The Millennium Institute - Its Radical Agenda for the 1999
Parliament of World Religions
By Lee Penn
Summary:
The Parliament of the World's Religions (PWR) will meet again in the first week of
December, 1999. The PWR says that it is seeking "the moral and ethical convergence
that leads to shared commitment and action" for everybody on the planet. The PWR is
conducting this effort in close association with an American think tank, the Millennium
Institute - which itself is on friendly terms with the United Religions Initiative, the
State of the World Forum, and the proponents of the Earth Charter.
Unfortunately, the agenda and beliefs of the Millennium Institute and its founder, Dr.
Gerald Barney are politically-correct nonsense: population control, world economic
planning, opposition to "patriarchy," the assertion that Christianity and other
traditional religions are "not sustainable," a warning that "It is
destructive folly to think that we humans are 'created in God's image'," and - at the
same time - the assertion that "We humans have become co-creators of the future with
the Divine." To top it all, Gerald Barney believes that "The year 2000 ... may
be humanity's best chance to start the change, to become the year zero of the sustainable
era for the future." (956) The year zero!?! Barney's plan to restart the calendar to
mark a social revolution has disreputable precedents - including the Jacobins in the
French Revolution, and the Cambodian Communists under Pol Pot.
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Gerald Barney and the Millennium Institute
The Parliament of World Religions and the Millennium Institute
>From December 1 through December 8, 1999, the Parliament of World Religions (PWR)
will meet in South Africa. The Parliament says, "At the 1999 Parliament, thousands of
people from around the world ... come together to experience astonishing spiritual and
cultural variety, to exchange insights, to share wisdom, to celebrate their unique
religious identities; in short, to be amazed, delighted, and inspired. At the same time,
participants wrestle with the critical issues facing the global community, learning about
the world situation, and seeking the moral and ethical convergence that leads to shared
commitment and action." (1) The Parliament will have a partner in its quest for
"moral and ethical convergence" - the Millennium Institute, an American think
tank. The PWR says, "The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions -- in
partnership with the Millennium Institute -- is seizing this unique opportunity to inspire
individuals, organizations, nations, and religious and spiritual communities to offer
strategic "millennial threshold" gifts which will make long-term differences
within the planetary community." (2)
The Millennium Institute's association with the United Religions Initiative (URI)
Let's take a closer look at the beliefs of Gerald Barney, president of the Millennium
Institute.
Although Gerald Barney is not directly affiliated with the URI, the URI charter writers
saw fit to recommend one of his books, Threshold 2000, as a resource for study. Barney's
book is one of several - along with Bishop Swing's The Coming United Religions - which is
offered for sale in a CoNexus Press leaflet distributed with the Spring 1999 issue of URI
Update. (935) The Millennium Institute is supported by the Temple of Understanding and the
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, which also support the URI. (936) The
1998 State of the World Forum said that "the World Bank and Millennium Institute
partnership" is "leading the way forward" in perfecting "computer
modeling of human development within nation states and integrated modeling of the global
economy." (937) In turn, the Millennium Institute's calendar of "millennium
threshold observances" for 1999 through 2001 lists - among others - events sponsored
by the United Religions Initiative, the State of the World Forum, and the sponsors of the
Earth Charter.(938)
The goals of the Millennium Institute
Like the writers of the Earth Charter, the Millennium Institute has the goals of
* "cutting consumption, waste, and pollution everywhere to levels that are
possible for all to replicate; * reducing the world's annual population growth from 90
million to near zero while also increasing the quality of life of the world's
poor."(939)
To move mankind in the desired direction, the Institute is "developing a world
strategic plan - the Millennium Report to the World - for achieving sustainability for
Earth, and encouraging the use of realistic planning models by the nations of the
world."(940) The Institute is also offering a "realistic planning model"
for the world's use, Threshold 21. In their own words, the model "integrates the
human, economic, and environmental effects of policy decisions that influence the course
of a nation's development." (941) The Institute says that it has:
"helped 40 countries analyze their current situation and, using the Threshold 21
computer model he [Dr. Gerald O. Barney] has developed, to prepare long-term
sustainability studies. He sees all nations on Earth entering this planning
process."(942)
Let's repeat that: "he sees all nations on Earth entering this planning
process." No exit, no escape.
