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no worries. you people are experienced. you know God will protect. no surprises though, it's all happening so in the end, it'll be time to Judge.
you know you're gonna fight alongside Jesus right?? big battle. crazy stuff, but it's all good.
i can't even imagine what our new bodies will be like. feel like. the way i see it, we're gonna be spirits ourselves. White Robes and all!! Good Stuff.
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Thanks for that list Dale; the Monies are in so many legitimate sounding causes. I am not a Southern Baptist, though I do attend a Southern Baptist Church. But I have to say that I find it a little hard to buy that they did not know what this was about. The event was called a Prayer for Unity and Renewal luncheon... should the "Unity" and the fact that the Washington Times was involved tell them something...Hello!!!
I guess if this is the path the Southern Baptists are heading down, I would want to know now as opposed to later.
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Well, according to the Baptist Press
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"We knew that it was going to be an interdenominational event, but we had no idea that the luncheon was hosted by the Moonies," said (SBC President James) Merritt, pastor of an Atlanta-area church. "My invitation to the event came through Doug Wead."
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Is it possible that the full itinerary was not disclosed or perhaps misunderstood?
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I edited my post, the computer ate the last part of it somehow.
and your are right softtouch, may Yahweh have mercy on this Nation and help us in the days ahead.
We loss as a Nation either way in the up coming election. Bush or Kerry is like voting for Satan or Satan Jr. and I do not know which one is worse.
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This was Truly and Totally Distrubing! And to think that some of our Senators 'crowned' this LoonyTune as messiah! And worse yet, our so-called Christian leaders, organizations, associations speak well of this man????? YIKES!
May YHWH Protect HIS Children and keep us Safely in Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) until HE RETURNS IN THE CLOUDS WITH POWER AND GLORY to take us to be with HIM! In Yeshua's Name I ask. Amen!
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Psalm 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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...Moon, who claims that in 1936, when he was 16, Jesus Christ appeared to him on a mountainside in Northwestern Korea and told him that God had chosen him for the mission of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
45 years later, I was on a mountainside in northwestern South Korea. Once, I looked through my binoculars and saw a North Korean officer looking back at me through his binoculars. ![[spiny]](graemlins/spiny.gif)
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This is interesting... (long Read)
Sun Myung Moon
General Teachings/Activities
- Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, says he is the Messiah of the Second Coming and that his family is the first true family in all history! (His followers have been nicknamed "Moonies.") He is also the power behind an international network which includes more than 350 closely affiliated companies worldwide (280 of them in the U.S.), including the Washington Times, the International Cultural Foundation, the Washington Institute for Values and Public Policy, Paragon House Publishers, the Christian Bernard jewelry chain, and Happy World toy and clothing outlets. Other Unification Church' holdings include the following:
Political groups: American Freedom Coalition, CAUSU USA, CAUSU International, American Leadership Conference, American Constitution Committee, Association for the Unity of Latin America.
Media organizations: News World Communications, New York City Tribune, Insight Magazine, World Media Association.
Businesses: One Up Enterprises, U.S. Property Development, International Oceanic Enterprises.
Religious organizations: 55 principal worship centers (two in California, Texas and New York, one in every other state, D.C., and Puerto Rico), and 206 additional churches.
- The official title of the Unification Church is The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. It was officially founded in 1954 by Moon, who claims that in 1936, when he was 16, Jesus Christ appeared to him on a mountainside in Northwestern Korea and told him that God had chosen him for the mission of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. After World War II, Moon returned to Pyongyang, the capital of communist North Korea, where he set up his first church (1945).
There, according to reports, Moon involved his congregation in an unusual ritual known as "blood separation," during which female members of the church were required to have sex with him to cleanse themselves of Satan's influence. In 1948, North Korean authorities arrested and jailed Moon (he spent two years in a labor camp), accusing him of bigotry and adultery. Moon was finally liberated by United Nations' troops during the Korean War (1950). (Still today, Moon's sermons focus on sex and the idea of female submissiveness. In 1995, on "True Parents Day," he observed, "Woman was born to connect in love with man's sexual organ. Man and woman's sexual organs are the place of the true love palace.") After the Korean War, Moon fled to South Korea and established the Unification Church, which now claims more than three million members worldwide (about 45,000 U.S.), but both these figures are believed by many to be grossly exaggerated (e.g., The Encyclopedia Americana reports Moon's church membership at only 30,000 worldwide).
- Moon's Unification Church has been the subject of much national publicity, primarily due to Moon's federal conviction on income tax fraud (see next item), for which he served 11 months in federal prison. Moon is a permanent resident of the U.S. (since 1973), and believes that the U.S. will be the future base of operations for the "Lord of the Second Advent" (a title to which Moon himself has laid claim!). Moon's theology is a mind-boggling mixture of Pentecostal "Christianity," Eastern mysticism, anti-Communism, pop psychology, and metaphysics. (The last three pages of this report highlight what the Moonies believe concerning their source of authority, Biblical interpretation, sin, Christ, salvation, marriage, eschatology, heaven and hell, etc., drawn from BDM's 7/97 cult report on the Unification Church).
