The
bloodbath of Christians towards the Jews and Muslims in the Crusades
and the terror of the Inquisition make Christianity no more violent
that the stereotyped Muslim according to the most respected religious
writer on world religions, Huston Smith. Hassan never mentions the
brutality of Jews, Muslims and Christians when they were young
religions and the killing that all three are doing today. Rev. Moon
and his followers have killed no one. They have never kidnapped or
enslaved anyone. Hassan has used violence and then he accuses the UC
of being coercive. People can freely come and go in the UC. Some
members of the UC have told those who join that there are
consequences for actions.
Anti-Semitism?
If we deny the Messiah and any of God's
messengers, there will be hell to pay. What is wrong with saying
that? It is the truth. If we do not accept the truth when it is given
to us, we hurt ourselves and others. By not accepting Moon and the
Principle this world has suffered horribly just as many people
were hurt and killed when doctors did not accept Pasteur's truth that
they should wash their hands before they operated. Some members of
the UC do not want to sound anti-Semitic and say that there is no
connection between some leaders in Israel causing Jesus to be killed
and the loss of their nation for 2000 years. The truth is that they
did lose their nation because they persecuted Jesus. Rev. Moon is the
cause of World War I, WW2 and the Korean War. His value and position
are unbelievable. What I say sounds fantastic but what is more
fantastic that Jesus is now revered by every president of the United
States, the greatest power in human history? Hassan uses the words
"dangerous" and "destructive" a lot, but what is dangerous is
fighting God's champions. God spoke through Jefferson and others who
said slavery is a poison and cancer and must be ended. People didn't
listen and a river of blood paid the price in the Civil
War.
TRUTH
HURTS
The truth always hurts. God is not what
everyone thinks He is. Everyone has to stretch like crazy when his
messengers speak. Often they are not only not perfect, but they often
appear to be so ridiculous and nauseating that it is next to
impossible for anyone to take them seriously. Satan rules this world
and we must be very careful. It was a miracle that the Founding
Fathers were taken seriously and followed. Talk about zombies living
in squalor in the cold without a mate while the leader lives in a
warm cabin with his wife, take a look at Valley Forge. Washington was
hated by the majority. His own mother never saw his greatness. No one
says anything about the horrors around Washington, Constantine,
Muhammad or Joshua. Hassan says nothing about Jews and Arabs killing
each other and Protestants and Catholics killing each other's
children in Ireland. No Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or Muslim
organization appears on his hit list of dangerous groups. Apparently
to him it is half-full and safe for anyone to go to a church,
synagogue and mosque in America. College students are warned to stay
away from the tiny group of Unificationists even though there is no
evidence of criminal behavior.
Cup Runneth Over
Meeting Moon and his followers was the
best thing that ever happened to me. I have emotional scars from some
of the people and things I have done that were wrong in the UC but my
cup runneth over because I found the truth of the Principle.
It has brought me light and taken me out of the terrible darkness of
ignorance. I know who God is and have a wonderful ideal to strive
for. Before I met the UC I was a liberal Democrat who drank alcohol
and slept with women and never attended church. I was normal. I was
Bill Clinton. Then I found religious and conservative values. When I
heard conclusion and saw that human history repeats itself and now we
were in the Last Days and I had a dramatic conversion. Anti-cultists
would say I was brainwashed, but I simply found God like so many have
in human history. Perhaps there will be a Pentecost like the early
disciples had when Jesus died and like the first Christians, the UM
will begin to gain converts. So far there has not been a St. Paul in
the UM to get it to grow in America. The early Christians went crazy
to witness at the risk of their lives to tell everyone in the Roman
Empire that Jesus was the savior. It took hundreds of years until
they got an emperor to be Christian. I hope it will not take hundreds
of years before the President of the United States believes that Sun
Myung Moon is the Messiah. Regardless of how long it takes it will
hard work to convert this world to the Principle. Jesus said
that we have to carry the cross of being persecuted. Rev. Moon
says the same thing. All of this is abhorrent to anti-cultists who
see a sick authoritarian state like Margaret Atwood's book and the
movie based on her book. In the movie, Robert Duvall portrays a
religious right wing fanatic, a biblical Ayatollah, who rapes a slave
girl to procreate new soldiers for his Christian crusade to make the
world pure and holy.
Rev. Moon has been the center of scandals
in his family. One of his daughters said on 60 Minutes that
her father has a child out of wedlock. I talk about this in my book,
Creating Ideal Families. Even if he did, he is still the
Messiah. Just because Jesus is illegitimate (or a bastard as
anti-cultists say) and he never married, had children and died alone
as a danger to the state, he is still the Messiah. The concept of
Messiah is difficult to understand for fallen man.
HEAVEN
I discovered the good news that mankind was destined to live in
a heaven in spirit world and there would be an ideal world on earth.
But all of this is not going to happen just because I believed. I had
to work. Father walks his talk. He works harder than anyone else. He
is like a George Washington and if he has a limo then that is all
right, just as it is proper for the President of the United States to
live a different life than I do. Father deals with world leaders. I
don't. Christians have a childlike view of heaven where only they are
there. Apparently there is no sex there. I was thrilled to learn from
Father what is real -- what is true -- what is grown up. His critics
are children next to him. Their arguments are arguments of children
who can't think very deeply. This is not arrogance. It is simply a
fact.
Father uses strong words like "absolute,"
"true love," and "ideal world." He confidently says he is the
savior of the world just as Jesus confidently said he was "the way
and the life." Like Jesus, he has been jailed as an enemy of
the state. Like Jesus he has been beaten. Jesus received
capitol punishment. Father was given a death sentence but
survived his torture in a concentration camp.
IMAGE
The image of Jesus 2000 years ago
parallels Father's image today. Jesus was considered a
dangerous cult leader 
in
his day and Father is seen by the majority of people believe what the
media says of him -- that he is a fraud, charlatan, corrupt,
hypocrite, heretical, cruel megalomaniac who hurts people and
families. The negative adjectives for him and his followers
include such horrible things as "greedy," "evil," "egomaniacal,"
"dangerous," "destructive," "zombie," "brainwashed," "mind control,"
"psychopath," "dictator,"and "sinister."
Some incompetent journalists who can't
resist yellow journalism, some former members who can't think
clearly, some parents who can't respect an adult child exercising
freedom of religion, and some jealous religious leaders have used the
media to paint Father and his followers as witches and the atmosphere
around small religions has become like that during the Salem Witch
Trials in 1692. They denounce Father as a pied piper cult
leader who hypnotizes the young and abuses them for his own sick need
for glory like Hitler did. They whip up hysterical charges that
Father and his glassy-eyed robotic followers have the goal of world
domination and may trick America and the world if they don't listen
to the wisdom of anti-cultists. They have written books on what
they call the sophisticated, diabolical mind control techniques of
Father and the sad, pathetic lives of his followers who they
derisively call "Moonies" who have been duped through deceit and
"coercive persuasion" by a satanic Stalin who has no regard for life
or freedom. God forbid Americans do not wake up to the dire
threat of Moon because if this anti-Christ gains power he will
use the guns he makes at his gun factories to force people into
concentration camps where they will be forced to bow to Moon and his
family and work long hours like the ancient Israelites did for the
Pharaohs in building pyramid like monuments to Moon.
All of this is about as accurate as the
fear and phobias those around Jesus and many other religious leaders
and their newly formed churches throughout history. The famous
phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat
it," is lost on the current inquisitors who cloak their persecution
with psycho babble. There is always a division in every area of
life.