During an interview with Share International (a Theosophist journal that promotes the
cause of Benjamin Crème and of "Maitreya," a camera-shy Antichrist wanna-be),
Barney makes it clear that inhabitants of the developed countries are fat, lazy, and
guilty of over-consumption:
"In the industrialized countries we cannot continue with over-consumption. The
resources and the environment are not going to tolerate that. The earth is not going to
tolerate it. But beyond that, it is not good for us. Our health suffers, we do not get
enough exercise, we eat too much fat, and we are setting a very bad example for
others." (943)
Perhaps our future masters will mandate the Dr. Ornish fat-free diet for us all. ...
The Millennium Institute's challenge to Christianity
After condemning the habits and the lifestyle of the middle and working classes, Barney
tells the readers of Share International that Christianity and "many other
faiths" are "not sustainable":
"I was not just joking when I challenged the faith traditions to ask themselves,
are they a sustainable faith? I am certainly persuaded that Christianity, as it is
commonly practiced and institutionalized at present is not sustainable. That
[Christianity] is my own faith. But I have to say that, from what I know of many other
faiths, I do not think they are sustainable either. The origin myths, the destiny myths,
the idea of fertility, not just for the land, but for humans - those are, in effect,
elements of the dream of who we are and where we are. Those need serious re-examination.
Religion is a key part of our problem. There is a great smugness in virtually every faith
saying: 'We have the answers, we know the truth.' The truth, as collectively we have been
experiencing it so far, is getting this whole planet into disastrous trouble." (944)
Dr. Gerald Barney's Global 2000 Revisited includes a chapter on "The Role of the
Faith Traditions" in the transition to a new planetary order. He blames the religions
for "acts of hatred and violence," and nevertheless says that humans "have
become co-creators of the future with the Divine":
"Of the fifty plus armed conflicts in progress currently, the majority are
motivated in significant part by hatred of the followers of one faith for the followers of
another faith. ... What faith is now not involved in acts of hatred and violence in one or
more of the 48 religious and ethnic wars now in progress? ... Collectively, we humans are
an important part (but not the only part) of the consciousness of Earth. ... We know now
that the characterizations of man and woman, male and female, in the origin stories and
traditions of many faiths are factually wrong and socially destructive. ... We humans have
become co-creators of the future with the Divine."(945)
In the first section of Global 2000 Revisited, Barney calls upon the "faith
traditions of the world" to lead the movement for worldwide social change:
"Life for billions will be more precarious in the 21st century than it is now -
unless the faith traditions of the world lead the nations and peoples of Earth to act
decisively to alter current beliefs and policies."(946)
Barney has a list of questions for each and all of the faith traditions. These
questions presuppose that the agenda of leftists, social democrats, environmentalists, and
feminists in Europe and North America should be the agenda for us all:
"The questions are welling up from the human spirit struggling to be faithful to
the moment, and a faith tradition, if it is to remain viable and relevant, must have
answers to the questions welling up in the human spirit. So, in hope and in trust, we turn
to you, the carriers of our spiritual wisdom, with our questions.
What Shall We Do?
1. What are the traditional teachings - and the range of other opinions - within your
faith on how to meet the legitimate needs of the growing human community without
destroying the ability of Earth to support the community of all life? ... b. What does
your faith tradition teach about how the needs of the poor and the wants of the rich are
to be met as human numbers continue to grow? ... c. How are the needs and wants of humans
to be weighed relative to the survival of other forms of life? ... Is the human species
justified in efforts to destroy species that limit the human food supply or the growth of
human numbers? ... g. [ ... ] How important are high fertility rates of the followers of
your faith to the perpetuation of your tradition? How are its teachings to be understood
today in light of the rapidly growing human population and the threat that even the
present human population poses to the whole community of life? What norms are to be
applied to the stewardship of the gift of human fertility? ... 2. What are the traditional
teachings - and the range of other opinions - within your faith on the meaning of
'progress' and how it is to be achieved? ... b. What does your faith tradition offer as a
vision for the future of Earth? For example, is the future of Earth viewed as a glorious
climax, or a terrifying catastrophe, or something else entirely? ... d. What does your
faith tradition teach about the human destiny? Is the human destiny separable form that of
Earth? ... f. How are we to measure 'progress?' Can there be progress for the human
community without progress for the whole community of life? ... 3. What are the
