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Interfaithism -- the belief that all religions, while different on the surface, are each valid pathways to God. 

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The Religion of the New World Order
Interfaithism

Pope John Paul II
Embrases the Quran and kisses it

Revelation 13 describes a time when the people of the world will find a common form of worship. How might this new religion come to pass? Enter Interfaithism, the belief that all religions are valid pathways to God. This anti-biblical world ethic has now become mainstream.

While the Interfaith movement appears on the surface to be harmless enough, in reality this is the beginning of the end. Ultimately, we will be forced to make a decision between Jesus and Satan. We will choose between our exclusive claim on Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior vs. a watered-down anti-biblical document. We will be asked to accept that spiritual truths can be found in all of the world's religions and that there is more than one path to heaven. A Bible-believing Christian cannot agree to this.

This article appeared in the July/August 1999 edition of Endtime magazine.

Conflicts among nations continue to ignite dangerous wars on our earth. Global planners have concluded that war will never be eliminated unless some form of world government replaces the era of the nation-state. However, it has now become obvious that the desired world political unity will never be achieved without bringing an end to religious conflict. This is why New Age global planners have quietly given birth to the United Religions Organization. They believe that the future of our world depends on all of us becoming tolerant and respectful of each other's beliefs.

The new world religion, now in the world's birth canal, will not be Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Wicca, or Muslim. It will be Interfaithism -- the belief that all religions, while different on the surface, are each valid pathways to God.

How will the needed harmony among the world's religions be achieved? How will it be possible to convince multitudes of world religious leaders to compromise on their doctrines of religious exclusivity for the greater good that the globalists say will come to humanity? An atmosphere of tolerance and mutual respect must be created.

Unbeknownst to the majority of people on earth, the creation of such an atmosphere has been well underway for many decades. It is only now, since the quest is virtually achieved, that the planners are going public. This is why organizations like the United Religions can gain so much influence so quickly. This also explains why Pope John Paul II was willing to declare in 1994 that Muslims also have salvation. (See Catechism of the Catholic Church, pg. 242-243) While this declaration is as untrue today as it was a few decades ago, times are different. Today, the declaration is applauded.

Shaping a Global Spirituality

Since the 1950's, the United Nations, led by its visionary "Prophet," Robert Muller, has been on a specific and premeditated course to unite the world's religions. In his book, New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality, Muller does not hide the agenda. He explains how his Catholic upbringing led him to ultimately embrace Buddhism, the atheistic religion of UN Secretary General U Thant who was his immediate superior at the UN for many years. Muller calls for a UN-led global government and global religion as mankind's only hope.

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Another man who has had extreme influence upon the religion of the UN is Hindu guru Sri Chimnoy. He writes,

"No human force will ever be able to destroy the United Nations, for the United Nations is not a mere building or a mere idea; it is not a man-made creation. The United Nations is the vision-light of the Absolute Supreme, which is slowly, steadily, and unerringly illuminating the ignorance, the night of our human life. The divine success and supreme progress of the United Nations is bound to become a reality. At his choice hour, the Absolute Supreme will ring his own victory bell here on Earth through the loving and serving heart of the United Nations"

This is the religious philosophy that guides the organization which will soon have unchecked global authority. And it started long ago.

This coming December, the Chicago-based Parliament of the World's Religions, led by New Age leader Jim Kenney, will convene for the first time in six years in Cape Town, South Africa. The Parliament of the World's Religions is another organization exerting tremendous influence toward the new global interfaith movement. Its last conference, in 1993, was the largest gathering of religious leaders in history. This year's event promises to dwarf its predecessor.

The first groundbreaking ecumenical interfaith conference of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions dates back to 1893. So we see that the desire to establish a new religion based on a compromised version of many religions is not new at all. In addition to Christians, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims, attending 1993's CPWR, were voodoo and druid priests, witches, snake charmers, Zoroastrian sun worshippers, and representatives of Lucis Trust, an organization whose original name was Lucifer Publishing Company.

Included in the concepts being promoted by the CPWR (www.cpwr.org) are the need for an international order of peace, world disarmament, world courts, global control over property rights and natural resources, and global economic laws which they consider fair.

Another organization dressed in religion, yet having the same political agenda, is the World Council of Churches, founded in 1948. In 1994 at a meeting in Jerusalem, the WCC stated,

"After the Second World War, the establishment of the World Council of Churches signaled the resolve of the ecumenical community both to work for the fuller unity of the church and to participate in the struggle for a new just world order."

Enter -- the United Religions
In his book, New Genesis, Robert Muller stated,

"I would wholeheartedly support the creation of an institutional arrangement in the UN or in UNESCO for a dialogue and cooperation between religions."

The initiative, signed by director William Swing, an Episcopalian bishop, and by Muller himself, seeks to

"...bring religions and spiritual traditions to a common table, a permanent, daily, global assembly. There, respecting each other's distinctness, they will seek to make peace among religions so they might work together for the good of all life and the healing of the earth."

In late June, 1999, the United Religions annual San Francisco conference wrapped up, with their charter now virtually finalized and ready for ratification. Since each of our religions will soon be asked to join this organization and commit to its precepts, it would be interesting to understand from where the UR is coming on certain issues of significance to Bible-believing Christians. For this, we go to the charter.

A theology of acceptance and diversity

We first read that

"the United Religions is a bridge-building organization and not a religion."

While there is some measure of comfort that the words Origin and Source are capitalized, it is difficult for a Bible-believer to agree that Wicca, Zoroastrians, and Luciferians, to name but a few UR member religions, derive their wisdom from God. Lucifer is not God (see Isaiah 14:12).

