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By the 1970s, the Evangelical community had gained swathes of new believers. To keep this momentum going, its leaders needed to find a winning common cause. Family values turned into an obsession. Abortion, among other “vices,” had to be curtailed. The secularization of America became their main focus, having massive political impact, both at home and worldwide.
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00:00Go to hell. You've been stripped. You don't even have keys to your own house. The blood of Jesus is
00:07against you. In the name of Jesus, you won't have my son. You won't have my mind. You won't have
00:14my children. You won't have my grandchildren. In the name of Jesus, I know who I am. I know whose
00:21I am. And I know how I function.
00:24I function in God Almighty, the living God that created a living soul. Come on. Hey!
00:34Prosperity gospel preacher, the charismatic pastor Paula White, features among the wealthiest and most popular evangelical leaders in the United
00:42States.
00:44The newly elected president Donald Trump chose her as his spiritual advisor. Her mission? Protect the president from the forces
00:52of evil.
00:54Oh, wow.
00:56I'm leading a spiritual battle for the nation and for the world. I do believe that the scripture is very
01:03clear that we're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, wickedness, and darkness. And I can tell
01:09you there are millions of people that believe that.
01:12The reality is, ever since the Babylonians took the Israelites out of their homeland, God's man has waited by the
01:21side.
01:23Because John said, I saw one. When he spoke, it was like the sound of many waters. His feet were
01:29like fine grass.
01:30He's the glory of the city. He's the eternal city. And he's coming back for you and me.
01:37But his name is Jesus Christ, the son of the living God.
02:05You're not going to vote the kingdom of God into existence.
02:09You know, the kingdom of God is not going to come riding in on Air Force One. We know that.
02:14But I think our nation is better, our world is better when we live by God's principles than when we
02:20reject them.
02:22But the Bible teaches not only one judgment, but seven...
02:25Soon after the end of World War II, Billy Graham not only turned the evangelical movement into a planet-wide
02:31success story,
02:31He also built bridges between faith and political power.
02:36Although he chose to leave the political scene after having actively assisted his friend Richard Nixon in getting elected,
02:42the Christian movement he built enabled both Ronald Reagan and, 50 years later, Donald Trump,
02:48to bring evangelical leaders into the Oval Office.
02:54Trump's nomination of his friend as head of his evangelical advisory board
02:58was a break from the separation of church and state, one of the key foundations of American democracy.
03:07I'm going to sum up something that he said all the time.
03:11And this overrode almost every decision he made.
03:16He said, we worship God, not government.
03:21Two years after Donald Trump's election, Jair Bolsonaro is also elected,
03:27carried by the wave of evangelicalism washing over Brazil.
03:32Toda a estratégia de campanha do Bolsonaro foi feita pela equipe do Trump.
03:39Tudo que o Trump mandava ele fazer, ele copiou tudo, fez tudo igual.
03:46Trump and Bolsonaro, presidents of two of the largest democracies in the world,
03:51two secular nations, both chose to govern in the name of God.
03:56In order to understand how this kind of conquering Christianity
04:00has managed to bring its candidates and values to power,
04:03we will go back to the origins and rise of political evangelicalism
04:07in the United States, Brazil, and elsewhere in the world.
04:11Thank you very much, everyone.
04:13Thank you.
04:15Thank you.
04:40Long thought of as the world's largest Catholic country,
04:43Brazil has seen stunning growth in evangelicalism over the last 30 years.
04:48Less than 10% of the country was evangelical in 1990.
04:53One-third of the population identifies that way now,
04:56and their political influence became obvious with Bolsonaro's election in 2018.
05:01Although marches for Jesus are organized in the USA, Great Britain, and France,
05:06the one in Sao Paulo has grown to be the largest by far,
05:10with over 3 million participants in 2019.
05:12Every other year, Estevam Hernández, a self-proclaimed apostle,
05:18organizes the event with the help of his family.
05:21Os evangelistas americanos, eles tiveram uma importância fundamental
05:26na difusão do evangelho.
05:30Eles foram aqueles que trouxeram o evangelho para as nações,
05:35e que também trabalharam o evangelho no Brasil.
05:39Então, nós temos uma herança, que é daquilo que foi o trabalho missionário deles.
05:46O presidente da República do Brasil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro,
05:53isso é recebido pelo povo de Deus.
06:00Em 2019, o presidente Bolsonaro participou na marcha, em person.
06:06Podemos ser o ponto de inflexão.
06:09Brasil, realmente um dia,
06:12seja colocado no local de destaque que ele merece.
06:16Brasil acima de tudo,
06:19Deus acima de todos.
06:24Muitos dos líderes religiosos e políticos que estão perto do presidente
06:28são evangelistas, como Gilberto Nascimento,
06:31representante do Partido Socialista,
06:34que se alivou com o presidente.
06:36Quando a gente lê a Bíblia, muitas vezes você tem a ênfase dos reis,
06:41mas, na sua grande maioria, a ênfase são dos conselheiros dos reis,
06:47que podiam, sim, aconselhar o rei para fazer as mudanças
06:52e que essas mudanças fossem mais justas para a população, para aquele povo.
06:56E eu entendo que o papel do Billy Graham também foi fundamental nos Estados Unidos,
07:01agindo dessa maneira.
07:04Inclusive, profetizando, dizendo que o Brasil
07:06seria um celeiro do evangelho daqui para o mundo.
07:15O crescimento do evangelho brasileiro começa em 1974,
07:20quando o rev. Billy Graham,
07:22a estrela do evangelismo internacional,
07:25vem ao país.
07:27Mass revival meetings,
07:29private ones with political and religious authorities,
07:32press conferences.
