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I've linked to your post from New World Religion
Jeff,
Giant "apocalypse" Mayan crop circle appears today in the UK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5777580/Mayan-apocalypse-crop-circle-appears-at-Silbury-Hill.html
Crop Circles or Graven images and lying signs or wonders to deceive caused by electro magnetic fire come down from the heavens or by a powerful prince of the airwaves being manipulated to deceive the elct if it were possible?
Shalom, all. I've been getting a lot of referrals to different videos and articles regarding "The Pope's Call for a New World Order." The best I can say about these reports (at least what I can say on a family-friendly forum) is poppycock.
All the reports (and I mean EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE AND VIDEO) that I have seen on this topic have been cherry-picking lines and quotes from the encyclical in order to show the Pope saying things he did not say.
I refer you to this editorial on LifeSite News: Editorial: Pope's New Encyclical Speaks Against, not for One-World Government and New World Order The editorial is a quick read, and I'm tempted to just copy the whole thing here, but here are some basic points:
The Pope actually speaks directly against a one-world government, and, as would be expected from those who have read his previous writings, calls for massive reform of the United Nations. Confusion seems to have come from paragraph 67 of the encyclical, which has some choice pull-quotes which have spiced the pages of the world's news, from the New York Times to those of conspiracy theorist bloggers seeing the Pope as the Anti-Christ.
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Since long before his papacy, Joseph Ratzinger has vigorously fought the United Nations' vision of a 'New World Order'. As early as 1997, and repeated subsequently, Ratzinger took public aim at such a vision, noting that the philosophy coming from UN conferences and the Millennium Summit "proposes strategies to reduce the number of guests at the table of humanity, so that the presumed happiness [we] have attained will not be affected".
(The above quote has links to these two articles: Cardinal Ratzinger's Preface to Michel Schooyans Book, "The Gospel: Confronting World Disorder" and CARDINAL RATZINGER CRITICIZES UN PROPOSAL FOR "NEW WORLD ORDER")
The editorial finishes up by saying, Any vision of a proper ordering of the world, of international economics or political cooperation, suggests the Pope, must be based on a "moral order." That includes first and foremost "the fundamental right to life" from conception to natural death, the recognition of the family based on marriage between one man and one woman as the basis of society and freedom for faith and cooperation among all peoples based on principles of natural law.
Hardly the radical call for socialism and "one-world government" some people would have you believe, now, is it?
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