- Moon's legal problems stemmed from his being charged with having failed to pay tax on a combined interest income of $150,000, resulting in less than $7,500 in tax. He was also charged (along with Takeru Kamiyama, Moon's aide) with having falsified tax return statements and with perjury. After an audit was made of Moon's 1973-75 returns, the Justice Department filled a thirteen-count indictment which sought to prove that Moon was the principle beneficiary and owner of interest-bearing accounts in the Chase Manhattan Bank, and stock in a corporation, Tong II Enterprises. These accounts bore Moon's personal name only as the beneficiary. In the three years in question, $1.7 million had been deposited in these accounts. Moon made personal transactions in the form of loans to other Unification Church organizations, and other purchases including his personal estate, "East Garden" in Tarrytown, New York.
Moon's defense, in its appeals for review, never argued against the validity of the charges against Moon, but against the process by which he was found guilty. In Moon's Petition for Certiorari, we read, "At issue in this petition is not the facts the government purports to have established, but the process -- including the choice of tribunal and the charge to the jury -- by which the government obtained the result it sought."
Moon was convicted and sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, for a term of 18 months for tax evasion, falsifying tax documents, and perjury. He served 11 months of his sentence and was released to serve the remainder at the Oxford Project halfway house in Brooklyn. There he was free to conduct his church business during the day, but was required to spend nights at the facility. After only two more months he was released for "good behavior."
Upon Moon's release from prison, his God and Freedom Committee spent over $100,000 on a public relations effort to welcome him at a banquet where a purported 1,700 religious leaders dined, then listened to several speakers laud Moon. Besides the Coalition for Religious Freedom, the list of churches and other groups that filed amicus briefs with the court on behalf of Moon include the following: National Council for the Churches of Christ in the USA; American Baptist Churches in the USA; Presbyterian Church USA; National Association of Evangelicals; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons); American Civil Liberties Union; The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights; and the American Association of Christian Schools.
Media Spotlight 's investigation (Media Spotlight, January-March 1986) determined that the charge of "religious and ethnic persecution" was originally brought by Moon and the Unification Church. Through a broad public relations campaign, pastors of tens of thousands of churches in the United States were contacted for the purpose of garnering their support for Moon based on the Unification Church's claim that he was suffering under religious persecution, and that if they wanted to ensure their own freedoms, they must rally to his defense. The Unification Church spent approximately $30 million in its campaign, of which $4.5 million was spent on a mail blitz to 300,000 ministers who received a box bearing the words: "A GIFT FOR YOU FROM SOME FOLKS WHO CARE." Inside were three video cassettes containing six hours of doctrinal lectures, two books expounding the Divine Principle, some pamphlets, and two letters from Mose Durst, president of the Unification Church in America. Sadly, many so-called evangelical leaders were taken in by this ploy.
- In 1993, a l0,000-member-strong alliance of academics founded by Moon -- the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) -- rescued the small University of Bridgeport (CT) with a $50,000 loan and grant package. In exchange, PWPA received control of the University's board of trustees. This prompted a lawsuit from a Bridgeport coalition. PWPA is by charter, independent, but 90% of its money comes from the Unification Church, and it resolved a decade ago "to work with Moon toward the establishment of a God-centered world of universal fellowship and harmony." Steven Hassan, a former Moon rising star, says Moon is deadly serious and dangerous. He says no Moon affiliate is independent, but that all are links in his scheme for "taking over the world" (7/1/93, Calvary Contender).
- A two-page advertisement in Moon's 5/17/93 Washington Times printed the speech that Moon delivered on 5/15/93 in Washington, D.C. titled: "True Parents and the Completed Testament Age." The following excerpt provides an excellent summary of "Moonie" ecumenical socialism (from the 6/28/93 Christian News, copy attached as part of the print report):
"It was God's will that the Messiah of the Second Coming should unite the two hostile blocs. That is why I mobilized our church to help settle conflicts between the right wing, represented by the free world, and the left wing, represented by communism. We have also worked on behalf of Christianity and Judaism as a peacemaker with our Islamic brothers and sisters."
Despite Moon's "World Anti-Communist League," he, in reality, advocates a Communist/Socialist society. His Multiplex Umbrella of organizations are clones of his ideologies expressed in Divine Principles (the Moonie bible). He teaches that Socialism is God's Heavenly Kingdom here on earth. According to Moon's theology, man's original mind, the "heavenly side," is trying to realize the principle of coexistence, co-prosperity, and common cause. Moon is not the image he portrays to his Moonies or to many of the politically active "evangelicals" he fellowships with. He is part of the One World, One Religion, Anti-Christ system (Bold Truth Press). [Moon has praised Gorbachev, and has called "Marxist" Martin Luther King "the greatest American of this century." Moon also has built a $250 million automobile plant in communist China, and has established a friendship with Moscow's communist leadership, stating that: "The Soviet Union will be at the center of God's providence in the next century."]
- Sun Myung Moon's "spiritual discernment" supposedly enables him to pick the right mates for members of the Unification Church, his followers say. Moon reportedly spent two months matching photographs and applications in preparation for 1992 mass wedding ceremony. On 8/25/92 in Seoul, about 30,000 couples were wed. At the service, Moon and his wife were called the "true parents of mankind" (9/7/92, NIR Report). In 1995, more than 720,000 people -- two-thirds of whom were renewing their vows -- were married via satellite at 545 sites in more than 100 countries; 10,000 of those participating were American. Moon and his wife spent 15 months matching people for marriage, using photographs categorized by sex, age and nationality. Japanese couples paid $29,000 each to participate in the ceremony; Americans paid $2,000. Church officials say the money goes for satellite charges and the costs for 200,000 African couples, but a number of Protestant churches in Korea said that the ceremonies, which have brought the church $1.3 billion throughout the years, are just a way for the church to make money. (Source: 9/25/95, Christian News, p. 14.)
