By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)
August 29, 2000
Austin Ruse, director of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute at the United Nations reports that the Millennium Summits which began yesterday in New York with a Religious summit "have increasingly alarmed a broad spectrum of the American and international right began Monday in New York City." For the next thirteen days, the unlikely quad made up of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, CNN billionaire Ted Turner, New Age Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong and former Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev will host meetings to promote "global governance."
Ruse observes, "International thinkers no longer talk about One World Government, since that term has come into great disfavor. Global governance is the new term and means the tying together of men and governments through charters, treaties and evolving international standards that cannot be enforced. Not yet, anyway.
The purpose of the Religion Summit, according to its Secretary General, Bawa Jain, who has been working on this summit for the last two years, is to allow "the religious leaders (to) deliberate over how their combined efforts can be a stronger force for peace in the world. This is an historic occasion: never before have so many religious leaders of this level come together, and they have never convened at the United Nations. We hope the Summit will send a powerful signal to people of faith around the world that there is no acceptable alternative to the peaceful resolution of differences."
Jain is one of the founders of the World Movement for Nonviolence, an initiative that promotes the principles and practices of nonviolence in daily life and one of his credentials, which is not likely to lessen the alarm, is his membership on the Earth Charter Initiative International Resource Team and on the advisory board of the Center for Religion and Diplomacy.
If you have never heard of the Earth Charter it is a document that has been around for several years that was authored in part by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the now defunct U.S.S.R. and now head of an environmental group called the Green Cross International. I wrote an in- depth report on the Earth Charter in the May 1997 Reagan Monitor in which I noted that "While the average American believes that the environmental "protection" horror stories we hear from time to time…are the result of bureaucracy run amuck, those who research them are convinced that it is not. We are dealing with something much worse. We have a monolithic, global, artificial new religion. It has been strategically taking root, at the expense of the American taxpayer, through an incredible maze of United Nations meetings, conventions, documents, implementations, treaties and the like. It blandly announces that it will "address the many interrelated social, economic, and ecological problems that face the world today," by getting humanity to "undergo a radical change in its attitudes, values and behavior."
Part of the radical change you will be expected to accept will be a replacement for the Ten Commandments which, Gorbachev said in March of 1997, were "out of date." He plans on replacing God's Ten Commandments with the 18 "principles" of the Earth Charter.
In 1997 I spent hundreds of hours researching the documents that have led to the Millennium Summits. Principle 8 of the Earth Charter is to "Reaffirm that Indigenous and Tribal Peoples have a vital role in the care and protection of Mother Earth. They have the right to retain their spirituality, knowledge, lands, territories and resources.
Mother Earth, in the maze of documents, appears to totally replace God the Father in this new and has been entrenched by what I called "an amazing worldwide coalition of environmental, animal rights and no-growth advocates."
In those hundreds of hours of research in the United Nations documents, I did not find a single mention of a Cretor, God, or any indication whatsoever that those writing the documents have any such concept in their head. In fact, the first paragraph of the Earth Charter reads:
"Earth is our home and home to all living beings. Earth itself is alive. We are part of an evolving universe. Human beings are members of an interdependent community of life with a magnificent diversity of life forms and cultures. We are humbled before the beauty of the Earth and share a reverence for life and the sources of our being. We give thanks for the heritage that we have received from past generations and embrace our responsibilities to present and future generations."
Note that we are to humble ourselves before Mother Earth, not God the Father, in this new 21st Century system of governance. This is the New Age Religion of Maurice Strong. I wrote in 1997:
"The root of the new religion is, in a nutshell, that the Earth (always capitalized), not God who created the earth, is the source of our being. Once that concept is understood - it all falls into place. Man is not, as the Bible states, "created in God's image." There IS no God. Therefore, God could not have created man and could not have blessed Adam and Eve and 'said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Genesis 1:28)"It is to Mother Earth, not to God, that mankind owes allegiance, reverence, loyalty and support. It is for the earth, unhampered, and untended by destructive humanity, for which we must sacrifice not only our industrial age material comforts and intellectual progress, but even our children or potential children through abortion, and other means."
So what has all this to do with the Millennium Summit? What IS the Millennium Summit anyway? According to its website (http://www.un.org/millennium/summit.htm)
"On August 28 of this year, over 1000 leading religious figures from over 15 major faith traditions will gather at the United Nations to open the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders. For more than two hours the General Assembly Hall will be filled with prayers, meditations and sacred ceremonies for peace. During the following days, the religious leaders will deliberate over how their combined efforts can be a stronger force for peace in the world.."
On the first day Austin Ruse ends his observations on the summits with "The summit is expected only to call for the ratification of seven existing U.N. treaties, including the highly suspect International Criminal Court. It is also expected to call for a world conference on nuclear disarmament."
Ironically, this is all taking place in a land where no religious leader could be asked to pray at a high school football game, but if we are going to launch a world religion to worship Mother Earth, apparently drum beating and prayers are just thing ticket in the UN General Assembly
Should we all start worrying about this? Somehow I sort of doubt it. I can't imagine the various world religions gathered there, without, of course, the Dalai Lama since that might start a war with China, are going to have any more success in getting agreement, and then getting people to follow them than world political leaders have when it comes to cooperation.
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