The leader of the "progressive Christian" Sojourners movement has accepted funding from leftist atheist billionaire George Soros.
Mark Tooley, president of The Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD), tells OneNewsNow the information about Jim Wallis receiving the funds surfaced recently in a report from WORLD Magazine.
"This was significant in that Jim Wallis in recent years has adamantly insisted he did not belong to either side of the political spectrum, but essentially was a centrist who was transcending left and right and was simply a purely Christian activist," Tooley notes. But in fact, he continues, with the Wallis-Soros connection now confirmed, "Wallis...stands exposed as what he always was: a man of the political left."
Wallis -- a spiritual advisor to President Obama -- has openly stated in the past that Sojourners did not receive funding from atheists, but he later issued a statement confirming there had been at least three Soros grants from Soros' Open Society Institute totaling about $325,000. One of those grants, according to Christianity Today, totaled $100,000 and was earmarked for "immigration reform" -- prompting Wallis to tell the publication: "I have no apologies for taking a donation on immigration reform from Open Society. We'd do it again."
Tooley thinks Wallis and Soros are in sync on several different levels -- some of which contrast sharply with Christian orthodoxy.
"George Soros, besides being politically on the left, obviously is very pro-abortion rights and pro-euthanasia and would have very strong views on a whole range of topics involving sanctity of life and definition of marriage and others that the vast majority of orthodox Christians would disagree with," Tooley suggests.
But the IRD president points out that at the same time, Wallis is trying to make his appeal primarily to evangelical Christians -- resulting in what Tooley describes as a clear "dichotomy."
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