belittle all those who do not follow this 'truth'. From the moment that it is stated that there is only this 'truth', all other human beings who think differently are excluded. In fact, it is not possible that all human beings who do not follow Christianity and who do not read the Bible are unhappy! Are all Candomblé practitioners, spiritualists, Buddhists, etc. unhappy people!? I assume not!

 

All ABSOLUTE TRUTH, all extremism, tends towards corruptibility!

 

It is more or less similar to FUNK. MC Poze do Rodo was released from prison and Arthur do Val (MBL) made a video talking about it. In the video, he reacted to a young man with the famous 'Carioca rogue' manner, and Arthur do Val, in addition to imitating the young man's way of speaking, said that he has no future and that he has no cognitive capacity. And he also asked: “What should be done with this guy? How does this guy help society? How is this guy productive? How is this guy virtuous? Imagine a week with this guy. What does this guy produce in a week? Tell me. What does this guy do with his life? What value does he add to society? Tell me!”. Yesterday, a video came out showing this young man at CEASA carrying weight, bags of food, and Mamãe Falei posted a video apologizing. My question to you is: Is every community resident, with the ‘carioca mischievous way’ and who listens to funk and trap, a criminal? Is listening to Oruam and MC Poze do Rodo (despite being terrible influences and committing crimes by defending drug trafficking according to Article 287 of the Penal Code) synonymous with vagrancy? Unfortunately, we live in a society where this mentality has been passed off as ‘truth’. But I ask you: is it true? I don’t think so!

 

All ABSOLUTE TRUTH, all extremism, tends towards corruptibility!

 

It is with this mentality of 'Only X is true' that great atrocities have occurred in our society, such as Nazism and the deaths of millions of Jews, gays, etc. It is because of this mentality of 'Only X is true!' that there are terrorist groups that kill Christians, gays, etc. for pleasure, such as the Hamas group and the Isis group.

 

“The Nazis took advantage of the hopes, fears and prejudices that already existed among the population and created scapegoats. They used false allegations that Jews and Communists were largely responsible for Germany's problems. This allegation, in fact, was simply part of their anti-Semitic and racist ideology.” [Holocaust Encyclopedia Portal]

 

“Their spiritual leaders, from the Iranian ayatollahs to the Saudi Grand Mufti, consider homosexuality a crime that goes against the norms of Islam and should be severely punished.” [Portal BBC News Brasil]

 

So, let's be careful with these statements about 'absolute truth', because my heaven is probably the hell of many others.

 

Final observation:

As I always say: the Bible has a social, political, cultural and economic context. The question will never be to rewrite it, but rather how to use it for the present day. How to use the Bible to address society's new agendas? How to take the Bible and dialogue with new technologies, new knowledge and advances?

 

A hug and let's question everything and everyone!

LINKS

HOMOSSEXUALIDADE NA BÍBLIA: O MAIOR PECADO DA HUMANIDADE (?)

https://rafresco.blogspot.com/2020/04/homossexualidade-na-biblia-o-maior.html

 

HOMOSSEXUALIDADE: BÍBLIA X PSICOLOGIA [É escolha? Nasce assim?]

https://rafresco.blogspot.com/2020/05/homossexualidade-biblia-x-psicologia-e.html

 

SILAS MALAFAIA E ANDRÉ VALADÃO - COMO SERIA ESCRITA A BÍBLIA NOS DIAS DE HOJE?

https://rafresco.blogspot.com/2025/04/silas-malafaia-e-andre-valadao-como.html

 

DdQ [20/07/2020] – OS HOMOSSEXUAIS JÁ ESTÃO MORTOS!

https://rafresco.blogspot.com/2020/07/ddq-20072020-os-homossexuais-ja-estao.html

 

HITLER CHEGA AO PODER

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/pt-br/article/hitler-comes-to-power

 

O que o Alcorão diz sobre a homossexualidade e por que ela é punida no mundo muçulmano

https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-63934941

Imagem: https://arquidiocesesorocaba.org.br/a-fe-a-igreja-e-a-biblia/

June 04th, 2025

Raphael Paiva

IGREJA, OVELHA & FOFOCA: O QUE FAZER?

A good talker Pastor, angry woman, stools, alienated people, corrupt government and False Friends!

READ THE MATTER!

MY HUMBLE COMMENT:

Let's analyse the context:

- Single mother;

- Pastor making jokes;

- Shepherd leading others in the church to look different for women.

Result: Deserved!

Unfortunately, people do not know or do not want to analyze the context. Everything that a person who is at the top says is right. That's why there are these huge judgments. People being slaughtered in places that should be embraced. These leaders take ownership of their social level, a hierarchy (pastor, teacher, doctor, minister, political etc.), influence, humiliate, abuse, use of the Bible as exclusion method, use of his great gift of persuasion, use their power the word in order to literally end up with anyone. And most people go after. But this majority is divided into a few groups:

01. Some people are easily sold because they really had not the essential Education. They can not discern what a person speaks for good or for evil. They are the people who, unfortunately, entered in the statistics of a corrupt government that only thinks of enriching and let the people into chaos.

02. Some people I call fearful. They are those who can not face the others who are at a certain level for fear of retaliation.

Ex .: discussed between student and teacher in the classroom and no one is on your side, even this right being.

03. Some people are called False Friends. They are those people who want to look good to everyone and at all times, but that behind, are influencing.

Ex .: discussed between student and teacher in the classroom because the teacher did not give the matter. In the corridors, evryobody complains, curses, becomes desperate, they want to make the undersigned, want to go to the ombudsman, want to end the teacher. In the room, the unique student puts it face to slap for the class. Teacher massacres student. No one gets up to help the student.

Wake up, people!

Read! Study! Mature!

Not because the 01 said that is right!

Before you judge, look in the mirror!

Before giving any opinion, analyze all sides!

Are you too lazy to look, to analuze? So shut up!

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