07:33His reception befits a head of state.
07:37Você tem a escolha de muitos países e muitas invitations para visitar.
07:41Por que, particularmente, Brasil, neste momento?
07:44Nós sentimos que este era o momento certo,
07:46e há problemas, revoluções e violências quase todos os lugares,
07:51porque o sistema monetário está se transformando
07:55overnight because of oil.
07:57E agora, o mundo parece que está se movendo
07:59toward Armageddon.
08:05His mission is not purely religious, however.
08:07It is part of a geopolitical strategy led from the highest levels of power.
08:13The Brazilian dictatorship, which has been supported by the United States since the early 1970s,
08:18is being more and more strongly challenged by permanence of liberation theology,
08:24a left-wing Catholic movement.
08:26Billy Graham's mission is a counterattack,
08:28especially since the United States is eyeing major oil deposits that have just been discovered there.
08:34He framed the language and discourse to absolutely defend the primacy of individualism,
08:43of free market capitalism as the essence,
08:45the divinely bestowed essence of American society.
08:50The quest for land, oil exploration in Peru or in Brazil or in the Middle East,
08:58was very much wrapped up in the politics and the ideology of kind of a Christian democracy,
09:04affronting and defending the West against the communist aggression.
09:08This resonates with what Billy Graham talked about in the 1950s,
09:11and by the 1980s, it would be weaponized and politicized by the Christian right
09:15in a way that even Billy Graham could not have imagined possible.
09:24In 1976, the United States is still reeling from the first oil crisis
09:29and is having trouble getting over both their crushing defeat in the Vietnam War
09:33and the Watergate scandal.
09:37Profoundly affected by his friend Richard Nixon's resignation,
09:41Billy Graham decides to take a step back from politics,
09:44precisely when an evangelical makes it to the White House for the first time ever.
09:49I feel a pleasure to present to you the next president of the United States,
09:54Jimmy Carter.
09:56But Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, is a moderate,
10:00who will soon attract the ire of conservative Republican evangelicals.
10:11Carter was really a evangelical figure,
10:14and, simultaneously, very progressist.
10:19and he will have, face to him,
10:22he will meet the white opposition of the Christian right opposition.
10:28Mr. President,
10:30on the occasion of the golden anniversary
10:35of Martin Luther King Jr.,
10:39we present the highest award
10:42to the President of the United States,
10:46Jimmy Carter,
10:47for your covenant of faith in the equality
10:51and goodness of all people.
10:53I share the hopes and dreams
10:56of Martin Luther King Jr.
10:58and I recognize
11:00the tremendous progress
11:02still left to be made.
11:05And together,
11:06we'll continue to make that progress.
11:09And we will also...
11:10Shortly after taking office,
11:11Carter calls for racial reconciliation
11:13and social justice,
11:15stands up for legal abortion,
11:17and takes a determined stance
11:18against racism
11:19and remnants of the segregationist Jim Crow system.
11:23He decides to pursue the policy initiated by Nixon,
11:26which deprives religious schools
11:27and universities
11:28that still practice segregation
11:30from the tax exemption they enjoy,
11:33a considerable financial advantage
11:35they have no intention of losing.
11:38In a nation that has been won over to civil rights,
11:41openly opposing anti-segregationist measures
11:44is no longer acceptable.
11:46Conservative Christians are aware of that,
11:48so they are looking for a new electoral weapon to wield
11:51that will galvanize the troops
11:53and lead to Carter's downfall.
11:55There was this moment
11:57where evangelicalism is having to figure out
12:00what can we land on together,
12:02like what can we agree on,
12:04because we cannot build a Christian movement
12:07on racism and segregation
12:10and keeping our tax-exempt status
12:13while we discriminate against folks with darker skin.
12:16like that's not how we can build a movement, right,
12:19that's going to last
12:20or that's going to be broader
12:21than just this sector of society.
12:23And so that's where you see things like abortion
12:25begin to surface.
12:26But that was a part of a really strategic effort
12:29that, I mean, went full force in the 1980s.
12:46Evangelicals have borrowed their new favorite cause
12:48from Catholics,
12:50denouncing the legalization of abortion
12:52and defending family values.
12:55Evangelical ideologists will produce a documentary
12:58to raise awareness and mobilize Christians,
13:01a common cause that will enable them
13:03to constitute a powerful lobby.
13:07When there was a Judeo-Christian consensus
13:10in our society, there was a basis for law.
13:13Francis Schaeffer,
13:14a highly influential fundamentalist theologian,
13:17launches the Right to Life campaign,
13:19laying the foundations
13:20for what will become the moral majority.
13:23At that moment,
13:24this change into sociological law
13:26can change everything in life,
13:28including who should live and who should die.
13:31Francis Schaeffer believed that any society
13:36that countenanced abortion
13:37would very soon thereafter
13:39also allow both euthanasia and infanticide.
13:44And all of that was part of a whole program
13:48of moral decay that he called secular humanism.
13:52The filmmaker behind these anti-abortion films
13:55is none other than Frank Schaeffer,
13:57Francis Schaeffer's son.
13:59A budding filmmaker at the time,
14:01still swayed by his father's beliefs,
14:03he travels the world
14:05creating this dramatic piece
14:06of evangelical propaganda.
14:08The film has a huge production budget,
14:11paid for by rich evangelical donors
14:13close to the Republican Party.
14:17Filmed in Israel,
14:18on the shores of the Dead Sea,
14:19these images will be at the heart
14:22of right-wing anti-abortion campaigns
14:24for decades to come.
14:30The issue of abortion
14:32is not one divided along religious lines.
14:36Abortion is not only a religious issue,
14:39it is a human issue.
