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What we see in Cleveland are Saul Alinsky tactics:

Goal 27: "Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch".    

This is one of the 45 goals of the United States Communist Party that were read into the US Congressional Record in 1963.  At the time these goals were read, Saul Alinsky was the intellectual leader of the radical left and he referred to this infiltration & the turning of good organizations into agents of the radical left as "boring from within".

In order to facilitate this "boring from within" Saul Alinsky created his Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) which has since become the foundation for a far-reaching network of radical groups whose ideology and goals are at grave odds with Christian teaching.  The infiltration started in the Catholic Church but now it extends to the Protestant, Jewish & Muslim Faiths.  The network members include a dizzying array of names and acronyms (PICO, ACORN, DART, JustFaith, The Gamaliel Foundation, ESOP, NOAH, AMOS, Greater Cleveland Congregation (GCC),etc.) but they have never deviated from their roots that ground them solidly in the radical left of the political and social spectrum.

Now you may well recognize some of the names and acronyms above since the IAF Network has already infiltrated organized religion.  But their goals are inconsistent with God's goals and people of faith need to be aware of this effort, and to work within their churches to ensure that the Alinskyian Network does not succeed in leading people of faith astray.  As Edmond Burke said, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing".

We trust that you will disseminate information about this subversion of our Churches, but as you do so, be prepared to find out just how wide the gulf is between the methodologies practiced by the members of this network and Christian teaching.  Yes, their philosophy differs gravely on the intrinsic evilsof Abortion, Euthanasia, Contraception, Gay Marriage & Embryonic Stem Cell Research; but as you object to your Church's support for these groups be prepared to be targeted and ridiculed for speaking out against this travesty. 

In his book "Rules for Radicals" Alinsky lays out the strategy and tactics for infiltrating and subverting the Church.  "Rules for Radicals" is required reading for his "community organizer" disciples.  They are formally trained to destroy the reputations of their enemies and when you challenge them they will try to intimidate and destroy you.

In his book, Alinsky spends one entire chapter rationalizing why the end justifies the means.  Obviously this is not what scripture or the Church teaches us when Romans 3:8 says: "It is not licit to do evil that good may come of it" and Pope John Paul II, in Veritatis Splendor, insists that the Christian must accede to the truth of this moral teaching.  So it isn't enough that organizations acquire "good things" for their constituencies. They must accept and teach moral truth; they must be principled.  A lying or bribing lobby may win all its temporal battles, but it will have lost its soul. 

"Rules for Radicals" is dedicated to Lucifer which makes it a strange place to go for the Truth as taught by the Church.  In fact, Alinsky specifically rejects the authority of the Church and the morality that it teaches.  He opposed the very fundamentals for which the Church has always stood:

• Whereas the Church teaches a dogmatic theology, Alinsky protests, "I detest and fear dogma."
• Whereas the Church defends eternal truths, Alinsky insists, "Truth is relative and changing."
• Whereas the Catholic bishops have publicly declared that abortion goes against God's law, Alinsky proclaims, "I have always believed that birth control and abortion are personal rights." 

 How is this philosophy and mode of operation Christian?  How did it happen that Christians are supporting this Alinskyian activism?  Well it did not happen overnight.  Alinsky founded the IAF in 1940, published "Rules for Radicals" in 1971 and died in 1972 but his legacy lives on.  In his book and alongside of it Alinsky taught:

• "Infiltrate; don't flaunt your revolutionary ambitions; look like the enemy; talk like him; get into his institutions and change them from within." 
• "Do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral garments." 
• "Be unprincipled enough to compromise in order to see your principles succeed."
• "In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt."

So this is alinskyianism.  It is "truth by consensus".  It is the antithesis of Christian Truth.  It is not the stuff of the good guys.  It cannot be used to promote Christian Social Action.