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.
You're troubled.
World Nut Daily is competing with Debka for the number one goofball conspiracy site on the net......
The URI has been promoted so well that the first I've heard of it is a book denouncing it.
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gives us a stunningly plausible picture of the global religious landscape of the 21st century.
He better plan on learning to read Arabic.
Sounds like they're pitching that book to California, the land of fruits and nuts. It's not a real story.
René Guénon was a convert to Islam. Penn has a strange way of explaining the purpose of his book by quoting Guénon. Bishop Swing and the URI may be strange, but not to the degree of Guénon and his conversion.
On June 13 President Bush spoke to a group of muslim exchange students and made the following statement.
"I believe there's an almighty god who speaks to different faiths -- and I believe freedom is a gift from that almighty," the president said.
Most Christians would take that to be an explicit endorsement of a "many ways to God" religion by a man who claims the name of Christ.
This has been reported in several publications but you can read the actual text of the speeh here> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050613-2.html
God may speak to people in different faiths, but He is not necessarily telling them what they want to hear. Nevertheless, even the pagans have the law of God written in their hearts, as St. Paul said. I don't see the President's words as necessarily religious syncretism.
If that's the most ambitious org then I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Ask an Episcopalian about William Swing.
1893? Another conspiracy that started decades ago. *SIGH* The problem with all of these idiotic conspiracy theories is that they completely contradict and smash into each other, like 2 freight trains on the same track. People who love a conspiracy, don't just love one, they usually love them all, especially if it's a GLOBAL conspiracy. Of course, since they don't use their brain for sane, rational thought, they are simply unable to come to terms with the fact that all of these idiotic conspiracies completely cancel each other out. It's not like holding 2 opposing viewpoints at the same time. It's like holding 10, 20, or 100 different viewpoints at the same time.
Bump. It is regrettable that conservatives have to constantly attack their religious allies.
But where is the Initiative? When someone says that there is a United Religion Initiative I would think that it could be posted so we all can read it. Otherwise, this is poppycock.
As well as LewCrockwell.com
I think WND has already won that contest hands down. Debka isn't so much "goofball", but rather has an editorial policy of publishing any remotely plausible rumor concerning its area of interest, just in case it turns out to be true. Possibly this is due a genuinely goofy desire to be able to claim they were "first" to break significant stories (hardly a significant accomplishment, since anybody who matters knows that a story's appearance in Debka is not an indication that it's likely to be true, and that when the occasionally manage a scoop it's no more remarkable than a stopped clock being right twice a day). But I suspect Debka actually has a more strategic plan, namely to flush out information about the possible validity of specific intelligence tips, by generating a lot of Internet chatter on the precise topic. And given the part of the world Debka focuses on, "remotely plausible" covers a whole lot of ground. If I read a story about public pre-schools in the U.S. having kids dress up as suicide bombers and receive serious instruction on how to become real ones, I'd immediately dismiss it as tin-foil hat nonsense. But in the Middle East, that's documented reality, so what counts as borderline plausible includes some pretty wild tales.
As you ask in your posted headline, where's the proof that George W. Bush supports this? It's articles like these which undermine whatever credibility World Net Daily still has.
I tend to concur with your observations.
"But where is the Initiative?"
It's right here> http://www.uri.org/
United Religions Initiative (URI) was founded in 2000 by an extraordinary global community committed to promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation and to ending religiously motivated violence. Today the URI includes thousands of members in over 50 countries representing more that 100 religions, spiritual expressions, and indigenous traditions.
Actually, folks, the movement really is growing worldwide. Stay away from the conspiracy sites and do your own research. I've been aware of it for a couple of years now and it is a mix of New Age spiritualism and the H.P. Blavatsky, Alice Bailey theosophy movement which began before the turn of the 20th century. Alice Bailey formed Lucifer Trust, now called Lucis Trust, which is an official U.N. NGO and which publishes U.N. material. Don't dismiss it as just another conspiracy.
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