- In purveying his "heavenly deceit," Moon incorporates classical cultic tactics to lure unsuspecting youth into his fold. Through various front organizations, he attracts idealistic people who are seeking for ways to bring about a better world. His staunch anti-communism and anti-secular humanism provides a platform upon which he displays the "evils of the world." Pointing to abortion, pornography, crime, prostitution, and other evils that plague western civilization, Moon offers hope for what he calls a "New Age" of righteousness under the coming salvation through obedience to Moon.
Recruits lives are kept busy with non-stop work, lecture sessions, and fund-raising activities. For their efforts, they are provided meals and a bed in one of Moon's communes spread throughout America, Western Europe, Korea, and Japan. Married couples who join are separated and their children are taken from them to be raised in Moon's nurseries. The children are told that the "Reverend" and Mrs. Moon are their parents. Single Moonies are discouraged from developing close friendships with members of the opposite sex. Rather, they are required to purify themselves through prayer and hard work until the time Moon assigns them a marriage partner. "Before marriage, Moonies must confess any sexual sins to the 'Father' and beg his forgiveness. After marriage, intercourse is banned for forty days and then spouses are usually assigned to different -- and distant -- locations. As a result, Moonies produce few children.
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Beliefs of Unification Church/Sun Myung Moon
In 1976, The New York Times made the following astute observation about Moon and the Unification Church: "While church members accept Moon's theology as revealed truth, non-members generally find it a mind-boggling mixture of Pentecostal Christianity, Eastern mysticism, anti-Communism, pop psychology, and metaphysics." Below are the highlights of what the Moonies believe concerning their source of authority, Biblical interpretation, the fall of man, the occult, sin, Christ, salvation, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, marriage, eschatology, and heaven and hell: [Unless otherwise cited, five primary sources were used for this report -- Unification Church Cult report; Revised 11/01: (1) Grolier's 1995 Multimedia Encyclopedia; (2) Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia; (3) What They Believe, Harold J. Berry [HJB], BTTB:1990, pp. 243-267; (4) "Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity," Rick Branch (Watchman Fellowship Profile, 1993); and (5) Examining & Exposing Cultic & Occultic Movements, Jack Sin, "Unification Church," April 2000, pp. 32-33.]:
1. Source of Authority. The Moonies teach that the Bible is "not the truth itself, but a textbook teaching the truth." Moon's 536-page spiritual manifesto, Divine Principle (1957), is considered to be their scriptures (supposedly revealed directly to Moon by Jesus Christ), along with the Bible. (Divine Principle is considered to be the "third testament" of the Bible, and superior to the Bible.) They also believe in continuing revelation. (Moon claims to have received new revelations from God; i.e., "I spoke with Jesus Christ in the spirit world. And I also spoke with John the Baptist. This is my authority.") [HJB] Even Divine Principle is not the complete truth. "The Divine Principle revealed in this book is only part of the new truth. ... as time goes on, deeper parts of the truth will be continually revealed" (Unification Theology, p. 16).
Ultimately, Moon's interpretations and teachings are considered to be the final and absolute source of authority. Moon's teachings warn church members that life on earth is a continuous battle between good and evil -- where they are the Chosen People -- and everyone outside of the "True Family," including their biological parents, may be agents of Satan. Any person harboring doubts about Moon is deemed to be allowing himself to be part of the work of Satan.
2. Method of Interpretation. The Moonies interpret much of the Bible allegorically; they teach that the thieves on the cross represent democracy (the "right") and Communism (the "left"). They claim that "resurrection" does not refer to raising the dead, but to accepting the "word of God" (cf. 1 Cor. 15:12-20). They say that the expression "end of the world" only means that "evil is going to end." [HJB] Moon also believes the Bible teaches that Christianity is not the one and only divinely revealed and saving faith. He says that "God has established many religions. ... God cannot be found where there is conflict. Catholicism and Protestantism must become one."
3. Dualism and the Fall. Moonies believe that everything in existence has a dual aspect, including God. They claim that God originally intended for Adam and Eve to have a brother/sister relationship until they reached perfection, and that Adam and Eve were supposed to establish God's kingdom on earth through marriage and childbearing. Therefore, the Fall was the result of sexual sin; i.e., that Eve had sexual relations with Satan (the spiritual fall) and then with Adam (the physical fall). [HJB]
4. The Occult. Moon admits communicating with familiar spirits by means of séances. [It is a well-known fact that Moon has participated in séances conducted by a spirit transmedium named Arthur Ford (a famous Philadelphian necromancer). Ford's "spirit guide" first spoke of Moon on 11/1/64, again on 3/18/65, and on 4/21/65 (Unknown But Known, p. 121). Moon was present at this last séance and his comments were tape recorded and later transcribed.] Though the Christian ordinances of baptism and communion are avoided by the Unification Church, it readily accepts clairvoyance, automatic handwriting, and mediumistic trances.
