Posted on 08/26/2005 9:49:16 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
Edgar: Jesus' priorities, not politics, guide NCC peace, anti-poverty and eco-justice programs
August 9, 2005, Washington – In remarks today at the Progressive National Baptist Convention’s (PNBC) 44th Annual Session in Detroit, the Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches USA, told the gathering of Baptist pastors, ministers and lay leaders that it is the priorities and commandments of Christ rather than partisan politics that leads the NCC to advocate for peace, ending poverty and protecting God’s creation.
“There are those who try to dilute our witness and mislead our friends by suggesting that the National Council of Churches is a partisan, left-leaning organization,” said Rev. Edgar. “But you know who it is that calls us to pursue peace, fight poverty and injustice, and care for the earth. It is the Prince of Peace who each day of his life showed his bias for the poor and prayed to the Creator who gave us this beautiful world,” he said.
The NCC has come under fire in recent months for advocating for good environmental stewardship, working to end poverty and for calling for a plan to reduce U.S. military presence in Iraq.
In an interview Rev. Edgar said of the issues in which the NCC focuses, “These are not liberal or conservative issues but issues for which God has called us as Christian believers to take responsibility.”
PNBC, which is made up of more than 2,000 churches and 2.5 million members globally, is one of the member denominations of the NCC. With an expected attendance of more than 10,000 for the Annual Session being held this week, the PNBC plans to vote on resolutions that address numerous social issues including the need for universal healthcare, establishment of a living wage, proposed changes in Social Security, the U.S. boycott of Cuba and the war in Iraq.
Go to their website and you will see how loony they are. Someone posted a rant from Patton earlier against the "pulpit killers" - those that used the pulpit to preach pacifism by taking one verse and discarding the entire text.
In the beginning, many faiths got involved, thinking the NCC, was a sort of "alliance" to keep the different faiths from warring with each other. Over the years, many churches are awakening to what exactly the NCC and WCC are "about".
The NCC and WCC have been very active against the School of the Americas. A very important joint understanding, militarily, between the US and other countries. The NCC and WCC stand against it.
You might not immediately find this tidbit at their site. But if you dig far enough into the past, you'll find links also the "Moms Against Nukes" the original "anti-Vietnam" protestor orgs, and like.
The School of the Americas is now "officially" closed as of year 2000. But yet, it continues. (YAY!)
I never heard of the School of the Americas. Does it have something to do with the Council on Foreign Relations?
I never heard of the School of the Americas. Does it have something to do with the Council on Foreign Relations?
Only slightly. School of the Americas is not related to socialism, at all. CFR is merely a bargaining table wherein tinpot dictators, and reasoned, educated persons meet; and assess each other.
I find their politics abhorrent but am required to be in the union as a condition of employment.
Yes. In the mid-90s, many were decrying the Social Security number and usage as the "mark of the beast". It is not. What is the "mark" is this control: Thou shalt not eat nor buy.. without the mark. It's a slow creep. But the unions (AFL-CIO) and organizations such as MOVE-ON (Hollywood) and the NCC/WCC have this "mark" in "creep" mode. I suspect they think of it as a "rising tide".
But their "tide" drowns people; it doesn't save them.
It is important to provide freedom and in forum, for the enemies of freedom to speak and be heard around the world.
OTOH, there is DU, and then there is FR. :)
Of course, the left has in perpetuity railed it was all about "evil money for the evil US "controlling interests". But really, the left is far more interested in "free, controlled monies" than any -- but they put a mask on their faces calling it "humanitarian". And so, the NCC/WCC opposed the School of the Americas -- rather hoping it would go away, so the lefties and the NCC/WCC could more broadly spread its own propoganda on the wings of abettors to a socialist/communist, and/or facist regime.
This council helped to crush Elian Gonzalez via their representative, joan campbell. A klintonian like, castro loving, heartless witch, imo.
The CFR reportedly is a wing of the Fabians of old - a tool to bring socialism to America - at least that's what conspiracy theorists claim.
I was very young, but I remember how the Dems tried to take down someone bigger than Oliver North in providing arms in Central America. Good ole Olie stood his ground. If they helped fight the commies all the power to them.
These people are definitely not christians of any sort.
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