I just came across this speech UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon gave Aug. 3 at a religious summit held on Mt. Hiei in Kyoto, Japan. The summit was celebrating the 20th anniversary of a historic religious summit first held there in 1987.

Ban told attendees that the summit can help advance the truth. And what truth is he talking about? "[T]he truth that diversity is a virtue, not a threat." That diversity, Ban makes clear in his speech, includes religious diversity. So, according to Ban, truth is that all religions are good.

What a joke. The UN now thinks it's in the truth business. Of course, Jesus said that He is the truth, and that no one can have a relationship with God the Father unless they come through a relationship with Him. That, we know, is the true truth.

To see just how pagan this summit is, see this site created for its 10th anniversary. It says this of the first summit:

In 1987, for the realization of world peace, representatives from various religions from every corner of the world gathered at Hieizan. The representatives all offered up earnest prayers to their respective gods asking for eternal peace and pledged to keep on praying. Since then 10 years have passed, and the dialogue and mutual understanding among the various religions of the world have progressed one step further. We, the religious representatives, have been strongly united by our hearts which yearn for peace, the common desire of all mankind.

The whole goal, then, is for religions to unite to create world peace. I don't know how more blatantly antichrist this summit could be. Yet, the Vatican has applauded it in a 20th anniversary memorial speech on the Vatican Web site. Read it here.

Interestingly, the speech claims that the same spirit behind the Mt. Hiei summit was behind a recent Roman Catholic interreligious gathering:

When religious leaders gathered for the 10th anniversary of the Religious Summit on Mt. Hiei in 1997 the organisers noted that ‘From Assisi to Mt. Hiei…the spirit transcends time and place’. Last year, when the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, we experienced that the same spirit also transcends ‘age and gender’. 

The speech goes on to say [quoting John Paul II], "It is incumbent on us religious leaders to commit ourselves to the pursuit of peace and prove to the world that “the name of the one God must become increasingly what it is: a name of peace and a summons to peace."

So, we see the UN and the Roman Catholic Church working together to achieve world peace. At the end of Ban's speech on the summit's 20th anniversary, he speaks of the importance of the UN's Alliance of Civilizations for creating that world peace. He says the alliance is "developing a strategy to promote better understanding between the world of politics and religion."

Politics and religion coming together. It's called Revelation 13, and we know how that chapter ends.