5. Sin. Unification theology teaches that Adam and Eve's fall came not from disobedience in eating fruit from the tree of knowledge, but was sexual in nature. Eve's sin, the church holds, was engaging in an act of sex with Satan, and Adam's was in turn "a premature act of love" with Eve, thus leading to mankind's physical corruption. Adam and Eve thus failed to fulfill God's plan for them to be the "true parents" of mankind. According to Moon, then, sin is a matter of genetics (physical children of Lucifer), not moral choice. Salvation, therefore, requires a physical redemption; i.e. it is a matter of being born of Moon's physical bond or entering a marriage union chosen and blessed by Moon himself. [Originally, "Blood cleansing" as defined by Moon was accomplished for any male by having sexual relations with a woman that had been "cleansed" by Moon (i.e., had sexual relations with Moon). Now, those who totally submit to Moon's authority (e.g., defined as turning over all financial assets to the Unification Church, allowing Moon to choose one's mate, etc.) may consider their devotion to be a spiritual kind of purification not requiring sexual cohabitation.]
6. God the Father. "Unification theology asserts that God has both masculine and feminine qualities based on the universal fact of polarity ..." There are similarities between the Unification Church theology of God the Father and the deity concept of I Ching, Confucianism, Taoism, and even the Hindu worship of a Mother Goddess: "... God must exist in polarity. That is, He must possess within Himself the dual characteristics of masculinity and femininity which are perfectly expressed and fully harmonized in His nature. The doctrine of divine polarity taught by Unification theology should be seen not as an eccentric novelty but rather as a reaffirmation of a valid theological insight" (Unification Theology, p. 56).
7. Jesus Christ. Moonies deny the deity of Jesus Christ; instead they claim He was just a man, not God. ("God is just like you and me. All human traits originate in God." -- Moon, Christianity in Crisis, p. 4; and "He can by no means be God Himself." -- Divine Principle, pp. 210-211). They teach that Jesus was not virgin born, but was the bastard offspring of Zechariah and Mary! They also claim that Jesus failed in His earthly mission (Divine Principle, pp. 143-145), and that Christ's purpose in coming was to marry and to produce perfect children. However, He was killed before He could fulfill His mission (i.e., "The Cross is the symbol of defeat of Christianity," Moon, 1973). Moonies believe that John the Baptist was responsible for the death of Jesus (by failing to convert his audience into a power bloc for Jesus) (Divine Principle, pp. 156-162), and that Christ's death on the cross was not an original or essential part of God's plan of redemption ("... however devout a man of faith may be, he cannot fulfill physical salvation by redemption through Jesus crucifixion alone." -- Divine Principle, p. 148), but that God merely used it to provide an incomplete, spiritual salvation. They do not believe that Jesus was physically resurrected (cf. 1 Cor. 15:12-20), but that He returned as a spirit, and that a "third Adam" must come to fulfill God's plan for physical salvation by marrying and producing the sinless race. The Unification Church has given titles to Moon that indicate it considers him to be this "third Adam." [HJB]
8. Salvation . Moonies teach the "Law of Indemnity" -- that God's children must pay for at least a part of their debt of sin before God will forgive them. They believe a person earns his salvation through fasting, fund-raising, recruitment, and other such works. They claim that both a spiritual and a physical salvation are needed -- and that the "third Adam" will provide physical salvation by marrying and producing sinless children (Divine Principle, p. 148). They teach that once the "third Adam" comes, those who have paid indemnity will also be able to marry and bear sinless children. [HJB] Moonies view Moon as that "third Adam" who provides physical salvation through a perfect family (indeed, his twelve children are considered sinless!), and extends this perfection to his followers through their obedience to him.
9. Holy Spirit. "In Unification theology the main point is that the Holy Spirit is not a separate entity, a being different from God the Father. The Holy Spirit simply refers to God's redemptive activity." Further, the Holy Spirit, "... appears feminine, masculine and impersonal. ... Like God Himself, the Spirit is invisible and incorporeal -- a bright light or a field of magnetic energy" (Unification Theology, pp. 201-202). Moonies also teach that the Holy Spirit is a "female spirit" -- the "True Mother" and spiritual wife of Jesus (Divine Principle, p. 215). "She" also cleanses the sins of the people in order to restore them, thus indemnifying the sin committed by Eve.
10. Trinity . Moonies deny the Biblical concept of the Trinity. They teach that the "third Adam," his bride, and God constituted the first "trinity," and that mankind will be restored by forming trinities with God through marriage. [HJB] Young Oon Kim, professor of systematic theology at the Unification Theological Seminary, stated, "Unification theology starts with the fact of polarity as the main clue for understanding the essential nature of God. Hence it is not primarily interested in defending the Trinitarian doctrine of the fourth century creeds" (Unification Theology, p. 53).
11. Marriage . Moonies claim that marriage is the most important means of establishing God's kingdom on earth. Moon teaches that "God-centered families are the building blocks of a world of peace, stability, and love," and that only those who are married will be saved, or qualified, for the kingdom. Hence, Moon's fondness for mass marriage ceremonies, wherein 35,000 to 50,000 couples are married at a time, most whom have never met before! [Moon and his wife, Hak-ja Han Moon (wife #4 -- he divorced the first three), charge each couple an arrangement fee for these mass marriages, which has brought the church more than two billion dollars throughout the years.] A ceremony marrying 3.6 million couples (most by satellite) occurred in 1997, and another 120 million couples in 2000. (These numbers are, of course, highly suspect.)
Moonism transcends biology. Church members are considered the "True Family" and Moon and his wife are the world's "True Parents" -- "my wife and I are cleansing everything that was polluted by false love, false life, and false lineage. Our marriage has achieved the True Parents position; the large international marriage ceremonies which we conduct are to sow the seed of true love, true life, and true lineage, which results from the unity of God's love and man's love" (1995). Members celebrate as birthdays the day they joined the Unification Church.
