(All remarks are made without prejudice).
ARCHBISHOP HOLLINGWORTH IS THE NEXT GOVERNOR GENERAL!
Amazing news, Peter Hollingworth, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, is
to be Australia’s new Governor General. He will succeed William
Deane on June 29. Hollingworth has been the Archbishop of Brisbane since
1990. He is 66 years old. The appointment of Archbishop Peter Hollingworth
AO, OBE, as the next Governor General of Australia is an example of the
power of the globalist Uniting Religions’ in our land. Many in Christendom,
no doubt, will view this appointment as a major triumph for Protestant
Christianity - nothing could be further from the truth! Hollingworth is
merely a pawn in the hands of the united world religious body, under the
United Nations. He is on the chess-board of the Parliament of World’s Religions’
making, he has been lifted into play for the next move towards CHECK MATE!
The other player in the chess game? True Christianity under Almighty
God.
Hollingworth has promised:
“to do my best to serve all Australian people of all faiths and
persuasions.”
( The Australian, April 23, 2001). This will not include fundamental
Christians who adhere to the Bible, however, as this writer clearly saw
at the WORLD CONFERENCE ON RELIGION AND PEACE in Melbourne, 1997.
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Hollingworth is a NOT a redeemed Christian, a Biblical Christian that is, he is a leader of International Renown in Apostate Christendom. He is an ecumenical worker with the New World Order’s agenda for a United Religion with all religions together, even embracing Buddhists, Hindus, Zorastrians, New Age cults, Baha’i, Brahma Kumaris, the Vatican and other pagan religions of all kinds. He is part of a united world initiative to bring about a New Religion, Unity and Diversity, for the globe. He is a politically motivated “Change Agent” for the internationalists! Hollingworth is a strong advocate for Aboriginal rights because of his MULTICULTURAL beliefs. Multi-culturalism brings about acceptance of multi-religions: multi-religions lead to the One World Church aim - “All “gods” are One God, One multi-religion, One mankind, One planet.”
WHAT ARE WE SEEING WITH ARCHBISHOP HOLLINGWORTH
AS GOVERNOR GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA?
We are encountering a major New Age New World Order move with Hollingworth as Governor General!
PETER HOLLINGWORTH, it appears to this writer, who
has seen him in action in other situations, is in support of the
New Age women’s groups within the churches who openly worship the Goddess
Sophia! He was well-known to “Churches In Solidarity With Women” or “With
Women” for short, when I investigated that group back in 1995-1997.
See our Website for more on
WCRP, Religion and Cultural
Diversity Conference, and
Archbishop Hollingworth
and Bishop Sponge and Feminists.
Following are extracts of articles from previous“Despatch” magazines, which delineated what transpired at various conferences as this writer personally encountered Archbishop Hollingworth over the last few years. The articles below show the movements, beliefs and people that Peter Hollingworth interacts with, quite openly, as these mentioned here are now politically correct in neo-pagan Australia:
QUOTE FROM DESPATCH MAGAZINE, Vol. 9:3, September, 1997.
Meeting held at Melbourne, the Religion and Cultural Diversity Conference.
Hollingworth
was present as a major identity, not as an on-looker,
he was an official speaker/presenter.
Sir William Deane, then acting as Governor General, was also present
as a major identity and presenter.
Present [with their official titles at that time]also were:
“The New Age international organizations “Conflict Resolution
Network” and “Unity and Diversity Council” took centre
stage during proceedings. The conference finished on the recommendation
that we should all listen to one another, those in other religions, and
we should all listen to the NEW AGE! Perhaps the strange spiritual darkness
of that conference can be grasped in the “Prayer of Togetherness”
at the Religion and Cultural Diversity Conference Dinner. The lights were
dimmed, there was only the illumination of one candle at each table, approximately
250 dignitaries and delegates bowed together, to the words of this “prayer”:
“Let us focus on the candle, the small quivering fire the light in the darkness, the call to evening prayer, the call to thanksgiving.....for our togetherness for our unity, as sons and daughters of the earth in this vast and ancient land, this sacred soil of the Dreamtime.In the presence of the ineffable Other, the Holy Being of Infinity, the Numinous Beyond, the One and the Ultimate, the Alpha and the Omega, the Unknown and the Unknowable, Lord of the Cosmos, Centre of Creation God, the God of power and righteousness. We pray to you in the immensity and grandeur of the world (et al).”
NO RELIGION KNOWS GOD.
As the above prayer shows, the conference speakers were in total agreement that no religion knows God, that GOD IS UNKNOWABLE! These religious “holy men” agreed that God was the “unknown” and “unknowable”, and these were presented as the Godly leaders of the new global spirituality which will unite the planet in the next Millennium. How remarkable this is! Yet a simple believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, regenerated, washed in the Blood of the Lamb, sitting in their midst, can cry from a heart filled with gratitude - I KNOW GOD, through my relationship with the Precious Saviour Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
The prayer above shows how far away Australia is, in the 1990s, to the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Only Son of God, who came to die for the sin of the world on Calvary’s Cross. God is now no longer even knowable, He is just the impersonal energy of the earth, Lord of the Cosmos, Cosmic “Christ”, the Rainbow Serpent of the aboriginal Dreamtime.
NO RELIGION CAN CLAIM ABSOLUTISM.
The conference’s saw the one cardinal sin of any religion as being ABSOLUTISM. There was general consensus that all religions tended to believe that they held absolute Truth, and that all others were relative to them. This was decried as pride, refusal to embrace others, separatism which tended towards war-like aggression, bigotry and spiritual blindness. The religious leaders of Islam, Baha’i, the Quakers, Catholic and Anglican priests, Buddhists and all the rest of the eclectic crew sat passively, showing veneer accord at any rate. The atmosphere was “loving”, “harmonious”, people mixed together with overt graciousness and intention to sink their differences. Sadly, the New Age globalists have sinister plans for them all, just over the horizon.
