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In general, they dicker about in political issues (basically as Republicans) as if politics is actually about politics and not just a mask for the ultimate religious battle that is going on between Good and Evil. And they adopt the "conservative line" as if the Republican party is actually conservative as it is portrayed in the public sentiment and not what it actually is. Knowingly or unknowingly it is a leavening system for liberalizing the country and the world.
Pope St. Pius X described this system perfectly in his encyclical condemning the Modernists: Pascendi Domini Gregis. It can be applied to the culture outside of the Church as well....
"27. Although evolution is urged on by needs or necessities, yet, if controlled by these alone, it would easily overstep the boundaries of tradition, and thus, separated from its primitive vital principle, would make for ruin instead of progress. Hence, by those who study more closely the ideas of the Modernists, evolution is described as a resultant from the conflict of two forces, one of them tending towards progress, the other towards conservation. The conserving force exists in the Church and is found in tradition; tradition is represented by religious authority, and this both by right and in fact. By right, for it is in the very nature of authority to protect tradition: and in fact, since authority, raised as it is above the contingencies of life, feels hardly, or not at all, the spurs of progress. The progressive force, on the contrary, which responds to the inner needs, lies in the individual consciences and works in them -- especially in such of them as are in more close and intimate contact with life. Already we observe, Venerable Brethren, the introduction of that most pernicious doctrine which would make of the laity the factor of progress in the Church. Now it is by a species of covenant and compromise between these two forces of conservation and progress, that is to say between authority and individual consciences, that changes and advances take place. The individual consciences, or some of them, act on the collective conscience, which brings pressure to bear on the depositories of authority to make terms and to keep to them.
G. K. Chesterton explained it also so well and humorously....
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types--the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution."
Yes of course we're going to have all sorts of accusations flying around to obscure the truth. And the crazier we can make them ALL out to be, the more we can ignore the actual manipulations of the culture.
President Bush is unfortunately just lying when he says, "We're talking about people who have hijacked a religion of peace." Islam is not a religion of peace, it is being changed into a religion of peace (secular peace) by the forces that are doing evil's bidding. All you have to do is read the papal bulls calling for the first Crusades.
He and his brother Jeb also gave the weakest stand possible on Terri Schiavo. As Mel Gibson commented, it sure is amazing how a judge can stop a president and a governor and the entire congress in favor of their own judicial activism, but if his activism involves putting the 10 commandments in a public place, he's gone in less than a week.
Those are just some examples that I'm using to illustrate the broader point. Now as far as the establishment of a One World Religions goes. Again I cite Pope St. Pius X...
And now, overwhelmed with the deepest sadness, We ask Ourselves, Venerable Brethren, what has become of the Catholicism of the Sillon? Alas! this organization which formerly afforded such promising expectations, this limpid and impetuous stream, has been harnessed in its course by the modern enemies of the Church, and is now no more than a miserable affluent of the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer.
We know only too well the dark workshops in which are elaborated these mischievous doctrines which ought not to seduce clear-thinking minds. The leaders of the Sillon have not been able to guard against these doctrines. The exaltation of their sentiments, the undiscriminating good-will of their hearts, their philosophical mysticism, mixed with a measure of illuminism, have carried them away towards another Gospel which they thought was the true Gospel of Our Savior. To such an extent that they speak of Our Lord Jesus Christ with a familiarity supremely disrespectful, and that - their ideal being akin to that of the Revolution - they fear not to draw between the Gospel and the [French] Revolution blasphemous comparisons for which the excuse cannot be made that they are due to some confused and over-hasty composition.
So, taking that and a good reading of the signs of the times, Is there an effort to establish a "one world religion?" Answer; Yes. Is it the Vatican? The current heirarchy seems to play both sides of the issue. Sort of progressive and conservative.
All of that is true regardless of who orchestrated the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The end result is to make a looney sounding comparison between 911 and the establishment of a one-World religion. So, the establishment of a one world religion is also thrown on the ash heap of conspiracy theories. The best place to hide a lie is between two truths. The best place to hide the truth is between two lies. Like Christ being hung between two theives. It's guilt by association.