A four-year initiative: `Colorado's Covenant with Children', was launched in July 1996. Priorities will include community service programs for youth, parent support and education, access to health care, housing and hunger relief. The concept of "It takes a Village to Raise a Child" is being implemented through the Colorado Council of Churches in conjunction with the Children's Defense Fund, based in Washington D.C. Marian Edelman toured classrooms at Warren United Methodist Church and forty community leaders joined her on a visit to St. John Episcopal Cathedral. They envision a wide range of grassroots programs involving all congregations in Colorado. Plans include a child care network, violence prevention and intervention, housing and hunger relief, teaching and valuing tolerance and empathy. The program has gained wide support from religious, political and business leaders. Some critics mistrust its link with the Children's Defense Fund because it donates to Planned Parenthood and homosexual groups, groups that are not to the best interest of children.
We live in a suburb of Denver and have been notified by our civic leaders that we have been chosen as a pilot program and are to volunteer our services as citizens getting involved with neighborhood programs to basically investigate and report families for alcohol abuse, drug abuse, guns, and child abuse so that intervention can be applied by citizen volunteers. The shocking news was that this program falls under the criminal justice department and its name is "It takes a Village.. " It brought back memories of the 1930s only much more comprehensive. It sounds like children could possibly be removed from parents who like alcohol or have behaviors detrimental in any way to a minor. It remains to be seen what the American public will do with these kinds of mandates. The writing on the wall is disturbing to say the least.
Today's news got even worse, millions of dollars have been released from the White House into these programs for the underprivileged in Colorado, to be funneled into organizations who deal with those issues which will also include churches. Many will be reorganizing to qualify for this funding, which will bring desired results.
Next we find that the Colorado Council of Churches lost one of it's most highly respected, idolized members, Denver's Archbishop J. Francis Stafford. He was called the `right guy for a very important job' recently by Rev. Michael Sheeran, president of Regis University. The Archbishop is to head the council in Rome directing the activities of non-clerical Catholics. "..He has accepted the Pope's call to assume one of the highest posts in the Vatican. As president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Stafford, 64, joins an elite band of prelates with the equivalent of cabinet-level status and ongoing access to John Paul II.. Many Vatican posts are headed by cardinals and it is possible - though not assured - that Stafford will eventually win that position. There are about 150 cardinals, the highest ranking in the church except for pope." (Rocky Mountain News, 8.21.1996)
Stafford believes that the reason for this appointment was his superb job of creating an international Catholic World Youth Day in 1993. Pope John Paul II attended personally in Denver. Our opinion differs from Stafford's. The Archbishop has many more desirable qualifications which will be of great help to the papacy in Rome politically. His name is very well known in Colorado and he can be considered an activist in the ecumenical agenda, as well as bringing religion into the political arena. "On May 14, 1996, he blasted President Clinton's failure to support a ban on partial-birth abortions and governor Romer's veto of a bill outlawing same-sex marriages. On November 22, 1994 he issued a pastoral letter condemning uncontrolled growth and elitism in the Colorado ski country." (Rocky Mountain News, 8.21.1996)
"How partisan are the Bishops?" asked Robert A. Sirico. "In preparation for the election year, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) issued a statement of "Political Responsibility." Numerous critics have asserted that the statement, despite its claim to be nonpartisan, aligns the Catholic Church with the positions of the Democratic Party, with the notable exception of abortion. Defenders of the USCC have vigorously challenged that assertion. A close comparison of passages from the USCC statement with passages from the 1992 platforms of the two major parties on the same topics provides.. the information necessary to judge the partisanship of the USCC statement: I. Jobs..; II. Health Care..; III. Welfare..; IV. Children..; V. Taxes..; VI. Crime..; VII. Civil Rights/ Affirmative Action..; VIII. Education..; IX. Environment.. and X. Abortion..." (Each area includes the USCC statement and it's comparison with respective statements of the Democrats and Republicans).. The similarity of policy messages in the Democratic and USCC documents is striking. Both stress egalitarianism, government action, and redistribution of resources."
