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WCC: the same yesterday, and today, and forever
It’s good that the World Council of Churches wrote a letter to Castro regretting a “miscarriage of justice” in a trial of Cuban dissidents. It’s less good that they made a point of saying that their letter was “both friendly and firm in tone.” And the substance of their argument was genuinely bad: authorities should “not allow their decisions to jeopardise the integrity of the Cuban revolution” even though “Cuba has recently experienced an increase in external pressures and interference in its sovereignty and independence, especially by the government of the United States of America.” What conceivable grounds could a Christian have for concern about the integrity of the Cuban revolution? Posted by Jim Kalb at April 24, 2003 09:10 AM | Send Comments
What would conceivably lead any rational person to consider the World (or National) Council of Churches to be Christian, given their longstanding positions on numerous issues? It’s a free country, as they say- an organization can name itself whatever it pleases. I could call myself a gender feminist - and it would be every bit as true as the WCC calling itself Christian. The only thing I find annoying is that genuine Christian leaders haven’t declared this organization and its minions to be anathema - which it surely is. Posted by: Carl on April 24, 2003 11:54 AMGood point, Carl. For decades the Left has been very busy taking on multiple disguises, to use as propaganda outlets. Sometimes they form new organizations - say, People for the American Way - but more commonly they take over existing ones and proceed to hollow them out, like termites eating a tree from the inside. It may still stand, it may still look good, but one of these days it will crash. The University Women. The American Library Association. The Modern Language Association, and so on. With regard to churches, I don’t know the history of the WCC but most American mainline churches have become leftist fronts through the takeover of their central bureaucracies. For such churches - Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans - the results have been nothing short of disastrous, in membership, finances, and most assuredly in scriptural commitment. In the end, political agitation does little for the soul. Posted by: Wim on April 24, 2003 12:54 PMThe WWC is a radical left wing organisation that promotes new age spirituality. The head of the NCC here in socialist New Zealand (Thank the Lord I’ll be home by January), describes himself as a Marxist. He has made public statements denying the existence of a personal God, saying instead that he believes only in a “higher energy” that we can all tap into. He denies that Jesus is the Son of God, and instead claims he was a radical left activist murdered by a Patriachal and Imperialist power. His death does not wash us clean of sin and make us right with God, it is merely a “symbol” of the oppression of “minorities” throughout history. Thankfully the Lutheran Church here has not joined this body and has no intentions of doing so. Posted by: Shawn on April 25, 2003 9:27 PMI consider the WCC to be full of New Agers and apostates. My church would be against this body. Im in an independent Baptist church. At least I dont have to put up with any Leftist, anti-American, New Age, ecumenical lies anymore. The WCC has links to communism. Ive read on a watch site, dont have address anymore this link is very strong. So this Cuban thing is not suprising. Posted by: Victoria on April 29, 2003 1:01 PM |