A Moral de Cuecas: a decepção do ideal cristão do bem comum diante do pragmatismo político da gestão Lula

Abstract

The moral indisposition of Christian Left that integrates Lula’s administration at federal government can be explained by three symptoms which would justify this diagnosis: private education, laicism in education and Frei Betto’s resignation. The indisposition between churches and politics is born from the contradiction between the Christian ideal of the poor and the popular nature of popular anthropology which is much more for Macunaima, the “hero without any character”, than for Chico Mendes. The moral ambiguity of Brazilian people is evaluated starting from critical reading of Media which surrounded the cases of the Priest Julio and the character Cap. PM Matias from the film “Tropa de Elite”. In that sense, the background of the relationship between pastoral and politics in Brazil provokes indisposition because, with the instauration of Lula’s government, there is a need that the religious morals must submit to the republican morals.