INTERFAITH INSTRUCTION MUST TAKE PLACE.
The predominate recommendation was that Interfaith training and dialogue ( or indoctrination?) must be embraced by all religions. No exemptions. This is mandatory, political, religious syncretism as international law! An Anglican Bishop from Perth enlarged upon this indoctrination to me personally, as we chatted over mouth-watering savouries at Parliament House. He was thrilled with the concept of a “well” of spirituality in all religions, which, if one delved deep enough, would show that we all have basically the same faith and the same God. The conference declared a “spark of God” in every man, a “well of faith” in all faiths. The bishop then went on to affirm his belief in the apostate teachings of the New Age teacher, Matthew Fox, and Jungian psychology.
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How wonderful it was for me to know that the True “well” is the One who declares Himself to be the Fountain of Life, the Living Water, and who told the woman at the well that she would thirst no more if she drank from Himself, Jesus Christ, the Water of Life. Here is the One True and Unique “Well”.PARLIAMENT HOUSE. [Melb.]“These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.” (11 Peter 2:17).
“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14).
At Parliament House in Melbourne, I spoke with two high level priests of the Anglican church, Archbishop Peter Hollingworth, who is a committee member of the New World Order’s Commission for the Future, and the Assist.Bishop of Perth, David Murray - both are avid followers of the New Age ex-Dominican Matthew Fox. Fox who teaches that there was no Fall, no Redemption, and celebrates earth worship, adores “Mother Nature”, embraces occultism, and believes in the democidal agenda of ecological “sustainable development”. Fox is a friend of the Luciferian David Spangler who advocates that all people on earth should undergo the “Luciferian initiation”!
POLITICAL AND ACADEMICS SPEAK.
The input of the academics and politicians at the World Conference on Religion and Peace in Melbourne was chillingly authoritarian. The clamour for “peace” world-wide has caused them to the take the bait of the New World Order, but peace is far from the minds of these internationalists, in reality. Nevertheless the foolish, ungodly “wise” persons at the WCRP deemed it imperative that all religions be stopped from causing war, massacre and disunity on the planet. Yes, religions were blamed for most of the earth’s ills. I attended a workshop titled “Religious Fundamentalisms and Social Cohesion”, address by John Bodycomb. Dr John Bodycomb OAM is an ordained “Christian” minister. “He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the promotion of religious freedom and fostering ecumenism.” He was, until recently, the full-time Chaplain with the University of Melbourne.
Bodycomb’s address was before approximately 20 illustrious religious and governmental leaders, which included the Governor of Victoria, Sir James Gobbo, Chairman of the Council of Multicultural Affairs; the Hon.Dame Roma Mitchell, former Governor of South Australia, and former judge of the Supreme Court of S.A.; REV. PETER HOLLINGWORTH, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane; His Eminence Cardinal Francis Arinze, born in Nigeria, The President of Secretariat for non-Christians and President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian unity, he has worked with UNESCO; and Dr. Adamou Ndam Mjoya, President/Moderator of the World Council on Religion and Peace/International, involved with the United Nations, UNESCO, and the World Centre of Research and Action for the New Ethics, he has held senior positions in the Government of Cameroon and is presently Minister Plenipotentiary.
John Bodycomb centred his address on a quite vicious attack, it appeared to me, on Christian Fundamentalist, because he stated that he was after all a Christian himself, and understood this form of religious fundmentalism better than others. Some of the remarks were “acted” out in a most offence manner, to myself as a Bible-based, Christ-honouring Christian. Why was I there, you might ask? How did I come to be in this amazing conference? It was by invitation only, only 350 people in Australia were invited. I was invited! Possibly because we, as an investigative organisation, had written for material to WCRP a number of times, they obviously thought we were of the inner-circle, on their team.
The following quotes come from the address by John Bodycomb,
a number of other offensive remarks were made,
but they are not on the notes, they were ad lib:
“I have four Images points. The first is that religion per se is not inherently bad or good. Archbishop Hollingworth, in the foreword to Professor Ian Plimer’s book, “Telling Lies for God” (which is about so-called ‘creation science’) says ‘Just as there is good and bad science, so there is good and bad religion.’
This is why I cannot allow that religious freedom is an ‘absolute’ right. I am a passionate supporter of religious freedom, but boundaries are drawn where what is believed and/or practised has demonstrably adverse effects on the wellbeing of individuals or on the good order of society. ... Bad religion can sanctify the worst in us; justify what is miserable and dehumanising and utterly unworthy of us ... Good religion fosters inclusiveness, justice, equity and well-being for all.
So, what do we mean by this word ‘fundamentalism’? As commonly used today, it is a pejorative (derogatory) term, as is the word ‘cult’... Anyone we regard as blindly dogmatic becomes a ‘fundamentalist’. That has not always been the case. The original fundamentalism was a movement early this century among Protestant Christians in the USA. It was in essence a reaction to what was labelled and denounced as ‘modernism’. Modernism accepted scientific modes of explanation, including the great age of the cosmos and the theory of evolution.
It is that all fundamentalisms reflect a fear that something precious is about to be lost ... Mary Jo Weaver, (professor of religious studies and women’s studies at Indiana University) says, ‘Fundamentals all over the world FIGHT ... they fight BACK in a reactive way; for the victory of a particular worldview; fight AGAINST enemies within the group or outside it; fight WITH a chosen repertoire of sources (usually located in the past); and fight UNDER God or some other transcendent reference.”
