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instrument of modernization of national unification and increasing social welfare.”
The largest U.S. Church donors to the WCC had been the Presbyterian Church (USA),
United Methodist, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Church
of Christ, Episcopal, and the American Baptist Churches.
Other ecumenical organizations are: National Association of Evangelicals (1950), and its
parent organization, the World Evangelical Fellowship (1951); the American Council of
Churches (1941), and its parent organization, the International Council of Christian Churches
(1948).
The National Council of Churches
The National Council of Churches of Christ in America (NCC), the American subsidiary of
the WCC, is an interdenominational group founded on November 29, 1950, after fourteen
interdenominational organizations merged. Actually, it was just a reorganization of the procommunist
Federal Council of Churches (FCC), that was founded in 1908 (consisting of 31
major American denominations) by Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch (a Baptist, and the leading
spokesman of socialist Christianity, who called for “a new order that would rest on Christian
principles of equal rights and democratic distribution of economic power.”) and Dr. Harry F.
Ward, a top communist. The founding document of the National Council of Churches was
adopted from Ward’s “The Social Creed of Churches,” which said that the Church must stand for
“the most equitable division of the product of industry that can ultimately be devised.” This was
a subtle way of advocating the communistic principle of the confiscation of private property.
In 1927, Rep. Arthur M. Free introduced a resolution in the House that identified the FCC as
a “Communist organization aimed at the establishment of a state-church…” In 1936, they were
identified by the Office of Naval Intelligence, as being one of the several organizations which
“give aid and comfort to the Communist movement and Party,” and said they were “one of the
most dangerous, subversive organizations in the country.” Later that year, Admiral William H.
Standley, Chief of Naval Operations, publicly accused the Federal Council of Churches of
collaborating with the Communists. The Congressional Record (December 9, 1987) quoted from
an FBI report on Soviet Active Measures in the United States, under the section called “The
Soviet Campaign to Influence Religious Organizations,” which said: “It is clear … that the
Soviet Union is increasingly interested in influencing and/or manipulating American churches,
religious organizations, and their leaders within the United States…” It revealed that “the
campaign ‘has targeted the members and leaders of a broad range of religious organizations
within the United States’ and uses several channels for its campaign of disinformation.”
In 1933, Rev. Albert W. Beaven, a past president of the FCC (along with 44 others), wrote a
letter to President Franklin Roosevelt to try to convince him to socialize America because they
believed “there can be no recovery so long as the nation depends on palliative legislation inside
the capitalistic system.” In 1942, their platform called for “a world government, international
control of all armies and navies, a universal system of money, and a democratically-controlled
international bank.”
Andrew Carnegie gave money to the FCC to promote his goal of “world peace through world
government.” From 1926 to 1929 John D. Rockefeller donated over $137,000 to the group. In
1948, the FCC received $2,959 from the Russell Sage Foundation (well known supporter of
Communist causes, and Planned Parenthood), $1 million from the Henry Luce Foundation