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One World: Evangelicals Join Interfaith Leaders in Washington to Create a ‘Multi-Religious Body’ to Bring About ‘World Peace’

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As hundreds of Jewish, Muslim and Christian faith leaders from the United States and abroad descended on Washington for a conference on religious tolerance this week, attendees were quick to note an unexpectedly large delegation from one particular religious group: evangelical Christians.

“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.” Revelation 13:11 (KJV)

EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the many spiritually deadly legacies of evangelist Billy Graham is the embracing of ecumenism, the idea that the Christian church can free mix and mingle itself with various assortments of differing world religions and ‘work together’. It cannot, and remain true to it’s calling to preach the gospel of the grace of God that Paul tells us about. The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is not “a way”, or an “expression of truth”, the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to the absolute exclusion of all other forms of faith and practice. The ecumenical movement comes from Rome, who the Bible says will create the One World Religion during the time of Jacob’s trouble. What you’re seeing here is the dress rehearsal for that day.

Speakers at the “Alliance of Virtue for the Common Good” repeatedly highlighted their surprise and delight over the noticeable contingent of evangelicals among the more than 400 attendees at the glitzy, three-day series of discussions and speeches.

The presence of so many evangelicals, a group often associated with a negative view of Islam, provided a welcome backdrop for an event aimed at championing tolerance, many said.

Hamza Yusuf, president of Zaytuna College, America’s first accredited Muslim college, said the evangelical presence was especially notable given recent polling: According to a 2017 poll from Pew Research, nearly three-quarters of white evangelicals say there is a natural conflict between Islam and democracy, compared with roughly half or fewer of those in other major religious groups who express the same view.

The false teachings of Billy Graham paved the way to merge Christianity with the world’s religions

Our story on the false teachings of Billy Graham, published on the day he died, made some people pretty mad, but now maybe you can see why we did it. Graham virtually created the ecumenical movement single-handedly as a result of his alliance with the Vatican and the pope. Many in the world will embrace the coming One World Religion as a result of Graham’s “evangelism”. 

White evangelicals were also the major religious group most supportive of President Trump’s 2017 travel ban — sometimes called a “Muslim ban” — barring immigrants and refugees from several Muslim-majority countries, according to a 2017 survey from the Public Religion Research Institute.

“The evangelicals coming took great courage, because of a lot of the attitudes within that community,” Yusuf told Religion News Service on Feb. 7, the conference’s last day.

“The evangelicals coming took great courage, because of a lot of the attitudes within that community.” — Hamza YusufAt one point, Bob Roberts, an evangelical pastor at Northwood Church in Keller, Texas, asked evangelicals in the crowd to clap if they were excited about the conference and its message.

“This is new for us — it shouldn’t be new for us,” he said over the applause. “I’m not a Muslim, but I just really care about religious freedom. … The tribal way we are doing religion today is going to destroy us.”

In a separate interview with RNS, Roberts said the “older, higher levels” of evangelicalism are unlikely to embrace the message of the conference, because they “have an old worldview.” But he argued that younger evangelicals have “realized the world has shifted” and that the conference is a model for future efforts to protect religious liberty.

“Here’s something that’s really problematic about how we think about religious freedom: We get Christians together and say, ‘Here’s how we’re going to do it.’ That day is over,” he said. “If we don’t have conversations on religious freedom with Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews — they’re wasted conversations.”

Deborah Fikes, a Texas-based Southern Baptist and former permanent representative from the World Evangelical Alliance to the United Nations, also discussed the challenges of interfaith work among conservative Christian groups.

“Growing up, Catholics were criticized, Muslims were criticized … the Methodists were criticized. … It was always such a focus on our differences,” she said during a Wednesday panel. “Yes, there are definitely obstacles [to tolerance] for evangelicals because of that culture.”

Fikes said that in her U.N. work, she observed that American military actions abroad can foster negative perceptions, especially when conflated with the belief that the U.S. is a “Christian nation.” She expressed concern that the “conservative political party’s policies” in the U.S. are “really hurting the most vulnerable,” pointing to evangelical support for the Trump administration’s recent decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel — despite widespread objection among Middle Eastern Christians.

“I know that conservative Christians … are so passionate about protecting Christian minorities in the Middle East, but that one decision has greatly harmed and compromised the Christian minorities we want to protect,” she said.

The conference also touted its declaration, released Thursday, at the end of the gathering.

“Recognizing that our shared values are more important than our differences, and that we are strongest when we act together, we pledge to combine our best efforts to foster unity where there is discord, aid the impoverished, tend the vulnerable, heal the poor in spirit, and support measures that will ensure respect for the dignity of every human being,” the declaration reads in part.

It later adds: “There is no room for compulsion in religion, just as there are no legitimate grounds for excluding the followers of any religion from full and fair participation in society.”

“This is new for us — it shouldn’t be new for us.” — Bob RobertsIn addition, the statement, referred to as the “Washington Declaration,” called for concrete steps: serving a billion meals to victims of violence and conflict and proposing the creation of a “multireligious body” that would “support mediation and reconciliation that will act in accordance with our shared values to build peace in the world.”