traditional teachings - and the range of other opinions - within your faith concerning a
proper relationship with those who differ in race or gender (conditions one cannot
change), or culture, or politics, or faith? a. Much hatred and violence is carried out in
the name of religion. What teachings of your faith tradition have been used - correctly or
not - in an attempt to justify such practices? ... d. Discrimination and even violence by
men toward women is often justified in the name of religion. Which, if any, of the
teachings of your faith have been used - correctly or incorrectly - in this way? e. Many
faith traditions are singled out by women today as examples of 'patriarchy.' By
'patriarchy,' women refer to institutions or traditions that have defined man as superior
to woman and normative for society. In your tradition, how long ago were the roles,
rights, and responsibilities of men and women defined? What do your definitions imply
about the superiority of men relative to women? f. Are the current teachings of your
tradition about the roles, rights, and responsibilities of women and men changing? If so,
how? To what degree are women participating in the change process? g. What does your faith
tradition teach about the origin of truth and wisdom? For example, is your faith tradition
the holder of the only divinely revealed truth? ... i. Is it the responsibility of your
faith tradition to bring your divinely revealed truth to the whole world? Are you to share
your faith by example - by living it? Are you to ensure the future of your faith by
producing children - more children than produced by the followers of other faiths? Are you
to share your faith by teaching? By compelled conversion under the threat of death,
'ethnic cleansing,' crusades, or war? ... 4. What are the traditional teachings - and the
range of other opinions - within your faith on the possibility of criticism, correction,
reinterpretation, and even rejection of ancient traditional assumptions and 'truth' in the
light of new understandings or revelations? a. Does your faith tradition envisage new
revelation, new understanding, new interpretation, new wisdom, and new truth concerning
human activity affecting the future of Earth? b. What are the most recent revelations in
your faith concerning: the human community's relations with the whole community of life on
Earth; the disparities of poverty and affluence within the human community; the human
concept of progress; the superiority of men over women; and the use of violence toward
those of a different faith, culture, race, or gender? c. How does your tradition respond
to the revelation from the past 1,500 years of meditation on Earth and its origins - a
revelation we usually call 'science?' How will the disciplines of religious and scientific
inquiry relate to each other in the future? ... Can science provide new understanding of
the primary, original source of religious insight - the universe itself?"(947)
>From the start, when Barney says that the questions arise from "the human
spirit struggling to be faithful to the moment," to the finish, where Barney states
that the "universe itself" is the "primary, original source of religious
insight," the questions are designed to lead the world's religious leaders to reshape
their faiths in ways that conform to the agenda of liberal activists from the rich nations
of the West.
Barney denies the articles of the Christian faith about the creation of mankind and
about mankind's final destiny:
"It is destructive folly to think that we humans are 'created in God's image' and
somehow set apart and above the other parts of life on Earth with license to do whatever
we might please. The idea is especially dangerous that ultimately all things are going to
be put right through an end of this world, a second coming, or some kind of separating us
from Earth [sic]'."(948)
In this view, all the religions - especially Christianity - must change in order to
meet the requirements of Earth. If it is "destructive folly" to believe that
"we humans are created in God's image," then the Bible (Gen. 1:27) is false. If
the idea that "all things are going to be put right" through "a second
coming" is "especially dangerous," then Jesus taught wrongly (Matt. 24; Mk.
13; Lk. 21; Jn. 5:24-29); Paul the Apostle was deluded (2 Thess. 2); Peter was off base (2
Pet. 3); James was ill-informed (Jas. 5), and St. John the Divine was a liar. If Barney is
right when he denies the Second Coming, then the Lord's Prayer ("thy kingdom
come") and the Nicene Creed ("He [Jesus] shall come again with glory to judge
the living and the dead") are wrong.
Barney holds that a new religious unity must arise, to conform to the demands of a new
global society:
"The religions have not successfully been able to transcend their own historical
origins so as to express their visions of unity in a fashion appropriate to the needs of
the pluralistic global society that is taking form at the beginning of the new
millennium."(949)
>From the perspective of the URI, this makes sense; as Anglican Bishop Ottley has
said, "the world's agenda is the agenda of the church." (950)
The Institute's call for revolution in "the year zero of the sustainable era"
The Millennium Institute has prepared a "Call to Our Guiding Institutions."
