The links
and summaries on this page will show that similar buzzwords, visions, purposes
and psychosocial processes are used around the world to drive the transformational
agendas of local community groups, global organizations, the
World Bank and
other "specialized UN agencies," educational and mental health institutions,
and the Purpose-Driven and Church Growth Movements. Believers and unbelievers
alike are embracing the new relational dialogues
and transformational thinking needed
to unify the world and establish solidarity.
January 2010
Obama Faith Council debates
requiring Fed. Fund recipients to remove religious symbols:
"President Obama's faith council came to no clear conclusion after an impassioned
debate on whether religious organizations receiving federal funds should
be required to cover or remove religious symbols in service areas....
"Donohue
called on the administration to close down the faith office whose purpose,
he said, has been radically altered from the original vision.... 'This is
worse than just simply an insult, they're a fraud - because they're posing
as though they are the friends of faith-based programs, when in fact they're
not.' ...'When they hear 'religion,' they think 'church and state,' they
think 'the separation of,' - they think how we can limit freedom as opposed
to expanding freedom.'"
See
CHANGE! New world, New ways,
New minds, New gods
August 2009
Revolution:
"...often... revolutions aren't military conflicts, and the good guys are
the ones trying to keep the revolution from happening. In January 1933,
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by its elected president;
he would spend the next two years consolidating his power with the legislative
connivance of his political allies in the Reichstag.... Lenin and his Bolsheviks
took control of Russia from Kerensky and his Social Democrats -- who had
overthrown the Czar earlier that year -- entirely through parliamentary
maneuvering.... What defines a revolution... is that when it's over
a country has changed not merely its leaders and its laws, but its operating
system....
"With
the election of Barack Obama as president, the liberals have launched a
massive, two-front offensive they believe will end in victory. They have
judged that our public education system is so degraded that only a few Americans
are left who even understand what a democracy is, and how the free market
actually works. They are convinced that the majority of Americans are too
frightened by the current recession to care about preserving the principles
that made us the most powerful, productive and innovative country the world
has ever known.... The speed of their offensive is breathtaking.... The
liberals lecture us incessantly that everything is 'relative,' but that's
not true; some things are absolutes."
Quantum Eschatology:
"The futurists of the 1960s and 1970s were characterized by their zeal to
create 'alternative future scenarios.'They had their own eschatology – mankind
could rewrite its destiny.... They began to work hard at
shifting the paradigm; shifting
the focus from reason to relationships, from
rational thinking to mysticism, from
science to metaphysics. They also began to imagine that they could create
a better man. The New Age movement was directly connected to these early
futurists." See
Mysticism
& Global Mind Change
July 2009
Happy Upside-down Day,
America:
"As the stunned and defeated British army marched out of Yorktown,
their band appropriately played the song 'A World Turned Upside
Down.' Our forefathers pledged their lives and fortunes to fight
and defeat the world's mightiest army and give birth to America....
"George Washington believed our amazing victory was a result of
divine providence. The dream of limited government, personal
freedom and liberty, rugged individualism, and self-sufficiency
that our forefathers fought and died for is rapidly disappearing
in 2009. It is once again a world turned upside down. Our federal
government is turning into the very type of heavy-handed, unaccountable,
and disrespectful government our forefathers despised, fought against,
and warned us to avoid.... Instead of heeding the
warnings of our
forefathers, we have embraced big government and both political
parties have been more than happy to give it to us over the past
45 years...."
God's Warnings for our Times
June 2009
The Character of Nations by Thomas
Sowell: "'The Character
of Nations' is about far more than the fact that there are different behavior
patterns in different countries.... The real point is to show what kinds
of behaviors produce what kinds of consequences -- in the economy, in the
family, in the government and in other aspects of human life.... Among these
patterns have been a concentration of decision-making power in government officials,
an undermining of the role of the family, a 'non-judgmental' attitude toward
behavior and a dissolution of the common bonds that hold a society together,
leading to atomistic self-indulgences and group-identity politics
that increasingly pits different segments of society against each other.