12. Second Coming . Moonies use Biblical terms to refer to the Second Coming, but have changed their meanings. They deny that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will return, but say that God will send another man as the "third Adam." They deny that the "Christ" will come in the clouds, but instead that he will be born just as Jesus was in the First Advent. They teach that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will be established by the "third Adam" through marriage. The bottom line is that they believe that Moon is this "third Adam" and that he has begun to establish God's kingdom -- "He [God] is living in me. I am the incarnation of Himself." [HJB] [Moon says that Jesus failed at the First Coming, but he (Moon) will not! (speech on 8/24/92).]
13. Heaven and Hell. Moonies teach that heaven is a realm of the spirit world and that hell is inconsequential because it will "pass away as heaven expands," and all mankind is redeemed. Also, one's destination after death depends on his spirit's "quality of life on earth; by the degree of goodness we build into them through actions." Rather than immortal perfection, Moon teaches that in the afterlife his followers will experience the same "desires, dislikes, and aspirations as before death."
Summary: According to Moon, it was God's plan for Jesus to find a perfect mate and produce sinless children, bringing about the world's physical and spiritual salvation. But Jesus failed because He couldn't get the Jews to accept Him as Messiah. The Crucifixion was a "mistake" which thwarted God's plans and made it necessary for a new Messiah to come during this present age. This new "messiah," called the "Lord of the Second Advent" by Moon, was born in Korea in 1920 (which, coincidentally, is the place and time of his own birth).
By the year 2000, Moon claimed, the Messiah would be revealed (cf. Duet. 18:22). Therefore, Moon does not want us to think of the Second Coming in terms of a literal interpretation of Scripture, which states that Jesus will come in the clouds with great glory. Moon insists that the second messiah will be a Korean man born of the flesh -- and those who do not accept him will face God's wrath.
Accordingly, everyone must be born again by new parents in order to fulfill God's original plan of redemption. Translated into Moon's theology, this means: acceptance of Moon and his wife as spiritual parents is necessary for salvation.
Quotes from Moon Illustrating Essential Theological Points
"He [God] is living in me and I am the incarnation of Himself. ... The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world."
"God is now throwing Christianity away and is now establishing a new religion, and this new religion is the Unification Church."
"All the Christians in the world are destined to be absorbed by our movement."
"There have been saints, prophets, many religious leaders in past human history. Master here [Moon] is more than any of those people and greater than Jesus himself."
"I [Moon] am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end."
"God and man are one. Man is incarnate God."
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Endnotes
Note on Séances: In 1965, one of the most interesting events in Moon's life took place. He had a sitting with famed Spirit Medium Arthur Ford. At this séance, Moon was given information by Fletcher, Ford's spirit guide, concerning his destiny as a spiritual leader. Present at this occultic ceremony were Ford, Moon, Bo Hi Pak (a leader in the Unification Church), as well as Miss Kim, Moon's interpreter. After Ford had gone into a trance, Pak asked, "Could you ask him in connection with the New Age, more specifically, the mission of Our Leader here today?" Fletcher answered, "He is one of those who will be the human instrument through whom the World Teacher will be able to speak. ... The Jesus of Galilee will not return, it is not necessary. The Christ who manifested through him is the Eternal, he will manifest again. ...But the important thing to remember is that when God wants to make a revelation he has to choose a human instrument.... Sun Myung Moon is the one I have been talking about. I have been speaking for a group of people here. This group seems to surround him. And the power that flows through him, the intelligence, is not just one it is a great group of people. And they seem all to draw their inspiration and their knowledge from One Source and then they seem to pour it symbolically into a pool and in some strange symbolical way that pool becomes Sun Myung Moon." Fletcher, having mentioned revelation, was then asked by Pak, "You are speaking of New Revelation; that means you are speaking of the Divine Principle brought by Sun Myung Moon?" Fletcher answered, "That's part of it, yes, but even Sun Myung Moon has not exhausted the possibilities of the Divine Mind. He is, and as long as he lives will continue to be, a channel for revelation" (Unknown But Known, pp. 131-139). [Return to Text]
Note on Mass Marriages: The term "Mass Marriage" is actually a misnomer, but that is what they are popularly known as. In reality, no one is being married in these mass wedding spectacles. Instead, the "Blessing," as Moonies refer to this event, is a religious ceremony and not actual weddings. Though they are dressed as brides and grooms and repeat marriage vows at these events, the ones that intend to be husband and wife will have to obtain marriage licenses from whatever jurisdiction they reside in. In former years, only those couples that Sun Myung Moon had matched (Moon chose usually complete strangers who would then become husband and wife based on Moon's selection) or those who had passed very stringent qualifications (including from 3 to 7 years of celibacy before marriage) would be allowed to be 'blessed' by Moon. In recent years, these events are often billed as a 'recommitment of marriage' to unsuspecting participants. [Return to Text]
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T, let's be a bit more precise in the following quote (in other words, please humor me ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ). quote:
Participants in "We Will Stand" include Southern Baptists, Missionary Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Catholics, Church of God, Christ of Christ, Apostolic, United Pentecostal, Anglican, and others.
(bold italics mine for emphasis, Dan)
Since we specify "Southern" and "Missionary" Baptists, let's specify "United" Methodists, as opposed to "Evangelical" Methodists, "Free" Methodists, etc. who have nothing to do with this.
