This is a brief exposé on the history of progressive politics and how it has infiltrated the Church. Readers will be well served to investigate the history of the Church and the relationship between it and the US Federal Government, the wealthy foundations, and Marxist Communism over the last one hundred years.
It is clear that tax exempt, private, and largely unaccountable foundations and the US Federal Government have worked together tirelessly to destroy the Judeo–Christian foundation upon which this nation was built and by which this nation was a light to the world in so many positive ways. Part of their joint plan was to infiltrate and utilize the Church as a primary cultural change agent. This subject needs to be more fully studied, written about, and discussed among Christians.
Marxism has been part of the Protestant Church in America for decades. Edgar C. Bundy reveals that:
In 1919 the New York State Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities within the state was set up. This committee was headed by state Senator Clayton R. Lusk. It produced a monumental work of four volumes of over 1000 pages each, giving evidence of the infiltration of subversive forces within the State of New York. This committee report was published on April 24, 1920. On the subject of Communist infiltration, Part One has this to say:
There are two dangerous centers of Revolutionary Socialist teaching of a university type in ecclesiastical institutions. One is the Union Theological Seminary of New York [funded by the Rockefellers], where Christian Ethics are taught by Dr. Harry F. Ward…. Dr. Ward is the author of The New Social Order, in which he shows a decided sympathy for Socialist social forms and is friendly to Bolshevism in Russia. He also wrote The Labor Movement, which contained addresses delivered before the Boston School of Theology, when he was professor of social science at that institution. He expressed in it approval of the I.W.W. [Industrial Workers of the World]. It is reported in a recent issue of the National Civic Federation Review that he gave his endorsement to the new gospel of Bolshevism, which he considers a spiritual movement replacing the outworn Christianity of the Russian Orthodox Church. He characterized the cognate I.W.W. “philosophy” as the most ideal and practical Christian philosophy since the days of Jesus Christ, and as expressing the ideas of Christ much more closely than any church of the present day.
The activities of Dr. Ward are entirely consistent with this point of view. He was chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union, which champions the I.W.W., and presided over the I.W.W. meeting of Feb. 9, 1920, held at the Rand School…. He has also been prominent in numerous pacifist and radical societies such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Emergency Peace Conference and People’s Council, the Liberty Defense Union.
Dr. Ward was also connected with the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A., and the InterChurch World Movement.[1]
Bundy summarizes The Congressional Record on Investigation of Communist Activities in the New York City Area (Parts 6–8): Hearing Before The Committee on Un–American Activities House of Representatives, 83rd Congress, First Session July 7 and 8, and July 13 and 14, 1953, with the following transcript:
The lectures which Dr. Ward made in China date back to 1925, beginning just after he had been to Moscow. Preparation for the fall of China to the Communists was being made in the early 1920’s, when the Kremlin’s Colonial School for training leaders in the take–over of other countries was functioning fully, although China was not won by the Communists until late 1949.
The Communist program is a long–range one. It may take many years to implement its tactics and strategy, but its objectives never change. This clergyman, Dr. Harry F. Ward, not only had a powerful influence in the American churches, through The Federal Council of Churches, softening up his own country with Communist propaganda, but he went overseas to help to prepare China, with its 500 million souls, for eventual capture by communism. Men in the pulpit will not tell their people these things, and the people do not even know that testimony upon them is available.
We continue the testimony from pages 2084 and 2085 of the record.
Mr. KUNZIG: What kind of an organization was the Methodist Federation for Social Action, and how did it differ from a Communist– front organization?
Mr. GITLOW: The Methodist Federation for Social Action, originally called the Methodist Federation for Social Service, was first organized by a group of Socialist, Marxist clergymen of the Methodist church headed by Dr. Harry F. Ward. Dr. Ward was the organizer, for almost a lifetime its secretary and actual leader. He at all times set its ideological and political pattern. Its objective was to transform the Methodist Church and Christianity into an instrument for the achievement of socialism. It was established in 1907, 12 years before the organization of the Communist Party in the United States in 1919.
The outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in November 1917 had a tremendous effect upon the Socialist ministers of this organization and especially upon Dr. Ward. When the Communist Party was organized in 1919, Dr. Ward was already a convinced Communist with a few insignificant minor reservations. By 1920 he was already, though not yet a member of the Communist Party, cooperating and collaborating with the Communist Party.
This collaboration of Dr. Ward with the Communist Party was reflected in the expressions and activities of the Methodist Federation for Social Action. The inner hard core of the Methodist Federation consisted, up to the time Jack R. McMichael, a member and leader of the Young Communist League, was elected its executive secretary, after Dr. Ward had relinquished his post, of a Communist cell headed by Ward, which functioned under the direction of the Communist Party.
