FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
communism and capitalism ... Communism ideology ... promise
that freedom will come automatically after the completion of the
revolution. Capitalism puts the emphasis on freedom and
promises that justice will follow as a by-product of free
enterprise. That, too, is an ideology which has been proven
false ... It is the responsibility of Christians to seek new creative
solutions which never allow either justice or freedom to destroy
the other.”
In 1952, Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, Director of the Commission of the
Churches on International Affairs, said: “Our real enemy is not the
Soviet Government...” In 1966, the Central Committee of the WCC (their
chief policy-making body), said than an “American victory in Vietnam
would cause long-range difficulties.” They “called upon the United
States to halt its bombing of North Vietnam and ‘review and modify’ its
policy of trying to contain communism.” They also called for the
United Nations to accept Red China as a member. In May, 1967, Dr.
Martin Niemoeller, President of the WCC, was awarded the Lenin Peace
Prize by Russia.
The Central Committee of the WCC, made up of 120 members, meets
annually to carry out policies and decisions. The Executive Committee
meets twice a year, in order to keep things going between Central
Committee meetings. The entire organization meets in seven year
intervals. Their avowed objective is to uphold the ecumenical
movement, and to establish an all-inclusive church. The WCC is made
up of liberals, evangelicals, neo-Orthodox, Armenians, Calvinists,
Protestants, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Russian Orthodox. Most of the
non-Roman Catholic Churches belong, and they have been extending
invitations to groups such as Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews.
They have 342 member churches in 120 countries, which represent a
membership of nearly 400 million Christians, and most of the world’s
Orthodox churches.
In October, 1979, Dr. Lukas Vischu, a Swiss Reform Minister, and
Eastern Orthodox leader Dimitrios I, urged the Roman Catholic Church
to merge with the WCC. An affiliated arm of the WCC, called the
American Friends of the World Council of Churches was
headquartered at the liberal Riverside Church in New York City, which
had been pastored by Skull and Bones member Rev. William Sloane