Common to all is fear, and this fear is motivation for the ‘fight’. .. .fundamentals resist modernity, they do not fear technology; they use modern technology unashamedly and effectively. Nor do they fear politics. ...’they use public forums, improve their rhetoric, and line up political forces - or even resort to militancy - to gain their ends.’
They (the fundamental Christians) are not afraid of science. The creationist movement in Christianity embraces science like the ANACONDA [vicious snake: editor’s comment], squeezes it to fit with the preconceptions of fundamentalism - even if this means selectively ignoring some data and falsifying other data. (Here Dr Bodycomb twisted himself into the form of a snake, to make his point visual).
...fundamentalists do not fear scorn. As Marty puts it, ‘they do not see themselves as being misfits or out of step, agents of a rearguard. Instead, they wish to be regarded as advancing alternatives which, if unpopular, only reveal the corruption of an unaccepting world.’” (end of quote).
Dr Bodycomb went on to list his observations on Christian fundamentalism. He called those who believe the fundamentals of the Bible, and embrace creationism, “mean-spirited”, “ [those who ignore] parts of scripture which are not easily reconcilable with their doctrinal position”, “authoritarian, dictatorial and sometimes quite terrifyingly powerful”, “discourages independent thinking”, “brandishing their floppy bibles like weapons”, “careful study, especially of scripture can lead people away from fundamentalist positions.” Off the cuff, Bodycomb called Bible-based Christians, “violent”, “aggressive”, “pathological”, “dangerous”, similar to those who have caused the religious wars in Ireland and Bosnia. A threat to world peace, fundamentalist, creationist, these “separationist” were denounced in every way possible! Remember, this was before the illustrious political and religious leaders of the globe and Australia who were present. (Yes, Pauline Hanson was given many mentions during the conference as well).
The attack from Bodycomb finished with these words of derision:
“...it is characteristic of Christian fundamentalism to adopt an isolated and socially divisive position. Texts in scripture like ‘come ye apart’: and ‘be not unequally yoked with unbelievers’ are beloved of fundamentalists; these define the true believer’s position not only vis-a-vis the world, but vis-a-vis other churches and religions. Most fundamentalism is an expression of what we call ‘tribalism’.
...Christian fundamentalism tends to provide support for those tendencies in the larger society to be authoritarian, punitive and exclusivist -incontradistinction to the values of openness, graciousness and conviviality. Those who would bring back corporal punishment to our schools, restore the death penalty for certain offences, and marginalise those who are not like ‘us’, often draw a subtle support from fundamentalism, and sometimes it is not so subtle...” (end of quote).
Also present at Bodycomb’s work group was a previous presenter, Professor Des Cahill, Professor of Intercultural Studies, RMIT, who had addressed us on Education for Understanding in his own work group. As a Catholic (there was a large Catholic delegation) Cahill had also blasted “fundamental” Bible-based Christians, and Christian, Bible-based schooling. He had previously called such church and school leaders “anti-semitic”, “anti-catholic” and “child-abusers”. Present at most addresses were Jewish Rabbis, including Senior Rabbi John Levi AM, Temple Beth Israel, Victoria.
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When John Bodycomb ended his tirade, comments from the small gathering
were called for. As a delegate, I rose and spoke these words (as close
as I can recall):
“I charge this conference with vilification against Bible-based Christians; hatred, lack of understanding of this group’s position; bigotry; no grace; aggression towards others; militancy and violent behaviour; persecution of a religious group; refusal to allow religious freedom, and intolerance.
I charge Archbishop Bishop Hollingworth with unsuitable behaviour, in this land which claims to want religious peace and harmony, with disgraceful conduct in supporting Professor Plimer in his seeking to prosecute a religion by taking Creation Science to court, in a public forum, because they believe and teach the Creation Story of their own Sacred Book, the Bible. I charge Archbishop Hollingworth with seeking to vilify the Creation Story of a religion, not another religion, but one he claims to be his own.
There is more bigotry and religious persecution against Bible-believing Christians in Australia than there is against the Jews or the Islamic people. Yet you say you want “peace and harmony” amongst the religions.”
Archbishop Hollingworth replied at length, declaring that
the Bible did not teach Creationism as Creation Science, a Bible-based
group in Australia, teaches. This was denied by myself, and it was pointed
out that the Bible does teach that God created the heavens and the earth,
and nowhere did it teach evolution, which all present seemed to have accepted
as “scientific”.
Cardinal Francis Arinze came to the microphone and supported the rights of all religions to believe and teach their own creation stories, and to stand by the fundamentals of their own Sacred Books - including Bible-based Christians! He declared that the word “fundamental” was meaningless and less than useful. It was decided ( Imagesly by Arinze) that the word should not be used to vilify others. This was declared in the Conference Summary before the whole gathering.
Archbishop Hollingworth apologised for the offence he had given to others in regard to his creationist beliefs; and John Bodycomb also apologised for his words which were seen as militant, aggressive and intolerant by myself.
There was much talk at the conference about regarding the “sacred books” of religions as precious resources and “beautiful words.” The myths of the aboriginal Dreamtime, as a creation story, was regarded as spiritually alive, wise beyond science etc. Publications on the book tables spoke of the Dreamtime myths as being analogous to Genesis chapter one. The fact is, if these Interfaith ‘scholars’ attack one creation “story” they attack the others! Strange outcome this. And if other religions are declared to have “freedom”, then these people cannot show their own inconsistency by vilifying ANY religion. (In public at any rate).
FUNDAMENTALIST ATTACKED THROUGHOUT.
There were many attacks on “fundamentalists” at the conference. The Governor General of Australia even came into battle against these “separationists”. Cardinal Arinze, who has links with the Moslems, Jordan, the World Moslem League and Turkey, also had severe criticism of those who demand that their religion is “superior” to others, and want their countries to have “one religion”. We live in a “global village” Arinze insisted, we should have “Unity and Diversity”.
