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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 386
1999 and the fourth in Barcelona, Spain in 2004.
The 2004 PWR was the largest to date. 9000 people attended the event from
approximately 75 countries. These included “members of all the world’s major religions and
many other faith traditions.”
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The Council’s mission statement reads: “…to cultivate harmony
between the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the
world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable
world.”
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This mission statement sounds harmless and even commendable but in actuality the
PWR is in opposition to the purpose of God in the world.
Foundation magazine reported on the 1999 Parliament in their Jan-Feb 2000 issue. They
reveal that the PWR believes that Christianity and paganism can work for a common “redeeming
purpose.” They write:
Robert Henderson, spokesman for the Parliament of World Religions
(PVM), referred to the gathering as “the birth of a new system of the organization
of the world's religions.” He added, “We have thousands of people representing
all the religious traditions in one place. For the first time, they are giving birth
to a common vision of their spiritual and redeeming purpose” (Ecumenical
News International, 12-10-99)….
The danger with such an unholy mixture of paganism and professed
Christianity lies within the new tactics of the ecumenists and the new strategy for
religious unity. No longer do ecumenists strive for one unified religion, but for
unity through diversity and agreement on the need for a “global ethic.”
Dirk Ficca of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, which
organized the gathering, added, “We are not out to create one religion. We want
convergence of purpose, not consensus” (Los Angeles Times, 12-4-99).
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(Emphasis added)
The ongoing synthesis of Christianity and paganism can be seen in a speech given by Dr.
L. M. Singhvi at the 1999 PWR in Cape Town. The Gypsy Journal provided a summary of Dr.
L. M. Singhvi speech entitled: “The Future of Religions.” In part they summarized his speech as
follows:
Dr. Singhvi’s major premise was that we are living in an increasingly
secular world and that religions will have to evolve to stay compatible with the
people they hope to serve…. In addition, many people are beginning to
understand that their spiritual tradition may not be the only access to
divinity. And that even if there is only one god, perhaps s/he has many names
or incarnations. A religion that professes to be the “only” way with absolute
dogma will surely fail…. Dr. Singhvi concludes that religions which do not
evolve and show some flexibility will lose their following. Religions need to be
more inclusive than exclusive.
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(Emphasis added)
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