“I recommend we create an alliance from our religious traditions … to be a mediating team for reconciliation between conflicting groups,” Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, president of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies and a driving force behind the gathering, said to the crowd while speaking through a translator.

During the same panel, Rabbi David Rosen, international director for the American Jewish Committee’s Department of Interreligious Affairs, described the event as “an incredibly historic gathering that sets the stage for a new era.”

Other participants included Bishop Efraim Tendero, secretary-general of the World Evangelical Alliance; Timo Soini, minister for foreign affairs of Finland; and Rabbi David Saperstein, director emeritus of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and former U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

The declaration did not mention Trump’s travel ban, and it was not clear how many attendees — if any — hailed from the Muslim-majority countries listed in the most recent iteration of the ban: Syria, Iran, Chad, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. source


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    • beLIEve

      Tsk, tsk….Billy Graham exposed……IT I$ TIME “religion” I$ EXPO$ED :lol:

      RELIGION I$ THE……CONTROL CY$Tem….of the MA$ON$/joo$/ILLUMINATI :idea:

      * * *

      :lol: WHAT is religion ? :?: :lol:

      Religion……r e l i G i o n …an ANAGRAM of……… G iron LIE.

      G……signifies the ……jooWi$h/MA$ONIC…….Great Architect of The Universe……JAH-BUL-ON……….aka…..$ATAN. :evil:

      Satan Exposed as JAHBULON Masonic Freemason God YouTube
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZs6SEgXzE

      Religion………G iron LIE……..signifies……. Satan’s iron LIE.

      $atan’s DUPLICITOU$ NEFARIOU$…..THEFT & CONTROL CON-$TRUCT…….
      imposed by his $TOOGE$/Freema$on$ BANK$TER$ politician$ Clergy etc.

      Freemasonry….at it’s pinnacle….being YET ANOTHER….$atanic/dark FORCE$ …THEFT GENOCIDE & CON-TROLL…CON-$truct.

      * *

      Should anyone be interested in the deity/”God”…….SPYduh 😆 ❗
      VeneRATed by Freema$on’$/joo$/ILLuminati…..

      @ 33:04 on the video linked below

      The Lightbringers The Emissaries of Jahbulon
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjL9JGc1X7k

      * *
      One does not need the “church” of $ATAN to connect with The Supreme Intelligence The Great I Am.

      * * *
      Science Has Found Evidence of God (Video)
      /prophecy/2017/10/science-has-found-evidence-of-god-video-2494906.html

      • K¡llúḿ¡ńàṫ¡✝☪ ॐ ﷲ ✡

        Government (Satan) is a liar, thief, and devious manipulator. :wink:
        If you choose government (Satan’s) side, you will never be free. :wink:
        science has nailed God to the cross :lol: Satan were crucified with him :lol:

        • K¡llúḿ¡ńàṫ¡✝☪ ॐ ﷲ ✡

          Satan were crucified with him :lol:
          Satan he was crucified upside down :lol:

    • Gordon

      2 Corinthians 11:4 (NIV)
      For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

      • wheeties

        has more to do with the nut jobs who follow the bible….another insane bible thumper on a rant like he/she knows something…nothing but a fool like all the other fools–even god laughs at this nonsense..they been ranting about since the beginning of time–we are still here–but,in a 100 years 99.9 percent of the idiots on this planet today will be gone! o my god!!! the end is near!!!!! morons—insane rascals…god has no law–only stupid,immature,petty,human control freaks have laws,rules–if god has one question when you get to the other side its “how did you love?”–god is love–god knows exactly who,what you are–idiotic humans have been saying the same crap since the beginning of time,like the taliban,direct decendents of satan like most bible thumpers,christians–jesus told us in his day that salvation is for ALL–no hail marys or forgiveness needed–the bible thumpers of his day killed him because he threaten their power,$$–the bible thumpers of today would do the same being the evil,hateful,judgemental bastards they are,guided by satan…christianity is the deception as is the bible–
        these self proclaimed salvation experts talking like they are god themselves–delusional–using a man written book inspired by satan–spiritual hell is being a bible thumper,christian—god would not touch any of that crap with a 1000 ft pole cause god does not read the bible–never has,never will–was not written by god either–some insane homeless dudes in a cave wrote it inspired by satan–the word of men not god—the bible is the book of wrath and judgement–god has no wrath,nor judgement–only petty,weak,immature evil hateful,judgemental humans have wrath and judgement like bible thumpers,christians–jesus told us in his day that salvation is for everybody–but the bible thumpers of his day did not like that so they killed him–the bible thumpers of today would do the same—god loves all his stupid humans,even evil,hateful,judgemental bible thumpers–god knows who,what we are..would you as a parent turn on your children for being unwise little stupid kids?no,unless your evil–god is the same–get over yourself and your insane evil book–god is not like your stupid self–god is above the fray–your job to to rise above all that bible thumping nonsense–its a long shot—-humans have been the same stupid bastards since the beginning of time–bunch of evil morons–the bible,the book of satan,not god…

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