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United Nations
Earth Charter - The New World Religion
Posted on Wednesday, May 12 @ 13:09:49 MST by Archie
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Vol. 18, No. 19
September 23, 2002
The New American Article
The New World Religion
by William F. Jasper
Presented to the world as a mystical revelation, the UN Earth Charter is
actually a diabolical blueprint for global government.
My hope is that this charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a
"Sermon on the Mount," that provides a guide for human behavior
toward the environment in the next century and beyond.
— Mikhail
Gorbachev
Millions of Americans were justifiably shocked and outraged over the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ notorious
ruling on the Pledge of Allegiance. "Can our courts really have sunk
this low?" people asked. "How can little Johnny and Suzie
violate the Constitution by uttering the words ‘under God’ while reciting
the Pledge of Allegiance in a public school?"
Yet that is what the Court said in its June 26th decision. This ruling
was a continuation of an ongoing subversive campaign aimed at expunging
all mention of God and all Christian symbols from the public sphere.
Judicial activists have ordered our students not to invoke the Almighty’s name in prayer on school property. Posting
the Ten Commandments on classroom walls is also supposedly a major no-no.
Traditional Christmas carols with religious themes are out, as are
Nativity scenes. Christmas and Easter vacations have been
de-Christianized to, respectively, winter and spring breaks. Many
textbooks have dropped the traditional "Christocentric"
dating system of B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno
Domini, In the Year of Our Lord) in favor of
B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era).
Many Christians concerned about this trend are looking hopefully to the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 9th Circuit’s ruling, as it has done with some of that court’s previous radical
rulings. Even if that were to happen, developments at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (also
known as Earth Summit II) could ultimately undo any Supreme Court reversal. If the
Earth Summiteers have their way, Johnny and Suzie will not be able to
pledge allegiance to "one nation, under God," but they will be
able to pledge to "One World, under Gaia" — that is, Mother
Earth. They will not be allowed to have the Ten Commandments or the Holy
Bible in class, but could soon be bowing before the pagan "Ark of Hope," reading the
"sacred" Temenos Books, and
reverently intoning the text of the new UN Earth Charter.
Those decrying the 9th Circuit Court’s harmful
decisions will take little comfort in learning that senior 9th Circuit
Court Judge J. Clifford Wallace was among the jurists attending the
Johannesburg Summit’s Global Judges Symposium.
That meeting was hosted by several globalist
institutions with a pronounced hostility toward the United States. The participants, which included
judges from Communist regimes, pledged to "apply new legal
instruments in keeping with the principles of sustainable
development," and the international "Rule of Law."
One of the documents designed to advance this process, the long-awaited
Earth Charter, was formally unveiled to the world at Johannesburg. Crafted by a conclave of "Wise
Persons" headed by former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev, it is
set to become the Holy Writ of the UN’s new
"global spirituality." Although the Earth Charter is not a
legally binding document, its impact may prove damaging and pervasive.
Its benign-sounding verbiage and symbolic nature camouflage its dangerous
purpose. The Charter is intended to become a universally adopted creed
that will psychologically prepare the world’s
children to accept the necessity of world government to save the
environment. It is also an outrageous attempt to indoctrinate your
children in the UN’s New Age paganism.
The Preamble of the Earth Charter states:
… we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny.
We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded
on respect for nature.... Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the
peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the
greater community of life, and to future generations.
According to the Charter, humanity must undergo a global "change of
mind and heart." And the UN’s all-wise
seers visualize themselves as the lead change agents for this global
undertaking. The Earth Charter Initiative, however, candidly admits that
it intends to recruit your children as change agents, as well. "We
seek to increase the participation of young people in utilizing the Earth
Charter as a guideline in their work as active agents of change,"
says the Earth Charter Initiative website. They have been doing precisely
that, and will be accelerating their program throughout the world —
including in schools in your neighborhood. The U.S. Conference of Mayors
is but one of hundreds of organizations, schools, municipalities, and
other entities that have signed on as supporters of this declaration of a
new "global ethic" for the world.
