EFL/FU --- From WND:
The World Council of Churches Politburo Central Committee meeting in Geneva approved a resolution deploring the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and urging the United Nations to investigate Saddam Hussein’s crimes as well as any "war crimes" committed by "occupying powers," including the "illegal resort to war."
| "Damn those Imperialists... uhh... Merkins! If they had a regime that actually cared about human rights, like that nice Mr. Castro does, this wouldn't have happened!" |
The action last week by the largest but shrinking ecumenical church coalition in the world was criticized by the Institute on Religion and Democracy. "The WCC here is showcasing the same moral blindness it showed for years during the Cold War, when it repeatedly was unable to distinguish the democratic West from the Communist bloc," said Diane Knippers, president of the IRD. "Of course, Christians can disagree about the best means of dealing with a tyrant and aggressor like Saddam Hussein. But this Central Committee statement equates the liberators of Iraq with those who murdered, raped, imprisoned and robbed from millions of Iraqis for decades. Such a vacuous attempt at moral equivalence is, in fact, immoral."
| "Vacuous" is certainly an apt description when applied to the WCC... |
The WCC bills itself as "the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity." The WCC represents more than 340 churches, denominations and church fellowships in 100 countries and territories throughout the world.
| Actually, I believe it represents their heirarchies, and the congregation members ("collection plate fodder") either don't realize it or don't realize what it does. |
Members of the WCC Central Committee include representatives from major U.S. denominations such as the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church and others. At the meeting last week, the WCC reaffirmed "its conviction that the war on Iraq was immoral, ill-advised and in breach of the principles of the UN Charter." The Central Committee condemned "the invasion and occupation of Iraq by foreign forces as an act of aggression in violation of the United Nations Charter and International Law."
| "Things were ever so much better when Sammy was in charge!" |
In addition, it "requests the relevant UN mechanisms to promptly investigate, gather any evidence of violations of human rights of the previous regime, war crimes and crimes against humanity, violations of international humanitarian law including the illegal resort to war, and to prosecute all such crimes." The WCC also deplored the "invasion and occupation of Iraq by foreign forces as an act of aggression" in violation of international law, urged the occupying powers to pay "reparations" to the Iraqi people, and called for the "immediate" withdrawal of the occupiers.
The WCC is about the looniest bunch of wackos in the bunch, even too far left for Berkeley. You have to wonder what God they actually follow, or if they even still consider themselves "afilliated" with God.
| I think of them as the Christians who're convinced Christ is never coming back, a symptom of intellectual rot, which seems to pervade the entire ecumenical movement. There was an Episcopalian bishop on O'Reilly a few weeks ago, who point out that, sure the Bible can be interpreted as disapproving of homosexuality, but there are many sources to consult, among them our own hearts. However black they may be... |
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