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Earth Charter, Ark of Hope

Ten Commandments: Written on the heart

by Judi McLeod

September 1, 2003

With their today-the-pond-tomorrow-the-world mentality, international Pooh-Bahs Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong are filing the Ten Commandments under `p’ for passe.

Is a global landscape unmarred by the sight of church steeples and the cross someone’s idea of a "progressive" 21st century?

Count on it.

The United Nations and its Meditation Room, not to mention its nearby Temple of Understanding at St. John the Divine gothic church have already finished manufacturing their new religion based on saving the environment. Thou shalt all adore Gaia is the order of their New Day.

Were it not for the nightmarish quality of it all, it would read like a modern day fairytale.

Surrealistic in tone, the two men charged to impose the new religion on an unsuspecting world are Gorbachev and Strong. Although both of them are well up in years, they are much more than two silly old buggers. Both are exceedingly well funded. Unless you’re off another planet, Gorby enjoys instant name recognition. anti-Christian, eccentric media mogul Ted Turner gave Strong, who’s destined to hit the Canadian radar screen in the near future, the proverbial king’s ransom--$1 billion.

Lest you think that Strong spends all of his time getting rid of old time religion, he is headed to the Canadian PMO to be a senior advisor to his long time protégé Paul Martin as early as this November.

This influential international tag team of old-timers decided back in 1997 that it’s out with the bearded Moses and his tablet of stone. The pair will replace the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter. They would have gone after the Magna Carta, but there weren’t a lot of lawyers around that day.

Their jointly authored Earth Charter is carried around in a wooden chest called the Ark of Hope. Any jolt of memory back to one called the Covenant is, like black helicopters, only your imagination.

For the uninitiated, the Ark of Hope is a "magnificent large sycamore chest, which was conceived as a visual message of peace, sustainability and concern for the Earth.

Gilt-covered and lavish in looks, the chest carries Temenos Earth masks. The 96" poles of the 200-lb. chest are "unicorn horns which render evil ineffective."

It seems the only thing missing from the Ark of Hope is cloven feet.

The Ark carries Gorby’s and Strong’s Earth Charter, an international peoples’ treaty, need of which was foreseen and initiated at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

Lest you think the architects of the Earth Charter are kidding about their planned fate for Moses and Following, this is what Mikhail Gorbachev has to say: "The Ten Commandments are out of date. They will be replaced by the 18 principles of the Earth Charter."

Take that, Mr. Moses.

Without all the pomp and circumstance afforded the Charter by the gilt-covered box, it originated on a letter-sized piece of paper, carried down from a commercial meeting place by a UN type flunky. Nor was there anything hallowed, holy or even particularly environmental from whence it came–the 23rd floor of the Sheraton Hotel on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro in 1997. We don’t now what, if anything its creators were drinking at the time. And with any luck, the namesake of the song Girl from Ipanema will long outlast the memory of the Charter.

Far from Ipanema, signs of the Ten Commandments are disappearing.

Latest to fall is the 5,300-lb. granite marker bearing the Ten Commandments, which was only recently hauled away from public view in Alabama.

The bible in front of Harris County’s downtown courthouse may be next says Houston pastor Aubrey Vaughan.

Nor is the granite marker in Alabama the first of its kind to bite the dust.

According to American author and Newsmax.com columnist James L. Hirsen, it’s been happening wholesale…"In Kentucky, in 1978, the legislature passed a statute which required that a copy of the Ten Commandments be posted on the wall of each public classroom in the state. In 1980 the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that posting a copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall was unconstitutional. The wall of separation was growing higher, thicker and a whole lot stronger. Earlier the same year, with almost identical facts, the North Dakota District Court came to the same holding, ruling that a North Dakota law which required the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and was unconstitutional."

Across the land, the traditional Christmas Nativity Scene has gone the way of the cross, the bible, the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer.

But the grumpy old men of the United Nations shouldn’t count on easy victory for the elimination of the Ten Commandments. They are written on the hearts of too many, and although you can take down granite, you cannot ever budge the believing human heart.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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