14:42The fate of the unborn
14:44is the fate of the human race.
14:47Well, the Dead Sea was formed in biblical myth
14:52when Lot's wife turned to salt
14:55because she turned back and disobeyed God.
14:58So we had this scene working on many levels
15:00for an evangelical audience.
15:02We're in a salt plain that was created by God
15:05as a punishment for the city of Sodoms and Gomorrah,
15:09which were in that area
15:10that were destroyed by God,
15:12according to the legend.
15:13We're talking about aborted babies and murder.
15:17We're talking about the fact
15:18God will bring his wrath on America.
15:21And we don't have to say it.
15:22You just do the symbolism.
15:24And in English, we say the dog whistle,
15:26you know, the signal was there.
15:28We're in the Dead Sea talking about apocalypse,
15:31the destruction of Western culture,
15:33which will be the result
15:34of murdering all these babies.
15:35So in fact, it carried a level,
15:37a message to evangelicals on a profound level
15:40that a secular viewer would not possibly begin
15:43to understand how much was packed into this scene.
15:46We did.
15:47Abortion, the killing of unwanted babies
15:51before they are born,
15:52has become to many a selfish, absolute right
15:57sanctioned by the state.
16:05Unfortunately, we made a pretty good movie
16:07when it comes to propaganda value.
16:10I bitterly regret it,
16:12and I've spent the last 30 years of my life,
16:14once I left the movement,
16:15trying to undo the damage we've done
16:17and talk about what you might call
16:18our real family values
16:20based on relationship and mutual respect and love
16:22and not trying to stop
16:25women's access to health care and abortion.
16:27But that's what we made at the time,
16:29and obviously I have bitter regrets.
16:32I was young.
16:33You could say I didn't know any better,
16:34but nevertheless, you know,
16:36the ambition that pushed me
16:37into trying to make this was, you know,
16:40there was a lot going on
16:41more than just the motivation
16:42to make these films, you know.
16:46I wanted to get into the movie business,
16:48and this was one way to do it.
16:49Ridiculous.
16:50So I look back at this,
16:52and in my mind,
16:53it's as if I was an older person in Germany
16:55looking back at my days in Hitler Youth.
16:59I mean, it's not something you're proud of,
17:01and it's something that you just have to admit
17:04you made an enormous mistake
17:06that was also bad.
17:08You did something bad.
17:17Fifty years later,
17:19Schaeffer's films are still references
17:20for conservative, Christian,
17:22religious, and political leaders.
17:30Francis Schaeffer has a film series
17:32that's come back again.
17:34They're re-showing it.
17:36It was filmed in 1977.
17:38It was pivotal in my own life.
17:41I watched it in 1977
17:43when I was in college.
17:44It was called How Shall We Then Live?
17:46And the brilliance of Dr. Schaeffer's work
17:49is that he took faith in the Bible
17:52and he applied it to all of culture,
17:54all of life.
17:55What does the Bible have to say about biology,
17:58about theology,
18:00about anthropology, sociology?
18:02What does the Bible have to say about art,
18:04about music, about film?
18:06And he got people thinking,
18:09you know, the Bible isn't just about Sunday.
18:11It isn't just about going to church.
18:14The Bible is every part of our lives.
18:17It's how we live our life,
18:19how we think,
18:20how we interact with other people,
18:22what our ultimate values are,
18:24what meaning is.
18:26That was the challenge
18:27that Francis Schaeffer gave
18:29to my generation here in the United States.
18:35Frank Schaeffer has never forgiven himself
18:37for promoting evangelicals' most extreme ideas.
18:42A year after his father's death,
18:44when he was supposed to step into his father's shoes,
18:46he instead cut his ties to the movement
18:49and distanced himself permanently
18:51from his evangelical upbringing.
18:54An emotionally fraught episode
18:56that he describes in his autobiography,
18:58Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God.
19:02In the book,
19:02he also describes having witnessed Billy Graham
19:05refusing to support his father's ideas.
19:09I was at three meetings
19:11when Billy and Dad were arguing about this.
19:13And Dad said to Billy,
19:14Billy, you have to stand up on this issue,
19:17pro-life, anti-abortion.
19:20And Billy said point blank to my father
19:22that there's a problem with that.
19:24I don't think abortion is wrong,
19:26and who are we to tell women to do this?
19:30Secondly, how am I supposed to preach
19:32the gospel of Jesus Christ
19:34and love and forgiveness
19:35if I am taking a stand on this issue?
19:38And by the way, Francis,
19:39I got burned backing Nixon
19:42before Watergate
19:43and said I would never do that again.
19:45I'm not doing this.
19:46A dramatic turn of events
19:48that Billy Graham announces on NBC,
19:51then one of the largest television channels
19:53in the country.
19:53I don't think that we ought to be
19:57using Christians
19:58to get into partisan politics.
20:01I'm not going to join that,
20:02and I'm not going to get involved in politics.
20:16Detroit, July 17, 1980.
20:20On the last day of the Republican convention,
20:22Hollywood actor and former governor
20:24Ronald Reagan is nominated
20:26to run against the incumbent,
20:28President Jimmy Carter.
20:31I've been a little afraid
20:33to suggest what I'm going to suggest.
20:38I'm more afraid not to.
20:42Can we begin our crusade,
20:45join together
20:46in a moment of silent prayer?
20:53A campaign based on Christian values
20:56that Reverend Graham refuses
20:57to participate in.
20:59But by stepping aside,
21:01he allows another evangelical leader
21:03to step into the limelight.
21:05Jerry Falwell,
21:06a pioneering televangelist,
21:08latches on to the anti-abortion issue
21:10and founds what he calls
21:12the moral majority.
