What is the CNP? "It is a private network of
self appointed elitists who feel they have the right to speak
for all Christians and make national policies. The first president
for the CNP was
Tim LaHaye, husband of Beverly LaHaye with Concerned Women for
America. CNP includes a large spectrum of organized autocrats who have been
very tightly and secretly organized for over 15 years." The membership
list is confidential. Following are just a few of
over 500 associations listed in the CNP membership directory:
James D. Kennedy - pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian
Church; founder of Evangelism Explosion in 1971, Jack Kemp; David
Noebel of Summit Ministries; Oliver L. North - a
U.S. presidential hopeful, Helen Marie Taylor - the U.S.
Representative to the United Nations from
1986-87, Pat Robertson, Rushdoony, Reconstructionist, Paul Weyrich
(Catholic talk show host on NET on the Dish, daily); Phyllis Schlafly of
Eagle Forum, Kathleen Sullivan- founder and executive director of
the National Catholic Coalition, Robert T. Weiner- founder and president
of Marantha Campus Ministries, Don Wildman, Faith Ryan Wittlesey- U.S. Ambassador
to Switzerland from 1981-82; Jerry Falwell, Rich DeVos-president and co-founder
of Amway Corp., James Dobson of Focus on the Family, William
Dannemeyer- U.S. House of Representatives, Jeffrey Coors of Coors
Beer, Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ; Pat
Boone with 13 gold records; William (Bill) Armstrong- U.S. senator
1972- 79; Robert Dorman- U.S. Congress and Pierre S. DuPont IV- candidate
for U.S. president 1988; Alan Keyes, etc.
Dateline aired an expose' on Scientology on 6.16.98, how
some people singlehandedly take this organization on, spending
their own millions to get a movement rolling to expose Scientology
for what it is. The apathy they encounter is typical.
The media cannot really point out the problems because
they have an arrangement with these organizations to show
both sides of the story which gives it a neutral flavor
and nothing much came to light except that there is a small
war going on.
FACTNet on Internet did print the following information which is important
to all Christians. "This dangerous cult is
making inroads into conservative and Christian groups, even funding
them via its front group, the Citizens Commission for Human
Rights (CCHR). Like others such infiltrators, Scientologists
use the "good cause" syndrome as bait to draw
conservatives into their snare; however their true motives have
nothing to do with good causes. Hitler was a master
of the bait-and-switch strategy, basing his plea
for acceptance of National Socialism on a platform of conservative
causes such as anti-communism, anti-homosexuality,
patriotism and morality. A similar development is occurring in the U.S.,
where Conservatives who are alarmed at the moral decline of the nation
are desperately aligning themselves with group like the Church of
Scientology and Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon, who promises
to help them achieve the "good cause" they desire.
A primary example of this are the connections between Scientologists and
the Council for National Policy. The CNP is a highly secretive
coalition of numerous Evangelical ministries such as Focus on the Family,
Family Research Council, Christian Coalition and Concerned Women for
America with CFR (Council of Foreign Relations) members, entrepreneurs,
legislators, former high-ranking military leaders, Moonie-front organizations.
TV preachers and the bulk of the multi-millionaire Coors family and
Catholics belonging to cults such as Opus Dei, DAR and
Knights of Malta.
Scientology's appeal to Christian Right groups has been through
exposing psychiatry/ psychology in the schools and the drugging
of children with ritalin/ prozac, ect. However, though they have succeeded
in removing psychology from California schools, the
Scientologists have replaced it with L.Ron Hubbard's Dianetics. L.Ron Hubbard's
CCHR web page lists Phyllis Schlafley's Eagle Forum, Gary
Bauer's Family Research Council, The Rutherford's Institute,
Beverly LaHaye's Concerned Women of America and CNP member Carol
Steinke as signatories of the Scientology Pledge promoting
the removal of psychology from schools. These high-profile
Evangelical ministries are then used as models by the
Church of Scientology to encourage Christian parents to sign the Scientology
pledge. (http:// www.cchr.org /educate/aptcaf1.htm) Lest it seem that these
Evangelical ministries are naive about such cults, Beverly Lahaye
and Gary Bauer were featured speakers (to the tune of $80,000 - $150,000)
at Moon's Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
Conference in 1996 and Bauer purchases full page ads in
Moon's Washington Times. A transcript of Moon's blasphemous
speech at this conference, in which he states (unchallenged by attendees)
that Jesus Christ failed in his mission, is available
at: http:// www.unification. net /1996/ 960801.html
Also, on the web site of the Moon organization, Family Federation for World
Peace and Unification, may be found a link to James Dobson's
Focus on the Family and Gary Bauer's Family Research Council.
http:// familyfed.org/. Scientologists also fund Paul Weyrich's former group,
the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - a very pro- constitutional
convention group. Weyrich, a member of Opus Dei and a
Roman Catholic, is a member of the Board of Governors of the CNP. For information
on Paul Weyrich, Chey Simonton's article on the Rockefeller/ Heritage Foundation
Connection exposed his ties with Rockefeller. Briefly, he founded the Washington
D.C. -based think tank, Heritage Foundation, and the Committee for the Survival
of Free Congress Foundation to draw in the Christian Right.
The
Rockefeller/ Heritage article posted 4.9.98 stated: "Weyrich then
formed the Committee for the Survival of Free
Congress Foundation making an emotional appeal to
Protestant
pastors that political activism is a mandate of patriotic Christianity,
suggesting that New Right leadership be provided by organizations
like Heritage Foundation and direct mail entrepreneur Richard Viguerie,
who owes his financial solvency to the intervention of
one of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's religio- political organizations. They,
too, are actively `Reclaiming the Culture'."
For expose's of Scientology, the following web sites are recommended:
FACTNet International - http:www. factnet.org/ and Arnie Lerma -
former Scientoligst who now exposes it) http:// www. lermanet.com. Thanks
to Kelleigh Nelson for providing much of the information on Scientology.
(Watch Unto Prayer, timbarho@msn.com --- http://watch. pair.com/pray.html
The article in which Time Magazine labeled and published regarding
Scientology as "quite likely the most ruthless, the
most classically terroristic, the litigious and the most
lucrative cult the country has ever seen" cost them
considerably. That quote was the cover article of its
May, 1991 issue. Because of the article, Scientology sued
Time for $40 million. The lawsuit
was dismissed but cost the magazine $7 million in legal fees.
"Secrets are the mortar binding bricks as lies together
into prisons for the mind." (Scientology). "I'd prefer to
die speaking my mind than live fearing to speak. The only thing
that always works in Scientology are its lawyers. The internet is
the liberty tree of the 90's" http://www. lermanet.com.