RUDDOCK SPEAKS.
The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural
Affairs, addressed the entire assembly, he said:
“in February...I met with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Religious Tolerance, Mr Abdelfattah Amor during his visit to this country at the invitation of the Australian Government. His role at the UN is to assess the situation of human rights and specifically examine incidents and Government actions which are inconsistent with the provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination based on Religion or Belief.”
THE GOVERNOR GENERAL, SIR WILLIAM DEANE, SPEAKS.
“The cultures and traditions of the original inhabitants of our
continent stretch back into the Dreamtime of 60,000 years ago. When the
first Europeans arrived in 1788 to establish a militarily-run penal settlement,
they made little sustained effort to understand the nature or the content
of those cultures and traditions or the strength of the bonds between the
indigenous peoples and their land or territory. Nor was there any real
understanding of the extent to which indigenous belief in the supernatural
enriched the lives of the Aborigines...
This afternoon is not an occasion for me to become involved in a debate about what can and cannot be characterised as ‘a religion’. I would, however, venture the view that, if one accepts - as Theravada Buddhism demonstrates and the highest court in this country has held - that one can have a religion which is not based on the relationship with a particular deity, it would seem clear enough that not only cultures but also the first religions of our land were those of the indigenous peoples.
...Today, it can truly be said not only that, apart from Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, we Australians are all immigrants or descended from immigrants....
The theme and sub-themes of this Conference focus on the challenge and responsibility of best exploiting the advantages, while avoiding the pitfalls, of religious and cultural diversity at both national and international levels.” (End of quotes).
WHAT IS THE WORLD CONFERENCE (COUNCIL) ON RELIGION AND PEACE?
A quote here from Cornelia R.Ferreira will enlighten the reader:
“One of the long-standing goals of the Masonic New World Order seems finally within grasp: its one-world church, in the making for over 150 years, is about to become institutionalised as the United Religions Organisation - the UR. Collaborating on the details are Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal (USA for Anglican) Diocese of California; the Communist Gorbachev Foundation/USA; and certain leaders of the Catholic Church, working through the interreligious organisation known as the World Conference of Religion and Peace.
Plans for the formation of the UR were first revealed by Bishop Swing at the syncretic service held to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter. Attending the service in San Francisco’s Grace Episcopal Cathedral on June 25, 1995, were representatives of all religions as well as political and spiritual luminaries like Princess Margaret of Britain, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, the president Lech Walesa of Poland and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali.
One might ask why a religious service (of sorts - it was permeated with consciousness - raising politics) was held to mark the founding of a political group. The answer is that INTERFAITH religiosity is now a must for important social and cultural events, especially those involving world figures, as this gives credibility and form to the concept of a ONE-WORLD religion and community.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHOSEN AS HEADQUARTERS.
The event held in Melbourne this July, 1997, under the umbrella of WCRP and the Multicultural Foundation, is not an isolated religious happening, which only wants “peace” “harmony” and “tolerance”. It is an internationally planned event, under the headship of the New World Order for the forming of a One-World Church. Behind the scenes lurks Henry Kissinger, the Bilderbergers, The Committee of Three Hundred, the Rockefeller brothers - and let us not forget Maurice Strong, who just “happened” to be in Sydney at the same time as the conference! Did the Archbishop of Canterbury meet with Strong when he just “happened” to be in Sydney when he left Melbourne? I should think it impossible to believe otherwise! Who is Strong? He is the New Age international leader who has an 10,000 acres Interfaith/political centre in Baca Grande, USA, where all the religions meet with the New World Order elitists. Henry Kissenger, the Rockefellers, Madeleine Allbright, Bill Clinton, Al Gore - and all the others meet there.
THE ONE-WORLD CHURCH IS EXPECTED TO OPERATE FROM THIS JUNE,1997.
According to UR literature, the United Religions Organisation (UR) had the launching of its written charter this June, 1997. The institution should be fully in place by June 2000, and globally operational by June, 2005. The headquarters will be at the Presidio, the former military base in San Francisco, USA. Ferreira informs us that the UR is patterned after the UN, it has a General Assembly, a Security Council and a Secretary-General, “the UR is meant to be for religions what the UN is for nations”. THE GLOBAL ETHIC. The intent to get into Australian society the GLOBAL ETHIC was evident at the Melbourne WCRP gathering. All the way along, through the conference, the naive delegates were confronted with the responsibility of making judgements, contributing ideas and spiritual inspiration for an Australian Ethic. However, it was clear to this observer that HANS KUNG’S and LEONARD SWINDLER’S GLOBAL ETHIC would be trotted out eventually. I was not disappointed. Towards the end of the proceedings, the Global Ethic was cited as a wonderful example of a unified ethical tenet which could be followed in Australia. When I challenged about the lack of even the mention of God in the Global Ethic, it was gratifying to find that others there were grateful to have this pointed out to them. However, what “god” would this represent anyway, if a “god” was added to an Australian Ethic? There were a least a dozen “deities” representated at WCRP. There was much talk of a “global theology” being compiled, said as though it was a spontaneous thought that had arisen during discussions. Not so - the New World Order has already decided what that “global theology” will be - worship of Gaia Mother Earth included!
In October 1996, the second State of the World Forum, at which the UR was presented to the globe, the Global Ethic was basically decided upon. Hans Kung, a Catholic theologian, is the chief compiler of that Ethic. He said to the UN in 1991: “religions must...work with world outlooks that are not religious but that propose views on the deep meaning of life and ethics for living.” The global ethic “must center on both man and universe so that HUMANISTIC and religious precepts are included.”
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD?
