Posted on 06/17/2005 2:58:43 PM PDT by CHARLITE
'False Dawn' exposes powerful, secretive movement for new global faith
What do George W. Bush, George Soros, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Dalai Lama have in common?
All have thrown their support to the United Religions Initiative. And what is the URI? According to a new blockbuster book, "False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, And The Quest For A One-world Religion" by Lee Penn, it's something that doesn't bode well either for a sovereign America or for Christianity.
The interfaith movement, explains investigative reporter Lee Penn, began with the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, and has since grown worldwide. Although this movement has been largely unknown to the public, it now provides a spiritual face for globalization, the economic and political forces leading from nationalism to a one-world system, he says.
The most ambitious organization in today's interfaith movement is the United Religions Initiative, or URI, founded by William Swing, the Episcopal bishop of California. In "False Dawn," Penn, a Catholic ex-Marxist, exhaustively documents the history and beliefs of the URI and its New Age and globalist allies, the vested interests that support these movements, and the direction they appear to be taking.
The interfaith movement is no longer merely the province of a coterie of little-heeded religious idealists with grandiose visions, he says. The URI's proponents have ranged from billionaire George Soros to President George W. Bush, from the far-right Rev. Sun Myung Moon to the liberal Catholic theologian Hans Küng, and from the Dalai Lama to the leaders of government-approved Protestant churches in the People's Republic of China.
According to Penn, the interfaith movement, including the URI, is being promoted by globalist and New Age reformers who favor erosion of national sovereignty, marginalization of traditional religions, establishment of "global governance," and creation of a new, Earth-based "global spirituality" – in effect, a one-world religion.
Therefore, warns "False Dawn," the URI and the interfaith movement are poised to become the spiritual foundation of the New World Order – the "new civilization" now proposed by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union.
As Penn explains it:
French metaphysician René Guénon, in "The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times," spoke of the "anti-tradition" (the forces of materialism and secular humanism) finally giving way to the "counter-tradition" (the satanic inversion of true spirituality), leading to the regime of Antichrist. The "anti-tradition" weakens and dissolves traditional spiritualities, after which the "counter-tradition" sets up a counterfeit in their place. Since Guénon's time, as is well known, anti-traditional forces have greatly advanced worldwide. It is less well-known that counter-traditional movements have also made great strides, and now stand closer to the centers of global political and religious power than ever before. The "counter-tradition" is making inroads on the political and cultural Right, as much as it is doing on the Left.
"False Dawn" painstakingly documents these trends, and speculates on their future development. In so doing, the author takes investigative reporting to the threshold of prophecy, and gives us a stunningly plausible picture of the global religious landscape of the 21st century.
Not a chance
"Won't happen Lum, here is why....(Ask Abner)"
I agree, I was being sarcastic
According to the faith that GWB professes, there is only one God and that this Almighty God spoke originally to the jews, bringing His law to them. He then came in the person of Jesus to bring salvation to the jews first, then the gentiles. He requires exclusive worship and denies the existence of other gods. Worship of other gods, or the supposition of the existence of other gods is blasphemy and those that did so, records the bible, earned the severest punishments.
If this Almighty God speaks to the people of other religions it is to inform them that they need to repent of their false religions and false gods.
And if you think that the Christian's God and Allah are one in the same, then you are, without a doubt, blind to what they both teach.
As I stated in another post the concept that God has had an influence in other religions is nothing new.
I agree that it is nothing new, but it definately is not in accordance with the God of the bible.
Christianity might (I would disagree) be a load of crap, but at the least, lets have some intellectual honesty with regards to what the bible teaches.
The difference between these two is that in the first case there is no justification for the political equality of another religion from a theological point of view. Where as in the latter's case because they are only a corruption, or an example of incompleteness theologically, there is some validity to treating them politically equal.
The above, was your original question - and I answered it more than satisfactorily.
With regards to the equality and protection of other religions under the US Constitution, I am strongly for that, except where those religions might, in there practice, break some other law, or they are clearly immoral, i.e human sacrifice, or child molestation.
Regardsless of that equality, I state again, GWB risks offending his God by his speech,
"I believe there's an almighty god who speaks to different faiths -- and I believe freedom is a gift from that almighty."
If his Almighty God speaks to different faiths, it is only to tell them that Jesus Christ is the only true freedom. To leave that out is to tell half a truth and to confirm muslims in there false religions.
He may be PC, but he risks offending his God. Do you agree or disagree?
So there is absolutely not one truthful tenet in any other religion but Christianity? All truth comes from God so, if any other religion besides Christianity has an article of faith, doctrine, tradition, precept, or axiom which is any way true both from the Christian perspective and from human reason, where did it come from?
Watch out for what's next. One World Underware.
I can't address what you don't ask.
Although I can say that the heaven's declare His glory and the firmament his handiwork. Also, that He has written His law in every person's heart - we all know right from wrong.
Everyone, in their soul, knows that God exists and knows right from wrong. We may deny Him intellectually or refuse to obey the moral conscience that He gave us. We might also seek to appease or to please Him apart from any revealed knowledge, thus creating a false god and a false religion.
It is foretold in the Bible. If you believe that the Bible is God's word, then it isn't a "nut" conspiracy. It is just the truth.
Actually, no. You are speaking, not from the Bible, from from C. I. Scofield's footnotes thereon. Truly, the Scofield Reference Bible, and the dispensational system it birthed, was a master stroke for the Enemy of God and man. Within a generation, the majority of Bible-believing Christians also came to believe that God had ordained the failure of His gospel, and the global triumph of evil. You ahve to admit, turning Christians into cheerleaders for Satan's minions had to be one of the greatest propaganda feats of all time!
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