"Those among
the intelligentsia who say that we should 'learn from other countries' almost
invariably mean that we should imitate what other countries have done. Angelo
Codevilla argues that we should learn from other countries' mistakes..."
May 2009
Muslim Demographics:
This video gives us a glimpse of the transformation
of the Western world. It sounds credible, but I can't guarantee its accuracy.
U.K.'s Smith known for redefining
'terrorism': "She led
a charge to restrict the word 'terrorism,' instead urging government
employees to refer to the phenomenon as 'anti-Islamic activity.' ...
'[T]here is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about
plotting murder, pain and grief,' she said."
Three
Sets of Meanings for Educational Buzzwords
April 2009
Christ is Risen!
"In modern times Christians are tortured, imprisoned and slaughtered for what
they believe in Communist China and in Islamist countries. Christianity, or
any other religion for that matter, is not something that a president, no matter
how highly held by a cult, can scrub from existence. Even if Obama someday succeeds
in what appears to be his plan to drag America kicking and screaming into a
wholly Socialist state, people will still worship the Almighty, likely even
more so. ... Obama can tear up the Constitution... But... Obama cannot expunge
Christianity from the souls
of those who believe."
No, not from the truly
born-again Christian. But a lot of so-called Christians (who know neither
Jesus nor His Word), are fast shifting sides. This is the time to equip ourselves
for the intensifying spiritual
war and hatred ahead.
See
Are We Fundamentalists?
and
Purging the Memory of our Christian
Roots
Beware of One-Party Classrooms:
"Are the American people really willing to let the government be our nanny,
manage our economy, federalize our schools, and decide which businesses can
keep their doors open, what health care will be permitted, who will get new
jobs and how extravagant will be the foreign handouts as Obama 'rejoins the
world community'?
"
One
answer ... may be what has been taught over the last 30 years in U.S. colleges
and universities, where the radicals of the 1960s have become tenured professors....
These so-called academic departments teach students to hate America.... Women's
studies departments teach that gender is not a fact of nature or biologically
determined, but is a socially or environmentally determined classification...."
See
Mine is the Power!
Census Bureau: We’ll Work with ‘Community
Organizations’ to Count All Illegal Aliens in 2010: "The Census is
used to apportion the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.... This means
that a state harboring more illegal aliens can gain more House seats.... This
also means that the illegal alien population resident in the United States during
a census year has the potential to alter the regional and philosophical balance
of power in Congress. .... So, certainly that’s our goal to count every
individual, every resident whether they’re documented, undocumented, whether
they are citizens or non-citizens.” He said local community organizations will
play a key role in making sure all illegal immigrants are counted."
See
Reinventing the World
October 2008
Thomas Sowell:
Do Facts Matter?:
"'Or is Obama's rhetoric and the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
...It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman
Barney Frank, who for years... denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking
big risks that could lead to a financial crisis. ... who for years refused requests
from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac ...who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even
further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's
financial crisis....
"Then there is the question
of being against the 'greed' of CEOs and for 'the people.' Franklin Raines made
$90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution
into crisis. Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats...
at least one of whom referred to the 'lynching' of Raines, as if it was racist
to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.... Obama has been the second-largest
recipient of Fannie Mae's financial contributions, right after Senator Christopher
Dodd."
See
New Emphasis in Schools and Culture
Rising Voices / Global Voices:
"Rising Voices, an outreach initiative of Global Voices, aims to help bring
new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the global conversation
by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented
communities."
Global Interdependence
-- Youth Summit, Brussels
:
"The Plan CivWorld’s inaugural Global Interdependence Youth Summit (held
this year from September 9 through 13 in Brussels, Belgium) will explore the
solutions to important worldwide challenges, from the impact of global warming
to best practices in conflict prevention. Young people from across the world
will be meeting for a series of workshops and youth-led discussions as well
as participating in the larger Interdependence Day...
"
This
summit will address issues of interdependence that really matter to young people
and will emphasize the importance of youth empowerment, participation, and creativity
with an objective to chart the ways to turn awareness into accomplishment, vision
into action, and learning into leadership - towards making a real difference....
