I know that the postmillenialist of a tribulationist disposition will be horrified because this is just the kind of scenario certain writers have made lots of money infecting minds with. However, it ain't necessarily so. And to me the argument for looking at the issue is compelling and George Monbiot states it clearly:
And later he writes,
Quite so. What we need, therefore is a way to hold them to account democratically. Though that is not done simply. However,
Ironically, I think this is a more 'Christian' way forward than the Left Behind abdication of responsibility which it seems to me, is merely a right-wing ideology hiding behind a decidedly dodgy approach to scripture hich may even owe more to Islam than to historic Christianity ... (ooh now there's a wind-up, ask me later).
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Those of us who want a world parliament are often accused of trying to invent a system of global governance. But there is already a system of global governance. The UN Security Council, the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organisation make decisions which affect us all. They do so without our consent.
And later he writes,
No political issue now stops at the national border. All the most important forces – climate change, terrorism, state aggression, trade, flows of money, demographic pressures, the depletion of resources – can be addressed only at the global level. The question is not whether global decisions need to be made. The question is how to ensure that they are made democratically. Is there any valid answer other than direct representation?
Quite so. What we need, therefore is a way to hold them to account democratically. Though that is not done simply. However,
The purpose of a world parliament is to hold the international bodies to account. It is not a panacea. It will not turn the IMF or the UN Security Council into democratic bodies: as they are controlled by the veto powers of their major shareholder and permanent members, nothing but abolition and reconstruction could do so. But it does have the potential to impose a check on them. It wields no army, no police force, no weapons, no ready-made powers. Instead, it possesses something that none of the other global bodies have: legitimacy.
Ironically, I think this is a more 'Christian' way forward than the Left Behind abdication of responsibility which it seems to me, is merely a right-wing ideology hiding behind a decidedly dodgy approach to scripture hich may even owe more to Islam than to historic Christianity ... (ooh now there's a wind-up, ask me later).
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