Clinton's False Spirituality
"I don't think I could do my job as President," Clinton said, "much less continue to try to grow
as a person in the absence of my faith in God and my attempt to learn more about what it
should be and grow. It provides a solace and support in the face of all these problems that I am
not smart enough to solve."
(ABC Interview by Peggy Wehmeyer, "American Agenda", March 22, 1994.)
Despite his rift with millions of evangelicals over the issue of abortion and gay rights, the
President considers himself a Southern Baptist who takes his Christian faith seriously.
The Southern Baptist Convention has rejected Clinton's policies on moral issues. In a
resolution entitled, "On President William Jefferson Clinton," the messengers said, "we
separate ourselves" from the President's "acts and positions" supporting abortion rights,
abortion funding, homosexuals in the military and homosexual rights. The resolution on
abortion included opposition to the Freedom of Choice Act, federal funding of abortion in the
health care reform plan, approval of any abortion pill and transplantation research using babies'
tissue from elective abortions.
Seminary professor Wayne Ward, longtime associate and former pastor to the President
said, "Despite differences of opinion people may have with Bill, he is a disciple of Jesus
Christ and sees the political profession as a way to fulfill his strong calling from God to help
people." Bill and Hillary Clinton are "committed Christians who have actively supported their
churches and dedicated themselves to helping others," Ward said.("Clinton's New Covenant,"
Christian American, March 1993)
The president's theology is nothing more than situational ethics and a false religiosity that
should fool no one. As theologian R.C. Sproul said, the president's view of law "echoes the
definition of pornography - the test is contemporary community standards, not a
transcendent, objective standard." Clinton says he accepts the Bible as his moral authority, but
that "in a pluralistic society, when should our belief in morality translate into laws?" He cites
the First Commandment: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your mind," yet amazingly he asks who would codify that in U.S. statutes? To say
that one believes in God and even the Bible as "authoritative," while at the same time refusing
to acknowledge certain central truths is to fall under the indictment of St. Paul, who warned of
those who have a "form of godliness, while denying its power. Have nothing to do with
them."
For the first time in our history the leadership of this great country willfully and
philosophically turned away from the covenantal vision and biblical principles of our Founders.
On January 20, 1993, our new President, joined by many in the land, formally 'broke' the
covenant of our Fathers when he and the affirming electorate demonstrated allegiance to his
'new covenant' and began promoting as 'constitutional' those things which God condemns.
For the first time in American history we have a president that has openly endorsed the
killing of babies, openly encourages homosexuality as a lifestyle, and encourages the pagan
worship of Mother Earth. Bill Clinton also recently became the first president in American
history American history to invite an assembly of atheists, known as the American Atheists, to
the White House for a formal meeting with representatives for the president of the United
States.
The Gospel according to Clinton
The reign of Clinton and Gore has introduced a new and frightening dimension to the
moral degeneracy of our day. We have long known that liberals in the media and public
schools have an anti-family agenda that would rob our children of their innocence and replace
a God-given conscience with humanism's "if it feels good, do it!" And now the White House,
instead of standing against these change agents and seducers of our children, is providing them
legitimacy, assistance and leadership. Sadly, the American public is buying into this degeneracy
- hook, line, and sinker.
Bill Clinton described his "New Covenant" as a plan of what man can do to exalt himself. God is
not recognized but rather man is held up to be the savior of the economy and of the environment.
Clinton's "New Covenant" asks Americans to place a faith in the Clinton government that they have
heretofore reserved for God. Mr. Clinton perverts language properly reserved in our culture for the sacred
relationship of man with God. Furthermore, he seizes the language of the New Covenant proclaimed by
Jesus Christ, and applies it to his own administration. In his imagery, in his deceptive misquotation of
Scripture, and in his call to action, Bill Clinton proclaims a counterfeit covenant. Clinton changed sacred
Scripture to meet his purpose. His most flagrant appropriation of God's Word for man's glory is this
passage from the Gospel according to Bill Clinton: "Scripture says, 'Our eyes have not seen, nor our ears
heard, what we can build.'" The original Scripture penned by Paul reads, "What no eye has seen, nor
ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, What God has prepared for those who love him." [1
Corinthians 2:9].
