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Fellow citizens, he began, I am certain that if you did not see what
happened earlier this evening at Teddy Kollek Stadium in Jerusalem, you have
by now heard about it. Let me briefly tell you my view of what occurred and
outline my decision of what to do about it.
Let me go back to when I first reluctantly accepted my role as
secretary-general of the United Nations. This was not a position I sought. My
goal has always been to merely serve in whatever role I find myself. As a
member of the lower parliament in my home country of Romania, I served many
years for my constituents, championing their view" mine" peace and
and for
disarmament. My rise to the presidency of my motherland was as shocking to me
as it was to the watching world, only slightly less so than my elevation to
secretary-general" has resulted in the world government we enjoy today.
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One of the hallmarks of my administration is tolerance. We can only truly be
a global community by accepting diversity and making it the law of the land.
It has been the clear wish of most of us that we break down walls and bring
people together. Thus there is now one economy highlighted by one currency, no
need for passports, one government, eventually one language, one system of
measurement, and one religion.
That religion carries the beautiful mystery of being able to forge itself
from what in centuries past seemed intrinsically contradictory belief systems.
Religions that saw themselves as the only true way to spirituality now accept
and tolerate other religions that see themselves the same way. It is an enigma
that has proven to somehow work, as each belief system can be true for its
adherents.
Your way may be the only way for you, and my way the only way for me. Under
the unity of the aptly named Enigma Babylon One World Faith, all the religions
of the world have proved themselves able to live harmoniously.
All, that is, save one. You know the one. It is the sect that claims roots in
historic
Christianity. It holds that the vanishings of two and a half years ago were
God's doing. Indeed, they say, Jesus blew a trumpet and took all his favorite
people to heaven, leaving the rest of us lost sinners to suffer here on earth.
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I do not believe that accurately reflects the truth of Christianity as it was
taught for centuries. My exposure to that wonderful, peace-loving religion
told of a God of love and of a man who was a teacher of morals. His example
was to be followed in order for a person to one day reach eternal heaven by
continually improving oneself.
Following the disappearances that caused such great chaos in our world, some
looked to obscure and clearly allegorical, symbolic, figurative passages from
the
Christian Bible and concocted a scenario that included this spiriting away of
the true church. Many Christian leaders, now members of Enigma Babylon, say
this was never taught before the disappearances, and if it was, few serious
scholars accepted it. Many others, who held other views of how God might end
life on earth for his
followers, disappeared themselves.
From a small band of fundamentalists, who believe they were somehow stranded
here because they were not good enough to go the first time, has sprung up a
cult of some substance. Made up mostly of former Jews who now have decided
that Jesus is the Messiah they have been looking for all their lives, they
follow a converted rabbi named Tsion Ben-Judah. Dr. Ben-Judah, you may recall,
was once a respected scholar who so blasphemed his own religion on an
international television broadcast that he had to flee his home country.
I come to you tonight from the very studio where Dr. Ben-Judah desecrated his
own heritage. While in exile, he has managed to brainwash thousands of like-
minded megalomaniacs so desperate for something to belong to that they have
become his marionette church. Using a feel-good psychological approach to
morality, Dr. Ben-Judah has used the Internet for his own gain, no doubt
fleecing his flock for millions. In the process he has invented an
us-against-them war in which you, my brothers and sisters, are 'them.' The
'us' in this charade call themselves true believers, saints, sealed ones"
you
name it.
For months I have ignored these harmless holdouts to world harmony, these
rebels to the cause of a unified faith. While advisers urged me to force their
hand, I
believed tolerance was in order. Though Dr. Ben-Judah continually challenged
all we stand for and hold dear, I maintained a policy of live and let live.
When he invited tens of thousands of his converts to meet in the very city
that had exiled him, I decided to rise above personal affronts and allow it.
In a spirit of acceptance and diplomacy, I even publicly assured Dr.
Ben-Judah's safety. Though I was well aware that the Global Community and I as
its head were the avowed enemies of this cult, I believed the only right and
proper thing to do was to encourage its mass meeting. I confess it was my hope
that in so doing these zealots would see that there was value in compromise
and tolerance and that they would one day choose to align themselves with
Enigma Babylon. But it would have had to have been their choice. I would not
have forced their hand.
And how was my magnanimity rewarded? Was I invited to the festivities? Asked
to welcome the delegates? Allowed to bring a greeting or take part in any of
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