I lived near the Anhembi Slondron in Sao Paulo for three years, but the truth is that since I arrived in the land of drizzle, the avenues next door are my way, I have been here 20 years every day, even days before and after the carnival.
I’ll admit one thing: I think there’s something great, at Carnival. Of all the most impressive for me is the wit of floats. They are usually taken to the smoodrome a few days before the parades and stop there, in the concentration area. Sometimes, as I pass through Olavo Fontoura [name of the avenue where Anhembi is located], I park the car to see more closely and for a while some of them. They’re amazing! I’ve never been to a parade. I don’t even intend to go [the reason will be clear below]. But there are things that impress me about him, too. Think structurally: creative subjects, organized in communities, gathered to compete that tell the best story through music and dance. It’s the kind of thing that can only exist because God exists.
- At this point.
- You expect me to recommend Carnival; or.
- At least.
- That justifies the presence or the audience of those who.
- Pretending to be Christians.
- Decide to participate in or attend the party.
- So let me disappoint you.
- There is something great about carnival.
- But that is far from justifying the participation of a Christian in this carnival.
- And the reason is very simple; So simple that my initial idea was to write a text with the following title: “Can a Christian skip the carnival”.
- Which would only contain one sentence: “I swear you have questions on this subject”.
- The reason is that in carnival everything legal is at the service of a pernicious moral and religious ideal.
- Linked to prostitution.
- Impurity and greed.
- Which.
- According to the Word of God.
- Should not even be singled out among us (Eph.
- 5.
- 3).
- No matter how much space is given to individual subjectivity to shape the information received from external reality.
- I think it is objectively impossible to be in a place like this.
- Or with your eyes set there.
- At the same time thinking about what He is just.
- Pure.
- Kind and reputable.
- As the Word itself demands (Phil.
- 4.
- 8).
Thus, since when it comes to christian participation in carnival, the position of this text is similar to that of others you have read, learn from it an important principle that can help you in decisions to participate in different cultural events. be a great thing everywhere. But the presence of something legal is not enough to legitimize your commitment, you have to discern the meaning of the whole. For sin, among other things, is perversion; he has the terrible ability to manipulate the gifts God has given us, so that they can be used against him.
As I live in this difficult task of discerning between evil and good, I dream of the day when we, creative subjects, see our story so identified with the story of God that we will gather only to tell his story, in his own. way, with his gifts, for his glory!