I am also interested in which "brand" of Church of God; which Lutheran synod; and is it "Church of Christ," "Churches of Christ and Christian Churches," or "United Church of Christ" - or some other variety of that name?
It may sound like I'm being picky, but United Methodism (which is often aptly characterized by United Methodists themselves as neither "united" nor "methodist") is not the world's spokesman for Methodists by any means.
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Not everyone that says to me Lord,Lord will enter into eternal life.
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I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!!!!! Someone Please tell me this is a sick joke?!!!
All I can do is affirm the truth, I wish it was a sick joke. ![[BooHoo]](graemlins/boohoo.gif)
Moonies Update
Would it surprise anyone if the "American Clergy Leadership Conference" turns out to be a Unification Church front group? See the list at the end of this article.
Here is something found at
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/moonsnewecumenicalventure.html
April 10, 2001 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) -
Cult leader "Rev." Sun Myung Moon has launched a new ecumenical venture called "We Will Stand!" It is being promoted by a 50 state tour which began Feb. 25 in New York City. The tour came to Oklahoma City on April 5, and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Smith and I attended the press conference to gather information about this movement.
Michael Jenkins, President of the Family Federation for World Peace (the new name for Moon's Unification Church) and the American Clergy Leadership Conference (another Moon-associated organization), conducted the press conference. He noted that they are "on a mission to rebuild the family and to bring the body of Christ together." They intend to build a coalition of all denominations and races. He said, "There was a time when the different denominations had a purpose, but now God is raising up prophets to call upon the 12 tribes of the New Israel to be one body.
Jesus is calling upon all denominations to come together, to break down denominational walls. There is a new dispensation. New things are being opened up." He said that Moon is revealing new things, and that Jesus' words are being understood in new ways today. Another speaker at the press conference, a "Rev." Medina, said, "It was during a Billy Graham crusade years ago that I lost my denominational hang-ups."
Participants in "We Will Stand" include Southern Baptists, Missionary Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Catholics, Church of God, Christ of Christ, Apostolic, United Pentecostal, Anglican, and others.
The unity that is desired by Moon's "We Will Stand" venture goes far beyond a unity of professing Christians, though. Jenkins said that the love of Jesus is so infinite that all should be embraced as children of God. He cited Jesus' prayer in John 17 and applied it to inter-denominational, inter-religious, and inter-racial unity. North American Indians, who worship nature, Jews, Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, and members of other religions are involved in the Moon coalition.
Like all ecumenical ventures, "We Will Stand" encourages people to ignore error.
Pastor Humphrey, who also spoke at the press conference, said, "Love does not pay attention to things that are wrong." This flies in the face of hundreds of biblical commands to judge all things by the Word of God.
Jude tells us to earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints(Jude 3).
2 Timothy tells preachers to reprove sin and error (2 Tim. 4:2).
The Psalmist, a man after God's own heart, said that he not only loved the truth but hated every false way (Psalm 119:128).
The 81-year-old Sun Myung Moon has been building broad ecumenical coalitions for decades, and it is amazing to see men who profess to believe the Bible joining hands with him. Moon was featured at an "American Come Together" meeting in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2001. It was advertised as "the inaugural prayer luncheon for unity and renewal" and the chairpersons
included four members of the U.S. House of Representatives as well as Douglas Joo, President of the Washington Times Foundation, which is owned by Moon.
The "invitational committee and speakers" included the following evangelical and charismatic leaders:
Don Argue, President, Northwest College
Pat Boone, CCM singer
Phil Driscole, CCM entertainer
Kenneth Copeland, Word-Faith leader
John Corts, President, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
Paul Crouch, President, Trinity Broadcasting Network
Wiley Drake, Pastor, First Southern Baptist Church, Buena Park, CA
Tony Evans, Promise Keepers speaker
Jerry Falwell, President, Liberty University Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham
Max Lucado, popular author, Promise Keepers speaker
James Merritt, President, Southern Baptist Convention
Thomas Trask, General Superintendent, Assemblies of God
By joining this endeavor, these men were yoked together with a wide variety of heresy, including cult leader Sun Myung Moon;
Roman Catholic John Michael Talbot, who prays to Mary;
self-esteem guru Robert Schuller;
and Jewish Rabbi Daniel Lapin.
Sun Myung Moon claims that Jesus Christ appeared to him in 1935 and commissioned him to establish the kingdom of God on earth. He started the Unification Church in Korea in 1954, and in 1971 he came to the United States. According to the strange Unification doctrine (the "Divine Principle"), Moon and his wife, who are called "the Heavenly Parents," were chosen to produce the kingdom of God on earth. Moon claims that God said to him, "You are the son I have been seeking, the one who can begin my eternal history." Supposedly, Adam and Eve failed to produce the kingdom because of their sin, and Jesus likewise failed to produce the kingdom of God because he was crucified before he could marry the perfect bride. Thus Moon was chosen to carry on the work of Jesus Christ. Moon claims that Jesus was born of an immoral relationship between Mary and the father of John the Baptist. Moon conducts mass weddings of interracial couples. He says that only when man and woman come together to procreate do they make a whole human being. In Oakland, California, last month, he said to the women: "If you don't give birth, you are disqualified as a woman" ("Rev. Moon Stirs Up Fans," Oakland Tribune, March 13, 2001). In Oklahoma City, Moon proclaimed: "I have been to the spirit world. I have met God." In Minneapolis, Moon interrupted his message from time to time and asked, "Do you feel grateful for Rev. Moon?" ("Rev. Moon still has much to say," Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 11, 2001).
