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(publisher of Time and Life magazines), and $1 million from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, as<br />

well as others.<br />

When the Rothschilds charged Schiff with the task of undermining religion in America,<br />

Schiff delegated certain responsibilities to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. who later recruited Ward,<br />

who had taught religion at the Union Theological Seminary (which Rockefeller helped establish)<br />

in New York for 25 years. The Seminary was so liberal that it was known as the “Red<br />

Seminary,” because of how many students graduates and faculty members had ties to communist<br />

groups. Manning Johnson, a Communist Party member, referred to Ward as “the chief architect<br />

for Communist infiltration and subversion in the religious field.” In 1907, Rockefeller financed<br />

Ward’s establishment of the Methodist Foundation of Social Service, which was America’s first<br />

Communist-front organization. This religious institution cast serious doubts as to the virgin birth<br />

and divinity of Jesus. In 1953, Ward was identified as a Communist by the House Committee on<br />

Un-American Activities. In 1908, they reorganized and changed their name to the Federal<br />

Council of Churches.<br />

Raised as a Baptist, Rockefeller began noticing all of the competition between Protestant<br />

groups, and after World War II, got involved with the Interchurch World Movement,<br />

contributing over $1 million to its initial budget of $40 million, and traveling the country on a<br />

national speaking tour. It soon went under. Rockefeller was a well-known supporter of evangelist<br />

Billy Sunday, and forty years later, donated $75,000 to Billy Graham’s New York crusade. He<br />

also donated $26 million to build the Riverside Church, which opened in 1930, which was<br />

pastored by Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick (NCC leader, former President of the Rockefeller<br />

Foundation, who didn’t believe in the deity of Christ or the virgin birth; and was the brother of<br />

Raymond Fosdick, a member of the CFR), who had formerly been the pastor at the old First<br />

Presbyterian Church at 11th Street and 5th Avenue in New York. The interdenominational<br />

church was located on Riverside Drive in Morningside Heights, a block from Columbia<br />

University, and across from the Union Theological Seminary (to whom Rockefeller contributed<br />

$1,083,333 in 1922). He was also a large contributor to the World Council of Churches.<br />

Rockefeller provided the land (across the street from the Riverside Church, which it is<br />

connected to via an underground tunnel) for the 19-story triangular-shaped Interchurch Center<br />

(475 Riverside Drive, suite 880) that serves as the headquarters for the National Council of<br />

Churches in New York City.<br />

The membership of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America consists of 36<br />

Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox denominations. They are the biggest advocate of the<br />

ecumenical movement in the country, having well over 140,000 churches, and nearly 50,000,000<br />

members:<br />

African Methodist Episcopal Church (2,500,000 members), 12th largest U.S. Church<br />

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1,296,662), 20th largest U.S. Church<br />

Alliance of Baptists<br />

American Baptist Churches in the USA (1,436,909), 18th largest U.S. Church<br />

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (250,000)<br />

Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (414,000)<br />

Christian Church/Disciples of Christ (1,011,502)<br />

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (718,922)<br />

Church of the Brethren (13,132)<br />

Coptic Orthodox Church in North America (180,000)

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