The Anglican Church of Canada has supported the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for some time; the cynical among us suspect that in the ACoC the MDGs have replaced the much more personally demanding Gospel of Jesus.
Soon the MDGs may include “universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights”; that includes “access” to abortions. If it continues to support the MDGs, the Anglican Church of Canada could find itself forced to make its position on abortion – one of the few social justice issues about which it is obstinately silent – public: the ACoC will finally have to come out about abortion.
From here:
Fears that push for abortion to be included in next Millennium Development Goals
Concern is growing that access to abortion may be included in the 15-year UN development programme that will replace the Millennium Development Goals from the end of next year.Cafod has said it will be unable to giving 100 per cent backing to the new goals, currently in draft form, which already contain a commitment to grant universal access to sexual and reproductive health.
The MDG’s are supported by nearly every church in Canada. Even the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s website says that they strongly support them. I’m sure that many on this site have even supported initiatives from the Micah Challenge. This is not a strictly ACoC issue but something that impacts all churches.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child says: 1) “a child means every human being below the age of 18 years” and 3.1) “In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions,
courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.” 19.1) “States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse”
Ah yes, the New World Order, Big Brother, Illuminati, Regional Zones, One World Religion, Atheism, Humanism, Communism, The Brave New World,(The Clintons). The U.N. Charter and Constitution is a thin paraphrasing of the Soviet model, which Alger Hiss borrowed from when he co-authored it. One of it’s policies regarding the “right to abortion”, is even more specific on the end game and this United Nations New World Order;
“Control over whether women are ALLOWED to have babies.”
I imagine a Pro-Creation Bureaucracy, perhaps as part of the One World Religion led by the all-inclusive, Bishops of Big Brother Diversity, who would issue “Birthing Allowance Certificates”, with all the genetically superimposed characteristics of the new citizen. Of course those pregnant or birthing without this Certificate would be arrested, the unauthorized matter eliminated, sterilization performed, and imprisonment, or a population decrease order issued.
Step One. M.D.G.’s.
What an imagination,eh?
Just one more reason to distance yourselves from the Anglican Organization of Canada.
BTW still no Dean for Brandon. If Jim doesn’t have to pay a wage perhaps they can dig out of the hole, Temps jump at the chance to hear their echo in the largely empty Cathedral. And now Daddy is suing Junior for the money mis-spent from Diocese coffers.
I don’t understand your point. Are you saying that we should avoid the ACoC because of its support for the MDGs? If so, see my point above.
Yes, avoid the MDG because daily it becomes less the Message of Christ and more another advocacy for non Christian values. The quicker the Anglican Organization atrophies the better. Real Christians will line up for some beautiful churches now occupied by the infidels.
Not nearly every church
My two cents for little they always seem to be worth…
I am no fan of the UN. As far as I can tell it has become an organization of socialist busy bodies hell bent on trying to tell everyone else what to do and how to do it. A blotted and ineffective bureaucracy that can’t get anything meaningful done. It’s claim to fame has become a stage for self promoting politicians to broadcast their political agendas with some false sense of international statesmanship.
Case in point is the MDGs. Does anyone in the real world even know that such political crap even exists??? I think very few people know of the MDGs and even fewer care. I believe that the AcoC has embraced this political nonsense is a strong indication that the AcoC is completely out of touch with real people, and even more dire, is also out of touch with the true Holy Scriptures that God Himself has given us. The AcoC has replaced God’s message of Divine Love for all with a left wing socialist political agenda. How very sad.
It is indeed!
I agree that governments (especially the UN) can be inefficient but this doesn’t mean that everything they do or produce is bad.
The MDGs are very well known and referred to frequently both within the church (in general) and in society. Many Christian universities and colleges have departments that focus specifically on this. I’d be very surprised if most have not heard of the Micah challenge (especially anyone under 45). This is the MDGs put in a Christian context.
I personally don’t see the MDGs as incompatible with the Gospel but are actually a part of what we as Christians are called to do (Micah 6:8). Like anything, some may place less/more emphasis on “justice” issues but they are not wrong in itself.
More broadly, this is not just an ACoC issue as I have yet to find ANY church that has not acknowledged, support or champion the MDGs. Even ANIC supports these initiatives. (see http://www.anglicannetwork.ca/nl_092610.htm)
This thread seems to be building up a straw man argument again.
The MDGs are from a secularist mindset. Thus, although some might be able to make an argument to endorse a Christian support for the MDGs, they are still not of God. They may be consistent with God’s call for us to help and be nice to each other, but their inspiration is lacking God’s call. They are purely secularist, and so may be the right thing to do but for the wrong reasons.
They end up being only “good works”. But as “good works” they do not get us into heaven. Only by our acceptance of God’s Grace do we get into heaven. Consequently the AcoC support for this secularist initiative has diverted its efforts away from helping people to accept God’s Grace, and results in a misunderstanding that “you don’t need God to be a good person”.
“…but this doesn’t mean that everything they do or produce is bad.”
Sadly the effect of the UN doing nothing well is that people are deceived into thinking that the UN actually does do something. They end up putting their trust and hope in the UN, only to be disappointed. Their efforts and support to in trying to make this world a better place are thus wasted within the UN. And so we end up with a situation within which the UN is doing everything badly, and people needlessly suffer because of it.