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Tony Blair is preparing to launch a "faith offensive" across the United States over the next year, after building up relationships with a network of influential religious leaders and faith organisations.
According to the annual accounts of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, a UK-based charity that promotes cohesion between the major faiths, the foundation is to develop a US arm that will pursue a host of faith-based projects.
Also on the council is David Coffey, president of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), a Virginia-based network of churches that spans the globe and is particularly active in the US.
Another initiative has been to team up with the Belinda Stronach Foundation in Toronto. Unknown in the UK, Stronach, daughter of a Canadian billionaire, is hugely influential in Canada where as a philanthropist, businesswoman and former politician she has served in both the Conservative and Liberal parties
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Originally posted by Alethea
I suppose Tony Blair's evangelism will fit right in. Don't you?
Originally posted by mackey1224uk
Tony, jumped into bed With the Pope. He's a Roman Catholic now. He changed over from being a Protestant, after he left office as prime minister. His wife Cherie Blair, was already a roman catholic. It was big news in the UK, at the time..
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With Afghanistan and Iraq casting a shadow over his popularity at home in Britain, Blair's focus has increasingly shifted across the Atlantic, to where the nexus of faith and power is immutable and he is feted like a rock star
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he foundation's advisory council of religious leaders includes Rick Warren, powerful founder of the California-based Saddleback church. It attracts congregations of nearly 20,000 and is reportedly one of the largest in the US. Warren, who has addressed the UN and the World Economic Forum in Davos, has been named one of the "15 world leaders who matter most" and one of the "100 most influential people in the world".
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Erik Prince is a multi-millionaire fundamentalist Christian, who co-founded the security and mercenary firm Blackwater Worldwide in 1997 with Gary Jackson, a former Navy SEAL.
Originally posted by pthena
Want intelligence work? Go to religion. Want defense? Go to religion. Hungry? Go to religion. Want Malaria cured? Go to religion. Religion's got it all. Forget secular medical foundations. Forget secular education. Forget secular food distribution. Un-fund, starve anything not backed by powerful religious groups. Eventually, those billionaire foundation running people will be the providers of everything. No human need will be met without their say so.
This is where it's headed. Oppose this crap. Why should you go to a priest to get bread? Why go to a priest to get a medical prescription? Why go to a priest to hire an armed body guard? Why go to a priest to wage war?
now Blair has found god ...probably through Geoge bush.
I wonder if he consulted him before sending British boys to war like George talked to him before invading Iraq...
Its all starting to slip into place.