"During the course of the
summit the participants will have a choice of processes to use to enable their
group assemblies – primarily roundtable discussions and workshops are expected....
They key principles guiding this event are:
• The promotion of interactive
participation and empowerment of young people on local and global levels-
• Enhancement of creativity
and to provide inspiration for the participants to be agents of change;
promotion of civic engagement and civil society
• Fostering a greater sense
of international unity and responsibility
• Providing unique opportunities
for young people to share their views with a wide variety of international
leaders, policy figures and academics Creating a safe environment for individual
development; to increase self-confidence, improve social skills and networking,
and gain valuable knowledge and experience
• Facilitating intercultural
dialogue and understanding, promoting respect for diversity and tolerance
for all nationalities, races, religions, and genders.
• Building a global youth network
of support and partnership between participants..."
September 2008
Update on The Shack:
"The book refers
to God as 'the ground of all being' that "dwells in... and through
all things --ultimately emerging as the real' -- this is the ripe fruit
of contemplative/emerging spirituality. One can find this language and definition
of God in the writings of
John Shelby Spong
and
Marcus Borg....
The gap between the New Age and Christianity is being narrowed, and The Shack
is another disastrous and deceptive tool that will bring this about."Deceived
by a counterfeit "Jesus"
August 2008
"THE
FAMILY" and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism - Part 1
: "'Now all of the resonating core
groups with outwardly different purposes are merging and blending and coming
together to do THE ONE WORK." [Barbara Marx Hubbard to a Unity Church
congregation, Seattle, Washington, April, 1988.]
"...'The
Family' and the Institute for Noetic Sciences, one of the most all time powerful
New Age organizations, have intertwined core leadership and financing.... The
motivating impulse for the frantic effort to deprive the Christian world of
warnings of a [New Age] movement publicly working for (1) a 'New World Order;
(2) a 'New World Religion' and (3) a New Age 'messiah' ... may well have stemmed
from major financial support and political ties with one of the most prominent
and visible New Age promoters – billionaire Harvard graduate attorney, Paul
N. Temple.
"Paul
Temple, together with astronaut Edgar Mitchell, organized the Institute of Noetic
Sciences in 1973. Working closely with the two of them was
Stanford Research
Institute’s Willis Harman.... I am certain that many rationalized this as
some did in heated discussions I had with certain evangelical leaders about
their acceptance of largesse from Rev. Moon by a belief that 'it’s
ok to take New Age moneys to build the Kingdom of God on earth.'... In my
opinion, God does not need twenty five cents of moneys dedicated to Rev. Moon
nor to the Institute of Noetic Sciences to build his kingdom! What was built
was not the “Kingdom of God on Earth,” but silence sufficient to allow the
final nails to be built in the long awaited kingdom of the Antichrist..."
See
Mysticism & Global Mind Change
July 2008
GOD's DREAM?
"A highly disturbing
video posted at TheCall’s website describes the extreme nature of this youth
movement, and states that 'those who come will be marked forever and they will
be history-makers and dreamers of God's dream.' Notice the young men and women
in this brownish-greyish video have marks on their foreheads.
"A similarly
disturbing
video is posted at The Luke 18 Project which is interconnected with TheCall.
It states that 10,000 apostolic young men and women... will 'release justice
over the earth'" See
Transforming the Church
June 2008
The 3 items below show how the
masses are being conforming to a new vision of
pluralism and
solidarity. Its main obstacle
is Biblical Truth!
Whose Rights?
Hate
speech or free speech?:
"The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, which held five days of hearings
on those questions in Vancouver last week, will soon rule on whether Maclean's
violated a provincial hate speech law by stirring up animosity toward Muslims....The
Maclean's article, 'The Future Belongs to Islam,' was an excerpt from a book
by Mark Steyn called 'America Alone.'... 'The problem with so-called hate speech
laws is that they're not about facts,' [Steyn] said.... 'They're about feelings.....
Western governments are becoming increasingly comfortable with the regulation
of opinion.'" See the next
two links:
Seeds of Persecution.