"The Republican platform, in contrast, emphasizes the limits of government and the potential of nongovernment institutions - family, free market, and civil society - in meeting human needs. Defenders of the USCC statement [nevertheless, feel] it is not unreasonable to conclude that the statement provides a religious gloss on the policy directions advanced by secular Democrats, a gloss that is otherwise missing.." (First Things, Robert A. Sirico, October 1996, p.10)
"There is a new note of urgency even of solemnity, in statements by Catholic [B]ishops in the wake of recent developments around partial-birth abortion, doctor assisted suicide, and same-sex marriages.. "the culture of death" seems to have struck a responsive chord... Also in the general public.. these three questions - infanticide, euthanasia, and same-sex marriage - galvanized many Protestant and Catholic leaders to speak out with unwonted directness. One expects that their witness will be increasingly specific with respect to electoral choices as Bishops and others refuse to be intimidated by the usual outcry about violating "the separation of church and state." If anyone still thinks that talk about `the culture of death' is just high papal rhetoric, it is time for him to return from sabbatical [leave]." (First Things, Richard J. Neuhaus, October 1996, p.94)
Ralph Reed, Ph.D., of Christian Coalition, warns Christians, while "changing the soul of American politics, they must not lose their own souls to the lust for political power.. Reed laments that evangelical Protestants have no real theology of politics.
Moralistic passion is not enough.. More thoughtful evangelicals today are taking their political philosophy and oral theology from Catholic social thought.. This may suggest fascinating possibilities for the future of Christian Coalition as it develops the Catholic connection through its new affiliate, the Catholic Alliance. Some of those most closely connected with the Coalition, including Pat Robertson himself, are also strong supporters of the initiative "Evangelicals and Catholics Together".. Reed rightly wants a theology and philosophy that will equip Christians for "governing." Among the candidates for that role are Niebuhr, Murray, Kuyper, and Catholic social teaching, particularly the last, which is articulated by John Paul II.." (First Things, Ralph Reed's Real Agenda, by Richard J. Neuhaus, October 1996 p.42)
The book edited by Charles Colson and Richard J. Neuhaus, `Evangelicals and Catholics Together', was nominated in the "Top 25" books of the year. "Christianity Today" stated that this constitutes a significant endorsement of the aims of ECT by leading evangelical thinkers.
The focus is "One Nation Under God" and human rights which were not established by the state according to this movement, but have their source in the transcendent dignity of the human person created by God" As we should know, God's Word does not agree with this statement. Obviously this agenda is part of the eventual world wide agenda of one leader and one unified universal church. To join this Christian Democracy all but Catholics will have to leave their beliefs behind.
Episcopaleans and Lutherans Consider Full Communion "Together"
Ecumenism is coming up with new descriptive nouns. It was Unity in Diversity, a buzzword for the New Age Movement as well as the Apostate church, is now called denominational communion.
"None of the American proposals aims at merging national denominations in the way that in recent history produced the Presbyterian Church USA, the United Methodist Church, and the ELCA.. It is has now retreated to a vaguer communion of worship, witness, and service in which the several bodies retain their "distinct ecclesiastical systems." .. The proposal is to declare a common ministry, but, differing policies.. The danger.. is proposals are no more than "status quo ecumenism.. " says Michael Root of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France. He comes to the conclusion that the end result will be a sort of liberal religion which is undistinguishable. But is this vague definition of socalled Christianity not also affecting Catholicism?
