Short Report: The G8 World Religions Summit

Carl Teichrib of the Web site ForcingChange.com recently attended The G8 World Religions Summit in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  One must pay to receive regular reports from Carl.  I thought I’d whet your appetite.  He provides information you can hardly get anywhere else.  Let me share just a smidgen of what he had to say about this summit:

“A sacred fire was lit.  Mother Earth, we were told, needs to hear that we love her, so give a ‘prayer of gratitude’ to the Earth; ‘Because out of Mother Earth comes all we need to live . . . she gives us the food, the water, the medicines, and the teachings.’

“We were asked to privately perform a water ritual, for this will give strength to Mother Earth.  Everything that’s alive, ‘even the water’ it was explained to the delegates and observers, has the spirit.  We were told that religiously speaking, ‘there is not only one way, there is many ways’ — and to go to the sacred fire and ‘invoke the spirits.’  Drummers summoned the power of the eagle spirit, because it brings ‘the spirit of love, it brings visitation.  The Eagle carries our wishes and our prayers.’ And this eagle spirit will tell the Great Spirit of the wonderful things happening in this gathering.

“And what a gathering!  As an observer to the 2010, G8 World Religions Summit (WRS), I listened as the opening ceremonies set the tone for this remarkable event.  The Secretary General of the WRS, Dr. James Christie — the Dean of Theology at the University of Winnipeg as well as a representative from the Canadian Council of Churches – welcomed us as religious equals, stating that what was important  was that we ‘offer our service, and ourselves, and our lives’ to the ‘God we know by so many names.’

“This multi-faith perspective was evident in full color; Hindu swamis in flowing orange attire, members of the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs dressed in desert garb, Jewish yamakas, cross pendants and clerical collars, Shinto robes, Orthodox priests in black, Salvation Army uniforms, and Baha’i leaders and [so-called] evangelical Christians in business suits.  Religions from every corner of the planet were represented . . .

“It’s [WRS] a top-down strategy ensuring that religious people will fall in line with an emerging global framework — a type of world tehology along with an international system of socialism.  And it’s going to work, particularly in the Christian community,”

According to Carl, Jim Wallis of Sojourners — a left-wing Christian advocacy group, provided the seed for the original G8 World Religions Summit back in 2005. He “teamed up with the Archbishop of Canterbury to ‘raise the voices of the faith leaders of the world in unity and in a call for justice.’  The 2005 event was a small, ecumenical affair made up of representatives from Catholic groups, the National Association of Evangelicals, World Vision, the Salvation Army, the Mennonite Central Committee, the World Evangelical Alliance, and other church bodies . . .”

The three leaders who provided the behind-the-scenes impetus for this event — Dr. James Christie; Dr. Karen Hamilton, another official from the Canadian Council of Churches; and the president of the University of Winnipeg — Lloyd Axworthy, are all top officials with the World Federalist Movement (WFM).  Axworthy is the president of WFM, Christie is the council chair, and Hamilton is the WFM executive chair.

“For those not familiar with the WFM, it’s the largest and most influential pro-world government advocacy group in existence.  Over the years the WFM has openly called for a world parliament, an international military force, a global tax regime, and a host of systems designed to legally bind nations under a central governing structure.  The WFM also has a history of working with global interfaith groups, such as the United Religions Initiative, in bridging politics and religion at the international level . . .

“So Winnipeg would host the Summit, organized by key officials from the Canadian Council of Churches whose worldview is saturated in a world government context.  Moreover, the spiritual component is completely couched in an interfaith mindset — all religions are carriers of truth, all spiritual expressions are divinely valid . . .

“Biblical Christianity runs counter to this ‘ever unite us,’ all-religions-are-valid claim . . . unfortunately, [so-called] Christian groups were involved with the WRS, even at the planning stages, giving the interfaith movement credibility.  And it wasn’t just the Canadian Council of Churches, but Sojourners and World Vision, and Canada’s largest evangelical umbrella group – the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) . . .

