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Lord Have Mercy [US WCC Delegates Apologize for US]
Weekly Standard ^ | 3/1/2006 | Mark D. Tooley

Posted on 03/03/2006 4:15:06 AM PST by Unam Sanctam

AMERICAN CHURCH OFFICIALS pleaded for forgiveness for the sins of the United States last week--from the Iraq War, to Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Accord, to the racism exposed by Hurricane Katrina, to economic exploitation, and for the more general American sin of idolatry.

The clerics were representing 34 Protestant and Orthodox denominations in America at the Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

"Our leaders turned a deaf ear to the voices of church leaders throughout our nation and the world, entering into imperial projects that seek to dominate and control for the sake of our own national interests," lamented the apologetic Americans. "Nations have been demonized and God has been enlisted in national agendas that are nothing short of idolatrous."

The Geneva-based WCC, which includes 340 churches totaling 550 million members, has been governed by leftists for decades. About 25 percent of the world's Christians belong to Protestant or Orthodox communions in the WCC. Thanks largely to leadership by leftist Europeans, the WCC long ago abandoned traditional Christian notions of ecumenism and evangelism in favor of radical liberation theologies that demonized the West, capitalism, and even Christianity. (Perhaps most famously, the WCC grudgingly refused to criticize the Soviet bloc during the final decades of the Cold War, while supporting and sometimes actually funding Soviet backed insurgencies.)

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1 posted on 03/03/2006 4:15:07 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

Where are the Seperation of Chuch and State clowns now?


2 posted on 03/03/2006 4:16:38 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("Good men don't wait for the polls. They stand on principle and fight."-Soul Seeker)
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To: Unam Sanctam
Forgiveness for turning down the KYOTO TREATY ?!?!?!

Pack your bags & get your sorry self over to France, you ingrate.

3 posted on 03/03/2006 4:18:15 AM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: Unam Sanctam

Does anyone still have the illusion that they are Christian?


4 posted on 03/03/2006 4:19:15 AM PST by RoadTest ("- - a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people." - Richard Henry Lee, 1786)
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To: Unam Sanctam

This is an example of why I never go to church any more.


5 posted on 03/03/2006 4:19:47 AM PST by oblomov (Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
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To: Unam Sanctam
Liberal clerics begging forgiveness for not our embracing socialism - and now Islam. Yeah, our country stands guilty of having people who don't want to stand up and defend her abroad. It is they who should ask us for forgiveness instead of presuming to speak in our country's name.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

6 posted on 03/03/2006 4:21:27 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Unam Sanctam

Who are the US WCC delegates?

The Dixie Chicks?!


7 posted on 03/03/2006 4:23:51 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: oblomov
"This is an example of why I never go to church any more."

I guess that's as good an excuse as any.

8 posted on 03/03/2006 4:24:04 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: goldstategop
Don't fret, soon they will be asking forgiveness for following a white, anti-abortion, anti-feminist rights, homophobe, racist named Jesus.
9 posted on 03/03/2006 4:24:34 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: MNJohnnie


Better yet, where's the IRS? The branches of said "church" in this country ought to have their tax free status reevaluated.


10 posted on 03/03/2006 4:25:07 AM PST by onyx (IF ONLY 10% of Muslims are radical, that's still 120 MILLION who want to kill us.)
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To: Unam Sanctam
Here are some members of WCC:

Member Churches

A Google of World Council Churches communism brings up some interesting stuff.

11 posted on 03/03/2006 4:33:11 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: Unam Sanctam
The WCC is a socialist front organization founded in the mid-20th Century. The NCC is the US "local" organ of it.

They are dedicated to the destruction of the US Constitution and the creation of a socialistic world.

12 posted on 03/03/2006 4:38:57 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Kennedy and Kerry, the two Commissars of the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts!)
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To: oblomov

It is one of the major reasons why I left the ELCA and moved to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.


13 posted on 03/03/2006 4:41:05 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Kennedy and Kerry, the two Commissars of the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts!)
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To: Unam Sanctam

*****"Our leaders turned a deaf ear to the voices of church leaders throughout our nation and the world, entering into imperial projects that seek to dominate and control for the sake of our own national interests," *****

Its no wonder that our leaders turned a deaf ear to these clowns, if this is the crap they are spouting.


14 posted on 03/03/2006 4:43:16 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: RoadTest

Not I!


15 posted on 03/03/2006 4:54:00 AM PST by pctech
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To: 8mmMauser

Wow. What a remarkable specifically vague list of church names they've put forth. The uninformed, looking at that list, would assume that it represents the vast majority of denominations of Christianity, both in the U.S. and abroad.


16 posted on 03/03/2006 4:54:01 AM PST by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
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To: oblomov

Not a good excuse for lack of church attendance. Just find you a church that doesn't support the stupid WCC. There are plenty who do not.


17 posted on 03/03/2006 4:57:02 AM PST by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan and a Cancer on Society)
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To: oblomov

Yeah, every Church I ever attended is full of hypocritical sinners.

If they can't get their act together someone needs to do it for them.


18 posted on 03/03/2006 5:05:39 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

Yeah, every Church I ever attended is full of hypocritical sinners.

If they can't get their act together someone needs to do it for them.

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1 - The church exists for sinners, not pure-as-the-driven-snow type like yourself.
2 - The non-churched world is also full of hypocritical sinners.
3 - The "someone" of whom you speak is the Lord and He is working full time to achieve just that.


19 posted on 03/03/2006 5:12:23 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Here come I, gravitas in tow.)
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