To confirm that diluting of religious organizations is rapidly emerging with a new twist. "Episcopalians and Lutherans are considering `full communion'." This communion would "include sharing clergy and taking full part in each other's worship services." (Rocky Mountain News, 8.30.1996)"The historical "Concordat of Agreement" would affect 5.2 million members of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the 2.5 million members of the Episcopal Church.. The agreement, which each body will vote on in separate church-wide assemblies, recognizes each church as the essentials of "one Catholic and apostolic faith. It calls for joint ordination of Bishops and the right of members to share communion during each other's Sunday liturgies. The proposal falls short of a full merger because the ELCA, which is located in Chicago, and the New York City - based Episcopal Church would remain separate structural entities. The churches also retain the right to disagree on specific points of faith and practice." (Ibid.)
In the meantime "the Pope promotes 24-hour worship of the wafer-god. In his Redemptor Hominis encyclical he urges the church leaders to make adoration of the wafer the center of church life. In response, many churches are asking their parishioners to join a 24-hour-a-day vigil before the "Blessed Sacrament." Special Roman Catholic missionaries are touring US Catholic churches establishing chapels of perpetual adoration of the communion wafer. They claim to have approximately 1,000 such chapels in operation."Perpetual adoration is simply a way of making Jesus the center of life of the people of God as the Holy Father has exhorted us," says Priest Martin Lucia, head of the missionary effort. But this is a strange "Jesus." Few Protestants realize that the Roman Catholic Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible... The wafer (along with the wine) becomes, according to the Council of Trent, "the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ." After the "consecration" of the wheat wafer by the official priest the Council declares: "that there is a change of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and the whole substance of the wine into blood; and this change the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation." Protestants are so accustomed .. that the elements are symbols of the covenant of the cross, that it is hard for them to believe otherwise.." (Battle Cry, July/August 1996)
Catholicising A Nation
Bishop Hubbard of Albany, New York, spoke on: "A Vision for Parish Planning and Restructuring." "We must develop communities.. which witness to the fact that we are concerned about persons and personal values and the signs of that concern will be acts of warmth, kindness, and presence among members." The Bishop authored the .. `creed' of `Call of Action'.. to reach out to Catholics alienated by the rigidity of the Church's teaching and suggests.. working on an ecumenical or interfaith basis.." (First Things, Richard J. Neuhaus, August/September 1996 p. 78)
Sure enough, the title of the 1996 Midwest Catholic Conference near Notre Dame University was: "Converting America to the Catholic Faith" and Robert Zins attended and wrote about it. "We are always gratified to encounter sincere Roman Catholics who really believe in the `Council of Trent' and are as aghast at the ecumenical movement as we are." The focus by speaker, Mr. Potter, a Protestant, was on the Reformers.. Their individualism usurped the authority of the Catholic Church, "which was the beginning of the end for Christian civilization," he stated. "His thesis was that individual salvation led to revolutionary ideas. In his eyes, the West was lost the minute individuals began to think that they could have a relationship with God apart from the Roman Catholic religion. Mr. Potter felt that salvation is only possible within Romanism.. Christ established the Roman Catholic church and through it alone is the grace of salvation forthcoming.. all graces.. come through the one and only Roman Catholic religion."
To indicate his disdain for Mr. Potter's position, Robert Zins continued: "We believe that outside of Christ [being in Christ by faith alone] there is no salvation.. The Protestant Reformation served to obliterate the blockade to God which was established by Roman Catholicism.. Luther.. lifted from the weary shoulders of the faithful the awful Romish burden of `auto soterism' (self salvation). Luther exposed it as a man-made system.. Step by step the Reformers liberated themselves from guilt and fear of the Romish prelates and experienced the life-changing Gospel of the Grace of God, found only in the finished work of Christ."
"Indulgences were at the heart of Luther's protest.. What is an indulgence?.. An indulgence is the pardon given by Holy Church of the temporal penalties which are our lot here below or in purgatory, after we have received the pardon of our sins." (Question 135 & Answer, Belgian Catechism) "How can we earn indulgences?.. A person must be in a state of grace and fulfill the conditions taught by Holy Church."(Ibid., # 136) Even though Mr. Potter believed that we can only escape Barbarism under the authority of the Roman Catholic religion, Mr. Zins stated that "we believe that Barbarism first takes its shape in the specter of man-made religion controlling the population through the manipulation of the Gospel of Christ. God forbid that we should ever surrender the Gospel to such tyranny again."