Behind the symbol of Mr. Clinton's counterfeit covenant lies his constant invocation of "change." In
Christ's New Covenant, change means repentance for one's sins, and a recognition that salvation comes
from God. Spiritual change in Christianity and Judaism implies leaving evil ways and repenting. In
experiencing this conversion, the sinner turns away from his old, deformed life, and models himself on
Christ, the source of all truth and order. Clinton's counterfeit covenant asks us, in the name of "change"
to believe in his goodness to use big government, political power, and the federal bureaucracy to
reach the same ends. Bill Clinton, through utopian social engineering, will attempt to build his own "City
of God" on earth. Clinton believes strongly that government - not God or the family - should plan and
control the future of mankind.
In a sermon delivered by Rev. Jesse Jackson on Nov. 22, 1992, he hailed Clinton's
election as "the dawn of a new day." " God has raised up a leader from amongst the
common people," Jackson said of Clinton. "It's appropriate to look for a new leader, a new
savior, but with that must go new behavior," Jackson said. God gave Moses a "10-point
urban policy plan," Jackson said referring to the Ten Commandments; such ethical principles
should guide ordinary Americans as they seek to fulfill their part of the New Covenant.
Finally, liberals have found a leader who was willing to create a Gospel that not only allows them to
continue their chosen pursuits, but actually encourages them. Clinton's "New Covenant" gives a seal of
approval to varieties of self-indulgence that a few short years ago would have earned universal rebuke.
Clinton brought with him to Washington a cadre of God-hating activists, Socialists, earth worshippers,
homosexuals, radical feminists, pro-abortionists, labor union bosses, big-union enemies of Christian
education, civil-rights extremists who still demand Affirmative Action and Busing, "children's rights"
advocates, the media and Hollywood "cultural elite's" and the like. They are people with an agenda and a
vision. "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather
than the Creator" [Romans 1:25].
The Gospel according to Gore
While Clinton's gospel is one of "permissiveness," Vice President Al Gore's gospel is pure paganism.
Al Gore also claimed an endorsement from God, but rather than rewriting Scripture like Clinton did, Gore
made his quotation up entirely. He said, "In the words of the bible, do no lose heart, this nation will
be renewed."
"Earth in the Balance"
by Al Gore
Environmentalism is becoming the new religion of the world!
The religion of communism is being replaced by the religion of environmentalism.
The "Reds" are being replaced by the "Greens."
Satan's religion of communism has died so he is now raising up a new religion of environmentalism in
which he is going to have people worshipping the earth. Over the past 26 years since 1970, the
establishment globalists have pushed down our throats more Socialism, more people control, more
restrictions on free enterprise and private property in America, all in the name of environmentalism, than
the Communists were able to achieve in 75 years.
How we need to pay attention to what is going on today. The teaching of Humanism in the schools for
several decades has created a spiritual vacuum in the hearts of our people and it has opened those hearts
to receive the New Age Spiritual answers such as Vice President Gore's solutions. We have a pantheistic,
pagan type philosophy dominating the thinking of the Vice President of the United States who is a zealous
New Ager advocating "a new faith in the future" which will be a return to paganism's worship of the
earth as sacred.
For Gore and other environmentalists, the Judeo-Christain faith is the source of ecological evil, from
oil spills to global warming. He said, "Ignorant Christians who are afraid to open their minds to
teachings first offered outside their own system of belief by refusing to accept that the earth is our
sacred mother, Christians have become a dangerous threat to the survival of humanity...blights on the
environment."
These are the words of Albert Gore who claims to be a Baptist in good standing!
Vice President Al Gore offers some alarming clues about his view of God in his book, Earth in
the Balance; Ecology and the Human Spirit.
He starts out on page one of his book by asserting his pantheistic beliefs. ....."we feel increasingly
distant from our roots in the earth....civilization itself has been on a journey from its foundations in the
world of nature to an evermore contrived, controlled and manufactured world of our initiative and
sometimes arrogant design.... At some point during this journey we lost our feeling of connectedness to
the rest of nature.... We dare now to wonder: Are we so unique and powerful as to be essentially
separate from the earth?"
Gore identifies the root problem of Western culture in that "we lost our feeling of connectedness to
the rest of nature" and finds answers in pantheism. He attempts to blend Christianity and pantheism
where the source of all life, instead of God has become Mother God, (Mother Earth/Mother Nature also
frequently referred to as Gaia). He, like the radical eco-feminists who support him, see the earth as the
pagan goddess Gaia who "has been seriously 'wounded' by the expansion of human civilization, and now
there must come a universal atonement for these many millennia of grief on 'her' part" through an event
or process they call 'cleansing.'