Biblical
message now criminalized:
"A new Colorado law is helping homosexual activists achieve their goal of forcing
Christians to teach biblical condemnation of homosexuality only behind the closed
doors of their sanctuaries.... The law makes it illegal to deny a person access
to public accommodations, including restrooms and locker rooms, based on gender
identity or the 'perception' of gender identity....
The law provides an exemption
allowing religious groups to continue teaching, inside their doors, the
Bible's condemnation of homosexuality....
"Religious publishers,
he acknowledged, could be accused under the law for publishing biblical condemnation
of homosexuality."
See
Cultural corruption
Education.
Scholarship
for gay, lesbian, bi teens:
"Juan Vazquez graduated from Garinger High Friday, still unsure whether he'll
be able to afford his dream of becoming a high school English teacher. But he
is $2,500 closer this week, thanks to an unusual new Charlotte-based scholarship
dedicated to students who have come out as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered.
Called The Griffin Scholarship, it is believed to be the first college fund
in the Carolinas awarded on the basis of sexual orientation." See
A
New Way of Thinking
Bishop says collapse of Christianity
is wrecking British society - and Islam is filling the void:
"The collapse of Christianity has wrecked British society, a leading Church
of England bishop declared yesterday. It has destroyed family life and left
the country defenceless against the rise of radical Islam in a moral and spiritual
vacuum.
"...the
country was mired in a doctrine of 'endless self-indulgence' that had
brought an explosion in public violence and binge-drinking. In a blow to Gordon
Brown, he mocked the 'scramblings and scratchings' of politicians who try to
cast new British values such as respect and tolerance.
"The Pakistani-born
bishop dated the downfall of Christianity from the 'social and sexual revolution'
of the 1960s. He said Church leaders had capitulated to Marxist revolutionary
thinking and quoted an academic who blames the loss of 'faith and piety among
women' for the steep decline in Christian worship. ... Christian values of human
dignity, equality and freedom could be lost as the way is left open for the
advance of brands of Islam that do not respect Western values."
See
New world, New ways, New minds,
New gods
May 2008
Transformational Development Conference:
"This inaugural forum will draw together a broad interdisciplinary group of
participants...to engage in a reflective and restorative dialogue about holistic
ministry, Christian development and living in the 'already but not yet' kingdom
of God. We seek to explore what it means to be transformational in all
aspects of Christian development, recovering our heritage in a holistic
gospel in which the spiritual, physical and social are seamlessly integrated
in both theory and praxis,
word and deed." See
Charts: Total transformation
Tony Blair's Leap of Faith:
"On May 30 in New York, Blair, 55, formally unveils The Tony Blair Faith Foundation,
which, among other things, is dedicated to proving that collaboration among
those of different religious faiths can help address some of the world's most
pressing social problems.... For Blair, the goal is to rescue faith from the
twin challenges of irrelevance... and extremism.....
"Blair
now wants to tap into the global links that have been built between development
activists and people of faith. 'Faith,' he says, 'can be a civilizing force
in globalization,' which will doubtless be the theme of the course on the topic
that he will be teaching at Yale this fall. His foundation will seek to partner
with organizations to advance the U.N.'s eight
Millennium Development Goals adopted in 2000....
"Rick
Warren's Saddleback Church, for example, uses church-based clinics to provide
basic health care in Africa. (Warren will serve on the foundation's advisory
board.)....
"Blair says his
foundation will try to ensure that faiths encounter one another 'through action
as much as dialogue.' But the dialogue
is important. In our conversations, Blair kept harking back to the idea
that people of different faiths need to learn more about one another and understand
where they can work in common. The alternative, he thinks, is that religious
people will be tempted to define themselves in exclusion to others rather than
in cooperation with them—with potentially disastrous results."
See
Global Spirituality--Tony Blair,
Global Banking, Yale and the EU
The Evangelical Manifesto: What
It Means
[Actually, it means far more than this article
states]: "The document,
drafted over three years by nine evangelical theologians and writers, is largely
the brainchild of social critic Os Guinness, whose most recent book, The
Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It, develops many of the
same themes on religion and public life that are addressed in the manifesto....