21:16We've got to raise up
21:17an army of men
21:19and women in America
21:20who call this nation
21:23back to moral sanity
21:24and sensibility.
21:25I call that the moral majority.
21:28Jerry Falwell
21:29really was the architect
21:31behind the moral majority,
21:34and that was to get people of faith
21:36that had a moral conscience
21:41and get them organized politically.
21:43And he was very successful
21:45in doing that.
21:49Jerry Falwell mobilizes
21:51the conservative fringe,
21:53creating a veritable political lobby
21:55in favor of Ronald Reagan's
21:56election campaign.
21:59What would Jimmy Carter
22:00have to do to get
22:01all the born-again Christians
22:03back on his side?
22:05Well, I think the Lord
22:08would have come down
22:08and tap him on the shoulder
22:10visibly with us looking.
22:15January 20th, 1981.
22:18Ronald Reagan is sworn in
22:19as the 40th President
22:20of the United States.
22:22So help me God.
22:24And with him,
22:25the moral majority
22:27goes to the White House.
22:30We're absolutely convinced
22:31that in spite of all
22:33the secularists
22:34who would,
22:34with all the efforts possible,
22:38somehow denigrate this country
22:39and secularize it
22:41and develop
22:41a low view
22:42of the value
22:43of human life,
22:45that we're not heading
22:46in the wrong direction,
22:47but rather
22:48in a time of rebirth,
22:50as our president
22:51has often addressed
22:52the subject,
22:53America is on the rebound,
22:54we're on the way back,
22:56because we have leadership
22:58in the White House,
22:59in the Congress,
23:00and in the courts.
23:03One of the great tragedies
23:06coincident with the rise
23:07of the religious right
23:08is that Baptists in America,
23:12particularly the Southern Baptist Convention,
23:15after 1979,
23:16began to abandon
23:18their historic role
23:20patrolling the line
23:22of separation
23:23between church and state.
23:24We believe a certain way
23:27on a political issue,
23:28abortion, for example,
23:30or same-sex marriage.
23:31So everybody in the nation
23:33should have to
23:36comply with our sensibilities
23:39and our moral convictions
23:42on these particular issues.
23:45And that, to me,
23:47is an utter betrayal
23:49of American principles,
23:53but also foundational
23:56Baptist principles,
23:57which warned against
23:59too close an association
24:01between the church
24:03and the state,
24:03between religion and politics.
24:12I am calling the armies
24:15of the kingdoms of the North
24:17to come to Jerusalem
24:18and set their thrones
24:20at the gates of the city
24:21and all along its walls
24:22and in all the other cities
24:24of Judah.
24:25This is the way
24:26I will punish my people
24:28for deserting me
24:29and for worshipping other gods.
24:31Now, I think that's
24:32a clear warning
24:34to America.
24:36Reagan's victory
24:37and the Republicans' return
24:39to power
24:39do not stop
24:40the moral majority
24:41or bring the spiritual war
24:43Jerry Falwell is leading
24:44to an end.
24:45His goal is no longer
24:47just political,
24:48social,
24:48and moral influence,
24:50but establishing
24:51the movement
24:51as a power broker
24:52for the long term.
24:54He founds Liberty University
24:55in order to train
24:57the future Christian elite.
24:59He organizes
25:00super conferences
25:01with moral majority missionaries
25:03from across the country
25:04as guest speakers.
25:06Like Robert Schenck,
25:08the first chaplain
25:09in the 40-year history
25:10of the Capitol Hill Club,
25:11a private club in Washington
25:13very popular
25:14with Republican lawmakers.
25:16the spirit of Montgomery
25:17Save the Commandments caravan
25:20here to Liberty University.
25:22This five-state tour
25:24is calling the attention
25:26of the nation
25:27to the 40-year crusade
25:29by the runaway federal courts
25:32who have sought to force
25:34a radical secularism
25:37on our country,
25:38and they must be stopped now.
25:44Reverend Schenck travels
25:46the country
25:46presenting members
25:47of Congress
25:48and other highly placed officials
25:49with replicas
25:50of the Ten Commandments
25:52and urging them
25:53to display them prominently.
25:54This isn't his first
25:56political evangelization campaign.
25:59In the 80s,
26:00he was one of the main
26:02religious leaders
26:02of the anti-abortion movement.
26:04His favorite tactic?
26:06Demonstrating in front of clinics.
26:11Our nation is undergoing
26:13great duress
26:14and we must be
26:15very conscious of that
26:16who have talked about
26:18prosperity
26:19as children were dying
26:21and families
26:23were being destroyed.
26:25And so...
26:26I had instilled fear
26:27in many people.
26:29I had frightened them
26:30in my preaching,
26:32in my language,
26:34in my imagination,
26:35which I would share openly.
26:39The terrible, destructive things
26:41that were going to happen
26:45if gay people would marry,
26:49it would somehow destroy
26:51heterosexual marriage.
26:52When you look at the world
26:55this way,
26:56you are not acting in love.
26:58You are acting in contempt.
27:01You are...
27:02You are acting in...
27:04a form of hatred
27:08towards others.
27:13He leads campaigns
27:15throughout the country
27:15and sets up
27:17a formidable propaganda machine
27:18meant to fire up
27:19the largest possible number
27:21of believers
27:21and, above all,
27:23to get them to vote Republican.
27:28I wrote letters about this,
27:31sent millions of them.
27:33Three million letters a year
27:34for ten years.
27:36That's 30 million letters.
27:39All you need is 3%
27:40to read it
27:42and respond.
27:45And this is enough
27:46to raise tens of millions
27:49of dollars,
27:50which we did.
27:51We had consultants
27:53and they would say to me,
27:56we need more fear.