Mr. KUNZIG: What were the connections between the Methodist Federation for Social Action and the two Communist–front organizations you mentioned that played such an important role in the Communist infiltration of religion?
Mr. GITLOW: In the first place, the Methodist Federation for Social Action was affiliated with and collaborated more closely with the American League Against War and Fascism, and the American League for Peace and Democracy, and the American Youth Congress. 115–118
Mr. KUNZIG: Did Dr. Ward use his position as chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism to aid the Communist conspiracy for the infiltration of the churches?
Mr. GITLOW: He did.[2]
There are a few resources available to readers for their research. Many of them are found in the footnoted information in this chapter. The late Carroll Quigley produced one of the best examinations of the inner workings and secret relationships between the US Federal Government, British Government, US and European financial institutions, and the foundations created for the express purpose of changing governments and cultures around the world toward a globalist, internationalist, centrally controlled socialist civil and economic model.
Quigley confirms what has already been stated throughout this chapter, namely that the wealthy American oligarchy took steps to ensure their wealth was increased and safeguarded at the expense of the average American:
More than fifty years ago, the Morgan firm decided to infiltrate the Left– wing political movements in the United States. This was relatively easy to do, since these groups were starved for funds and eager for a voice to reach the people. Wall Street supplied both.[3]
The associations between Wall Street and the Left…are really survivals of the associations between the Morgan Bank and the Left. To Morgan, all political parties were simply organizations to be used, and the firm always was careful to keep a foot in all camps. Morgan himself, Dwight Morrow, and other partners were allied with the Republicans; Russell C. Leffingwell was allied with the Democrats; Grayson Murphy was allied with the extreme right; and Thomas W. Lamont was allied with the Left.[4]
In 1951 the Subcommittee on Internal Security of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the so–called McCarran Committee, sought to show that China had been lost to the Communists by the deliberate actions of a group of academic experts on the Far East and Communist fellow travelers whose work in that direction was controlled and coordinated by the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR). The influence of the Communists in IPR is well established, but the patronage of Wall Street is less well known.
The IPR was a private association of ten independent national councils in ten countries concerned with affairs in the Pacific. The headquarters of the IPR and of the American Council of IPR were both in New York and were closely associated on an interlocking basis. Each spent about $2.5 million dollars over the quarter–century from 1925 to 1950, of which about half, in each case came from the Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation (which were themselves interlocking groups controlled by an alliance of Morgan and Rockefeller interests in Wall Street).[5]
Dr. Stanley Monteith leaves no doubt about the avarice of the Foundations:
People must understand that the funding for so much of what goes on today comes, at least in the United States, from our great tax–exempt foundations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation and the Pew Foundation. They have fabulous amounts of money—hundreds of billions of dollars—which they then disseminate to religious, political and cultural organizations. Their priority is to change the message of the Christian churches. They’ve certainly infiltrated the Catholic Church and her seminaries; indeed, their agents are working at the highest levels of the Catholic Church today, which is why that Church has protected the pedophile priests who have been molesting boys here in America. In the Protestant churches, they’ve done similar things; they’ve changed the message there, too. People who want to be ministers go to seminaries, and there they learn what they think is the truth. But they don’t understand this: if you want to change the message of the Protestant faith, you must infiltrate the seminaries with people who will subtly change the message while merely professing to believe in Christianity.[6]
The Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations are especially culpable for their funding of eugenics, birth control, and abortion. E. Michael Jones reveals that:
By 1932, Margaret Sanger had become completely attached to the goals of the eugenics movement, partially because she was being funded by the plutocrat aristocracy…On March 1, 1934…John D. Rockefeller III, scion of the Rockefeller family, wrote his father urging him, in spite of shutting down the Bureau of Social Hygiene, to continue his support of both the American Birth Control League, which was to get $10,000, and Sanger’s National Association of Federal Legislation, which was to get $1000…Eventually John D. Rockefeller III would go on to create the Population Council in the early ‘50s, which would fund the research that would come up with both the pill and the IUD…In 1942, in reaction to the bad name that eugenics had got by its association with National Socialism in Germany, the American Birth Control League changed its name to Planned Parenthood…In 1943 Planned Parenthood launched its “Negro Program,” a nation–wide educational program” whose purpose was “creating among Negroes a greater understanding of the importance of Planned Parenthood to their health and welfare and economic security” and, of course, to reduce their birthrate by persuading them to use contraception…On December 26, 1945, Packard wrote to Morris Hadley of Planned Parenthood, informing him that John D. Rockefeller III had made a contribution of $2500 to support PP’s Harlem Project, which was “to provide an example for other Negro communities” on how to reduce their numbers through the use of contraception.[7]
Have you considered that three of the most fiercely argued issues of our time: sexual deviancy, abortion, and illegal immigration are all supported by tax exempt foundations? This is not coincidence. Homosexuality, lesbianism, and pedophilia have been orchestrated since the 1940s by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Author Phil Kent details how the Rockefeller Foundation supported Alfred Kinsey and his deviant homosexual and pedophilia sexual abuse under the guise of sex research at Indiana University. Kinsey wrote this following concerning the origin of his “research” at the Kinsey Institute:
The present volume is a progress report from a case study on human sexual behavior. The study has been underway during the past nine years. Throughout these years it has had the sponsorship and support of Indiana University and during the past six years the support of the National Research Council’s Committee for Research on Problems of Sex, with funds granted by the Medical Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.[8]
Jones adds that the Rockefeller Foundation knew perfectly well that Kinsey’s research was bogus, that his statistical analysis was not accurate and that his activities were in fact criminal. Kinsey became a master at blackmail and coercion based on information he gathered on people who controlled the flow of money.