Gore seeks wisdom from the world's pagan religions.
"The richness and diversity of our religious tradition throughout history is a spiritual
resource long ignored by people of faith, who are often afraid to open their minds to
teachings first offered outside their own system of belief. But the emergence of a civilization
in which knowledge moves freely and almost instantaneously through the world has ...
spurred a renewed investigation of the wisdom distilled by all faiths. This panreligious
perspective may prove especially important where our global civilization's responsibility for
the earth is concerned." (pp. 258-259)
Gore calls for a new spiritual relationship between man and earth and
points to ancient goddess or nature worship.
"The spiritual sense of our place in nature predates Native American cultures; increasingly
it can be traced to the origins of human civilization. A growing number of anthropologists
and archaeomythologists, such as Marija Gimbutas and Riane Esler argue that the
prevailing ideology of belief prehistoric Europe and much of the world was based on the
worship of a single earth goddess, who was assumed to be the fount of all life and who
radiated harmony among all living things. Much of the evidence for the existence of this
primitive religion comes from the many thousands of artifacts uncovered in ceremonial sites.
These sites are so widespread that they seem to confirm the notion that a goddess religion
was ubiquitous through much of the world until the antecedents of today's religions, most of
which still have a distinctly masculine orientation...swept out of India and the Near East,
almost obliterating belief in the goddess. The last vestige of organized goddess worship was
eliminated by Christianity as late as the fifteenth century in Lithuania."
He says, "The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity,"
and to him, "It seems obvious that a better understanding of a religious heritage preceding
our own by so many thousands of years could offer us new insights."
This is pure Pantheistic paganism in its truest form.
He is just putting into words what the New Age Religion has been saying for a long time.
Al Gore embraces the mystical spiritual evolution teaching of Eastern religions, the same ones from
which Adolph Hitler followed in building the Third Reich. He seeks his wisdom from the world's pagan
religious where its basic premise is that man exists for nature. He endorses feminine substitutes for God.
He commends Bahaism, the religion of Maurice Strong, head of the United Nations Earth Summit, as well
as Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism. He affirms the New Age (spiritual evolution) teaching of Teillard De
Chardin, the excommunicated Catholic archaeologist. He points to what de Chardin said, 'The fate of
mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon the emergence of a new faith in the future.' Gore
writes, "Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth, identify it as God's
creation, and accept our responsibility to protect and defend it..."
What Gore is saying is he wants of to adopt a pan-religious perspective that will bring in other religions
and mix them with Christianity so we have a pan-religious viewpoint. He advocates that we particularly be
concerned with Native American Religions, all of which are very paganistic and pantheistic.
That is a direct contradiction of scripture. The Bible states that the earth was created for man,
not man for the earth. The Bible says that man was originally given dominion over this earth.
Man lost that dominion as result of his sin. And that Jesus won that dominion back at the
cross. And that when Jesus returns He will give that dominion back to those who put their love
and trust in Him and man will once again exercise dominion over this earth.
We are part of nature and nature is part of us?
God is part of us, and God is everywhere, and everything is God?
Pure paganism!
Gore likes to refer to Chief Seattle, who said 'Will you teach your children what we have taught our
children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth, befalls all the sons of the earth. This we
know - the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.'
Who is Chief Seattle anyway? He is totally manufactured folks. According to April 21, 1992 issue
of the New York Times, Chief Seattle "Is probably our greatest manufactured prophet in the history of
the United States." But he is quoted all the time by radical environmentalists. According to David Berg
who is writing a book on the Chief, "In an embellished version of a single speech given by the 68 year
old Chief in 1854, makes him out to be an environmental prophet which he was not." According to that
speech he said "The earth is our mother....." and he goes on to say "I have seen a thousand rotting
buffaloes on the prairie left by the white man who shot them from a passing train." Mr. Berg points out
there were no buffaloes within 500 miles of Seattle's home on Puget Sound. And more interesting is that
Chief Seattle's letter is dated some 15 years before the first railroad crossed the plains from Omaha to
Sacramento California. And the great buffalo slaughter took place at least a decade after Seattle died. The
whole letter is a lie. The words in that letter that Gore was so moved by, were actually written for a 1971
environmental movie completely fictitious in nature. And yet these environmentalists have made Chief
Seattle one of the Gurus of their movement.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the
Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. [Romans 1:25]
Does Al Gore make the distinction between fundamental neo-pagan pantheism and Biblical
Christianity? In his book, he clearly makes that distinction.