27:57You need to make this person
27:59more afraid
28:01because when they are more afraid,
28:03they will send you more money.
28:06They will think
28:08the way to solve
28:09this great problem
28:11is to send you $100.
28:15We need more fear.
28:17And they added to that.
28:18They said,
28:19we need more anger.
28:20In a way,
28:22what I helped facilitate
28:25and what was going on
28:27all over the country
28:28in the 1980s
28:30and the 1990s
28:31especially
28:33was
28:38a transformation,
28:41a final transformation,
28:43really,
28:44of a religious movement
28:46into a political movement.
28:52starting in the 70s,
28:54ultra-conservative
28:55evangelical universities
28:56begin to pop up
28:57across the country.
28:59Regent University's
29:01School of Government's
29:02mission is to
29:03train leaders
29:04who strengthen
29:05the ethical
29:06and moral foundation
29:07of Judeo-Christian
29:08principles in government.
29:12Michelle Backman,
29:13a Republican presidential
29:14hopeful in 2012,
29:16and one of the faces
29:17of the party's
29:18ultra-conservative
29:19Tea Party wing
29:20is the dean
29:21of the university's
29:22School of Government.
29:25Our students are
29:26very much humanity-minded.
29:30It isn't just
29:30in the United States.
29:32They're internationally-minded
29:34as well.
29:34All over the world,
29:36our students are interested
29:37and we have a professor
29:38who focuses primarily
29:40on the Middle East.
29:41We have another professor
29:42that focuses primarily
29:43on China
29:44and we have another
29:45professor that focuses
29:46on cybersecurity.
29:47So we have a lot
29:48of different areas
29:49that our students
29:50would go into
29:51and concentrate on
29:53but our goal
29:54is to bring principles
29:55and positive change
29:58all across the world.
30:00Ambitious.
30:01It is ambitious
30:01but that's the Bible.
30:07Regent University
30:09was founded
30:09by Pat Robertson
30:10who, like Jerry Falwell,
30:13was a pioneering
30:14televangelist.
30:15At the heart
30:16of the campus
30:17is CBN,
30:18the Christian Broadcasting Network,
30:20the world's largest
30:22evangelical media organization.
30:24It is the jewel
30:25in the crown
30:26of multimillionaire
30:27Pat Robertson's empire.
30:30Now, from CBN.
30:34I just want you
30:35to lift that
30:36before the Lord,
30:37praise Him
30:38for His goodness
30:39and give Him glory,
30:42you know,
30:43overcoming praise
30:45in the name of Jesus
30:47right now.
30:49World Reach.
30:50Pat Robertson's
30:51media conglomerate
30:52aims to evangelize
30:54people around the world.
30:56CBN broadcasts
30:57in over 100
30:58different languages.
30:59The goal?
31:01Win 500 million souls
31:02for Christ.
31:04It's all part
31:04of a bold vision
31:05called World Reach.
31:07Christians are supposed
31:08to reign and rule.
31:09So if you think about
31:09education
31:10or government
31:12or entertainment,
31:14they begin to talk
31:15about how Christians
31:17should be involved
31:18in every area of life
31:19and that they are
31:21promoting a way
31:22in which Christians
31:23take not just
31:24spiritual power
31:25but material power
31:27on the earth
31:27and this becomes
31:28a very important way
31:30in a new wave
31:31as it were
31:32within charismatic
31:33Christianity
31:34and evangelicalism
31:35around the world.
31:38Journalist Stephen Strang
31:40is the founder-director
31:41of Charisma,
31:42one of the most influential
31:44right-wing evangelical
31:45publications
31:45in the United States,
31:47which he has run
31:48for 30 years.
31:50His goal?
31:51Winning the spiritual battle
31:52of the Seven Mountains,
31:54Charismatic Evangelicals'
31:56new expansionist mandate.
31:58The Seven Mountains
31:59would be the family,
32:01government,
32:02the church or religion,
32:04education,
32:05the business community,
32:06finances,
32:07and also the entertainment
32:09and popular culture.
32:11and there are Christians
32:15who believe
32:16that kind of non-believers
32:19have kind of taken over
32:20most of those mountains,
32:23you know,
32:23certainly education
32:24and entertainment
32:26and so we believe
32:27that we should
32:30influence society.
32:32The Bible uses terms
32:33like being salt
32:34and light
32:35in the culture
32:36and that's what
32:37we're trying to do.
32:38You know,
32:38we can't legislate morality
32:40but we can codify
32:42in our laws
32:45the values
32:46of the culture
32:47which includes
32:48freedom of religion,
32:51respect of individuals,
32:53a lot of other things
32:54that come from religion.
32:56Listen,
32:56the basis of our law
32:57is the Ten Commandments.
32:59So our entire
33:00Western civilization
33:02comes from our
33:03Judeo-Christian values.
33:06that's what
33:07makes the West
33:08different
33:09than other cultures
33:10in the world.
33:25So today we pray
33:27for Donald Trump.
33:28Yes.
33:28We pray for his family.
33:30Yes.
33:30We pray for his...
33:31Perhaps we'll look back
33:32on this day
33:33and remember
33:33that we stood together
33:35and we pray
33:36over the next
33:37president
33:37of the United States.
33:38Yes.
33:39Yes.
33:40Thank you.
33:42As soon as he announces
33:43his candidacy
33:44for the Republican nomination
33:45for the presidency,
33:46the millionaire
33:47surrounds himself
33:48with evangelical leaders
33:49from the Christian right,
33:51including Paula White,
33:52who is eager to bring
33:53the Seven Mountains movement
33:55to the White House.
33:58Thank you.
33:59and we pray for his...
