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Vatican gives nod to ‘Abrahamic Family House’ that equates Christianity, Judaism, Islam
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<p>September 25, 2019 (<a href="http://lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews</a>) — <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>The “<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/multi-faith-committee-set-up-to-spread-pope-francis-claim-that-god-wills-diversity-of-religions">Higher Committee to </a><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/multi-faith-committee-set-up-to-spread-pope-francis-claim-that-god-wills-diversity-of-religions">I</a><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/multi-faith-committee-set-up-to-spread-pope-francis-claim-that-god-wills-diversity-of-religions">mplement the Document on Human Fraternity</a>”
signed in Abu Dhabi in February by Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed
el-Tayeb of Al-Azhar University, Cairo, met in New York last week in the
shadow of the United Nations yearly national assembly for the second
time in two weeks.</b></span> Its most spectacular act was <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the unveiling of the
design for<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"> <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)">the “Abrahamic Family House,</span></span>”</b></span> to be built on Saadiyat Island
in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, as a multi-faith
complex<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> giving equal space to<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>a synagogue,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> a church</span>, and <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)">a mosque.</span></b></span></p>
<p>Speaking of the so-called “Abrahamic religions” as variations on a
single theme is <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>deceptive</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">T</span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">he Hebrews</span>,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> who worshiped the true God,
received the true promise of the Messiah </span>but <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">did not</span> recognize <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Him</span>. </b></span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus Christ brought the full revelation of the truth, revealing that
the God of the Bible is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit </b></span>— and this
revelation is complete so that nothing can be added on Earth to the
deposit of the Faith.<span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b> Islam</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> violently rejects</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the truth about the Holy
Trinity </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>and rewrites and corrupts </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the inspired Holy Scriptures</b></span>, giving
the letter of the Koran a form of divine status since it is deemed
“uncreated.”</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>The Abrahamic Family House initiative</b></span> has been given wide coverage by the official <em>Vatican News</em>
service and <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>has been blessed, so to speak, by the Catholic Church
through the presence not only of Pope Francis’s personal secretary,
Monsignor Yoannis Lahzi Gaid, </b></span>but also that of the committee’s
president, Cardinal-Elect Miguel Ayuso Guixot.</p>
<p>Hundreds of people from multiple religious traditions gathered for
the event that was held at the New York Public Library on Friday,
September 20.</p>
<p>While the first meeting of the Higher Committee (“higher” than what,
one is tempted to ask) took place on September 11 in Rome to mark the 18<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the terrorist attack against the Twin Towers in New
York<span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>, the second meeting was organized deliberately to coincide with the
74<sup>th</sup> Session of the United Nations in order to “highlight”
the Abu Dhabi document’s “global reach,”</b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> according </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">t</span>o committee member
Judge Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Salam, as quoted by Sr. Bernadette Mary Reis
for <em>Vatican News</em>.</p>
<p>“The Committee, the Judge said, is willing to work with any nation
who is open to the ideals expressed in the Document. He added that the
first steps have been made with the UN Secretary General toward possible
adoption of the Document by the United Nations. The Secretary General
‘is going to request member States to include the principles contained
in this historical document in their local legislation,’ the Judge
said,” wrote Sr. Bernadette.</p>
<p>Many interfaith initiatives saw the light in the wake of the
September 11 attacks, including the Alliance of Civilizations, created
in 2005 by Spanish socialist former prime minister Zapatero and
co-sponsored by Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and
launched by the U.N. that same year. In Kazakhstan, the Congress of the
Leaders of World and Traditional Religions has been meeting every three
years since 2003 with similar objectives: the rapprochement of cultures
and civilizations, <a href="https://reinformation.tv/6e-congres-responsables-religions-mondiales-traditionnelles-astana-kazakhstan-mondialisme-smits-88941-2/">complete with heavy Masonic symbolism</a>. Cardinal Francesco <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/source-vatican-cardinal-was-at-drug-fueled-homosexual-party-and-pope-knows">Coccopalmerio</a> was the Vatican’s official representative at the latest meeting in Astana in 2018.</p>
