New World Religion

New World Religion, is the idea of a secular religion, that brings together a common agreed upon world view. This would provide a synthetic foundation upon which more global decision making can occur and some would say a world government would be founded.

A widely held Christian viewpoint is that such a world religion would represent the Antichrist.

From a New Age perspective, it is often believed that world unity in thought and action is desirable.

Objections

The objections to the "synthesis is better" point of view can be broken into three sections:

# Arguments for diversity and against a homogenized society.
# Arguments from a spiritual perspective voicing objections to the spiritual powers that stand behind such a synthesis.
# Arguments supporting National identity.

Example

Many conservatives and Christians believe that the proposed Earth Charter may represent the beginnings of a New World Religion.Fact|date=March 2007