In the end, the only people at the Rockefeller Foundation who were capable of pulling the plug on Kinsey funding were the people who had not given him their histories. Those who had were completely under his control…The three wise men from the Rockefeller Foundation – Yerkes, Corner, and Gregg – never knew what hit them. The same premise undergirds contemporary phenomena like SAR (Sexual Attitude Restructuring) of the sort that psychologists and medical professionals are forced to undergo for certification as experts in the field of sex. SAR means looking at pornography, and the sex educators who have followed in Kinsey’s footsteps understand that if you look at enough pornography, you will become desensitized; your attitudes will change; you will be more likely to act on what you see and less likely to object to what you see. If you follow the trajectory to its logical conclusion, you will become someone enslaved to passion – a sexual addict – to use the contemporary term.[9]
Kent adds that:
Some inside the Rockefeller Foundation responsible for oversight of the grant actually complained about bad data and irregularities concerning research regarding the experiences of prisoners, bar-hopping homosexuals and child molesters…Warren Weaver, head of the foundation’s natural sciences division, objected to funding Kinsey’s “library of erotic literature, and a collection of pictures and other art objects.”[10]
Just as important to understand is the legal impact of the Foundations’ funding of Kinsey’s perversions. Consider that Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundation money was used to create state level organizations to inform and guide bar associations for the express purpose of changing America’s laws concerning sex crimes.
IN 1955, the Model Penal Code was completed under the auspices of the Carnegie and Rockefeller seeded American Law Institute, the education arm of the American Bar Association. This “model” was then submitted to state legislatures for their consideration, with plenty of authoritative support for the implementation provided by Kinsey’s flawed scientific analysis. Adoption of the Model Penal Code eliminated and/or trivialized prior sex offenses, eventually aiding the reduction of penalties for abortion, rape, wife and child battery, desertion, seduction, adultery, prostitution, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, soliciting for masturbation, sodomy, public sexual exhibitions, ‘unfit’ parentage, alienation of affection, and obscenity, as well as infanticide, premeditated AIDS/STD transmissions, etc.[11]
Nearly every major sexual research study since the 1940s has cited the Kinsey studies as a basis for their call for the normalization of sexual deviancy. But this was only the tip of the spear in the grand scheme the Rockefeller Foundation trustees had in store for America. The real goal was the breakdown of the natural family through an unleashing of sexual morality from biblical standards of marriage between one man and one woman. Following close on the heels of the destruction of the natural family, came the push for unfettered abortion. Once again the Rockefeller Foundation led the way with assistance from the Ford Foundation and the Hewlitt Foundation. Kent writes:
After the 1973 Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court ruling, in which Justice Harry Blackmum infamously wrote that “the word person, as used in the 14th Amendment, does not include the unborn,” all kinds of programs to limit the America population through abortion were undertaken. A June 2, 1972 Chicago Tribune story contained this gem: “It is no surprise that Playboy Foundation money is now competing with Rockefeller money to promote the concept of permissive abortion.[12]
Today pro-life and abolitionist groups are winning the argument against the wanton destruction of unborn human beings, in spite of the various foundations donating millions for the promotion of the murder of unborn children. If the various groups, that support the protection of unborn human beings will put aside their differences and unite, government sponsored abortion can end in our life time.