The meeting this July in Melbourne appeared to be loving, tolerant, beautiful and religious. What we saw there was Satan appearing as an angel of light! To me, as a student of Biblical prophecy, it was as though I was looking into the very face of the Antichrist, as he spread his awesome deceptions amongst the spiritually dead! Pray for our country - religious persecution cannot be far away now! We ALL must undergo Interfaith dialogue and “education”, we ALL must accept other religions as having the truth, and accept that Christ Jesus is just another version of the unknowable God. No born-again person could ever agree to such dishonour to the Lord, or accept such blasphemy - yet this will soon be our laws under the United Nations.
His Eminence Cardinal Francis Arinze said in his opening address:
“What are we going to do with the
people in the world who are willing to die for their faith?”
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He was speaking of the imperative of accepting all religions as truth,
all gods as the same god. What will they do indeed, for there is but One
who died on the Cross for the sin of the world; One alone who is the Son
of God; One alone who is uniquely the Way, the Truth and the Life. GOD
has said,
“I am the Lord thy God...thou shalt have none other gods before me”. “The first of all the commandments is...the Lord thy God is one Lord;” “O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee...” “For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.” (1 Cor.8:5-6).------------------------------------
SINISTER FORCES AT WORK!
Let us finish [this section] on a sober note, from the investigative writing of Cornelia Ferreira:
“ The importance of the World Conference on Religion and
Peace was ... underscored when the Vatican hosted the first session of
its sixth general assembly in November, 1994. The conference theme was
“Healing the World: Religions for Peace”. This was the first time an official
interfaith conference had been convened at the Holy See. In his opening
address, the Pope told the 900 representatives of the world’s religions
assembled in the Synod Hall that “religious leaders must clearly show that
they are pledged to the promotion of peace” and religions must “engage
in a promotion of peace” and religions must “engage in a dialogue of mutual
understanding and peace on the basis of the values they share.” He ended
by remarking, “The Vatican is open to you. I hope you all return soon.”
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Beside the many non-Christian speakers, the conference featured
Fr.Gustavo Gutierrez, one of the founders of Liberation Theology
(Christianized Marxism);
the President of the ROCKEFELLER Foundation (WHICH PROVIDED
FINANCING);
Hans Kung, a WCRP international president. discredited by the
Pope as a Catholic theologian, but called to present his global ethic (the
Assembly sub-theme was “Isolation and Indifference: Searching for a Global
Ethic”); and
Cardinal Martini of Milan, who is friendly towards Masonry,
who wants another Vatican Council to reconsider women’s ordination... and
who is promoting himself as the next Pope.
Also speaking were
Roger Cardinal Etchegaray, President of the Pontifical Council
for Justice and Peace, and
Francis Cardinal ARINZE, President of the PontificaL Council
for Interreligious DIALOGUE. CARDINAL ETCHEGARAY, AIDED by the WCRP, was
the chief organiser of the first Assissi interreligious prayer meeting
in 1986.”
Who was this “Cardinal Arinze” who “graced” our shores in Australia this July, 1997? He is a World Adviser to the United Nations’, New World Order’s syncretic WORLD THANKSGIVING SQUARE in Dallas, Texas. He also is considered by many, many people to be the front-runner in the race to succeed Pope John Paul 11.
FROM THE MELBOURNE AGE, Tuesday 29th July: “The Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr George Carey, says Mass for Melbourne students at St Paul’s Cathedral. He also addressed the first Religion and Cultural Diversity Conference in Melbourne, saying the issue was ‘one of the most important questions the human family has to grapple with.’... the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, and one of the leaders of the Catholic church, Cardinal Francis Arinze, urged religions to work together to overcome intolerance, particularly racism....
Cardinal Arinze,...backed the Archbishop’s
comments.
Cardinal Arinze, who is tipped by many to
be the NEXT POPE!”
EXTRACT FROM DESPATCH MAGAZINE, 1995.
“HOLLINGWORTH AND THE GODDESS WOMEN!
THE WITCHCRAFT FEMINIST, THE ARCHBISHOP & THE GOVERNOR.”
Professor Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, right, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, Boston, signs a book at the Australian Catholic University, McAuley CAmpus, where she lectured on “But She Said! Reading the Bible in a Global Context”. With her is Mercy Sister Elaine Wainwright, lecturer in scripture at Banyo Seminary, who chaired the evening. ( Picture deleted). access online.
Monday evening, 28th August, 1995, we find ourselves on Campus
at the Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus, Brisbane. Two of
us, from Despatch, are attending a lecture by ELISABETH SCHUSSLER FIORENZA,
a leading international feminist theologian, a PRO-ABORTIONIST, which has
been sponsored by Churches Together in Solidarity With Women, “WITH
WOMEN” in short, World Council of Churches, National Council of
Churches. . The university’s gates and yards are being picketed by Right
to Life activists, when we arrive, probably Imagesly Catholics. They are
holding aloft large, horrifying pictures of aborted babes, in dramatically
bright colours, handing out leaflets which denounce Fiorenza and abortion.
They hold placards which state that Fiorenza is desecrating Catholic property!
Another group of picketers stand in a crowded courtyard outside the lecture
auditorium, along with more abortion picture holders, we all shuffle around
them, the “With Women” “ladies” avert their eyes piously. The second protest
group holds placards denouncing the goddess worship and neo-pagan activities
of “With Women” and Co. people smile smugly and politely ignore these dissenters.
THE ARCHBISHOP AND THE GOVERNOR.
The auditorium is packed beyond capacity, (they have set up closed circuit tele. in an adjacent facility). There is a thrill through the crowd, the Governor of Queensland, Leneen Forde, and her minders, are already seated down near the front. They are joined by the Anglican Archbishop, Peter Hollingworth and his wife. Hollingworth is a patron of “With Women”, so is the Catholic Archbishop. Hollingworth was at the BISHOP JOHN SELBY SPONG lecture, June 1994, we remember, in the same venue. Spong spoke then on “Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalists.” Hollingworth seemed to me to be delighted by that lecture, Will he agree with this one, we wonder? The answer is a foregone conclusion really.
