The Ecumenical Movement paved the Way for a One-World Government

As World War II dragged on, the leaders of the Allied forces increasingly made clear their true reason for wanting to bring this horrific war to a victorious conclusion. Their ultimate goal was evident in the name they gave themselves: the United Nations.

This self-designation signified the colossal project of uniting all nations under a single government subject to the supremacy of the American president. To obscure the actual balance of power within a future world government and prevent any nation from defying the American president’s authority, they devised a plan to appoint a Secretary-General, who would head the United Nations (UN) for a term lasting several years. However, the actual power would emanate from a Security Council, in which the nation paying the highest membership dues would have the final say. From the U.S. perspective, there was no doubt as to which nation that would be.

To refute the accusation that the entire undertaking was merely the implementation of pure power politics over the global population, influential Americans did everything they could to inspire the Christian public to embrace the idea of a world federation. The churches that willingly lent themselves to this project thus served as a “fig leaf” behind which power-hungry politicians could hide their ambitious plans. Officials of the Federal Council of Churches in America viewed their contribution to establishing a unified world state differently. Since the organization’s founding in 1908, they had seen themselves as the true actors in the political arena of unifying all nations.

The churches thought they were the ones calling the shots, but they were merely being used as a “fig leaf” by power-hungry politicians (sutori.com)

In the following, I reproduce an excerpt from my book World Federation:

Dulles and his colleagues felt a great sense of satisfaction in their efforts at communicating the ecumenical vision of a World State to countless individuals, in and outside the Church. Nearly every statement of the Commission published until the time of the signing of the United Nations Charter in late December 1945 referred in some way to the ‘Six Pillars’. The general acceptance of this pronouncement by the American churches motivated the Commission to extend its efforts across the Atlantic in persuading closely aligned ecumenical bodies to adopt a similar position concerning the reconstruction of the postwar world.

In the “John Foster Dulles Papers” archived at Columbia University in New York City, a folder entitled “Commission on a Just and Durable Peace – 1943” contains numerous documents on mass media and publicity efforts in relation to the issuance of the “Six Pillars of Peace.” A subsection, entitled, “International Understanding,” in the Federal Council pamphlet, “Furthering Christian Unity,” reads as follows:

The Council’s Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, made up of thoughtful leaders of special competence in international affairs, under the chairmanship of the distinguished lawyer, Mr. John Foster Dulles, has shown that a united influence is possible. National study conferences have been held for the purpose of formulating programs on which the churches can stand together. Study groups in local churches have been formed in order to develop an informed conscience on international problems, throughout the nation. Such influential statements as the “Six Pillars of Peace,” “Soviet-American Relations,” and “Crossroads of Foreign Policy” have given a sense of direction to Christian thinking. Christian missions on World Order have been held in cities across the continent. A mobilization of the churches for support of the European Recovery Program (The Marshall Plan) has been conspicuously effective.

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