"The most interesting lecture of all was Mr. Vennari's.. entitled: "Catholicizing a Nation (America): The Six Points of Father Dennis Fehey's book.. (Kingship of Christ and the Reorganization of Society, by Father Dennis Fehey).. 1) Have the government recognize the Romanist religion as the one true church.. 2) That [it] is the guardian of morals and values.. 3) That it looks to Rome for guidance in the development of law.. 4) The unity and sanctity of marriage.. Family unit is indispensable to the development of a permeated Catholic environment... Education of America's youth of the Mystical Body of Christ as existing in the Romanist religion (in other words the Eucharist), the source of grace for salvation.. 5) The protection of private property against the intrusion of the state either through unfair and aggressive taxation or social policies which prevent land ownership.. and 6) the sixth point is the use of money to promote agricultural and industrial society. In these six points, we see the long arm of Rome.. European monarchs justified their actions as sanctified by God through approval of Rome." "The Puritan Christians fled.. vowing `Never again.'"
"I heard a different voice at this conference. I heard the voice of the Romanist 'King Jesus' who would determine the viability of a marriage by law and force if necessary. I heard the voice of enforcement through the laws of the land that legislate Romanist religious principles. I heard economic persecution in the name of Jesus for those who refuse to adhere to the implications of Romanist religious practices.. We do not believe that Rome can Catholicize Americans unless Rome absorbs Evangelicalism. In this case, the true believer faces the darkest days yet ever on our American soil. May God in His mercy grant us resolve to stand against Rome and those who champion their false hope." (Theo-Logical, 2nd Quarter 1996, Conference Review p.8 by Robert M. Zins)
Idolatry of Teresa and Mary fosters Ecumenism
It is happening. "Alabamians being pulled toward Catholicism. Mobile, AL - A Poll shows Alabamians regard two Roman Catholic figures, Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II, a possible measure of change in an overwhelmingly Protestant state. The Mobile Register - University of South Alabama survey found that the Rev. Billy Graham ranked just behind Mother Teresa and just ahead of the pope. When asked to state, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much respect they had for several well-known religious figures, Alabama residents gave Mother Teresa the highest average ranking, 8.3, followed by Mr. Graham with 7.9 and the pope with 7.3. "Maybe the most significant thing is that it shows a considerable change in the anti-Catholicism of the South," said Dr. David Harrell, a history professor and religion scholar at Auburn University." (Today, the Bible & You, March 1996 p. 3)
Could it be that the `powers to be' are using the American formula of getting people to vote in certain directions? "I know much more about Roman Catholicism today than I did when I was a practicing Catholic.. (i.e.) the Catholic who claims he is "born again." That assertion would almost never be made except in conversation with an evangelical, who would no doubt be thrilled to hear those words. However, what the committed Catholic means is, that he received his spiritual birth when he was baptized - either as an infant or as an adult when he converted to Catholicism. That's not what Jesus meant when He told Nicodemus he "must be born again". (John 3:3-8) The deliberate adoption of biblical terms which have different meanings for Catholics has become an effective tool in Rome's ecumenical agenda.." "I grew up worshiping Mary and praying to her more frequently than to God, and so did all my Catholic friends. We did not merely slip into idolatry against the teachings of the Church; we were taught it. The rosary, with its 156 prayers to Mary, was not our invention.. It's the common everyday Catholic experience.."