Bishop Swing cites this "Call" as one source of a new global ethic,(951) and the
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions will offer the "Call" to the
1999 session of the Parliament of the World's Religions for endorsement.(952)
The Institute's "call" to business and industry includes requests that:
3. "they attend to the needs of everyone before looking to fulfill the desires of
the few. 4. they take upon themselves the responsibility to encourage the wealthier
nations to reconsider their habits and patterns of consumption. 5. they recognize a World
Trade Organization that will establish a 'maximum' wage limit, principles for
environmental and human safety, models for the achievement of economic justice, and a code
of ethics for business practice."(953)
I would not hold my breath waiting for the World Trade Organization to set and enforce
a "maximum wage limit" for Ted Turner, Shirley MacLaine, George Soros, and
Maurice Strong.
This "Call to Our Guiding Institutions," asks religions to "speak out
and act against hierarchy, patriarchy, and the selfishness that leads people away from a
full acknowledgement of Earth's limited resources."(954) This call to "speak out
against hierarchy" and "patriarchy" places outside the pale those faiths
and traditions who reject the feminist world view, including Catholicism, Eastern
Orthodoxy, Evangelical Protestantism, orthodox Judaism, and traditional Islam.
Barney has also called on us all to totally revolutionize our thinking and our way of
life, to "interchange bad and good, unreal and real" and celebrate the year 2000
as "the event of the whole Earth-time, the whole history of Earth":
"Earth's entry into the next millennium is a planetary 'transitional' event, and
as a 'mega anniversary' it has potential for reinforcing the identity of human beings,
first and foremost, as citizens of Earth, as 'Earthlings.' This potential must be
developed and utilized. ... Earth's entry into the next millennium cannot be just another
major event. It cannot even be just the event of a lifetime. Or of a hundred years. Or
even of a thousand years. That would not be enough. This must be the event of the whole
Earth-time, the whole history of Earth. This must be the moment when humans interchange
bad and good, unreal and real, and set themselves and Earth on a new course. Over the next
five years all 5 billion plus of us humans must prepare to die to 20th century ways of
thinking and being. We must also prepare to see the possibilities and opportunities in our
new condition in our new millennium. To make these preparations, all 5 billion of us must
devote the next five years to learning from each other about Earth and how to live
sustainably and peacefully on Earth. ... Every person must learn to think like Earth, to
act like Earth, to be Earth. ... As soon as we humans learn to think like Earth, we
together will see a new future for Earth. Then we can die in peace, all 5 billion of us,
to our old ways of thinking. We can cross the waters together. And we can celebrate
Earth's safe arrival in a new era in a way that will be remembered forever." (955)
Hmmm ... if we are to "act like Earth," then there may be a new legal defense
in the future: "Uh, no, Your Honor, I was not sexually harassing her. We're now
supposed to 'act like Earth,' and I was having a volcanic eruption." Humor aside, the
type of sudden, radical social change that Barney favors has always in the past come with
revolution, dictatorship, and mass bloodshed.
As a symbol of change, Barney seizes on the year 2000. "The year 2000, Barney
feels, may be humanity's best chance to start the change, to become the year zero of the
sustainable era for the future."(956) Here, Barney joins some disreputable company.
Others who re-started the calendar at "year zero" included the Jacobins at the
time of the Terror during the French Revolution, and the genocidal Khmer Rouge
regime.(957)
Some of Barney's environmentalist colleagues are more radical than he is, and openly
hate Christianity. This disturbs Barney, since he describes himself as a Christian whose
faith is important to his work. Barney reports:
"In the course of my work for the MILLENNIUM INSTITUTE, I have had many
conversations with political leaders and with ecologists, economists, geographers,
modelers, political scientists, and other leaders about the role of the spiritual
traditions in the future of Earth. I have been disturbed by the attitudes that some
professionals have expressed toward the spiritual traditions. For example, an
internationally famous, highly influential author on sustainable development told me
bluntly, 'Religion must die. It is the fundamental cause of virtually all social,
economic, and ecological problems and much of the violence in the world.' In another
example, an ecologist, who has devoted his life to the practical work of preserving
specific endangered species, was equally vehement on his feelings that religion generally,
and mine (Christianity) in particular, was a menace to the future of Earth. After I
explained the importance of my faith to me in the work I do, he was silent for a moment,
and then said with total sincerity, 'You have done some very important work, but just
think of how much more you could have done if your parents had not exposed you to the
pernicious influence of Christianity!' The attacks on religion generally and mine in
particular are not limited to quiet conversations among friends. The editors of Time
introduced their 1989 'Planet of the Year' issue with these thoughts: [In the
Judeo-Christian tradition, the] earth was the creation of a monotheistic God, who, after
shaping it ordered its inhabitants, in the words of Genesis: 'Be fruitful and multiply,
and replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over
the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.' The idea of
dominion could be interpreted as an invitation to use nature as a convenience. Thus the
spread of Christianity, which is generally considered to have paved the way for the
development of technology, may at the same time have carried the seeds of the wanton
exploitation of nature that often accompanied technological progress.' This is a serious
public charge against my faith. It troubles me that the charge was made. It troubles me
that it might be true. It troubles me that my faith has made no thoughtful or significant
response to the issue raised by Time. Christianity is not alone in coming under criticism.
