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The UN Quietly Wages War On Religion
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- Catholicism has been blamed for "reinforcing attitudes and values that make women subordinate to men and discriminate against women" in Nicaragua.
Calgarian Hermina Dykxhoorn, president of the Alberta Federation of Women United for Families, has seen the UN executive at work. Over the last decade, she has been a pro-family lobbyist at UN conferences in Beijing, Istanbul, Rome and other venues.
"At the 1996 Istanbul Conference, the director general of the World Health Organization (then Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima) told a press conference that 'the three great monotheistic religions are not compatible with the New World Order'," Dykxhoorn, a Christian Reformed Protestant, recalled.
"I heard him say it. And when you're a member of one of those monotheistic religions, it's rather chilling."
But the UN Secretariat isn't opposed to all religion, she said. "They don't mind Hindus and Buddhists, because they've got more flexible moral codes. And they love the Bahai's because Bahai's are big on world government. But they don't like Orthodox Judaism, Christianity or Islam -- any religion with an absolute moral code is an obstacle to them."
Sometime ago, a "No current Freeper by that name" made a point about this:
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But, as we try to figure out what's going on in the world, think of this bit of strangeness:
1) The Western Establishment is at war with "radical" Islam for fomenting terrorism...The Western Establishment has found reasons for being at war with the world's three biggest religions.
2) The Western Establishment is at war with the Catholic Church for tacitly accepting pedophilia...
3) The Western Establishment is at war with Israel for oppressing those poor Arabs...
Imagine the context wasn't world events, but the business world. Imagine first ABC found itself under financial attack. Then CBS found itself under financial attack. Then NBC found itself under financial attack. Would anyone assume it was "random events" hitting three similar targets at once? Wouldn't everyone be looking for some power bloc which would stand to benefit from the battle?
Hasn't the destruction of religion been an agenda item for one or two (in)famous global movements?!
[House Wants Clergy Housing Bill (The Hot War Against Religion) ]
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It's hardly just the UN. It's the entire Western Establishment...
-- KotS
The bad news
about diversityPush for fairness had led to bias against truth
I've documented a lot of bad reporting, a lot of journalistic malpractice in "Coloring the News," but I haven't seen anything quite as egregious as the denial and avoidance of the gay subtext to the Catholic church scandal.
By Jeff Bercovici
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What I mean by that is news organizations have reported the scandal as a problem of pedophilia in a way that endorses calls for abandoning celibacy and for abandoning the bar on ordaining women.
But most news organizations have, it seems, deliberately refused to acknowledge the facts showing that a vast disproportion of the priests accused of abuse have been gay, and that their victims have with rare exceptions been pubescent and teenage boys, not prepubescent children, and that the rise of the lavender clergy over the last 20 years, to the point where between 20 and 50 percent of all Catholic priests now are estimated to be gay -- that this rise really has been disastrous for the church.
You just don't get news organizations that are willing to report it.
New York Times reporters like Laurie Goodstein -- she's taking her cues from GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
You read her stories and then you go hunt the GLAAD web site -- their media advisories are almost going whole cloth into Laurie Goodstein's reporting. It is a true scandal.
There is a scandal in the church, and I very much acknowledge that. I'm somebody who is Catholic. I’ve seen three priests I've known in my life -- a former pastor and two high school teachers -- I've seen their misconduct splashed across the pages of the New York tabloids.
So I know what I'm talking about here. Personally, I'm very saddened by the scandal, and I think that the level of coverage is very appropriate. I’m saddened by the cover-up in the church hierarchy.
At the same time, as a news professional, as a journalist, I'm just as concerned with the cover-up that's going on in the media.
These reporters and editors don't want to go near the story. It’s the elephant in the living room. It's a very vital dimension of the story. It's not the sole element of the story, but it's one of several, and yet it isn’t being reported in the way it should be.