Terrorism and the W.C.C.
Sir,—Approximately 4000 New Zealanders visit South Africa each year. To them the unresearched comments of the Rev. Edward A. Johnston (September 9) will meet the derision they deserve. In 1960, the World Council of Churches’ misnamed “Programme to combat Racism” was planned: a politicoecclesiastical device unrelated to race, but dedicated to the promotion of communism world wide. Since 1970, the W.C.C. has disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to various Marxist-orientated and terrorist organisations, including all such organisations in southern Africa. More importantly, the blessing of the Christian Church has seemingly been given to terrorism and the violent overthrow of established governments. Christians who do not condone this prostitution of Christianity appear to be in a minority and on the defensive. This prostituted Christianity played a crucial part in the overthrow of Rhodesia. Without the respectability bestowed on violence by so-called “councils of churches” the Marxist takeover could not have occurred. — Yours, etc.,
BERT WALKER. Septembef 9, 1983. 'I
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