“Not surprisingly, the only time the name ‘Jesus Christ’ came up at the 2010 WRS was when He was compared with Buddha and Mohammad as a religious figure.  Nobody dared present Him as ‘the way, the truth and the life . . . the only way to the father,” (John 14:6) . . .

“The interfaith approach, by default, recognizes Jesus as one spiritual leader in a long line of religious reformers.  That’s all.  Nothing more.  Hence, at global interfaith events, like the one that took place in Winnipeg, Christian representatives remain silent on the subject of Jesus Christ as truth . . . For to do otherwise would be divisive and contrary to the ideal of ‘one community.’  By default, the Christian community has to sacrifice Truth.

“Therefore, it was no surprise that on different occasions I heard participants criticize Christian missions and Christian ‘fundamentalists.’  The representative of the Pacific Council of Churches told us that everything is inter-connected, and that we need to revisit the ancient [pagan] religions and myths — those ancient ways that were ‘deliberately pushed aside’ by Christian missionaries — in order to understand and appreciate this interdependence.  Another speaker explained that it was time to put aside the past dogmas of traditional faiths, and that the litmus test for religions in this global era was interdependence and transcendent spirituality.

“Religions, we were repeatedly told, needed to unify if the planet is to survive . . .”

Well, there’s a “tidbit” from Carl’s report.  As you can see, if you aren’t very careful, you’ll choke on it.  Choke on the implications of it.  We who work for a living and love Jesus and feed the dog or cat every night can’t comprehend that these kind of meetings are really going on anywhere, anytime somewhere on this planet.  But they are.  The framework for the one-world government, the one-world religion and the one-world economy is being shaped right under our noses.

I highly recommend you check out Carl Teichrib’s site, Forcing Change.com, and consider your own subscription.  It is well worth it because, as I say, there aren’t too many other places you’ll find this kind of information!

To cap off this short report, I’d like to share with you the “Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Religions of the World” that was distriubted in the 2010, G8 World Religions Summit Resource Kit.  See if this doesn’t just blow your mind:

“Ever Unite Us”

An Interfaith Prayer for the G8 World Religions Summit

Most religious traditions put an emphasis on thanksgiving.  The prayer below gives grateful recognition to the unique and diverse gifts of the world’s spiritual traditions.

Reader: We give thanks for the world’s religions and the richness they bring to our lives.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Baha’i brothers and sisters, for their genuine openness and desire for unity.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Buddhist sisters and brothers, for their sense of peace and relinquishing of self.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Christian brothers and sisters, for their message of love and ethic of compassion.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Hindu sisters and brothers, for their openhearted acceptance of others and kindly disposition toward those of other faiths.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Humanist brothers and sisters, for their emphasis on the dignity and worth of all persons.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Muslim sisters and brothers, for their commitment in prayer and faithfulness in worship.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Jain brothers and sisters, for their deep respect for life and practice of nonviolence.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Jewish sisters and brothers, for their enriching symbols of worship and cherishing of tradition.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Aboriginal brothers and sisters, for their reverence of nature and their ancient and still-living culture.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Shinto brothers and sisters, for their affirmation of ritual and awareness of the natural world

People: We give thanks

Reader: We give thanks for our Sikh sisters and brothers, for their warm hospitality and public witness of faith.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Taoist brothers and sisters, for their sense of the connectedness of all things and pursuit of harmony.

People: We give thanks

Reader: we give thanks for our Unitarian sisters and brothers, for their openness to truth and commitment to freedom, reason and tolerance.

People: We give thanks.

Reader: We give thanks for our Zoroastrian sisters and brothers, for their devotion to right though, right speech and right action.

People: We give thanks.

Leader: We give thanks for every faith tradition, named and unnamed, for the variety and richness of their spiritualities, for their united quest for truth, for their common dedication tot he pursuit of peace, reconciliation and healing of the spirit.

Congregation: We give thanks.  Ever unite us as one community of joy, hope, love and peace.  Ever inspire us to live more genuinely and authentically, celebrating diversity, affirming unity, pursing peace, not just for better relations among  philosophies, but for a new and more just world.  Amen.

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“So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness.  And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.  The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.  And on her forehead a name written:  MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Rev. 17: 3-5