Feigned humility at the WCC

Mark Tooley, who directs the United Methodist committee at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, has a column in The Weekly Standard commenting on this letter from the US Conference to the World Conference of Churches 9th Assembly.  Sadly, our US Conference is not proud of being part of the US.

Yet we acknowledge as well that we are citizens of a nation that has done much in these years to endanger the human family and to abuse the creation...

The rivers, oceans, lakes, rainforests, and wetlands that sustain us, even the air we breathe continue to be violated, and global warming goes unchecked while we allow God’s creation to veer toward destruction. Yet our own country refuses to acknowledge its complicity and rejects multilateral agreements aimed at reversing disastrous trends...

The vast majority of the peoples of the earth live in crushing poverty. The starvation, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the treatable diseases that go untreated indict us, revealing the grim features of global economic injustice...

Sisters and brothers in the ecumenical community, we come to you in this Assembly grateful for hospitality we don’t deserve, for companionship we haven’t earned, for an embrace we don’t merit...

I wonder how they keep the Ten Commandments -- I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt not have any strange gods before me -- while worshipping at the Marxist altar.  The letter closes,

Lord, have mercy.  Amen.

Amen.