In one forum or another, virtually every faith tradition is being criticized today for not
having a thoughtful, informed, penetrating analysis of the issues facing Earth and Earth's
human community in the 21st century."(958)
If "virtually every faith tradition" is being criticized by Barney's
anti-religious, environmentalist colleagues, we may be close to the condition that
Catholic author Peter Kreeft described in Ecumenical Jihad: "a war of all religions
against none."(959)
A powerful audience for millennial fervor
Barney and the Millennium Institute have obtained a powerful audience for their ideas.
Two high-level United Nations officials have endorsed the Millennium Call for Peace,
Justice, and Sustainability: Dr. Wally N'Dow, Assistant Secretary-General of the U. N.
Center for Human Settlements, and Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, Director of the U. N. Development
Fund for Women.(960) The Institute's "Threshold 21" computerized planning model,
based on the World Bank's "Revised Minimum Standard Model," is in use by
Bangladesh, (961) Tunisia, the U. N. International Training Center, the UN Fund for
Population Activities, UNICEF, (962) the UN "Rio + 5" conference, Georgia,
Armenia,(963) Malawi, the Worldwatch Institute, China, (964) the Economic Research Service
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, (965) and the World Bank.(966) Organizations and
agencies that sent representatives to attend a September 16, 1997 training session on use
of the Threshold 21 model were "the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank,
the Aerospace Corporation, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the President's
Council on Sustainable Development, [and] Arthur Andersen & Co."(967) From Malawi
to the World Bank and Arthur Andersen & Co. - these people do get around.
A warning from Gorbachev against "the revolutionary way"
Unfortunately, Dr. Barney, the Millennium Institute, and their allies dream of "a
new future for Earth." They should heed Gorbachev's warnings about such a
revolutionary path. Despite the radical nature of his proposed Earth Charter, Gorbachev
issued a cautionary statement when he founded Green Cross International:
"Yes, we must understand human nature in order to live in harmony with ourselves
and improve ourselves. But we must not try to recast it or remold it; we must not seek the
impossible. The idea of man as a kind of deity is one of the most dangerous and fateful
ideas. I am quite sure that it is essential now to understand the limits of the elasticity
of human nature, to understand that not only man but also society's life too is unique. It
requires that we treat it prudently, taking into account the inherent laws of its
development. ... The philosophy of survival presupposes a more serious attitude towards
tradition, to what has been tested through centuries. The old assumption - that the most
radical and revolutionary actions assure lasting change and progress - was quite wrong.
Today, we can say that evolutionary development, the path of gradual reform consistent
with the nature of mankind and of society, is more effective than the revolutionary way.
... Struggles and conflicts burn out the diversity of life, leaving a social wasteland in
their wake. The revolutionary way does not guarantee constructive development but
inevitably results in sacrifice and destruction. The civilization of the future can only
be planetary. However, the current processes of the globalization of human existence do
not mean, nor will they ever mean, a general leveling of man's thinking and action, for
this is contrary to human nature." (968)
Footnotes:
NOTE: Internet document citations are based on research done between September 1997 and
August 1999. Web citations are accurate as of the time the Web page was printed, but some
documents may have been moved to a different Web site since then, or they may have been
removed entirely from the Web.
1 Council for the Parliament of the World's Religions, "Welcome - 1999 Parliament
of the World's Religions," Internet document, http://www.cpwr.org
2 Council for the Parliament of the World's Religions, "Offering Gifts of Service
- 1999 Parliament of the World's Religions," Internet document, http://www.cpwr.org/gifts.html
935 CoNexus Press leaflet, mailed with the Spring 1999 URI Update newsletter
936 Millennium Institute, "The Millennium Call for Peace, Justice, and
Sustainability," Internet document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/call.html, p. 4
937 State of the World Forum, "Our Common Enterprise II: The Possibility,"
Internet document, http://www.worldforum.org/initiatives/our_common_enterprise_b.html, p.
