How the Leftist/Marxist/Islamist Alliance Will Accomplish a One Religion/One-world Government
(Part One of Five)
David J. Jonsson
One might ask why it is important to understand the relation between the Leftist/Marxist/Islamist Alliance and the Emerging Movement among Churches and Mosques. It is because it indicates the movement of a historically conservative church and other organizations into the fold. These Emerging Church and Mosque Movements are the elephants in the pew. The Radical Islamist Movement has realized that the tactical weapons of terrorism and suicide bombing may not be achieving their goal for world domination, and that seduction, economics and political action are more effective in winning the war. In this essay, I address how the Leftist/Marxist/Islamist Alliance is approaching the goal of achieving a one religion/one-world government.
The public failure of the Soviet Union in 1991 interred Lenin’s theory of social causation in his Red Square casket, although, like Dracula, the monster occasionally climbs out of its casket and wanders through American college campuses and churches, seeking whom it may devour.
As I wrote in the article, The Leftist/Marxist – Islamist Alliance Aligns Against Jerusalem,
“The West has a worldview based on the analysis and actions influenced by looking through the lenses of politics and economics, whereas the Islamists look at the world through the lens of ideology. It is time for the West to place importance on looking at events happening around the world through the lens of ideologies. In the case of a growing force of Muslims, their worldview and subsequent actions are shaped by their vision for world domination, the establishment of Islamic kingdom of God on Earth – the creation of worldwide Caliphate and the End Times.”
An inability to understand the ideology behind the Emerging Church Movement, cultural Marxism and political Islam could spell disaster for the West.
Al-Qaeda and the Emerging Church
In his article for Townhall on July 22, 2007, Why Al Qaeda Supports the Emergent Church, Frank Pastore wrote:
“The greatest threat to world peace is radical Islam. If not for the United States, millions more would be suffering under the tyranny of Shariah law all over the world. Our Muslim enemies know post-Christian Europe has already lost the will to fight. Africa, Asia, and South America seem to be already lost. Russia, China, and India would rather trade than fight…for now. And the United Nations continues to be irrelevant.
“Only the United States, and more specifically, only the conservative, evangelical Christians of America are who stand between radical Islam and their quest for global domination.
“If the world is to be saved from Muslim conquest, it will be America who does it. And if America is to be saved, only conservatism can do it. And if conservatism is to be saved, it will be those Bible-believing patriots who do it – those conservative, evangelical Christians who are the bedrock of the American way of life.
“Why? Because only Christianity has the intellectual and spiritual horsepower to defeat radical Islam and prevent the world from returning to the darkness of the 7th century. After all, the story of the birth and growth of Western Civilization is pretty much the story of the birth and growth of Christianity. The divide between East and West today, fundamentally, is the divide between Islam and Christianity. Christians and Muslims know this, it’s the secularists who don’t get it – or at least won’t admit it.
“A post-Christian, post-modern, secular-socialist America will be no match for a radical Islam fueled by petro-dollars and threatening the use of nuclear weapons.”
The Rise of Arianism
While the controversy over Arianism arose centuries ago, the controversy is far from over. Today it continues with the geopolitical events of potentially devastating consequences facing the world and even the U.S. election in 2008. The issue facing Constantine in 324 has a similarity to that facing the Church and world leaders today.
Arianism was a fourth-century Christian heresy named for Arius (ca.250-ca.336), a priest in Alexandria. Arius denied the full deity of the preexistent Son of God who became incarnate in Jesus Christ. Arius held that the Son (Jesus), while divine and like God (“of like substance”), was created by God as the agent through whom he created the universe. Arius said of the Son, “There was a time when he was not.” The belief that Jesus was not really God, just the highest creation of God, was one of the first Church heresies. It was defeated simply because it is unscriptural; there are just too many New Testament verses that cannot be explained within this schema. Arianism became so widespread in the Christian Church and resulted in such disunity that the Emperor Constantine convoked a church council at Nicaea in 325.
The particularity of the Gospel has always been a stumbling block to which dualism is a cardinal assumption. Treat Jesus as a moral teacher, like Gandhi, and Christianity will win universal acclaim. We even see this among Muslim scholars, where 138 Muslim scholars, clerics and intellectuals have unanimously come together for the first time since the days of the Prophet to declare the common ground between Christianity and Islam. This was presented in the form of a letter: A Common Word Between Us and You at conference in September 2007 held under the theme of “Love in the Quran” by the Royal Academy of The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Jordan, under the Patronage of H.M. King Abdullah II.
Indeed, according to “Common Word,” the most fundamental common ground between Islam and Christianity, and the best basis for future dialogue and understanding, is the love of God and the love of the neighbor.
“Never before have Muslims delivered this kind of definitive consensus statement on Christianity. Rather than engage in polemic, the signatories have adopted the traditional and mainstream Islamic position of respecting the Christian scripture and calling Christians to be more, not less, faithful to it.”
“ ‘A Common Word Between Us and You’ gives them a starting point for cooperation and worldwide co-ordination, but it does so on the most solid theological ground possible: the teachings of the Qu’ran and the Prophet, and the commandments described by Jesus Christ in the Bible. Thus despite their differences, Islam and Christianity not only share the same Divine Origin and the same Abrahamic heritage, but the same two greatest commandments.”
