Can’t We All Share One Religion?

 

 

 

Habitat
symbol & Ismail
Serageldin, World Bank, VP in  1996


Can’t
We All Share One Religion?


By
Berit Kjos – February 21, 2012

 

Background: The
Habitat II Agenda: The UN Plan for Human Settlements 

and Warren’s
P.E.A.C.E. Plan and UN Goals


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“The new generation…[has] a deeper sense of
solidarity
as people of the planet than any generation before them…. On that
rests our hope for our global neighborhood.”[1]
Report of The United
Nations’ Commission
on Global Governance.

“Welfare depends on the intellectual and
moral solidarity of mankind.”[2] Federico Mayor, then Director
General of UNESCO.

“Change your whole way of thinking, because the new
order of the spirit is confronting and challenging you. …The
only way we will achieve human solidarity in dealing
with it is to have a completely new
way of thinking.”[3]

“…always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a
reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that when
they
defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct
in Christ may be ashamed.”
1 Peter 3:15-16

“Religion
for Everyone!” The message in this strange article (featured
in last weekend’s

Wall Street Journal) fits right into the UN
vision of global solidarity. The author, Alain de Botton,
presents a radical plan for social unity that meets the demands of the global agenda. By blending useful practices from the world’s religious traditions, it
would mold minds, transform
communities and establish new rules and rituals for all. There would
be no room for Biblical Christianity.

 

 

The Habitat II model for

worldwide Human Settlements:

Notice the community center

 

surrounded by condominium-like

housing
with high-rise apartments

 

in the back.
(This is just a small

part of a
larger photograph of the

many national
displays)

 

 

For two weeks back in
1996, I watched the formation of that agenda. Attending the
UN Conference on Human
Settlements (Habitat II) in Turkey as an officially registered,
amateur reporter (I felt more like a spy), I
spent one day exploring two
massive warehouses near Istanbul’s piers. Each displayed models of planned
communities. There were no churches to be seen, but each model
“community” featured a large central gathering place for
fellowship and collective enlightenment. (See picture)

Ponder these
quotes from the above article, “Religion
for Everyone,” then compare them to the UN
agenda:

“One of the losses
that modern society feels most keenly is the loss of a sense of
community. We tend to imagine that there once existed a degree
of neighborliness that has been replaced by ruthless
anonymity….

“In attempting to understand what has eroded our sense of
community, historians have assigned an important role to the
privatization of religious belief that occurred in Europe and
the U.S. in the 19th century. They have suggested that we began
to disregard our neighbors at around the same time that we
ceased to honor our gods as a community.

“….can
 secular society ever recover that spirit without
returning to the theological principles that were entwined with it? I, for one, believe that
it is possible to reclaim our sense of community… without
having to build upon a religious foundation….

“It should inspire visitors to suspend their customary
frightened egoism in favor of a joyful immersion in a
collective spirit—an unlikely scenario in the majority of
modern so-called ‘community centers’….

“To foster a sense of communal intimacy and to ensure
that profound and dignified personal bonds can be forged, a
tightly choreographed agenda of activities may be more effective
than simply leaving a group to mingle aimlessly on its own….

“In a world beset by fundamentalists of both the believing and
the secular variety, it must be possible to balance a
rejection of religious faith with a selective reverence
for religious rituals and concepts….

“…religious communities…use specific types of food and drink
to represent abstract concepts, telling Christians, for example,
that bread stands for the sacred body of Christ…and teaching
Zen Buddhists that their cups of slowly brewing tea are tokens
of the transitory nature of happiness in a floating world….

“Taking their seats at an Agape Restaurant, guests would find in
front of them guidebooks…. No one would be left alone to find
their way to an interesting conversation with another…. The
Book of Agape would direct diners to speak to one another for
prescribed lengths of time on predefined topics…”[4]

A
deeper look
at the 1996

UN Conference on Human Settlements

 

My two-week schedule
included a
daylong “Dialogue”
on the meaning of “Solidarity” at Istanbul’s elegant Ciragan Palace.
I was given a list of 21 panel members.
It included:

Together with other globalist dignitaries, they would explore the missing factor in the old Soviet
version of
dialectical materialism: a spiritual foundation
for an evolving global ethic for the envisioned community.[3]

“To
speak of solidarity is to speak of things of the spirit,” began
Habitat Secretary-General Wally N’Dow. “For we are well aware that
the future of our human settlements… is not just a matter of bricks
and mortar but equally a question of attitudes and determination
to work for the common good…. This spiritual dimension
is the only ingredient that can bind societies together.”[5]

N’Dow had chosen an American
moderator who would add credibility to the discussion: Robert McNeil
(of the news team McNeil-Lehrer), “one of the gurus, the spiritual lights of the
media industry today.”[5]
Moments later, McNeil introduced the panel of dignitaries
ready to shape the new vision of oneness.

