After attacking Lula during the campaign, Edir Macedo now speaks of forgiveness: 'he was elected by the will of God'

247 - Bishop Edir Macedo, a supporter of Bolsonaro and leader of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and owner of Record TV, argued that the Christian position to adopt after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's victory in the second round of elections is to "forgive" the president-elect. "We cannot hold grudges, because that's what the devil wants," Macedo stated, according to [source missing]. Folha de S. Paul"The devil wants to destroy your faith, your relationship with God because of Lula or politicians. It won't work, my daughter, move on, let's look ahead," she concluded. 

The religious leader's change of discourse – who during the campaign made harsh attacks against Lula and the PT – occurred during a live broadcast in which Macedo said he had "prayed for Jair Bolsonaro (PL), but that Lula's victory was a divine choice." "I prayed, 'Oh God, I want Bolsonaro to win.' But may Your will be done, above all, because You are the one who commands," he said. 

According to him, Lula "supposedly won according to God's will, but we, the believers, were the ones who won." Later in the live broadcast, the neo-Pentecostal leader emphasized that "people must forgive so that they may be forgiven. That's what Jesus teaches, what we believe."

According to the report, "the decision to forgive Lula is seen as self-serving by his evangelical peers. After Lula's victory, several Bolsonaro-supporting pastors toned down their rhetoric and reminded everyone that the Bible commands us to pray for the established authority, but Macedo's gesture raised this level of benevolence towards the man who, until yesterday, was being denounced by practically all the country's prominent national leaders."

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