Posted on 06/17/2005 2:58:43 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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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