President’s Message to Muslim
Kids Reflects End-Time One-World Religion

By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

WASH—Jun 15—KIN—The President’s message to Islamic students in the Rose Garden on Monday were a continued reminder of the shift away from Christianity in America and the embracing of a multi-faith culture where there are many paths to one god, a type and shadow of how an end time one-world religion could permeate the Christian-dominated United States.

President George W. Bush honored a group of Muslim students at the White House to for completing a State Department program that integrated them into high schools across America to foment a better understanding of the United States. His hope is they will return to their counties with a good impression of America and their experiences will promote good will throughout Islam. His remarks, however, were laced with references to one God and that there were many faiths that led to Him—benign remarks to the world, attention grabbers for Christians, and a reminder of how a one-world religion could become part of American culture.

The President has said on several occasions that Muslims, Jews and Christians worship the same God. The President, who claims to be a devout Christian, has often abandoned basic tenets of the Christian faith in his speeches and public appearances. In fact, Presidential proclamations commemorating Christian holidays such as Easter and Christmas have oft been void of the mention of Jesus Christ, referring instead to the “Almighty” or “God.” Insiders explain away the omissions saying that the President represents everyone and he does not want to offend anyone’s religious beliefs.

But denying the very foundations of his faith, President Bush is leaving many puzzled about what he actually does believe. The toning down of faith rhetoric, omitting Jesus Christ from Biblical quotes, and referencing God generically are not the fruits of a Christian walk. Jesus said in Matthew 10:33, “But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” Many would argue that President George W. Bush has denied Christ through omission and going directly against the teachings of Christianity (in John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”) by saying that there are other ways than Christ to God.

One such instance occurred Monday in the Rose Garden. The President omitted the source of a Biblical quote and degraded the Bible by including it with other “good books” when he told the Muslim teens, “We all got hearts and care deeply about a neighbor in need, and there's a universal call in the Good Books throughout the world that says, love a neighbor like you'd like to be loved yourself.” Jesus is the originator of the quote. He said in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:12), “Therefore all things that you would have men do to you, do you even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets.” (The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you).

President Bush also told the Muslim kids, “I believe there’s an Almighty God who speaks to different faiths, and I believe freedom is a gift from that Almighty.” Technically, perhaps God does speak to different faiths, but the implication here is that Allah and Jehovah are the same and that there are many faiths, many ways to God. Once again, a twist of the Christian faith into a multi-faith concept.

Continuing the multi-faith theme, the President told the story about one of the kids who taught his American classmates about Ramadan and how kids in the public school were celebrating Ramadan with him. Additionally, the President said that he hoped the teens would remind their countrymen upon returning home, “that the people of this country care deeply about others; that we respect religion; that we believe in human rights and human dignity; that we believe every person has worth; and that we do want to have a world that’s more peaceful and free.”

Of course, the idea of the exchange students was to promote America as a good place rather than as an enemy to Islam. The President’s noble goal is to sow seeds in Islamic nations of a respect and love for America through Islamic children. It’s a good idea and a good premise. But to whitewash Christianity in the process, however, is to take the path of a false peace and a denial of the truth. Certainly, the approach could have been to show how loving and tolerant Christians are of other faiths. Instead, there is created a public perception of how America is a multi-faith culture where all roads lead to heaven.

The problem with this subtle difference is that it denies the basic tenets of the Christian faith and the very spiritual reason America was founded—that religious freedom meant the opportunity to practice the Great Commission, as Christ said in Mark 16:15, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” President Bush, in his actions and remarks of late, seems to be taking the position that there are many faiths and one God rather than there is one God and the only way to Him is through acceptance of Jesus Christ—the tenet of Mr. Bush’s proclaimed faith.