The pastor accused First Lady Rosângela da Silva, of distorting his speech about evangelical women and said that “these people have the devil of lies.”
The leader of the Assembly of God Vitória em Cristo reacted to the 4th National Meeting of PT Evangelicals, on Monday (8). The sociologist said there that he had “the nerve to go on a social network and said that I was talking to insignificant women”.
The spark rekindled a confrontation that dates back to August last year, when Janja met with faithful from the Coletivação Church in Ceilândia (DF), the birthplace of former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro.
“He is insignificant, because every woman is important to me. It doesn’t matter if I had a meeting with two, with three, with 200, with a thousand. What matters is that I talked, what matters is that I listened”, said Janja almost a year after that meeting.
On the occasion, Malafaia mocked the meeting at the Ceilândia church, “filled with people who have no shred of expression in the world, no woman of expression in the evangelical world.” The website Metrópoles recorded his reaction at the time. “I know who’s who in the evangelical world. There’s not one, one of hundreds of prominent women in the evangelical world.”
Malafaia told Sheet this Tuesday (9) that the first lady purposely distorted old speeches to create a political fact. “These PT people have the devil of lies. I said they were holding meetings with women who had no expression, that is, who had no leadership.”
There is a “monumental difference”, according to the pastor, between “expressionless” and “insignificant” women. “A woman may have no expression in society, but be extremely significant to her home, her family and her church. They misrepresent to denigrate.”
Malafaia also responded to Janja’s attack, using the logic of political relevance to counter the label of “insignificant”, and the first lady’s refusal to call him by the title of pastor.
“If I’m insignificant, why is she citing me? I’m a real, real pastor, of more than 200,000 members. What she thinks doesn’t change reality. It’s the same thing as me saying that I don’t call him president. Whether I like it or not, whether I criticize him or not, he is the president. This shows the mediocre level of these people. In fact, they are very worried about me.”
The backdrop to this fight is control of the narrative over evangelical women, a demographic group crucial to the electoral aspirations of the left and right. Malafaia said he will still post a video about Janja on his social networks.
