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[piasa]

The anti-Americanism of Riverside, the NCC and the WCC is well known. All three organizations were advocates for the North Vietnamese. All three organizations were advocates for Marxists revolutions in Africa. (Indeed, the WCC contributed to Robert Mugabe’s Marxist army.) All three organizations were advocates for the Marxist revolutions in Central America in the 1980’s. All three protested the deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe. All three condemned the Gulf War. All three condemned US military action against the Taliban. ------ 'Red Queen of "Peace",' By Michael Tremoglie, FrontPageMagazine.com, December 11, 2002

[Martin Tell]

My Orthodox Church (Antiochian) unanimously voted to withdraw from the WCC last summer for this very reason. That was about the same time I was swimming the Bosporus from Canterbury, and finding the water delightful.

[redgolum]

The odd thing is that all the homosexual stuff may produce greater unity in places. As more and more churches and synods fall, the remnants and remainders will be "forced to the middle" so to speak. Those who wish to remain true to Christ will see those in other places who are doing the same, and perhaps that will heal some of the divisions.

But then again it is Friday and I may be to optimistic.

[redgolum]

The odd thing is that all the homosexual stuff may produce greater unity in places. As more and more churches and synods fall, the remnants and remainders will be "forced to the middle" so to speak. Those who wish to remain true to Christ will see those in other places who are doing the same, and perhaps that will heal some of the divisions.

But then again it is Friday and I may be to optimistic.

[markomalley]

I for one hope that the Orthodox leave. The WCC should remain as the sole bastion of the heretics.

[Agrarian]

"...the WCC, which is the union of the Protestants and the Orthodox..."

This statement in the article is very misleading. The membership is Protestant and Orthodox, but it is by no means a union between the two, as you of course know.

The stated reason for Orthodox involvement is to be a witness to the truth of Orthodox Christianity.

The sad truth is that to whatever extent the Orthodox are doing such witnessing (and over the years, their dissenting statements have been very pointed and well-written -- but completely buried and ignored), no-one on the Protestant side is listening.

The net effect is for it to appear to the observing world (and to many Orthodox) that we are indeed saying that we are one with these heretics and participate in and approve of their shenanigans.

The reason why we need to completely cut ourselves off from these organizations is exactly the same reason why we joined them in the first place: to witness to the truth of Orthodox Christianity. Our motivation has not changed, but the circumstances have, and thus our stance must change if we are to be true to the reasons that we joined the NCC and WCC.