 


“What’s
needed is an interfaith center in every city of the globe,”
said James Morton, former dean of the Episcopal
Cathedral
of St. John the Divine. “The new interfaith centers will honor the
rituals of every… faith tradition: Islam, Hinduism, Jain, Christian…
and provide opportunity for sacred expression needed to bind
the people of the planet into a viable, meaningful, and
sustainable solidarity.”[5]

 

Dean Morton’s version of “Christianity” is actually
a universalized distortion of truth that matches the new
religious union. Anything less would be dismissed as fundamentalist
extremism.

Millard Fuller,
President of Habitat for Humanity, fit right into this interfaith dialogue. Like other
emerging leaders in the neo-Christian
movement, he redefined Scriptures to “prove” his message:

 

“When Jesus launched His
ministry 2000 years ago, He said, ‘We must repent for the
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.’ In English, that sort of connotes
feeling sorry for getting caught….
Change your whole way of thinking, because the new
order of the spirit is confronting and challenging you. … The
only way we will achieve human solidarity in dealing
with it is to have a completely new
way of thinking.”[5]

 

This “new way of thinking” has
already permeated every segment of society: education, business,
government, and the church growth movement, including Purpose-Driven
churches. Pushing
transformation in all these sectors are the leadership training
programs that pursue the vision of management gurus such as
Peter Drucker,
Peter Senge, and
Ken Blanchard. The core of their
teaching is “general
systems theory” or “systems thinking.” In short, everything is
interconnected, therefore all is One and all divisions and
boundaries must be eliminated in order to establish the “Global
Neighborhood,” i.e. New World Order.
Emerging Church leaders like Brian McLaren call it “The
Kingdom of God.”

 

God makes us “one” in Christ when
we respond to His gospel with faith and genuine repentance (acknowledging
our sin and humbly turning to God). Millard’s “new way of thinking”
points people to the world’s corrupt system, not to God and His ways.

Let’s not
forget that familiar words with strategic

new meanings
are likely to mislead the masses. For example, in Webster’s Dictionary
(1989) the familiar meaning of solidarity sounds
perfectly safe: “common interest and active loyalty within a
group.” But contemporary change agents have infused that word
with a far more revolutionary meaning. Let’s take a closer look.

The
New Social Contract

During a break, I asked moderator
Robert McNeil
[one of Rockefeller’s media elites who enjoy “supranational sovereignty“] to define solidarity for me. In his answer, he acknowledged that
solidarity is strengthened by a
common enemy as
well as a “common good”:

“It means people with shared values or responsibilities
cooperating or working together. In our culture, it was probably
exemplified most often by the union movement. Industrial unions
often used the phrase solidarity– ‘solidarity forever.’ And
in the socialist movement, of course, solidarity was a very
strong word — the solidarity of the workers against
the employers, their oppressor, capitalists…. whatever
it was….”[5]

“Solidarity is like a
social contract, like people agreeing
that this is the way it should be. Whether I am poorer or richer
than you are, we somehow agree that the way it is set up
works best for all of us.”

What
if we don’t agree? Then we are vilified as divisive
resisters —
excluded from the feel-good solidarity. Pastor
Brian McLaren, an acknowledged leader
in the Emerging Church movement, summarized
it well:

“…to be truly inclusive, the [earthly] kingdom
must exclude exclusive people, to be truly reconciling,
the kingdom must not reconcile with those who refuse reconciliation.'”[6]


Social
contracts hold people accountable to the new standard. It pushes
people toward the planned conformity, whether the society is a church,
a school, or the “global neighborhood.” So I wasn’t surprised
when UNESCO‘s Federico Mayor made the same point: “The 21st Century
city will be a city of social solidarity,” he said. “We have to
redefine the words… [and write a new]
social contract.”[5]

This
evolving “social contract” has been written into every UN treaty
and declaration. And former President Clinton’s
Executive Order
13107 helped turn such UN “contracts” into U.S.
government policy. In other words, these UN contracts are being
implemented through Executive Orders, hidden laws and government policies whether
or not the relevant treaties were ratified by Congress. [See


Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rules]


