Right-Wing Tirade Against National Council of Churches

[TexasLawyer]

Why?!? Because they're a bunch of New York commies who believe in some kind of sissy, liberal peace crap, an attitude which of course puts the NCC out of step with America and our president.

The Church of the Latter-Day Leftists
By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 13, 2005

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16625

No sooner was George W. Bush declared the winner of a hard-fought presidential election than National Council of Churches General Secretary, Rev. Robert Edgar, proffered the following counsel: “This election confirmed that we are a divided nation, not only politically but in terms of our interpretations of God’s will.”

That Edgar’s message was reminiscent of a concession speech was no coincidence. After all, had God’s will been more congenial to the famously left-wing NCC, John Kerry would be president of the United States. Yet Edgar declined to own up to the NCC’s sectarian role in the nation’s political divide. Animated by a religious ardor that takes its cues as much from left-wing dogma as any higher power, the NCC today finds itself jarringly at odds not only with most religious voters, who overwhelmingly voted Republican, but also with the mainstream of American political culture. To understand this reality, one need only consider the NCC’s history.

Founded in 1950, the New York City-based NCC has, for more than half a century, remained faithful to the legacy of its forerunner, the Communist front-group known as the Federal Council of Churches. At one time an unabashed apostle of the Communist cause, the NCC has today recast itself as a leading representative of the so-called religious Left. Adhering to what it has described as “liberation theology”—that is, Marxist ideology disguised as Christianity—the NCC lays claim to a membership of 36 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Christian denominations, and some 50 million members in over 140,000 congregations.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the NCC has soft-pedaled its radical message, dressing up its demands for global collectivization and its rejection of democratic capitalism in the garb of religious teachings. ...

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The NCC’s programmatic opposition to U.S. foreign policy is another manifestation of its deep-rooted leftist politics. Taking refuge in the counsel of the New Testament – “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9) – the NCC has repeatedly condemned U.S. military interventions. In 1991, the NCC played a central role in The Return of the Peace Movement, a coalition of leftwing religious groups arrayed against the first Gulf war, when American forces repulsed the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. At that time, the leaders of 32 NCC churches announced that the risk of military intervention was “out of proportion to any conceivable gain.”



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[coloradodem2005]

1. Hmmm....

Maybe there is more of a religious left than we think. I wish they would be more vocal.

[izzie]

2. UCC is looked on as crazy.

Seems your not really Christian unless you like to kill things. If your on the left side they really hammer you. Comes down to WHAT type Christian you are, as I have said many times. Wait to it moves to the Right and it will. These people always do this. One has to go the line and not step off.

[Judi Lynn]

3. The right-wing has been hating the Council of Churches for decades.

It's hard to believe the right-wing hasn't progressed since the 1960's or earlier. They're stuck. Commies everywhere. Adulterers. He-you-manists! Help! Gun grabbers.

It's stunning to note their disdain for the Beatitudes. Withering, seething hatred for peacemakers. Odd, isn't it?

It's a shame when such ignorant people try to make all the decisions and judgements for their fellow Americans. It's about time resistance sets in, just as it eventually did for Joseph McCarthy.

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