<p>But<span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b> the Abu Dhabi document marks a step forward in implicating the
Catholic Church at the head of interfaith initiatives while at the same
time working to give the United Nations the upper hand in obtaining a
global alignment regarding religious faiths in the name of world peace.</b></span>
As many U.N. documents show,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> diversity of religions and traditions</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>has
long been accused of being the main threat to human fraternity and world
peace (an analysis that spectacularly omits the fact that several
hundred million people were massacred in the 20<sup>th</sup> century in the name of atheistic communism).</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Pope Francis recently said on his flight back from Antananarivo, </b></span>Madagascar that <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-09/pope-francis-inflight-press-conference-full-text.html">it is our duty as “humans” to “obey” the United Nations</a>:</b></span>
“I would like to repeat what the Doctrine of the Church says about
this: When we acknowledge international organizations and we recognize
their capacity to give judgment, on a global scale — for example the
international tribunal in The Hague, or the United Nations.<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> If we
consider ourselves humanity, when they make statements, our duty is to
obey. It is true that not all things that appear just for the whole of
humanity will also be so for our pockets, but we must obey international
institutions. That is why the United Nations were created.”</b></span></p>
<p>The Declaration on Human Fraternity is an obvious echo of this
general line of thought, and it certainly owes its weight to having been
signed by the pope. However embattled the Catholic Church may be due to
the sexual abuse crisis, when proclaiming globalist thought, Pope
Francis is internationally recognized as a moral authority.</p>
<p>Building an egalitarian place of worship for Jews, Christians, and
Muslims is a case in point. It is not clear whether the Christian
edifice will be Catholic; it is described as “Christian” on the <em>Vatican News</em> site.</p>
<p>The model of <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>the future Abrahamic Family House</b></span> — note the singular;
it is a sign that the three religions are being considered as elements
under one and the same God — is particularly revealing.<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> Presented as a
3D model and also described in a short film </b></span>projected for participants
at the New York meeting last Friday, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>it boasts three cubic “temples”</b></span>
(for want of a better word) built on exactly the same model regarding
volume and orientation, with different abstract decorations and interior
design in order to make them appropriate for the different types of
worship they will catering to.</p>
<p>Remarkably, the film shows that the Christian or Catholic “cube” is
designed not to receive images of Christ and the saints — only a very
simple cross, not a crucifix, hanging over an altar. The United Arab
Emirates are Islamic, after all… And the initiative for the construction
came from Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who
announced it in February just after the signing of the document.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The three cubes will be set in a triangle reminiscent of the three
dots indicating membership in Freemasonry.</b></span> The mosque, decorated with
arches; the church with upright lines; and the synagogue with triangles
have no external feature indicating their religious identity. Only the
synagogue has an opening in the roof: a clear-cut triangle, according to
the plans unveiled last Friday.</p>
<p>This portrays what was said by committee member Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak in New York, <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2019-09/year-tolerance-document-human-fraternity-uae.html">according to </a><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2019-09/year-tolerance-document-human-fraternity-uae.html"><em>Vatican News</em></a><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2019-09/year-tolerance-document-human-fraternity-uae.html">’s report</a>:
the message is “to simplify faith back to its simplest form. To
simplify life to what all our religious books basically say: be good to
thy neighbor, love thy neighbor, help thy neighbor. In a world that is
so connected, in reality, we have been so disconnected. <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>Projects and
initiatives like the Abrahamic Family House, and there will be many more
to come in the future, will bring people together. It’s a dream come
true where the people of the UAE, a people who favor tolerance, have the
opportunity of sharing that with the world.”</b></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Faith</span> brought back to its simplest form means natural religion,
without</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>dogma</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>(a Masonic prerequisite)</b></span> and of course without Revelation<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>.
It is no less than a departure from <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Truth</span>, a way of turning one’s back
on<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> Truth</span> in view of horizontal “fraternity.”</b></span></p>
<p>Equality is likewise portrayed by the architectural project. In New York, reports <em>Vatican News</em>,
“[c]ommittee member Msgr Yoannes Gaid explained that the core of the
Document is that all of us are brothers. Equality is based on this
truth, he added, an equality that thus extends to duties and rights as
well. Freedom, Msgr Gaid emphasized, is actually based on non-violence.