34:04We pray for his...
34:05January 20th, 2017.
34:07Donald Trump is sworn in
34:09as president.
34:10For the first time
34:11in American history,
34:12a woman of the cloth
34:13delivers the invocation.
34:16We come to you,
34:17Heavenly Father,
34:19in the name of Jesus,
34:21with grateful hearts,
34:22let these United States
34:24of America
34:25be that beacon of hope
34:26to all people.
34:28The very next day,
34:29Paula White goes to work
34:31at the White House.
34:32Behind me,
34:33we have faith-based people,
34:36people who are highly respected.
34:41Appointed to lead
34:41the Faith and Opportunity Initiative
34:43at the Office of Public Liaison,
34:45her mission is to establish
34:47a religious network
34:48at the core of the government.
34:50And to say that you always
34:51have put God first.
34:53One of the greatest honors
34:54was to be able to serve
34:56our country
34:56and people of all faith
34:57as I was able
34:59to advise the president
35:00as he created
35:01the Faith and Opportunity Initiative.
35:04That office was not just created
35:06in the West Wing
35:07or in the White House,
35:09but it was through...
35:10He appointed that we would
35:11have a faith director
35:12in every single department,
35:13and he took it another step,
35:15not only in every department.
35:17So you think of HHS,
35:19agriculture,
35:20you think of all
35:21the different departments,
35:22but also it was appointed
35:24in every agency.
35:26So you think about
35:27the Security Exchange Commission.
35:30That's an agency
35:31of the government.
35:32And so even the agencies
35:34had a director of faith
35:35that would report back
35:36to my office
35:37as I would advise the president.
35:39A Christian representative
35:41is appointed
35:42to each administration,
35:43breaking with the doctrine
35:44of separation of church
35:46and state
35:46so dear to the founding
35:48father of Baptists
35:49and that has been
35:50a key principle
35:51in American history.
35:53All matters,
35:55everything that we look into
35:58affect people of faith.
35:59And so if we're talking
36:01not only life and liberty,
36:04but we're talking economics
36:06and farmers to family
36:07and FEMA
36:09and so many other different things,
36:11security, houses of worship,
36:13practicing our faith freely,
36:15prayer,
36:17issuing education,
36:19issuing prayer guidance
36:21in schools.
36:23I mean, it just,
36:23it's endless.
36:25It's through politics,
36:26the system that policy
36:27has created,
36:28which really determines
36:30what we live by
36:31and don't.
36:32And I was so privileged
36:33to be able to advise
36:34our president
36:35and really rally
36:37everyone together
36:38to help craft
36:40and work out policy
36:42and to better
36:43people's lives.
36:46The Seven Mountain Mandate,
36:48which aims to bring
36:49seven key sectors
36:50from education
36:51to media,
36:52security,
36:53and the economy
36:54in line with
36:55biblical principles,
36:56has reached the heart
36:58of the administration.
37:04Donald Trump's
37:05evangelical entourage
37:06has succeeded
37:07in imposing
37:08their moral values
37:09at the highest echelons
37:11of government.
37:12Trump becomes
37:13the first sitting
37:14president
37:14to speak in person
37:16at the annual
37:16March for Life rally.
37:19Well, thank you very much
37:21and thank you, Jeannie.
37:23It is my profound honor
37:25to be the first president
37:27in history
37:28to attend
37:29the March for Life.
37:33No other president
37:34of the United States
37:35has ever leaned so far
37:37toward an alliance
37:38between the throne
37:39and the altar.
37:42Donald Trump
37:42is without doubt
37:43the most pro-life,
37:45pro-religious liberty,
37:46pro-Israel president
37:47in the history
37:48of the United States.
37:49I think that is his legacy
37:51and I was honored
37:54to be able
37:55to support him.
37:56I'm honored
37:56to count him
37:57as a friend.
37:58I think God used him
37:59to accomplish much good
38:01in our country.
38:03of the country.
38:03Evangelicalism
38:04has placed more emphasis
38:07on the need
38:09for Christians
38:10to take ownership
38:11of the country,
38:13to basically seize
38:14control of government
38:17and to train young people
38:20to take ownership
38:22of the country
38:22and to impose God's will,
38:24impose God's law.
38:32The Evangelical Lobby's
38:34growing influence
38:35on American political power
38:37will soon expand
38:38beyond America's borders.
38:46On this day,
38:47Dr. Denis Mukwege,
38:49laureate of the 2018
38:50Nobel Peace Prize,
38:52receives an honorary doctorate
38:54from the Protestant University
38:55in the Congo.
38:57Known as
38:58the Man Who Repairs Women,
39:00Pentecostal pastor
39:01and surgical gynecologist
39:03founded Pansy Hospital
39:04in 1990
39:05in the war-torn
39:06South Kivu region
39:08to care for women
39:09victims of sexual violence.
39:11He has saved thousands
39:13of women's lives.
39:17In April 2019,
39:19he addresses
39:20the United Nations
39:21Security Council.
39:22He supports a resolution
39:24that will provide
39:25access to abortion
39:26for victims of sexual violence
39:28in wartime.
39:32Dans cette résolution,
39:33on avait demandé
39:34au secrétaire général
39:35des Nations Unies
39:36de pouvoir faire
39:38une proposition
39:39et c'est pour la première fois
39:41qu'on avait une résolution
39:42centrée,
39:43une approche
39:44centrée sur la victime.
39:47Et pour moi,
39:47cette approche
39:48est très importante.
39:49Malheureusement,
39:50effectivement,
39:51nous avions eu
39:52un débat
39:53de plusieurs jours
39:54et juste 30 minutes
39:56avant
39:56que
39:58cette résolution
40:00soit votée,
40:01on avait
40:02une discussion
40:04que je ne comprenais
40:06pas du tout.