"Many evangelicals.. seem to be oblivious to this "evangelical" seduction by Rome. The problem has proliferated because of the influence which these church leaders exert over millions of evangelicals worldwide. When they give the impression that Catholics are a part of the body of Christ, the multitudes are impressed and the pontiff rejoices." (Good News for Catholics (Summer 1996), The Evangelical Seduction, by T.A.McMahon)
President Reagan Believed the Vatican to be Third Superpower
Reader's Digest, October 1996, featured John Paul II and the hidden history of our time taken from "His Holiness" by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi. It is a story of his childhood and how he eventually found himself at the Vatican. "During Ronald Reagan's first term as President.. A fervent Catholic who attended Mass most every day, William Casey, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, had arrived on a distinctly earthly mission. He was about to hand over to John Paul II a single remarkable photograph taken by one of America's spy satellites hundreds of miles above the earth... Since the moment the American satellite had photographed the pope in Poland, Casey and President Reagan firmly believed that there was a potential third superpower in the world - the 109 - acre Vatican city-state - and that its monarch, Pope John Paul II, had at his command a remarkable arsenal that might tip the balance of the Cold War.."
"..By making available to the pope the intelligence the satellite technology provided - helped seal an alliance between the Holy See and the Reagan Administration. In fact Reagan took office on January 20, 1981, the first contacts between the United States government and the pope had already occurred.. The pope was the beneficiary of some of America's most carefully guarded secrets: information from satellites and intelligence agents; from electronic eavesdropping; from policy discussions at the White House, State Department and the CIA.. [During the `Solidarity' crisis in Poland] Ronald Reagan invoked economic, diplomatic and technological sanctions against the U.S.S.R. and Poland.
"Six months later, on June 7, 1982, Reagan arrived at the Vatican for a summit meeting, to personalize the remarkable secret alliance between John Paul II and himself.. In 1990.. democracy was fully restored in Poland.. and finally, the Berlin Wall fell in November.. The Communist dominos were tumbling. When others tried to credit the pope with the downfall of communism, he would say, "I didn't cause this to happen. The tree was already rotten. I gave it a good shake, and the rotten apples fell."" (Readers Digest, October 1996) The Vatican participating in world politics nor it's rise to the throne as a superpower in the world, as President Reagan anticipated early on, should not be a surprise to us.
Pope John Paul II came through with flying colors getting his appendix removed and all is well according to the Vatican. There was fear that there may have been a bigger problem from previous injuries. When he was shot, approximately two feet of intestines were removed from his bowels. His age is showing and travel has become more and more cumbersome.
The world is looking now to leadership beyond the United States. . In light of the coming changes in Rome, Malachi Martin states: "There is an unspoken alliance today between powers inside the Vatican and leaders of major international humanist organizations who would change the Roman Catholic Church from a sacred institution to one whose primary function is to act as a stabilizing social force in the world. They see the church as the only global structure able to do this. Who are these powers? Cardinals of the church, the men who will elect the next pope. Monolithic faith is gone. They think John Paul II is too conservative. Conciliarists [the New Age cardinals] and non-church globalists think the same way. Neither likes the pope's policies. They are preparing for the selection of the next pope." (Today, the Bible & You, August 1996. USN & WR 6.10.96)
United Nations Plans Universal Communion
Who are their puppets?
Let's go to the United Nations and see what has surfaced there recently. "The United Nations plans to unify all religions.. Universal Communion: A common interface for all religions.. "If successful, this single system would be able to simultaneously interpret the essential doctrine of any and all major world religions, in terms of one `common' set of principles. This set of common principles and interpretations could then conceivably act as an `interface between traditions', through which their interrelationship with one another could be harmoniously mediated.. Global governance by the year 2000. The Commission is calling for a World Conference On Global Governance in 1998 "for the purpose of submitting to the world the necessary treaties and agreements for ratification and implementation by 2000"."From the San Jose Mercury News March 2, 1996: "Episcopal Bishop William E. Swing will take off on a three-month global tour to build support for his dream: establishment of a world body of `United Religions' in San Francisco. There, in a proposed complex at the Presidio, representatives of the great spiritual traditions would sit and learn to cooperate, rather than fight, in the name of God.