‘Violence,’ he said, ‘is against faith and citizenship’.”</p>
<p>But here, there is clearly confusion between the brotherhood of man
and the supposed equality of religions, which can be affirmed only if
truth is negated.</p>
<p>The architect chosen to build the Abramic Fraternity House is a
British citizen from Ghana, David Adjaye, 51, who has already signed
many modern buildings from Washington (the National Museum of African
American History and Culture) to Moscow. Gratified with a British
knighthood, this mainstream modern architect was influenced by “soviet
aesthetics” <a href="https://www.jeuneafrique.com/mag/360101/culture/david-adjaye-lachitecte-musee-dobama-consacre-a-lhistoire-de-lesclavage/">according to </a><a href="https://www.jeuneafrique.com/mag/360101/culture/david-adjaye-lachitecte-musee-dobama-consacre-a-lhistoire-de-lesclavage/"><em>Jeune Afrique</em></a>. He is the essential globetrotter, with offices in New York, London, Doha, and Accra.</p>
<p>About the Abramic Family House, Adjaye Associates <a href="https://www.adjaye.com/news/appointments/adjaye-win-the-abrahamic-family-house-competition/">wrote on their website</a>
on September 23: “Adjaye Associates have been announced as the winner
of the competition for the landmark project, The Abrahamic Family House
on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>The Abrahamic Family House commissioned
by The Higher Committee for Human Fraternity, is a collection of three
religious spaces, a mosque, a synagogue and a church, which sit upon a
secular visitor pavilion. The project is one of the first initiatives
set by The Higher Committee, a new body, who are overseeing the
implementation of the ‘Document of the Human Fraternity’ at both
regional and international levels. </b></span>The landmark project hopes to embody
the relationship between the three Abrahamic faiths whilst providing a
platform for dialogue, understanding, and coexistence between their
religions.”</p>
<p>What do we learn from this? What links the religions from the
architect’s point of view, and is at their very base, is “a secular
visitor pavilion.”</p>
<p>The official communiqué of the Higher Committee for Human Fraternity <a href="https://religionnews.com/2019/09/23/higher-committee-of-human-fraternity-unveils-design-for-the-abrahamic-family-house/">puts it this way</a>:</p>
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<p>Located on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, the Abrahamic Family House
will serve as a community for inter-religious dialogue and exchange,
nurturing the values of peaceful co-existence and acceptance among
different beliefs, nationalities and cultures.</p>
<p>This landmark initiative will be a place for learning, understanding
and worship — open to all and a true reflection of the UAE’s values of
tolerance and hospitality.</p>
<p>Within each of the houses of worship, visitors will have the
opportunity to observe religious services, listen to holy scripture and
experience sacred rituals. A fourth space—not affiliated with any
specific religion — will serve as a center for all people of goodwill to
come together as one.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>Here the oneness of humankind<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>is definitely not</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>“in Christ,” in whom the baptized become members of one another.</b></span></p>
<p>That the philosophy of the project is based on creating a new way of
thought was made clear by Msgr. Gaid in New York. He said (as quoted
indirectly by Sr. Bernadette on <em>Vatican News</em>) <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)">the new landmark
</span>will signify <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">“a transformation in human history because ... it will turn
what has been used in the past as a means of division among peoples
into a point of contact.”</span></b></span></p>
<p>A “transformation in human history” is an ambitious objective,
indeed, especially for a Catholic prelate who knows that history was in
fact definitively transformed by the Incarnation, Passion, and
Resurrection of Our Lord.</p>
<p>On the same note, committee member Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak called
the Abu Dhabi document the “most important declaration signed in the
modern day,” according to <em>Vatican News</em>.</p>
<p>Judge Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Salam saw the initiative as proof of <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the
determination of Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb “to achieve
happiness for all humanity no matter the religion or nationality.”</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Happiness here on Earth. Not</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>eternal life.</b></span></p></div>
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