40:08Nous exhortons
40:09les décideurs
40:10et les responsables
40:12ici présents
40:13à adopter
40:14cette nouvelle résolution
40:16et ainsi faire...
40:17Although all
40:17of the member nations
40:18have agreed
40:19to vote
40:19for resolution
40:202467,
40:21there is
40:22a dramatic
40:23turn of events.
40:24In line
40:25with its
40:25anti-abortion stance,
40:27the US government
40:28threatens
40:28to veto
40:29the resolution,
40:30which gets
40:31watered down.
40:31C'est inacceptable.
40:34Donc la santé
40:34de la reproduction
40:35pour moi,
40:36ça couvre
40:36beaucoup d'aspects.
40:38Les femmes
40:39peuvent choisir
40:40d'avoir des enfants
40:42ou non.
40:43C'est leur droit,
40:44c'est aux femmes
40:45de gérer leur corps
40:46et ça,
40:47ça n'a rien à voir
40:49à mon avis
40:49avec des prescriptions
40:52évangéliques.
41:00Brazil
41:01becomes
41:01the second
41:02large
41:02democratic
41:03and secular
41:03country
41:04to adopt
41:05Southern Mountain
41:05inspired
41:06Christian domination.
41:08Hegemonic
41:09policies
41:09that will
41:09have
41:10serious
41:10consequences
41:11there too.
41:14In the
41:15Congress
41:16in Brasilia,
41:17evangelicals
41:18from different
41:18parties
41:18formed
41:19the Evangelical
41:19Caucus.
41:20In 2022,
41:22it includes
41:22211
41:23of the 593
41:25legislators
41:25elected to
41:26the two houses
41:27of Brazil's
41:28National Congress
41:29for 35%
41:30of all seats.
41:32Once a week,
41:33they pray
41:33inside the
41:34Congressional
41:34Assembly Room
41:35itself.
41:36They support
41:37Jair Bolsonaro
41:38and systematically
41:39vote against
41:40abortion
41:40and LGBT rights.
41:42Just like
41:43in the United States,
41:44they push
41:45for evangelical
41:45judges to be
41:46appointed to
41:47the Supreme Court.
41:48We need
41:48your orientation.
41:50We need
41:50your blessing,
41:52oh Pai.
41:52And we know,
41:53oh Pai,
41:54that the Lord
41:54is the general
41:55of the generals,
41:57oh Pai.
41:57The Lord
41:58is the commandant
41:59of the
41:59Major.
41:59of the
42:29protected if
42:30they can
42:31move forward.
42:36Similar prayer groups
42:37have been formed
42:38at the regional level,
42:39like in Sao Paulo,
42:40where Gilberto
42:41Nascimento Jr.
42:43serves and prays.
42:46Bolsonaro
42:46trouxe,
42:47na verdade,
42:48esse reconhecimento
42:50que pra sociedade
42:51brasileira,
42:52ele vem sempre
42:53lembrando
42:54e martelando
42:55nas pessoas,
42:56na cabeça das pessoas,
42:57que nós estamos
42:58aqui,
42:59mas que Deus
42:59tá acima de tudo.
43:06The two
43:07largest
43:07evangelical
43:08ministries
43:09in the country
43:09gave Jair Bolsonaro
43:11their
43:11unconditional
43:12support.
43:13Their
43:13thousands
43:14of faithful
43:14made the
43:15difference.
43:16In Sao Paulo,
43:17political
43:18and religious
43:19leaders
43:19come out
43:20en masse
43:20for the
43:21inauguration
43:22of the
43:22Universal
43:22Church's
43:2310,000-seat
43:24Temple of
43:25Solomon,
43:25a gigantic
43:26replica
43:27of the
43:28biblical
43:28Temple
43:28of Jerusalem.
43:35With a fortune
43:36estimated at
43:37over a
43:37billion dollars,
43:39Edir
43:39Macedo
43:40has become
43:40the richest
43:41preacher
43:41in the
43:41world.
43:43The
43:43owner
43:44of
43:44Record TV,
43:45Brazil's
43:45biggest
43:46television
43:46station,
43:47has founded
43:47his own
43:48political
43:48party.
43:49His
43:49goal,
43:50build
43:51a new
43:51nation
43:51of
43:52God.
43:57So he
43:58did
43:58the
43:59production
44:00of
44:00audiences.
44:01What he
44:01invented
44:02was the
44:02production
44:03of
44:03public.
44:04She
44:05started
44:06looking at
44:06the church
44:07as another
44:09instrument.
44:10The church
44:11is not
44:11the place
44:12of
44:12cult,
44:12the place
44:14of
44:16community
44:17meeting.
44:17The church
44:18is a
44:19instrument
44:19of
44:21power.
44:26Macedo's
44:26political
44:27religious
44:27domination
44:28has been
44:29criticized
44:29by other
44:30evangelicals,
44:31like the
44:32Baptist
44:32preacher
44:32and actor
44:33Enrique
44:34Vieira.
44:35On the
44:35night of
44:36March 15,
44:372018,
44:38he is in
44:38the streets
44:39of Rio,
44:39preaching
44:40in honor
44:41of
44:41Marial
44:41Franco,
44:42a black
44:43feminist
44:43politician
44:44who was
44:44assassinated
44:45the night
44:46before.
44:51Malafaia
44:52and
44:52company
44:52matarian
44:53Jesus
44:54hoje.