"His itinerary includes visits to Mother Teresa in Calcutta and the Dalai Lama in Dhamamsala, India.. King Hussein in Jordan, high level Muslim leaders in Cairo, and Rabbis in Jerusalem. There will be more stops in Istanbul, Rome, and Canterbury for Swing, who will ask religious leaders to send representatives to the first charter-writing session for the United Religions. He expects it to take place in San Francisco in 1997.. The United Nations Charter includes the Ghandian principle of non-violence and condemn violence in all its forms and embrace all peoples and all religions in all their diversity." (Mainstream, Banner Ministries, Summer 1996)The Berean Call, September 1996 by Dave Hunt: "The Southern Baptist presidents themselves should explain why the SBC has been in "dialogue" with Roman Catholics (as have the Lutherans, Assemblies of God, et al.) for years.. Catholics are "dialoguing" with Buddhists. A recent Catholic-Buddhist conference in a Kentucky monastery purported to find "common ground" between Christ's suffering on the cross and the Buddha's "Four Noble Truths" and Buddhist meditation. (Buddhists, Catholics Find Common Ground, Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1996)
"Pat Robertson's `Christian Coalition' unites Catholics, Mormon, Moonies, Jews and other non-Christians in political / social action. To justify the word `Christian' in the title, its director, Ralph Reed, claims that the Coalition is bringing together "people of faith." That "religiously correct" phrase subtly equates any "faith" with "Christians"!..
"When did Christ say, "Preach those things the major faiths agree on"? Isn't the gospel intended to convert the lost? Echoing Schuller, the Dalai Lama declared at the Catholic-Buddhist conference mentioned above that "members of different religions should not try to convert one another, but rather exchange ideas, study each other's traditions and conduct pilgrimages to each other's shrines (Los Angeles Times, op.cit.) We expect such advice from a Buddhist, but not from Christian leaders!.. Ecumenism sacrifices the very heart of Christianity for a false "unity".
"Sun Myung Moon's front organizations (Family Federation for World Peace, Women's Federation for World Peace, Summit Council for World Peace, etc.) promoted "morals and family values." It is amazing to see who will join the self-professed "Messiah" in working for these "religiously correct" goals. Moon just hosted (7/31/96 - 8/2/96) another convention in Washington D.C. The highly paid speakers (reportedly $80-150,000 each) included presidents Ford and Bush, Robert Schuller, Ralph Reed, Gary Bauer (president of Family Research Council, "the lobbying/research arm of Focus on the Family") and Beverly LaHaye. Entertainment was by Pat Boone and family.
"Moon says that mankind fell from grace because Eve had sex with Satan, Christ failed in His mission and Moon is the true Messiah. While evangelical speakers were carefully not to offend their high-paying host with the true gospel, Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, boldly proclaimed their false gospel. What a denial of Christ.. for evangelicals to speak, on the same platform where the host declared that he is perfecting the work "left uncompleted by Jesus"! (Washington Post (7/30/96; 8/1/96); Washington Times (8/1/96)."Even J.I.Packer has succumbed to this delusion. Writing in CT, he transmutes Christ's command to proclaim the gospel into a call "to re-Christianize the North American milieu.. [and] rebuild the ruins.. [of] North American culture.."! (The Berean Call 8.1996; (Christianity Today (Dec.12, 1994), 36)) .. As the New York Times reported 3/30/94, "They toiled together in the movements against abortion and pornography, and now leading Catholics and evangelicals are asking their flocks for a remarkable leap of faith: to finally accept each other as Christians."
"Even the secular press rebukes such hypocrisy: "Lock up your sons, Zimbabwe. The World Council of Churches is coming to town. Its officials have secured agreement that homosexuals attending its assembly in Harare in 1998 will be allowed to indulge their desires without fear of prosecution. Homosexual acts are banned in the African nation, and punishable by 12 months in prison.. The council would almost certainly, in other circumstances, disapprove of the "cultural imperialism" of a demand that a Third World country change its laws to suit outsiders.." (Daily Telegraph, London, May 2, 1996.)