Is this Feminist Theologian speaking around the globe
because of the Beijing Conference and a Global Focus on Women?
To quote the Catholic Leader, 30-7-95:
“...One of her [Fiorenza] most recent achievements was to bring together the voices of women from diverse backgrounds from around the globe into a two-volume work titled ‘Searching the Scriptures’, Dr. Wainwright said. She [Wainwright] said it was a significant contribution to this year of the Beijing Conference and a global focus on women...”
FIORENZA comes to the microphone to rapturous applause. Who
is this woman so many want to hear? Why have people come as far as Alice
Springs to encounter her? Her subject is “READING THE BIBLE IN A
GLOBAL CONTEXT”. Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza has quite a background,
reportedly, her record includes:
(See end of article for more on the Fiorenza history...and latest Stop Press)
THE CONTENT OF THE LECTURE.
This is the third Australian centre where Fiorenza has spoken on this tour. The ECUMENICAL COMMITTEE has sponsored her visit to Brisbane she says. In Melbourne she was welcomed by the Catholic Aboriginals. Fiorenza begins by making a few amused remarks about the picketers and their placards. There seems no embarrassment about the ghastly forest of aborted children’s photographs which we all had to struggle through to get in. She says the last time she was picketed was at a Protestant Uni, where she was denounced for desecrating the Bible. Roars of laughter from an amused audience follow. We feel deep shame at having to be with these people at all. There are many men in the audience, and many women who appear to be extremely masculine. Is”With Women” is pro-lesbian as well? No more comment!
She speaks as though she is a Christian, a Bible scholar, a reputable theologian, a dignified academic. The audience treats her with deep respect. The content of the lecture, delivered with a German, American accent in words a yard long, is anti-fundamental Christian; anti-patriarchial; anti-Scriptural; anti-capitalist and disgustingly insulting to the Lord Jesus Christ! She shows she is a GLOBALIST, a NEW AGE ACTIVIST. She uses many New Age buzz words.
Her lecture is socialistic, she regards the Bible as a potential tool to help bring about the redistribution of the world’s goods. The “privatization” of the Scriptures she sees as reprehensible. In other words, it is not the work of scripture to bring personal blessing to individuals, or to bring personal salvation, in her understanding. The Global interpretation of the Bible should bring POLITICAL and SOCIAL CHANGE. She keeps on and on blasting the fundamental Christians, almost as though we were the enemies of the whole planet. She accuses us of denying RIGHTS. She declares we are against free speech, women’s rights, homosexual and lesbian rights, the sharing of power, multi-religious rights, the rights of the marginalised, the rights women have over their own bodies, the rights of black people, we are anti-semitic, against the changes in the “Global Village” - the list was long, too long to take down. FUNDAMENTALS HAVE ENTERED A GLOBAL VACUUM, says Fiorenza.
The feminist theologian continues, warming to her global theme. She speaks often of the “GLOBAL VILLAGE.” The Bible is an open-ended “paradigm”, ready to be interpreted in a way that gives global liberation, she says. The Bible passages are not fixed together in unmoving paradigms, we need to change the meaning of scripture by changing the very paradigms in our own minds as we read the Bible, she enthuses. We must expose, with new paradigm interpretation, fundamentalistic exclusivity, elitism, feminist theological dogmatism. A revival of ‘spirituality” is not a “privatization” or personal, it is a social change.
Fiorenza is presenting a “gospel” of “spirituality” which sits well with the W.C.C., N.C.C.. The object of “evangelism” as seen by these liberals is the salvation of society, not the proclaiming of the gospel of Christ. The National Council of Churches in the USA with a membership of 32 denominations, representing 48 million people, with a budget of $50 million, in concert with the W.C.C., is very active with its “human rights” agenda. The N.C.C. and W.C.C. claim that the USA has “increasing social injustices and acts of racist violence”. They have launched a formal investigation of USA iniquities, but ignore communistic countries, China, Cuba, and Islamic oppression in such places as Sudan and Iran. Keep in mind that “With Women” is W.C.C..
Fiorenza speaks of proliferating interpretations, we must do this in order to defeat the fundamentalists with their dogmatic assertions of there being one Interpretation of the Bible, she insists sternly. The “new paradigms”, she speaks of, seem to me to mean new inventions, not just taking a Greek manuscript and reinterpreting with it, such as with the Westcott and Hort versus Textus Receptus debate. The “new paradigms” seem to be much more radical changes. The “proliferation of interpretations” idea seems to be along the same pattern. Simply put, she seeks to implement global change by “new prophecy”, “new paradigms” or models, “new interpretations” which are multiple, in order to bring a Bible which is a religious book which is feminist, and globally inclusive of all faiths and cultures. This is to be accomplished by the “new prophecy” which means simply, not a spiritual revelation from God or a “god” or even a spirit, rather just a humanistic, gifted, academic insight. She, and others, many, many others, want to do this with as many ideas from individual people, other faiths, gnostic material and pagan religious beliefs as possible! Still called “Bible” it will bear no resemblance to the true Word of God.
Do you see, believer, how important it is for we simple people of God to conserve the authentic Gospel and Word of God? We are the priests of God in this Church Age, and a part of our service is to honor and keep pure the Scriptures. If we do not do our task, there will be no Scriptures left intact! Yes, I know that GOD preserves His Word, but we are the Body of Christ on earth. To preserve the Truth, we must correspondingly expose the errors.