45:19Eles
45:20ganha
45:21força,
45:21transborda
45:22a
45:22sociedade
45:22e vira
45:23projeto
45:23de poder
45:25institucionalizado,
45:25vão matar
45:27como mataram
45:28as mulheres
45:29na fogueira,
45:30como mataram
45:30os indígenas,
45:31achando que estão
45:32fazendo a vontade
45:33de Deus.
45:33Olha a complexidade
45:34disso.
45:36Eu acho que no Brasil
45:36cresce um fascismo,
45:37sim.
45:46depois que o Bolsonaro
45:48vem à ofice,
45:49racismo
45:50surge.
45:51Describe
45:52pelos evangélicos
45:53como pagãos
45:54e diabolicos,
45:55os templos afro-brasileiros
45:56são vandalizados.
45:59Então tem um projeto
46:00muito bem
46:01instrumentalizado,
46:02político
46:03que tem impacto
46:03social,
46:04e é por isso
46:05que cresce.
46:06Então esse é um projeto
46:06muito nítido,
46:07muito claro,
46:08e passou a fazer
46:10um discurso
46:10de demonização,
46:11criou um inimigo
46:12interno,
46:13que é umbanda
46:14ou canombré.
46:15Essa ideia
46:16de você criar
46:17o outro como demônio,
46:18a cultura do outro
46:19como demônio,
46:21primeiro você tem
46:22o perigo
46:23de destruir
46:24a cultura
46:25dos vários segmentos,
46:27dos indígenas,
46:28da própria população negra,
46:30esse é um perigo.
46:38indígenas e amazônia
46:40indígenas e amazônia
47:01realmente dono
47:02da sua terra indígena,
47:03isso que nós queremos aqui.
47:04falar agora pelo Amigo
47:06Escuro e Associação
47:08Brasileira
47:08é um perigo,
47:10ou Trump,
47:11há uma lógica
47:12que não é
47:15anti-enviração,
47:17é certamente
47:18human-centred
47:19em uma forma
47:19que justifica
47:20qualquer tipo
47:22de uso,
47:23ou explodimento
47:24da terra
47:25ou a subterrânea
47:26resources
47:27para man's
47:29advancement
47:30under this
47:30model
47:31of a pursuit
47:32of
47:33the kingdom
47:34of God.
47:39Before he died
47:41in his sleep
47:41at the age
47:42of 99,
47:43did Reverend
47:44Billy Graham
47:45ever realize
47:45the devastating
47:47geopolitical effects
47:48of pairing
47:49the evangelicals
47:50and political
47:51power?
48:00As we continue
48:01this wonderful
48:02celebration,
48:03let me ask you
48:04to...
48:04The funeral
48:04is held
48:05with great ceremony
48:06on the family's
48:07estate
48:07in Charlotte,
48:08North Carolina.
48:11Both President Trump
48:12and Vice President Pence
48:14attend the service.
48:20While Billy Graham
48:21kept his own counsel
48:22late in life,
48:24Franklin Graham,
48:25his heir,
48:26makes his support
48:27of Donald Trump
48:27and his promise
48:28to foster Christian
48:30social hegemony
48:30very clear.
48:33I knew President Trump
48:35before he was president.
48:37We had a friendship
48:38and we still have
48:39that friendship.
48:40What I appreciated
48:41about him
48:42was that he had
48:45a strong team
48:46of people of faith
48:46around him
48:47and so as evangelicals
48:50we had friends
48:52that would listen
48:53to our cause.
48:57God is the only one
48:58who can turn
48:59this country around.
49:01Jerusha,
49:02Billy Graham's
49:03granddaughter,
49:04spent many hours
49:05with her grandfather
49:06at the end
49:06of his life.
49:08She refuses
49:09to say whether
49:10or not Billy Graham
49:12supported Donald Trump.
49:13She is the first person
49:15in their family
49:15to publicly criticize
49:17religious interference
49:18in politics.
49:20I don't believe
49:20that my president
49:22needs to be a Christian
49:23and a lot of people
49:24don't understand that
49:25but I know
49:27who's in charge
49:27of the world
49:29and of the country
49:30ultimately
49:30and it's Jesus.
49:31So I don't need
49:32the person
49:33in the White House
49:33to share my faith.
49:36However,
49:37if they're going
49:37to claim my faith
49:38I want them
49:39to represent it accurately
49:41and that's
49:41what wasn't happening.
49:45Donald Trump's presidency
49:47will profoundly divide
49:48American society
49:50stoking social
49:51and political violence.
49:53Organizations proclaiming
49:55their Christian faith
49:56attacked the Capitol
49:57on January 6th
49:58and women's right
49:59to abortion
50:00has been severely
50:01restricted
50:02in many states.
50:03You know,
50:04it may seem far-fetched
50:06to non-American audiences
50:07but if these guys
50:08get their way
50:09it'll be Saudi Arabia,
50:11Iran,
50:11and the United States
50:12are going to be
50:13the big theocracies.
50:17The Christian hold
50:18on the government
50:19that has been
50:20dividing America
50:21has also been exported.
50:23Trump's America
50:25has taken a series
50:26of steps
50:27not only in Brazil
50:28but also in Israel
50:30where it has
50:31reinforced its presence
50:32and offered
50:33unconditional support
50:34to Christian Zionists
50:36who finance settlements
50:37in hotly contested
50:39Palestinian territory.
50:42Europe is not immune
50:43to this worrisome wave
50:45either.
50:45New forms of
50:47Christian nationalism
50:48are emerging
50:49on the continent.
50:50In both Eastern
50:51and Western Europe
50:52they flirt with
50:53the far right
50:54and the other
50:55least democratic elements
50:56in the political landscape.
50:58of being
51:10a woman
51:11a man
51:26in power
51:28and a man
51:45Legenda Adriana Zanotto
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