"We are not used to seeing God in the world because we assume from the scientific and
philosophical rules that govern us, that the physical world is made up of inanimate matter
whirling in accordance to mathematical laws and bearing no relation to life, much less
ourselves. Why does it feel faintly heretical to a Christian to suppose that God is in us as
human beings? Why do our children believe that the Kingdom of God is up, somewhere in
the ethereal reaches of space, far removed from this planet? By experiencing nature in its
fullest...our own and that of all creation...with our senses and with our spiritual
imagination, we can glimpse, "bright shining as the sun," an infinite image of God."
He is not talking here about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. He is saying that God is in everything
and everything is in God. It is a denial of what the Bible teaches that God is a personality separate and
apart from His creation.
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men
who suppress the truth by their wickedness, [Romans 1:18]
The wrath of God is being revealed against certain types of societies - namely those who suppress the
truth and unrighteousness as we have been doing in this country in recent years, by refusing to allow the
truth of the creation and the truth of the origin of man to be taught in our public schools, but teaching only
godless atheistic evolution. (see Romans 1:22-32) It goes on to say that one of the things that brings down
the wrath of God is when men begin to worship the creation rather than the creator.
Despite all their fear-mongering about the environment, the Clinton administration doesn't care a whit
about "saving the planet." They don't really believe there is any impending environmental holocaust.
There are only two reasons these notions are being promoted: political expediency and personal
empowerment. It simply boils down to this: Here's another way to panic people into ceding their own
personal freedom and wealth and to allow the left to grab even more power and control over the lives of
individuals.
Mr. Gore calls for a wide bureaucratic superstructure to be imposed upon America's business. He
wants to impose all kinds of environmental taxes. He wants to bring about a redistribution of wealth
between countries, giving massive amounts of moneys to third world countries. He wants to shut down
Americas industrial system because he sees it as simply a threat to the environment.
Gore calls for the "rescue of the environment" to be "the central organizing principle for
civilization." He writes in his book, "We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a
global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan, if you will, to address the causes of
poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth." Gore calls for a vast array of
new laws and expanded bureaucracies to preserve the earth's ecological balance.
Al Gore makes it clear that he believes the threat to the environment is so severe that we need to
resort to the kind of Draconian central planning that has failed so miserably in every place it has been
tried: "Adopting a central organizing principle...means embarking on an all-out effort to use every
policy and program, every law and institution...to halt the destruction of the environment." That is his
solution. Let's consolidate all of our legal, political, and governmental resources to launch our assault on
Western civilization, capitalism, and our very way of life.
Al Gore's well-meant manual for global salvation will only deepen our problems. Feminine or
earth-centered spirituality may be "politically correct" today, but it mocks Biblical Christianity and points
to the path that has led people from truth to myth since the beginning of time.
Al Gore's lane on the "Bridge to the 21st. Century" leads back to where it started, seeking meaning in
life and power for living in occult wisdom. This revival reaches far beyond deep ecology and
contemporary paganism. We are not looking at a phenomenon limited to the Green Movement or radical
Goddess worshipers. While languages and idols may differ, essentially the same deception permeates our
Western world and links it to the pagan beliefs of the rest of the world.
Our cultural problem is separation from God, not from nature. While God told us to care for the earth, He
warned us against pagan religions. Contrary to the revived myths now flooding the Western world,
nature-worship brings violence and destruction, not peace and harmony to the land. Read Deuteronomy 8,
9, 18, and 28.
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on
human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. [Colossians 2:8-10]
The environmentalists humanistic solutions and the homage they pay to "Nature" are attempts to
escape accountability to the personal God who created them. In the place of God's moral absolutes one
can then boast of the "tolerance" which Gorbachev says is the cornerstone of the new world order. If
we are not accountable to a personal God, but to "Nature," which knows no morals, then we can
broad-mindedly condone homosexuality, abortion, and all manner of immorality while at the same time
priding ourselves that we are acting "responsibly toward the environment."
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