10
938 Millennium Alliance, "Calendar of Millennium Threshold Observances,
1999-2001," Internet document,
http://www.econet.apc.org/millennium/events/calendar.html, pp. 2, 3, 4
939 Millennium Institute, "The Millennium Call for Peace, Justice, and
Sustainability," Internet document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/call.html, p. 2
940 Millennium Institute, "Backgrounder for News Media," July 1996, Internet
document, http://www.igc.apc.org/millennium/pr/background.html, p. 2
941 Millennium Institute, "Threshold 21 Update," December 1997, Vol. 1, no.
1, Internet document, http://www.igc.apc.org/millennium/news/t21upd01.html, p. 2
942 Mac Lawrence, "The Millennium: Threshold for Change," Internet document,
http://www.cgv.org/millennium/papers/thresh.html, p. 1
943 Monte Leach, "A wake-up call for religion: Interview with Gerald Barney,"
Share International Media Service, Internet document,
http://www.simedia.org/new/milenins.htm, p. 3
944 Monte Leach, "A wake-up call for religion: Interview with Gerald Barney,"
Share International Media Service, Internet document,
http://www.simedia.org/new/milenins.htm, p. 4
945 Gerald O. Barney, Global 2000 Revisited: The Role of Faith Traditions; Internet
document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/g2000r/faiths.html, pp. 2, 4, 5
946 Gerald O. Barney, Global 2000 Revisited: Overview; Internet document,
http://www.igc.apc.org/millennium/g2000r/overview.html, p. 1
947 Gerald O. Barney, Global 2000 Revisited: The Role of Faith Traditions; Internet
document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/g2000r/faiths.html, pp. 6-9
948 Mac Lawrence, "The Millennium: Threshold for Change," Millennium
Institute; Internet document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/papers/thresh.html, p. 2
949 Gerald O. Barney, Global 2000 Revisited: Changing Course, Internet document,
http://www.cgv.org/millennium/g2000r/course.html, p. 3
950 Anglican Communion Office at the United Nations, "Annual Report 1997,"
Internet document, http://www.aco.org/united-nations/annual97.htm, p. 2
951 Bishop William Swing, The Coming United Religions, United Religions Initiative and
CoNexus Press, 1998, ISBN 0-9637897-5-9; p. 43
952 Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, "A New Day Dawning:
Spiritual Yearnings and Sacred Possibilities - 1999 Parliament of the World's
Religions," Internet document, http://www.cpwr.org/iii/parliament1999sa/index.html,
p. 2
953 Millennium Institute, "Call to Our Guiding Institutions, (draft)"
Internet document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/misc/calls.html, p. 2
954 Millennium Institute, "Calls to Our Guiding Institutions (draft),"
Internet document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/misc/calls.html, p. 1
955 Gerald O. Barney, Global 2000 Revisited: Changing Course, Internet document,
http://www.cgv.org/millennium/g2000r/course.html, pp. 2-3
956 Mac Lawrence, "The Millennium: Threshold for Change," Millennium
Institute; Internet document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/papers/thresh.html, p. 4
957 Regarding restarting the calendar under Pol Pot: Associated Press, "At the
Millennium: Moment by Moment, humanity ticks its history away," June 13, 1998;
Internet document, http://www.industrywatch.com/apnews/19980613/15/07/188333_st.html, p.
2; also John Pilger, "The Friends of Pol Pot," The Nation, May 11, 1998;
Internet document, http://www.zip.com.au/~nlevine/polpot.htm, p. 1
958 Gerald O. Barney, Global 2000 Revisited, A Letter to Our Spiritual Leaders,
Internet document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/g2000r/letter.html, p. 2
959 Peter Kreeft, Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War, Ignatius Press, San
Francisco, 1996, ISBN 0-89870-597-7, p. 26
960 Millennium Institute, "The Millennium Call for Peace, Justice, and
Sustainability," Internet document, http://www.cgv.org/millennium/call.html, p. 3
961 Millennium Institute, "Threshold 21 Update," December 1997, Vol. 1, no.
1, Internet document, http://www.igc.apc.org/millennium/news/t21upd01.html, p. 2
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