"If all
that seems to suggest a reasonable middle way, why are some leading evangelical
thinkers not adding their names to the manifesto? Richard Land, head of the
public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, says he was not invited
to sign.... A crucial 10 percent, he says, suffers from language that is 'at
the very best imprecise or at the very best obtuse,' problems that he finds
typical of most documents written by committees. ...
"Guinness
counters that some critics focus so much on examples and details in the document
that 'they miss the point that it's a call to reform.'"
See
Manifesto
January 2008
Rick Warren & Brian McLaren at DAVOS:
"Two evangelical leaders, Rick Warren
and Brian McLaren, who recently
signed the common faith agreement Loving God and Neighbor Together, which called
for Christian and Islamic leaders to work together, showed up in Davos, Switzerland,
this week at the World Economic Forum.Davos featured a 'West-Islamic World Dialogue'
with a 'Council of 100 Leaders (C-100) Promoting dialogue and cooperation between
the Western and Islamic worlds.' According to one report, the purpose of the
C-100 is sustain 'In-depth Dialogue and Discourse' and leverage 'Global Cooperative
Action' with a network designed to:
-
Catalyse change and make progress
in one of the most pressing global issues of our time
-
Advance thought leadership to
shape and guide the agenda of West–Islam dialogue
-
Participate in the discourse
among members of a network of influential leaders with eminent knowledge."
See
Warren's P.E.A.C.E. Plan &
the UN Millennium Goals
My Trip to the Rethink Conference:
"The overall view at the Rethink Conference... is that Christianity, as we have
known it, has run its course and must be replaced. Co-hosted by Erwin Mc Manus
and Robert Schuller, the conference declared that a paradigm shift is now underway.
Speakers insisted that Christianity must be re-thought and re-invented if the
name of Jesus Christ is going to survive here on planet earth.....
"Schuller...
explained how pleased he was to be able to look back at the tremendous leaders
he had mentored over the years, which include Willow Creek’s...pastor Bill
Hybels... Bishop Charles Blake, and Rick Warren....
"Chuck
Colson’s half hour talk was primarily focused on the importance of having faith
based on the Scriptures.... But, just before his time was up, Colson... indicated
how very encouraged he had become on how the
emerging church was 'energizing'
Christianity in such a positive way.... He also mentioned the importance of
taking our faith to the world in an effort to 'establish
the kingdom.'” See
Re-Inventing the Church
2008: The year of the "Great Shift"?
"Below is a selected list of New Year 'prophecies,' messages and conferences
from the New Apostolic Reformation leaders in the evangelical world. You will
notice the strong Dominionism themes which call for the transformation of culture
and nations, bringing heaven to earth, perfecting the Bride of Christ on earth,
training Joel's Army, taking over the neo-Kuyperian spheres of society, etc.
These messages have little or nothing to do with the Gospel of repentance
and the cross...." See
God's holy, unchanging Word
The Christian Woodstock:
"At Explo, Mr. Huckabee also saw evangelicals shedding some of their cultural
conservatism. Every night, Christian rock music had the delegates in the Cotton
Bowl swaying and singing before Mr. Bright or Mr. Graham took the stage....
Looking back, it is hard to appreciate just how revolutionary these steps were
for evangelicals in 1972....
“Mr. Bright's son Zachary remembers telling his father: 'You can have a conservative
view of music and keep what worked for you, or you can win [young people to
Christ].' 'I'd rather win,' Campus Crusade's president responded.
"The organization's embrace of rock music at Explo '72 went a long way toward
revolutionizing evangelicalism's relationship with popular culture. Only a few
fundamentalists seriously swim against the cultural tide today. Explo may not
have changed the world, but it changed American evangelicalism.
"Mr. Huckabee absorbed both Explo's substance and its style. Culturally, he
became part of the updated evangelicalism that emerged from the event: bold,
confident and much more at home in American culture, yet still determined to
persuade others to embrace Jesus."
See
Conforming to the culture
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