"Immorality inevitably follows the compromise of biblical truth, the despising of sound doctrine and the rejection of the gospel that characterize denominations belonging to the World Council of Churches.. Those Protestants who deny the doctrine of eternal security, which they disparagingly label "once saved, always saved," are unwittingly clinging to a major Roman Catholic dogma that subverted the Reformation. No Catholic can be certain that he is eternally saved. That is why prayers are offered and masses performed for the dead. However, even confession to a priest for absolution and indulgences offered by the Church are losing their appeal because after being forgiven, a subsequent mortal sin (such as failure to attend mass weekly) nullifies all past forgiveness and leaves one dangling over the flames of hell once again.. Cardinal O'Connor told "the New York Times, "Church teaching is that I don't know, at any given moment, what my eternal future will be. I can hope, pray, do my very best - but I still don't know. Pope John Paul II doesn't know absolutely that he will go to heaven, nor does Mother Teresa of Calcutta.." (The New York Times (February 1, 1990), B4)Mother Teresa expressed at a Presidential Prayer breakfast: "One of the most demanding things for me is traveling everywhere - and with publicity. I have said to Jesus that if I don't go to heaven for anything else, I will be going to heaven for all the traveling with all the publicity, because it has purified me and sanctified me and made me ready to go to heaven." (The Berean Call, 7/96 (Christianity Today, March 6, 1995).
Put this information together with the latest "U.N. Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) which met in June 3-14 in Istanbul. It painted an alarming picture of the 21st century community. The American ways - free speech, individualism, travel, and Christianity - are out. A new set of economic, environmental, and social guidelines are in. Citizenship, democracy, and education have been redefined. Handpicked civil leaders will implement U.N. "laws," bypassing state and national representatives to work directly with the U.N. And politically correct "tolerance" (meaning "the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism" as well as "appreciation" for the world's religions and lifestyles) is "not only a moral duty, it is also a political and legal requirement." ..
U.S. Secretary Henry Cisneros, endorse this revolutionary plan, and our U.S. Department of Education is already establishing the framework for its local implementation.. Regarded as international law, the Habitat Agenda negotiated in Istanbul includes all the intrusive action plans outlined at former U.N. world conferences..
"The "international law" would limit not only the size of the world population but also housing, production, consumption, parenting, communication, and religious expression.. Training in global citizenship would begin with the universal education system outlined at the 1990 U.N. World Conference on Education for All. It matches Goals 2000, America's version of the international education system. Already molding minds around the world, the U.N. plan for "lifelong learning" indoctrinates young and old with the socialist ideology and Earth-centered spirituality designed to create solidarity, an essential element to the envisioned world of peace..
"Traditional beliefs simply don't fit the U.N. vision for 21st Century communities.. "I have gathered leaders with tremendous wisdom and prestige," began Habitat Secretary-General Wally N'Dow. "They are bringing the spiritual dimension - the only ingredient that can bind societies together." He chose an American moderator who would add credibility to the discussion, Robert McNeil (of MacNeil-Lehrer), "One of the spiritual lights of the media industry today." This hand-picked "interfaith group" left little doubt that solidarity meant a universal shift to the new globalist - New Age paradigm (or world-view). "Change your whole way of thinking, because the new order of the spirit is confronting and challenging you," said Millard Fuller, president of Habitat for Humanity.."What's needed is an interfaith center in every city of the globe," said James Morton, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, who organized the panel. "The new interfaith centers will honor the rituals of every.. faith tradition; Islam, Hinduism, Jain, Christianity [a crossless version that blends with other beliefs] .. expressions needed to bind the people of the planet into a viable, meaningful, and sustainable solidarity." (Colorado Christian News, August 1996: For a copy of Berit Kjos' full U.N. Report write Box 60524, Palo Alto, CA 94306)
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