A LIST OF FIORENZA’S INTERPRETATIONS
The story in Mark 7:24-30 and Matthew 15:21-28 becomes the jumping-off
point in the feminist lecture. Fiorenza uses it to denounce Jesus Christ
as “prejudiced”, a man who “rejects outsiders”,
“against
other races and women”, as having “a cultural religious bias”,
as revealing His “exclusivity and discrimatory and unkind”
attitude. She has the auditorium howling with mirth as she says, “Jesus
was caught with His compassion down!” This story is used to show how vital
it is for the “Global Village” to have the new paradigm,
new interpretation. “The ethical and discriminatory stand accredited to
Jesus must be changed”, she mumbles into the microphone. That woman in
the story should have challenged the second class citizenship presented
by Jesus as He treated her like a low, rejected dog. But she was powerless
in society, a religious outsider, lower than the powerful, religious man
she tries to humour. The “With Women” audience claps their
delighted approval at this blasphemy!
We get the distinct impression, my companion and I, that these people
as a whole do not believe at all in the reality of Jesus, in the historical
life of Jesus Christ, the Son of God come in the flesh. They all affirm
that the Biblical record is a sort of series of traditional myths, which
can be rewritten in these days in a more politically correct, academically
acceptable manner. If any of the original Bible reImagess, it won’t be intentional.THIS
IS THE ONE WORLD CHURCH!
“And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God, and this is that spirit of antichrist...” (1 John 4:3).
Satan has tried to destroy the Biblical Scriptures delivered to
the world by a loving Father God right through the centuries. He has sought
to destroy the Christian Church for two thousand years, by persecution
and closing her doors. Be not deceived. In these days as we draw nearer
to the end of the millennium, Satan has cleverer, subtler ways of destroying
the Christian testimony, the Church and the Scriptures. He has simply sent
his workers to infiltrate, dominate and take-over the Christian denominations,
but they still call themselves “Christian”. Satan has them say they are
Biblical scholars, lovers of God, Church workers and true lovers of scripture,
and then he has them labour to wipe the True Faith off planet earth!
A woman from Alice Springs closed the lecture with the words:
“The only grace we can ever have is that which we can imagine ourselves.”Reject the Saviour, and that is pretty right lady!
We go to our car, thankful indeed that we know Christ Jesus as Saviour. (We hand out Gospel tracts as we push our way through the crowd). The Governor left first, still seemly pleased with the night. The Archbishop and his wife are still chatting contentedly as we wipe the dust off our feet.
MORE DETAILS ON ELIZABETH SCHUSSLER FIORENZA.
The references below were kindly faxed to Despatch by BERIT KJOS
[her website http://www.crossroad.to/,
well loved Christian writer and investigator who resides in California,
USA. It is a joy to fellowship with the remnant Church from overseas, by
telephone, letter, Internet and fax machine. She writes, “In Him
we are all close, aren’t we.”
We are truly, Berit.
From the book, “The Goddess Revival”, by Aida Besancon
Spencer, p.96:
“Many Christian feminists have noted that to talk to God as male or masculine is idolatry ....Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza agrees that the Old Testament prophets considered idolatry whensoever any definite form was fixed to God, whether god or goddess, divine couple, or masculinity or femininity as ultimate absolute principles. (10) Note 10: However, she thinks wisdom theology integrated elements of the “goddess cult’ especially ISIS WORSHIP, into Jewish monotheism. ‘DIVINE SOPHIA is ISRAEL’S GOD in the language and Gestalt of the goddess.” Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. 133.” (Emphasis added).
From the book “In Our Own Voices” by Rosemary Ruether
and Rosemary Skinner Keller, Editors:
“FEMINIST HERMENEUTICS AND THEOLOGY.
In the early nineties, feminist hermeneutics of the New Testament
continues to be led by the magisterial Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza at
Harvard University Divinity School. Schussler Fiorenza’s hermeneutical
principles both demand a dismantling of claims to scriptural authority
by patriarchial readings of the text and also call for creative discovery
of women’s experiences as normative for the gospel, both in the early church
and today. Woken-church, the discipleship of equal of women and men, is
the context from which the liberating potential of the text discerned.
Schussler Fiorenza’s work is jointed by that of a host of other feminist biblical exegeters....” (429)
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza is the leading creator of New Testament feminist hermeneutics. German-born and Roman Catholic, Schussler Fiorenza has taught in the United States since 1970 and presently is Stendahl professor of New Testament studies, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (441) (Harvard’s roots are in Unitarian, an early branch off the Congregational Church)
A quote from an essay of Fiorenza:
“In a patriarchial society or religion, all women are bound into a system of male privilege and domination, but impoverished Third World women constitute the bottom of the oppressive patriarchial pyramid. Patriarchy cannot be toppled except when the women who form the bottom of the patriarchial pyramid, triply oppressed women, become liberated.”
It seems that Fiorenza is considered to be a Prophet! A quote from Aust., ‘Women-Church 6, Autumn 1990, “The Spirituality of Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza”, by Claudette Palmer:
“A Prophetic feminist Spirituality - Like the prophets of the Old Testament, Fiorenza is signalling to the Church that all is not well, that there is something wrong in the Church when women are discriminated against because of their sex. ‘No tradition was too sacred to be questioned. No authority was too great to be contradicted. No assumption was too fundamental to be changed’. Albert Nolan [‘Jesus Before Christianity’ p.117] speaks these words of Jesus. They are easily applied to Fiorenza who realizes that women are deprived of power simply because there is no recorded memory have acted in the power of the spirit... A sharper focus is given to Fiorenza’s spirituality when W. Brueggemann (The Prophetic Imagination) states: ‘The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.’...” pp15,16.
From our copy - “ONE WORLD KIT”, N.C.C.A. 1995 FRONT COVER.
