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TechnoratiIt seems everyone is parroting the words of soon to be Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, who boldly declared the current financial crisis to be an "opportunity for change." The latest group to take up the global change mantra is the World Council of Churches.
The WCC claims to speak for 349 Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox churches representing 560 million Christians in 110 countries. The truth is, most conservative; Bible-believing Christians stopped listening to the WCC years ago. My own denomination, Southern Baptists, withdrew from the Baptist World Alliance in 2004. The BWA is directly affiliated with the WCC and has long been a strong supporter of WCC policies. Recently, the World Council of Churches released public statements supporting homosexual marriage, recognizing the presence of the Holy Spirit in "other religions," condemning the free market system of economics, and condemning the war on terror.
Now they see the world financial crisis as an opportunity to redistribute wealth on a global basis. At the conclusion of their meeting in Doha, Qatar the WCC released a statement saying, "Rich, industrialized countries have...an ethical and moral obligation to pay for the ecological damages they inflicted on poor countries through their disproportionate appropriation of natural resources and unsustainable lifestyles." They also said the world financial crisis presents a "historic opportunity for world leaders to take responsibility and enact transformation towards building an equitable and sustainable global economic system that meets the economic, social and cultural rights of all, women and men, and nurtures the environment."
There you have it.... radical redistribution of wealth through government coercion from developed countries to under developed countries and the funneling of money into the bogus "climate change" agenda of the UN. It is the perfect storm of left-wing policies. For years, the UN has been looking for the vehicle that will make them the dominant force for a one-world government. Climate change and the global financial crisis presents the best opportunity for the UN to put pressure on Western nations to bankrupt themselves and submit to a financial system controlled by the UN. The World Council of Churches is the pseudo spiritual organization that supports that agenda, giving religious gravitas to the flawed idea that the problem of poverty can be solved by the “Robin Hood” method of taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
On January 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced legislation that would become know as “The War on Poverty.” Critics called the plan “tin-cup urbanism” as big cities around the country lined up for the first government bailout. The plan called for a huge redistribution of wealth through taxation and the expansion of the welfare rolls. The result… the welfare rolls increased by 125 percent from 1965 to 1970 alone. Billions of dollars were spent to eradicate poverty between 1968 and 1980. Charles Murray summed up the result of this effort in his book Losing Ground saying, “In 1968 13 percent of Americans were poor. Over the next twelve years, our expenditures on social welfare quadrupled and in 1980, the percentage of poor Americans was 13 percent.” Today, with close to one trillion dollars spent since the war on poverty began, the percentage of those who are poor stands at 12.7 percent. Continue »
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