The hundreds of Moon-affiliated organizations include the following:
American Clergy Leadership Conference
American Council for World Freedom
American Family Coalition
American Freedom Coalition
American Parents Association
Captive Nations
Causa U.S.A.
Center for Educational Media
Coalition for a Free World
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
Free Asia Foundation
Freedom Leadership Foundation
HeartWing
Insight
International Conference of World Peace
International Exchange Press
International Religious Foundation
Korean International Foundation for World Peace
Korean Professors World Peace Academy
National Parents Day Foundation
New Birth Project
New Family Foundation
News World Communications
Paragon House Publishers
Professors World Peace Academy
Rose of Sharon Press
Sunshine Schools
True Parents Organization
Unification Church
Visual Arts Society
Washington Times
Washington Institute Press
Women's Federation for World Peace
World Alliance for Civil Rights
World Anti-Communist League
World and I
World Freedom Movement
World Media Association
World Medical Health Foundation
World Scripture Project
World University Times
Footnote:
When the article was first written, we reference to a brochure which was distributed to us at the press conference in Oklahoma City. The brochure mentioned a January banquet in Washington, D.C. and listed support from Tony Evans and James Merritt of the Southern Baptist Convention. We have since learned that though these men did attend the banquet, they have since renounced any connection with Moon's project.
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Here's more on this story:
http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=131
Moon Over Washington
Why are some of the capital’s most influential power players hanging out with a bizarre Korean billionaire who claims to be the Messiah?
by John Gorenfeld, Contributor
6.09.04
Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah – with royal robes, a crown, the works? Or that this imperial ceremony took place not in a makeshift basement church or a backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building?
The Washington Post didn't think so. For a moment on April 4, a quote from the keynote speech was in the Web version of its "Reliable Sources" column. The speaker: Sun Myung Moon, 84, an ex-convict whose political activities were at the center of the 1976-8 Koreagate influence-peddling probe. That's when an investigation by Congress warned that Moon, after having befriended Richard Nixon in his darkest hour, was surrounding himself with other politicians to overcome his reputation: as the leader of the cult-like Unification Church, which recruited unwary college students, filled Madison Square Garden with couples in white robes, wed them in bulk and demanded obedience.
That was before he launched the Washington Times – "in response to Heaven’s direction," as he would later say – and a 20-year quest to make his enemies bow to him. He has also claimed, in newspaper ads taken out by the Unification Church, that Jesus, Confucius, and the Buddha have endorsed him. Muhammad, according to the 2002 ad, led the council in three cries of "mansei," or victory. And every dead U.S. president was there, too – because Moon's gospel is inseparable from visions of true-blue American power.
Now, this March, Moon was telling guests at the Dirksen Senate Office Building that Hitler and Stalin, having cleaned up their acts, had, in a rare public statement from beyond the grave, called him "none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."
But not long after it appeared on the Post's web site, the paper erased the quote. Columnist Richard Leiby told me via e-mail that it shouldn't have gone out in the first place. The paper replaced it with breaking news about "Celebrity Jeopardy!" with Tim Russert.
The Return of the King
So no one covered this American coronation, except Moon's own Times, which skipped the Messiah part. It wasn't in other newspapers, which only wink at the influence of Moon's far-right movement in Washington, when they cover it at all.
In fact, the only place you could read about the new king, unless you bookmarked Moon's Korean-language website, was in the blog world. There, dozens of the most CSPAN2-hardened cynics reacted to the screenshots with a resounding "WTF," the sound of dismay and confusion at a scene that news coverage hadn't prepared them for. The images might as well have come from Star Trek's Mirror Universe.
First, we're shown a rabbi blowing a ram's horn. Most Jews would hold off on this until the High Holy Days, but it probably counts if the Moshiach shows up in a federal office building at taxpayer expense. Then we see the man of the hour, Moon, chilling at a table at the Dirksen in a tuxedo, soaking all this up. He claps. He's having a ball.
Cut to the ritual. Eyes downcast, a man identified as Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) is bringing a crown, atop a velvety purple cushion, to a figure who stands waiting austerely with his wife. Now Moon is wearing robes that Louis XIV would have appreciated. All of this has quickly been spliced into a promo reel by Moon's movement, which implies to its followers that the U.S. Congress itself has crowned the Washington Times owner.
But Section 9 of the Constitution forbids giving out titles of nobility, setting a certain tone that might have made the Congressional hosts shy about celebrating the coronation on their websites. They included conservatives, the traditional fans of Moon's newspaper: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA.), Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah), Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Republican strategy god Charlie Black, whose PR firm represents Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. But there were also liberal House Democrats like Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) and Davis. Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) later told the Memphis Flyer that he'd been erroneously listed on the program, but had never heard of the event, which was sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation.
Rep. Curt Weldon's office tenaciously denied that the Congressman was there, before being provided by The Gadflyer with a photo depicting Weldon at the event, found on Moon's website. "Apparently he was there, but we really had nothing to do with it," press secretary Angela Sowa finally conceded. "I don't think it's quite accurate that the Washington Times said that we hosted the event. We may have been a Congressional co-host, but we have nothing to do with the agenda, the organization, the scheduling, and our role would be limited explicitly to the attendance of the Congressman."
The spokeswoman for one senator, who asked that her boss not be named, said politicians weren't told the awards program was going to be a Moon event. The senator went, she said, because the Ambassadors promised to hand out awards to people from his home state, people who were genuinely accomplished. When the ceremony morphed into a platform for Moon, she said, people were disconcerted.