The same need to unite is observable regardless of the subject. The US Federal Government as well as many State governments are aligning themselves against the Christian Church. They are using Foundation money to change minds and then change laws. Once laws are changed they are using the court system to attack and silence the Church. The Church in many instances has become an accomplice in this travesty. This is true in immigration, gender identity confusion, Islamization, and environmentalism.[13]
One event that shows just how far the Church has fallen into the wicked deception that is Progressivism is the apology David Platt issued for the crime of praying for President Donald Trump. The President recently stopped by Platt’s church on a Sunday morning with only a short notice. Platt had the President appear with him on the platform and prayed for him. The howling from the Progressives and invectives hurled at Platt, who is one of their own by the way, forced him to issue a hurried letter of explanation for his action of praying for the President.[14]
Since when do Christians have to explain their action of praying for the President of the United States? Under eight long years of President Obama the Progressives were quick in their attempts to squelch any negative remarks. Christians were routinely reminded that: “You should be praying for President Obama instead of criticizing him.” Apparently, they really don’t believe we should pray for our President.
Then there was the recent invitation only clandestine meeting of Progressive Christian leaders at Wheaton College in Illinois. Headlined by Tim Keller[15] and Ed Stetzer, attendees were invited to discuss ways in which Christianity could be redirected away from support for President Trump. By redirected they meant forced back on the unopposed road of Cultural Marxism, Progressive Christianity, and Socialism. Some of those invited were so insulted by the Trump bashing that ensued that they walked out.
The Social Gospel and its offspring Social Justice are heresies that fortunately are not aging well. Arnold Toynbee identified the Progressivism of his day when he stated: “Western liberalism is merely the political husk of Christianity, without its spiritual kernel.”[16] That describes Progressivism plainly: a veneer of spirituality that fools the masses but lacks any spiritual power derived solely from the One true God. Thus, Progressivism is a poison, an infectious and abhorrent demonic mutation that must be quarantined and eradicated. Progressivism actually creates Social Injustices and as such should be rejected and vociferously objected to by Christians.
Dr. Mike Spaulding
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This article is an excerpt of the book Social Injustice: Exposing the False Gospel of the Social Justice Movement, which brought together authors Jeff Dornik, Brannon Howse, Dr Andy Woods, Dr Mike Spaulding, Thomas Littleton, Ken Peters, Sam Jones, Ian M Giatti, Patrick Wyett, Paige Rogers, Dustin Faulkner, Schumann and the foreword by Mychal Massie. This team of authors exposes the heresy of Social Justice and how it preaches a false Gospel.
[1] Edgar C. Bundy, Collectivism in the Churches: A Documented Account of the Political Activities of the Federal, National, and World Councils of Churches (Wheaton, Illinois: Church League of America, 1957), p. 126-131. http://crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/communism.htm
[2] See http://crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/communism.htm
[3] Carroll Quigley, Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, (The McMillan Company: New York, 1966), page 938.
[4] Ibid., page 945.
[5] Ibid., page 946-947.
[6] Dr. Stanley Monteith, Brotherhood of Darkness (Hearthhouse Publishers, Oklahoma City, OK, 2000). Transcript of the interview found here – https://www.themindrenewed.com/transcripts/511-int-008t
[7] E. Michael Hones, Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, (St. Augustrine’s Press: South Bend, IN, 2000), pages 283, 285, 286.
[8] Phil Kent, Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America, (Zoe Publications, LLC: Johnson City, TN, 2007), p. 130.
[9] Jones, Libido Dominandi, p. 331
[10] Kent, Foundations, p. 131.
[11] Kent, Foundations, p. 135-136.
[12] Kent, p. 140.
[13] Readers can research the Open Borders Foundation as well as the United Nations Agenda 21 program. These organizations aim to remove any legal standing for national sovereignty to usher in a global government.
[14] See article by Larry Taunton, An Evangelical Pastor Apologizes* for Praying for the President…WTH? June 6, 2019 here https://spectator.org/an-evangelical-pastor-apologizes-for-praying-for-the-president-wth/
[15] Tim Keller describes himself as heavily influence by Marxism. One author “writes about his emotional attachment to the ideas of the Frankfurt School of Neo-Marxism. He confesses that in college he was ‘heavily influenced by the neo-Marxist critical theory of the Frankfurt School’, and admits that he ‘was emotionally’ drawn to the social activism of the neo-Marxists.” See http://www.newcalvinist.com/kellers-political-motivation/kellers-marxist-sympathies/
[16] Erdmann, page 66.