“There is a need, for the prophetic role...”,
quote form the National Council of Churches of Australia [N.C.C.A.],
Archbishop, Keith Rayner - Inauguration.
Does he mean the “prophets” should give “biblical re-interpretation?” Perhaps.
SCHUSSLER FIORENZA - “UNGODLY RAGE”.
The book by Donna Steichen, “Ungodly Rage, The hidden
Face of Catholic Feminism”, deals with the feminist theologians,
termed “agents of catastrophe” by Steichen. Portions of that book were
sent to Despatch from Peggy Cuddy, USA. The “daughters of Lilith” “marching
through the institutions” are shown to be a network of woman-power, “corrupted
by bias on every level”. They have become a revolutionary army which is
establishing a “new theological paradigm” in Catholic and Protestant churches
world-wide. This “paradigm” is far beyond a mere ordination of women agenda.
Said Fiorenza at the Australian Catholic University, “We haven’t got anything
like this in the USA!” She was speaking of the influence and strength of
the “With Women” organization here. Well she may, considering that the
governor of the State was in the congregation.
THE NETWORK’S BELIEFS. p. 165, “Ungodly Rage”:
“In her “Women-Church”, [Rosemary] Ruether (leading feminist theologian) refers to the Beguines and the Fraticelli as “spirit-filled” predecessors of current religious feminists. Like those groups, she says, Women-Church is a movement of ‘radical Christianity’ that ‘tends to see the traditional religion as false or fallen’ and that ‘anticipates the New Age, expecting it soon to dawn upon the earth and seeking to pattern itself after what it believes to be the social order of redemption.’ Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, like many feminist theologians, draws on gnostic apocrypha as if they were legitimate sources of information about the role of women in the primitive Church.” “...the New Age movement is a manifestation of the same revolutionary rejection of monotheism and Christianity found in goddess feminism. Indeed, its ingredients, including spiritualism, fanatic environmentalism, zeal for abortion, sexual permissiveness and leftist politics, are almost entirely interchangable with that phenomenon.”
Donna Steichen writes of the goddess-Wiccan, Lesbianism within the Network, sexual libertinism and of the International Grail organization. This “Grail” Team has rooted here in Australia. “With Women” hands out their literature! They are anti-capitalism, politically activated towards New Age Socialism, birthing new structures for Churches and society. Do not imagine, reader, that these women are an idiot fringe force, not to be considered seriously in the New World Order conquest. On the contrary, the Feminist goddess-wiccans (witches) are becoming the very cutting-edge of this weird “New Age” victory over the planet.
THE NETWORK’S ASSOCIATES.
Steichen shows the connections between many New Agers, modern-day witches,
radical Catholic and Protestant NWO facilitators and Elizabeth Schussler
Fiorenza. We have had a “big name” in global circles visiting our country
yet again, with the media as mute as ever on the visit.
Some of the names mentioned in connection with Fiorenza:
THE NETWORK’S EXPANSION.
The Feminist Network is immense in size, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
is a powerful, leftist, global leader in this Network. Spiritualism, paganism
and witchcraft in the feminist Network runs riot! Writes Steichen: “Rosemary
Ruether led a conference there (Grailville) on building Women-Church in
November 1986. Another popular retreat leader has been Rev. Carol Parrish-Harra,
identified by New Age journalist Ruth Montgomery as a ‘walk-in’, a spiritual
entity living - by invitation - in a ‘host body’. In a more mundane view,
Parrish-Harra is the formerly Catholic mother of ten who, since the arrival
of her ‘walk-in’ personality, has divorced, remarried and founded a New
Age church and community in Sparrowhawk village, Oklahoma, where she teaches
‘new spirituality’.”
The Catholic side of Women-Church, feminism rooted in Catholicism, is very strong. At a conference held in Cincinnati, there was a coalition of twenty-six feminist groups. The abortion lobby Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) had a leading role. Others, Catholic Lesbians; Grail Women’s Task Force; Loretto Women’s Network; New Ways Ministry; Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER); and Quixote Center to Women’s Ordination Conference; BVM Network for Women’s Issues; Catholic Women for Reproductive Rights; Chicago Catholic Women; Sisters for Christian Community; National Assembly of Religious Women; National Coalition of American Nuns; the Wheaton Franciscans and the Racine Dominicans.
DO NOT IMAGINE ALL THIS DOES NOT CONCERN YOU!
Those in Australia who are part of the Goddess Networks include, (women and men),
‘THE CATHOLIC LEADER”, September 17, 1995. Chris Christensen comments, page 10:
“Brisbane produced an enthusiastic and appreciative audience for Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza’s final lecture of her New Zealand-Australian tour....[present were] dozens of past and present theological students ....Christian fundamentalists support biblical fundamentalism that the Bible contains literally the correct and inerrant word of God. Even the liberal paradigm, taking a traditional and historical perspective, believes that it is possible to establish the ‘true’ meaning of the Biblical text. The emphasis on inerrancy of the text reduces faith to intellectual assent rather than to a way of life. Neither of these interpretations addresses the problems of the global context. The situation of increasing globalisation and the fundamentalist response to it cries out for alternative liberating religious visions. It calls for a ‘liberating spirit centre’ of worldwide dimensions that can give meaning and hope to people’s lives. As new global interdependence grows’ progressive liberalists are unable to address it because of their belief in secularisation, and that religion has nothing to do with the public realm. ...Christian theological discourse are seen by Professor Schussler Fiorenza as challenged to seize the Grace of the cosmological moment.”
ECUMENICAL DECADE CHURCHES IN SOLIDARITY WITH WOMEN
...sponsored FIORENZA & THE COMING 3RD. ANNUAL ‘WITH WOMEN CONFERENCE’
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