"I think there was a mass exodus," she said. "They get all these senators on the floor, and this freak is there."
A new world order
The last time someone declared himself Emperor of the United States, it was the Gold Rush's Joshua Norton, a sort of failed dot-commer of the 1850s. But he was broke, whereas a random sampling of Moon's properties might include a healthy chunk of the U.S. fishing industry, the graphic tablet company Wacom, and swaths of real estate on an epic scale. The money-losing Times is paid for by the $1 billion he's sunk into it, along with untold funding for conservative policy foundations like the American Family Coalition.
George Soros has recently gotten lots of coverage as a supposedly eccentric billionaire influencing U.S. politics. But Soros is no Moon. In Moon's speeches, a "peace kingdom" is envisioned, in which homosexuals – whom he calls "dung-eating dogs" – would be a thing of the past. He said in January: "Gays will be eliminated, the three Israels will unite. If not, then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring, but this is what happens. It will be greater than the communist purge but at God's orders."
And ignoring every mainline Christian denomination's rejection of the idea of Jewish collective guilt, Moon's latest world tour calls on rabbis to repent for betraying Christ, the Jerusalem Post reported last week. Speaking in Arlington, VA in 2003, Moon said Hitler killed six million Jews as a penalty for this rejection. And he's frank about calling for democracy and the U.S. Constitution to be replaced by religious government that he calls "Godism," calling the church-state separation the work of Satan. "The church and the state must become one as Cain and Abel," he said in the same sermon.
Towards this end, Moon's "Ambassadors for Peace" have been promoting his goal of a "Religious United Nations" organized around God, not countries. In the June 19, 2003 Congressional Record, Rep. Davis joins Rep. Weldon in thanking Moon and the Ambassadors for "promoting the vision of world peace." He praises their plan to "support the leaders of the United Nations" through interfaith dialogue. Much of the dialogue has consisted of getting Moon's retinue of rabbis, ministers and Muslim clerics to hug each other, and be photographed handing out awards to politicians. The Ambassadors have addressed the United Nations and the British House of Lords. They have also honored at least one neo-Nazi, William Baker, former chair of the Holocaust-denying Populist Party.
And far from the free lunches that Emperor Norton received in San Francisco, Moon's groups have taken home grant money from the Bush Administration, which has given his anti-sex missionaries $475,000 in Abstinence-Only dollars to bring Moon's crusade against "free sex" to both black New Jersey high-schoolers and native Africans. The Centers for Disease Control briefly announced that another Moon foundation was the only group qualified to receive another, no-bid grant for HIV education in Africa. Only after a competitor raised objections did the CDC cancel the grant program entirely.
Meanwhile, one of Moon's top political movers, David Caprara, has been appointed by George W. Bush to head AmeriCorps VISTA; and another former church VIP, Josette Shiner, was given a senior trade position.
Friends in high places
In the early stages of the Reagan Revolution that embraced the Washington Times and Moon's anti-Communist movement, it was embarrassing to be caught at a Moon event. Until George H.W. Bush appeared with Moon in 1996, thanking him for a newspaper that "brings sanity to Washington," famous guests often spoke at front groups that concealed ties to the Unification Church. Bill Cosby was horrified to discover he'd agreed to speak at one. The reputation of future "Left Behind" author Tim LaHaye suffered after his wife accidentally gave Mother Jones a recording of him dictating a fond letter to Moon's lieutenant Bo Hi Pak, plotting to replace Vice-President Bush with Jerry Falwell on the 1988 ticket. To many Christians, Moon was offensive, preaching that Jesus failed and that he would clean up the mess.
But now that he's forged unbreakable ties with conservative Christians, Moon has moved on to African-American ministers, and, through them, allies in the Democratic Party. This has been below the radar of the press, but not for lack of outlandishness. Moon celebrated Easter Sunday, 2003 by launching a coast to coast series of "tear down the cross/Who is Rev. Moon?" events, targeting pastors in poor neighborhoods. From the Bronx to L.A., Moon's people were convincing pastors to pull the crosses off their walls and replace them with his Family Federation flag. An old hymn was invoked: "I'll trade the old cross for a crown."
To Congressmen attending earlier stops in this roadshow, all this mysticism may have seemed too murky and exotic to understand. But the storyline is simple enough, if you take a step back.
Moon's newest followers were invited to tear down the traditional symbol of Christianity, told they could swap it for a crown. But unlike the crown in the hymn, it wasn't for them. It was the one that Congressmen gave, March 23 at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to a wealthy right-wing newspaper owner, one described by Time magazine in 1976 as "megalomaniacal," not much of an exaggeration for someone who claims to be the Second Coming. Unless of course he actually is.
The next day, according to a speech posted to a Moon mailing list and Usenet by a Unification church webmaster, Damian Anderson, Moon said he was leaving the country. "True Father spent 34 years here in America to guide this country in the right way," he told followers. "Yesterday was the turning point." But you can't buy Moon's high opinion of your country so easily (he's called the U.S. "Satan's harvest").
America, he said, was on the road to its doom. Why? "Homo marriage."
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One more link to a website with info: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/06/290588.shtml
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I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!!!!! Someone Please tell me this is a sick joke?!!!
http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html
If you scroll down this page you'll see the 'crowns' and the 'coronation' - sickening, just Sickening!
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