Well, I was just looking at msnbc online and this article caught my attention.
I do wonder if there are people out there who associate UR - believing Christians with these type of cults, particularly because of the use of the word UNI-fication in this particular sect, which, I think considers itself some type of Christian movement. Strangely enough, I've have heard in times past that some ultra-conservative, right-wing fundamentalist Christian movements such as the now deceased (Jerry Falwell of Liberty University) and perhaps Pat Robertson had "friendly ties" with the Reverend Moon. What should be the Universalist Reaction to these types of religious cults, if any at all?
Here's the article that caught my eye - seems pretty weird to me........... Why does this seem creepy to me? Does it simply mean I'm xenophobic?
Rev. Moon marries off thousands of followers
Unification Church leader, 89, presides over another mass wedding
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33296507/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
More information about the Unification Church:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/unificat.htm
This excerpt from the above linked page is telling of the influence of this movement on American culture:
Unification Church Books and Publications:
The Unification Church's main religious text is the Bible. It is seen as teaching truth, but is not viewed as truth in itself. It is only a partial revelation. Rev. Moon's interpretations of Christian beliefs and additional revelations from God are contained in the book Divine Principle, which was written in Korean in 1959 and translated by Young Oon Kim in 1959. The Church publishes the Unification News, and Today's World.
They also publish a newspaper, the extreme-right wing Washington Times. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): "The Washington Times is relatively small (circulation 102,000) and money-losing (it's been estimated that its backer, the Unification Church, has spent more than $1 billion to keep it going over the past 22 years). But its influence cannot be measured in those statistics. President Reagan once described it as his favorite paper. The first President Bush said it 'in my view brings sanity to Washington, D.C'." President George W. Bush gave a personal tour for top staff of the Washington Times during 2005-JAN.
Marian Kester Coombs, wife of managing editor Francis Booth Coombs, has had at least 35 news and opinion pieces published in the Times. SPLC quotes excerpts from some of her articles:
*** America has become a "den of iniquity" because of "its efforts to accommodate minorities."
*** White men should "run, not walk" to wed "racially conscious" white women and avoid being out-bred by non-whites.
*** Latinos are "rising to take this country away from those who made it...[the] Euroamericans."
*** Muslims are "human hyenas" who "smell blood" and are "closing in" on their "weakened prey," meaning "the white race."
*** Blacks, are "saintly victims who can do no wrong."
*** Black solidarity and non-white immigration are imposing "racial revolution and decomposition" in America.
*** The whole of human history as "the struggle of ... races."
*** Non-white immigration is "importing poverty and revolution" that will end in "the eventual loss of sovereign American territory."
*** Muslims In England "are turning life in this once pleasant land into a misery for its native inhabitants."
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As with all religious faiths, these people are sincere believers of that which they embrace... just as we are. It is because there are so many different sects that many people become skeptical about religion and even the existence of God. ~ Anne
Quote from: Raggedy Anne on October 14, 2009, 09:36:30 AM
More information about the Unification Church:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/unificat.htm
This excerpt from the above linked page is telling of the influence of this movement on American culture:
Unification Church Books and Publications:
The Unification Church's main religious text is the Bible. It is seen as teaching truth, but is not viewed as truth in itself. It is only a partial revelation. Rev. Moon's interpretations of Christian beliefs and additional revelations from God are contained in the book Divine Principle, which was written in Korean in 1959 and translated by Young Oon Kim in 1959. The Church publishes the Unification News, and Today's World.
They also publish a newspaper, the extreme-right wing Washington Times. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): "The Washington Times is relatively small (circulation 102,000) and money-losing (it's been estimated that its backer, the Unification Church, has spent more than $1 billion to keep it going over the past 22 years). But its influence cannot be measured in those statistics. President Reagan once described it as his favorite paper. The first President Bush said it 'in my view brings sanity to Washington, D.C'." President George W. Bush gave a personal tour for top staff of the Washington Times during 2005-JAN.
Marian Kester Coombs, wife of managing editor Francis Booth Coombs, has had at least 35 news and opinion pieces published in the Times. SPLC quotes excerpts from some of her articles:
*** America has become a "den of iniquity" because of "its efforts to accommodate minorities."
*** White men should "run, not walk" to wed "racially conscious" white women and avoid being out-bred by non-whites.
*** Latinos are "rising to take this country away from those who made it...[the] Euroamericans."
*** Muslims are "human hyenas" who "smell blood" and are "closing in" on their "weakened prey," meaning "the white race."
*** Blacks, are "saintly victims who can do no wrong."
*** Black solidarity and non-white immigration are imposing "racial revolution and decomposition" in America.
*** The whole of human history as "the struggle of ... races."
*** Non-white immigration is "importing poverty and revolution" that will end in "the eventual loss of sovereign American territory."
*** Muslims In England "are turning life in this once pleasant land into a misery for its native inhabitants."
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As with all religious faiths, these people are sincere believers of that which they embrace... just as we are. It is because there are so many different sects that many people become skeptical about religion and even the existence of God. ~ Anne
Wow. These people sound like a religious neo-Aryan group.
Yes, Doc - if those statements listed are a true representation of the group, it does sound that way.
Anne
Anne,
Wow,
For me this thread also recalls to mind the thread we had discussion on some time back regarding the "Adams bible", much of the same things are being said here in these articles that the unification church
supports with so much large sums of money.
Peace,
Fire Walker
Firewalker,
Oh yeah. I'd sort of forgotten that page. Clearly there are numerous false images and ideas of God and Christ in the world. Someday we'll all see eye to eye.
Anne
the devil can appear as an angel of light.