Blasphemous Symbols
Weeks before the start of Earth Summit II, the Earth Charter arrived in Johannesburg for a series of rituals,
celebrations, and promotions aimed at setting the spiritual tone for the
global conference. The venerated Charter is housed and transported in the
Ark of Hope, a blasphemous mimicry of
the biblical Ark of the Covenant, which held the two tablets containing
the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses. The Ark of Hope is actually designed to look
like the Ark of the Covenant and its devotees carry it around with
worshipful solemnity. Accompanying the Charter and the Ark are the Temenos Books, containing aboriginal Earth Masks and
"visual prayers/affirmations for global healing, peace, and
gratitude," created by 3,000 artists, teachers, students, and
mystics. According to the Temenos Project,
which launched the effort, a temenos is "a
magical sacred circle where special rules apply and extraordinary events
inevitably occur."
The Ark, Charter, and Temenos
Books were placed on display at the UN summit site and then put to work
building the new global ethic. Day after day, UN acolytes carried the
sacred objects from school to school, where tens of thousands of children
already had been prepped with Earth Charter propaganda. Public ceremonies
with mayors and celebrities augmented the school events.
The summit’s opening day featured a four-hour
symposium entitled, "Educating for Sustainable Living with the Earth
Charter." Steven Rockefeller, a religion professor and scion of the
fabulously wealthy banking family that donated the land for the UN
headquarters in New York, was preeminent among the presenters. Professor
Rockefeller is also chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the
Earth Charter International Drafting Committee. According to Rockefeller,
the way to go about "building peace on earth" is through the
"inclusive, integrated and spiritual approach" of the Earth
Charter.
Covering the summit for USA Radio, Cathie Adams told The New
American that Rockefeller described the Charter as an effort to
incorporate the "wisdom of the world’s
religions." Razeena Wagiet,
environmental adviser to South Africa’s
national minister of education, was one of the presenters who followed
Rockefeller to the podium. According to Wagiet,
astrologers have foreseen that the world is about to enter a "Golden
Age, a New Age, an Age of Aquarius."
Earth Charter Integration
Outlining how the Earth Charter is to be integrated into lifelong
education for all, Hans van Ginkel, chairman of
the International Association of Universities, told the symposium:
"We must mobilize all in education about sustainability; that’s how we meet the next generation." Sixteen
million teachers must be trained, he noted, and "the only way to
move forward is by integrating the Earth Charter into curriculum."
The Rockefeller-Gorbachev Earth Charter effort is already fast at work on
that score. Their website declares:
The Earth Charter values and principles must be taught, contemplated,
applied and internalized. To this end, the Earth Charter needs to be
incorporated into both formal and non-formal education. This process must
involve various communities, continue to integrate the Charter into the
curriculum of schools and universities, and constitute an ongoing process
of life-long learning.
According to the same website, the Earth Council, UNESCO, and the Earth
Charter Initiative folks already have many of the curriculum materials
and programs prepared; in fact, they’re already
up and running in schools across the globe. Some American schools got an
advance start on the rest of humanity with Charter activities, coinciding
with the journey last year of the Ark and its contents to the UN in New York. The pilgrimage began in Vermont, where Steven Rockefeller, in his
role as dean of religion at Middlebury College, held a sacred Earth ceremony.
Joining him and the other worshipers was Jane Goodall,
the celebrity chimpanzee expert who has become a fixture at forums
sponsored by Mikhail Gorbachev and the UN. The Charter was carried on
foot, by car, and by boat, arriving in New York City on November 8th, to be greeted by
Pete Seeger, the leftist folksinger. On January
24th, the Ark and Charter were carried in a
procession from the Interfaith Center of New York to the United Nations Church Center Chapel, a distance of about 15
blocks.
The Charter’s authors are not shy about the
importance of their handiwork. "My hope is that this charter will be a kind of
Ten Commandments, a ‘Sermon on the Mount,’ that provides a guide for human behavior toward the
environment in the next century and beyond," Gorbachev stated in a
1997 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Canadian billionaire socialist Maurice Strong, who presided over the 1992
Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, is somewhat less tentative. "The
real goal of the Earth Charter," said Strong,
"is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments."
(Emphasis added.) Mr. Strong had high hopes that the Charter, conceived
in 1987, would be adopted by the world at Rio. Alas, there were too many other
messianic projects on Gaia’s burners at that
confab. Gaia, the Greek goddess of Earth, has become the supreme deity in
the green theology of the militant environmentalists.
In his opening address to the Rio
summit, Strong directed the world’s attention
to the "Declaration of the Sacred Earth," which was part of the
pre-Summit ceremonies. "The changes in behavior and direction called
for here," said Strong,
"must be rooted in our deepest spiritual, moral, and ethical
values." According to the declaration, "The [ecological] crisis
transcends all national, religious, cultural, social, political and
economic boundaries." "The responsibility of each human being
today is to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light,"
Strong exhorted. "We must therefore transform our attitudes and
values, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine
Nature."