The charter goes on,

"The United Religions promotes dialogue. A theology of acceptance will help the world's people explore common ground. Our awareness of unity within religious diversity promotes ever-increasing kinship."

Whatever theology we adhere to, it must include acceptance. This means acceptance of Lucifer, Allah, Brahma, and Buddha. We are then told that, as part of our theology, we must learn from these religions and embrace them. This is Interfaithism.

"We believe," the charter continues, "that the wisdom of our religious and spiritual traditions should be shared for the health and well being of all. Therefore, as communities of faith and interdependent people rooted in our faith, we now unite for the sake of peace and healing among religions, peoples and nations, and for the benefit of the earth and all living beings."

In other parts of the charter, we see direct connections to the United Nations. The United Religions endorses the UN's International Criminal Court.

"We unite to support freedom of religion and belief and the rights of all individuals, as set forth in international law,

"The UR & wealth redistribution"

Other "non-religious" items on the UR's agenda include open support of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities. They parrot UN policy on "Sustainable and Just Economomics."

The UR charter defines Sustainable Economics as

"an economic system that utilizes the world's finite resources prudently and sparingly."

Just Economics is

" a system in which created wealth is distributed in a fair and equitable manner... Currently, a tremendous gap exists between the rich and the poor. The twenty richest nations contain 17% of the world's population, yet own 75% of the world's wealth."

Is it coincidence that wealth redistribution is also the central plank of Communism? Is it coincidence that the UR is based at the Presidio in San Francisco, the same place as Mikhail Gorbachev's U.S. Headquarters? Gorbachev, the man who allegedly killed Communism, still openly admits he is a communist.

The UR & environmentalism

"The human community and the natural world will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will both perish,"

begins the UR's dissertation on environmentalism.

"We live in an interdependent web of life; all living beings are both sacred and connected. Recent human activities, which have taken place in aggressive opposition to nature, have resulted in an ecological crisis that includes: deforestation, the loss of wild lands, overpopulation, the loss of productive agricultural lands, degradation of the resources of the water planet, dependence on non-renewable energy sources, and extinction of species."

The suggestion is made to increase global awareness of this serious environmental crisis. The UR proposed solution is to promote

"solstice and equinox festivals which celebrate the changes on the planet."

The United Religions intends

"to lead the way in addressing the issue of global climate changes, by modeling the use of new, renewable energy sources and energy-efficient technologies, and creating pressure for lower-cost sources of renewable energy."

A spiritual component is being planned for the opening ceremonies of the first Olympics in the new millennium, scheduled for Salt Lake City. The UR has plans to participate in the high profile opening ceremonies.

Political unity requires religious unity

The United Nations needs the United Religions. As explained in the charter,

"There is a dire need to revisit the global economic system from a religious/spiritual perspective in order to make some fundamental changes."

Without religious unity, world government has no chance. Hence -- United Religions.

Global ethic not optional

Perhaps the most noteworthy contribution to humanity from the CPWR is its endorsement and promotion of a document called Towards a Global Ethic, An Initial Declaration, written by Hans Kung, a Catholic theologian, and associate Robert Muller. His global ethic, which is fast being adopted as Interfaithism's creed, outlines a set of basic core values to which all of the world's religions can agree.

Well, almost all. One of those core values is to believe that each religion is a valid pathway to God. A Bible-based Christian cannot accept this. To not accept this, of course, is not a license for Christians to insult, hate, and kill people of other religious persuasions. And yet, Bible-based Christianity is held as a threat to the New World Order. The battle, after all, is spiritual.

As globalism expert Gary Kah reports in his new book, The New World Religion,

"Mr. Kung makes clear that participation in this new 'ethic' (religion) will not be optional."

"Any form of... church conservatism is to be rejected... To put it bluntly: no regressive or repressive relgion -- whether Christian, Islamic, Jewish or of whatever provenance -- has a long-term future... If ethics is to function for the well-being of all, it must be indivisible. The undivided world increasingly needs an undivided ethic. Post modern men and women need common values, goals, ideals, visions. But the great question in dispute is: does not all this presuppose a religious faith?... What we need is an ecumenical world order!"

Kung's global ethic takes platforms of justice and peace, women's rights, environmentalism, and tolerance of sin, and turns them into humanistic commandments that replace the Ten Commandments.

The empowerment of global religion

Will the United Religions Charter and Hans Kung's global ethic have authority over us one day? If not, then there is little cause for concern. The fact is, however, the United Nations is behind the United Religions. They call themselves sister organizations, but the fact is, one gave birth to the other.

No, the United Religions and the global ethic have no authority over us -- today, that is. Its authority will come from the United Nations when the time is right.

The stakes are suddenly higher. The UN's recent activity in Kosovo under the auspices of its world army, NATO, exemplifies its power, and that power increases with each passing day. The UN has authority and is beginning to wield it more and more.

Any nation that does not bend to the will of the International Community faces economic sanctions or military action. The time will soon come when economic sanctions will be imposed at the individual level. Individuals will be forced to pledge allegiance to the United Nations and its now-forming world religion. If they refuse, they will be boycotted by the cashless society of the New World Order. They will not be permitted to buy or sell.

The ultimate choice

While United Religions and the global ethic appear on the surface to be harmless enough, in reality this is the beginning of the end. Ultimately, we will be forced to make a decision between Jesus and Satan. We will choose between our exclusive claim on Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior vs. a watered-down anti-biblical document. We will be asked to accept that spiritual truths can be found in all of the world's religions and that there is more than one path to heaven. A Bible-believing Christian cannot agree to this.

If you were ever faced with the ultimatum by the International Community to sign the global ethic, what would you do? Decide now. And don't flip a coin.

Interfaith Christian? There is no such thing. Add this term to your list of oxymorons.

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