The COVID pandemic has brought various international organizations, especially the World Health Organization, to the forefront in the news this year. As a result, citizens around the world are seeing both the promise and the flaws of such agencies.

Tomorrow Dr. E. Calvin Beisner will be a panelist in a worldwide Livestream discussion hosted by Truth and Transformation, a ministry led by Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow and Indian Christian philosopher and statesman Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi. The topic will be whether international organizations—like the United Nations and its many agencies, or the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and others—need to be reformed, and if so, how.

This discussion will build on insights from Vishal’s outstanding books The Book that Made Your World (which Cornwall Alliance gave as a thank-you gift to donors a few years ago) and its revision and enlargement This Book Changed Everything. These books discussed, from the perspective of a Christian philosopher who had grown up in India, how the Bible provided the essential principles that brought liberty, justice, and prosperity to the West, and especially to America.

The program will air live at 10 a.m. Eastern Time Tuesday, September 15. You can view it on YouTube or Facebook by clicking on those links. Those who watch in real time will be able to post questions for panelists.

Below you’ll see what Vishal has written as an introduction to tomorrow’s program.

~ ~ ~ UNITED NATIONS ~ ~ ~

STILL ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST GIFTS TO THE WORLD?

World War II (1939-45) was a Clash of Empires — 
Imperial Team A: Germany and Japan.
Imperial Team B: UK, France, and Russia. 

Imperialism was Greece’s legacy to Europe: the one and only legacy. Greece never exported any form of democracy to any country.

Winston Churchill, Britain’s imperialist Prime Minister, worked hard to enlist isolationist America on team B. That presented a problem to the American President, Franklin Roosevelt: What happens if the USA helps Churchill beat Hitler? Would U.K. then colonize Germany and Japan and control the world’s trade? Free trade means win-win for everyone. You sell what you can, and others sell what they can. Everyone gets the cheapest and the best products and services.

Churchill was magnanimous, quite happy to build a United Empires. USA would be welcomed to govern the world in partnership with the victors. 

The difficulty was that such an imperialist idea was abhorrent to Christian America. Back then the USA was still more or less Christian and still a great nation. The Bible had taught the Americans that according to God, being a ‘great nation’ meant blessing all nations (Genesis 12: 1-3 etc.) … becoming a “city on the hill,” giving light to the world walking in darkness (Matthew 5:14 etc.). American liberty (wrongly called Democracy) had been built upon the Bible and that required the victors to launch the Marshall Plan to rebuild nations that had been ruined by the war. Global institutions such as UN, World Bank, WHO, and UNESCO were invented to bless colonies that had adopted the Bible’s idea of “nation.” 

To cut short a long story that I have told in This Book Changed Everything, through the “Atlantic Charter” (August 1941), President Roosevelt forced Britain, France, Holland, etc., to dismantle their empires. In exchange for America’s support, they had to give the “right to self-determination” to their colonies.

The nations that signed the Atlantic Charter on January 1, 1942, began to be called the United Nations, although the institution was formally constituted only after the War. 

Introducing the Bible’s idea of national sovereignty to European colonies was one of the greatest blessings that the USA gave to the world. (You have to read my book to consider how this political milestone relates to the “Kingdom of God,” a central theme of the Bible.)

Sadly, by the time the UN got going, the Western Church had already lost most of its universities. Therefore, the “Christian Mind” was dying in the West. This point is well made by Harry Blamires and Mark Noll in their important books, The Christian Mind and The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Both of them lament the disappearance of the Christian Mind. The death of the Christian Mind meant that the new nations that numerically dominated the UN had nothing to rely upon except the West’s secular-humanist worldview along with their own religious ideas. 

The absence of God’s light began to corrupt the UN just as it turned Washington, DC, into a political “swamp” and transformed America’s FakeNews Media and universities into WMDs (Weapons of Mass Deception).

At this moment, the question is: What do current global challenges such as so-called “Climate Change” and the “COVID-19 Pandemic” reveal to us about the state of the United Nations and other international organizations?

More importantly, how should a renaissance of the Christian Mind impact global forums? 

Please join our 14th Live Discussion on Covid-19. These Live Discussions are organized by the European Revelation Movement, incorporated in Germany as Truth and Transformation. The main organizers are Andreas Wieland, Prabhu Guptara, and Hans-Joachim Hahn. You can view this and previous discussions on YouTube or Facebook:

Tuesday September 15 at 10:00 am USA Eastern Time on YouTube  or Facebook.