The "Sacred" Text
"The protection of Earth’s vitality,
diversity, and beauty is a sacred trust," the Earth Charter asserts.
However, "an unprecedented rise in human population has overburdened
ecological and social systems. The foundations of global security are
threatened." Thus, "we urgently need a shared vision of basic
values to provide an ethical foundation for the emerging world
community."
According to the Charter, we must:
"Recognize that all beings are interdependent and every form of life
has value...." (Unborn children, of course, are not included in the UN’s definition of "every form of life."
The Earth Summit II documents continue to support the
UN’s pro-abortion policies.)
"Affirm faith in the inherent dignity of all human beings." (UN
agencies, however, support policies of euthanasia for those determined
not capable of living a "quality" life.)
"Adopt at all levels sustainable development plans and
regulations...." (This is a prescription for global socialism in a
super-regulated global state.)
"Prevent pollution of any part of the environment...."
(Enforcing this dictum would mean stopping virtually all human activity.)
"Internalize the full environmental and social costs of goods and
services in the selling price." (This seemingly harmless sentence
would empower the state to price, tax, and regulate all production and
consumption.)
"Ensure universal access to health care that fosters reproductive
health and responsible reproduction. (This is a thinly disguised call for
socialized medicine that includes abortion and population control.)
"Eliminate discrimination in all its forms, such as that based on
race … [and] sexual orientation." (This provision is clearly aimed
at criminalizing those who refuse to accept homosexuality as positive and
good.)
"Promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and
among nations. (Few Marxist documents have put their "redistribution
of wealth" program more plainly.)
The Charter includes much, much more. It ends with this stirring
exhortation: "In order to build a sustainable global community, the
nations of the world must renew their commitment to the United Nations,
fulfill their obligations under existing international agreements, and
support the implementation of Earth Charter principles with an
international legally binding instrument on environment and
development."
The Charter will soon be making its way to schools, city governments,
state legislatures, teachers organizations,
civic groups, professional associations, judges, and law schools. The
aforementioned Global Judges Symposium concluded its summit activities by
issuing the so-called Johannesburg Principles on the Rule of Law and Sustainable Development.
"We recognize," it states, "the importance of ensuring
that environmental law and law in the field of sustainable development
feature prominently in academic curricula, legal studies and training at
all levels, in particular among judges and others engaged in the judicial
process."
The judicial symposium was sponsored by the United Nations Environmental
Program (largely supported by U.S. tax dollars) and the Environmental
Law Institute, one of the principal eco-activist legal groups supported
by U.S. tax-exempt foundations.
For the amount of time, effort, and money invested in the Earth Charter
program over the past decade, its profile at the recent Johannesburg Earth Summit was remarkably subdued. Apparently,
the plan is to orchestrate a global stealth campaign for the Charter
among a sympathetic core constituency. As the campaign picks up steam,
activists will obtain signatures and public support for this new global
ethic from local, state, and national governments, schools, and
organizations — without stirring the suspicions and opposition of
churches, pro-life, and pro-family forces. Once a critical mass of
support has been built among students, teachers, journalists, and public
officials, the Charter will appear to be universally accepted and
unstoppable.
Americans can make sure that that scheme does not work by informing
themselves and their friends and neighbors about this blatantly
diabolical and blasphemous deception.
Note: Note from Archie:
I hope you will read this article to quickly inform yourself on the
United Nations Earth Charter. It will give you great insight into what
the United Nations is doing to the United States of America and the entire world right now.
Professor Carroll Quiqley on page 324 of his
book, Tragedy and Hope..., tells us what it is all about - return of the
world to a feudalistic system ruled by our all-wise overseer elites.
That is why our borders are open. That is why industries are rewarded for
moving out of the USA and wiping out our whole
industrial economy and our jobs. And, if you think about it just a
little, that is why the price of gasoline and milk is going up. Think of
those new withdrawals from our pockets as a global tax and a way to take
the wealth of the average American citizen and give it to our wise
rulers, who in turn will, we are supposed to believe, benevolently then
spread this wealth around to those unfortunates in the world who do not
have what those filthy American "elites" have.
God bless us each and every one.
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