In several ways our times, in the third millennium, are not unlike those two thousand years ago. At the end of the first century, forces beyond its control threatened the church, which was only two or three generations old. Natural disasters, persecution, and the arising of numerous heresies threatened it. Within the period of six centuries, a new force arrived on the scene – Islam. This force and the associated ideologies not only threatened the Church, but ultimately led to the destruction of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse in what is now Western Turkey, and the capitulation of Christian Church in the East.
For some observers, the triumph of Islam in the East in the seventh century was regarded as the judgment of history upon a degenerate Christianity. In the Letters to the Seven Churches in Revelation 1-3, the Apostle John warned the churches of these problems. The degeneration had already begun. However, the degeneration could not become well-developed in a persecuted church. But when the Church was freed from the danger of persecution by the ascension of Constantine, that seed of degeneration began to develop rapidly. That fact is not without its significance as we try to realize conditions in Arabia in the seventh century. It helps to explain the readiness of Christian Arabs to accept Islam. Similarly today, the Church is in a state of degeneration and Arianism; New Age, Gnostic Gospels, Sufism. Baha’i and Islam are gaining mainline positions in the churches, press, and universities in the name of the universal “Interfaith” movements. In many Western countries, Islam is on the rise as Christians are accepting it as an acceptable alternative to Christianity. We see the warning to “wake up” in the Letter to the Church in Sardis:
Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Revelation 3:3
Interestingly, one of the great theologians of the early church, St. John of Damascus (ca. 675-749) was convinced that Islam was at its root not a new religion, but a variation on a Judeo-Christian form. St. John wrote the first Christian critique of Islam in his work entitled “The Fount of Knowledge.” He closely related Islam to the heterodox Christian doctrine of Arianism. (After all, this doctrine, like Islam, took as its starting point a similar position, stating that God could not become truly human without somehow compromising his divinity.) In other words, St. John viewed Islam in the same manner in which we view Mormonism or the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I might add that Martin Luther had a similar evaluation of Islam. See “Clash of Ideologies –The Making of the Christian and Islamic Worlds”, David J. Jonsson, Xulon Press 2005.
Modern Parallels
Although many believed that the beliefs of Arianism would die with the church council at Nicaea, Arianism (although not its name) continues in several modern non-trinitarian or anti-trinitarian religions today, while belief in Arianism among the clergy in Spain and elsewhere provided fertile ground for the early missionary work of Muslims in their conquests.
Today, Christians are converting to Islam via initial beliefs in Arian doctrines followed by Unitarian, and finally conversion to Islam. Hilaire Belloc, the Catholic historian, in his book entitled “Survivals and New Arrivals”, commented that Arianism, the modern name of which is modernism, had come back with a vengeance in the Church and that view of Jesus is different from the Jesus of the Bible, who is God, equal and co-equal with the Father and Holy Spirit.
Similarly we see the rise of heretic Emerging Church Movement and their attention to postmodernism, praxis, post-evangelical and support of Leftist political issues. To quote from C.C. Lewis who says it well: “You can never make a good omelet out of rotten eggs.” Isn’t that the fundamental fallacy of all “secular progressive” movements? Man and societies simply are not perfectible through rearranging of rotten eggs?
We are seeing today the use of religion, not the Judeo-Christian religion on which West was built, but the other religions – pluralism, Arianism, Islam and atheism - to go from the Church to the Schoolhouse to the White House. This movement can be seen in factions of both the Republican and Democrat parties.
The CABAL is supported by a wealth of supporters and “intellectuals” seeking global power. The motivation, however, extends beyond power. The motivation of most reformers can be seen as being laudable and for the benefit of all mankind. Isn’t this what appeals to the typical, good hearted, kindly church persons such as Rick Warren, Tony Campolo, Brian McLaren and Jim Wallis? And, this extends to many others.
All seem to believe in their being Messiah to a corrupted society that must have basic change to survive and for the good of mankind. This is a very laudable aim. The communist ideal of “from each according to his ability to each according to need” is also very laudable. Can’t this be seen in being part of ushering in the Kingdom of God for the benefit of all of mankind? The Communist sees the inevitable end of history coming about through practicing dialectical materialism. The Islamic sees himself as an essential part of process ushering in the world governed by Sharia law – really both the same thing: man’s (arrogant) belief that it is his responsibility to be part of an essential process which has the highest of goals for the betterment of the world and mankind.
The supporters include the Islamists with their oil wealth, the Leftists with their influence in the media and schools and universities, and those just seeking global power. This support extends even to the World Bank which is planning to authorize a $900 million loan to Iran, defying requests from an influential congressman to stall it.
Currently, the main Iranian bank handling the World Bank transactions is Bank Melli, an institution designated last month by the American Treasury Department as financing the country’s nuclear program. World Bank officials told the New York Times in a story published on November 4th that the World Bank was looking to support the current projects through alternative methods in light of the new American sanctions.
Part Two will discuss the emerging church movement and postmodernism in the church.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor David J. Jonsson is the author of Clash of Ideologies —The Making of the Christian and Islamic Worlds, (Xulon Press 2005.) His new book: Islamic Economics and the Final Jihad: The Muslim Brotherhood to the Leftist/Marxist - Islamist Alliance (Salem Communications May 30, 2006) and can be reached at: djonsson2000@yahoo.co.uk
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