This
“social contract” guarantees “freedom from want,” from fear, from
hunger, and from offense by those who might voice contrary values.
It also promises “freedom of thought and expression” — but only
to those who share the UN vision. Remember, Article 29 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights states that “...these rights and freedoms
may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations.”[7]

Reflecting the same communitarian constraint,
Ismail Serageldin, then Vice President of the
World Bank, said:

“We should stop
bemoaning the growth of cities. It’s going to happen and it’s
a good thing, because cities are the vectors of social change
and transformation. Let’s just

make sure that social change
and transformation are going in the right direction.…
The media must act as part of the education process that
counters individualism.“[5]

 

Behavior
Modification ~ Vital to

Transformation

A cooperative
media is essential to change in the
public consciousness. As in totalitarian regimes, “voluntary” social
transformation relies on effective propaganda. The public must be persuaded
to give its consent. In fact, the people must be trained to feel so uncomfortable
with dissent and discord that contrary voices would be silenced.

Of course, the
masses must never notice that this manipulative process is changing
their minds and actions. Since few people do notice, Professor Raymond
Houghton’s triumphant promise in a 1970 NEA publication is becoming
an alarming reality:

“…absolute behavior control is
imminent. … The critical point of behavior control, in effect,
is sneaking up on mankind without his self-conscious realization
that a crisis is at hand. Man will never self-consciously know
that it has happened.”[8]

To succeed,
every level of this hierarchical management system must continually assess
change, monitor compliance,
remediate the non-compliant, and punish conscious resisters.[9]
(See

Brainwashing in America
&
Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce)

The most offensive foe
to the global establishment is Biblical Christianity. So we
shouldn’t be surprised at today’s spreading persecution. After all,
it serves the UN agenda well.

Just a few days ago, I read
this heart-breaking message:

“The armed Islamist
Opposition in Syria has murdered more than 200 Christians
in the city of Homs, including entire families with young
children. These Islamic gangs kidnapped Christians and demanded
high ransoms. In two cases, after the ransoms were paid, the
men’s bodies were found.

“Christians are being forced to flee the city to the safety of
government controlled areas. Muslim rebel fighters and their
families are taking over their homes. We need your prayers and
we need them urgently.”[10]

 

We shouldn’t be surprised. God warned us long ago
that Christians could expect persecution. Today we see how the world’s
corrupt ambitions lead to hatred and tyranny, not
peace and love. All the more, we need to stand together and
encourage each other with His wonderful Word. And please pray for
the tormented Christians in embattled Syria and elsewhere!
Remember,

“If they persecuted Me they will
persecute you… for they do not know the One who sent Me.” John 15:20-21

“Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? …in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded
that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor
powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:35-39

Read the rest of this article here:

Marching toward Global Solidarity

To understand how progress toward
solidarity is assessed on the international level, see


Measuring the Value of Human Capital and
Workforce Development means life-long indoctrination


Endnotes:

1.
Our Global Neighborhood, “UN
Report of The Commission on Global Governance”
(New York: Oxford University
Press, 1995); 357.

2.
Habitat Press Release, 

www.un.org/Conferences/habitat/unchs/press/humanize.htm

3.
“Reinventing
the World 1,
Part 1: A New Way of Thinking” at

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/Reinvent1.htm

4. Alain de Botton, “Religion for
Everyone,” Wall Street Journal, February 18, 2012.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204883304577221603720817864-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwODExNDgyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email
These are excerpts from his book titled
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believers
Guide to the Uses of Religion.

5.  I taped and transcribed
this part of the “Dialogue” at the UN Conference on Human Settlements
in Istanbul, 1996.

6.
Brian
McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that
Could Change Everything (Nashville: Thomas Nelson’s W Publishing
Group, 1006), pp. 169-170.

7.
“Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rule at
www.crossroad.to/text/articles/turfur12-98.html

8.
Raymond
Houghton, To Nurture Humaneness: Commitment for the ’70’s
(The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development of the
NEA, 1970).

9. See “Brainwashing in America” at
www.crossroad.to/articles2/brainwashing.html
& “Molding Human Resources for the Global Workforce”
at


www.crossroad.to/text/articles/HumanResources.html

10. Stoyan Zaimov, “Christian Families
in Syria in Urgent Need of Help, Trapped in Crossfire,” The
Christian Post, February 16, 2012,

http://m.christianpost.com/news/christian-families-in-syria-in-urgent-need-of-help-trapped-in-crossfire–69690


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