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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 388
interfaith peace organization.” The voting was completed by URI members from forty-seven
countries. Members “were elected with consideration to diversity, including religious and
spiritual tradition. The chosen also represent skills and talents essential to the URI’s global
efforts to seek peace among religions. The elected include practitioners of many spiritual
traditions including: Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Taoist, and Indigenous
traditions, to name a few.”
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Bishop Swing and the URI are truly receptive to these false
religions. Bishop Swing even invited a Neopagan to give a blessing at the signing of URI's
Charter. Lee Penn writes an account of this:
Wiccans and Neopagans are part of the religious mainstream in the URI.
One Neopagan leader, Donald Frew, was elected in 2002 as a member of the URI
Global Council. Frew has written that at the URI Charter-signing meeting in June
2000, he was asked to perform a “traditional Wiccan foundation blessing” at the
closing ceremony. Frew said, “I specifically invoked Hekate and Hermes by
name, and Bishop Swing was right there raising his arms in invocation with the
rest of the Circle!”
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The URI now has over 26,000 members in 57 countries and “more than a million people
in more than sixty countries have participated in URI activities.”
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They appear to be on track to
become the United Nations equivalent to the religions of the world. Robert Muller, former
Assistant Secretary General of the U.N. and devoted New Age Luciferian, said of the URI and
the U.N.: “At the beginning the U.N. was only a hope. Today it is a political reality. Tomorrow it
[the URI] will be the world's religion.”
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The idea for URI was birthed when Bishop Swing was asked by the United Nations (UN)
in 1993 to bring the worlds religions together for interfaith worship service commemorating the
50th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter in San Francisco. As a result Bishop Swing
decided to dedicate the rest of his life to creating “something like the United Nations for all
religions.” On June 25, 1995, Swing formally introduced his plan for a United Religions
Initiative.
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His goal is to bring together in the URI representatives from all 258 religions in the
world, as well as ‘spiritual traditions’ and ‘indigenous peoples’. “Their broad, open-arms policy
welcomes faiths such as Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Muslim, Wiccan, atheist, Druid, Baha’i, Goddess
worship, and Taoist.” According to Discerning the Times Digest and Daily NewsBytes,
“Christianity and Judaism are only included with great reservation.”
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They write:
URI’s problem with Christianity and Judaism is the belief in only one God
and only one way that people may be saved. More specifically, Jesus taught that
he was “the way, the truth, and the life” and no one could come to the Father
except through him (John 14:6). The Bible not only teaches that there is only one
way a person can be saved (by accepting the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ) but
also that Jesus commanded us further to go to all nations, to teach them and
baptize them. We are to teach the nations to observe everything Jesus has
commanded (Matt. 28:19).
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