Faith Breakers -- Dream Killers -- Religious Bigots
Some 
people
are on a campaign to discredit new religious movements. They are
ignorant of
what religion is and sadly, repeat the past that has been filled with
persecution. These people are the true dangers to society. They are
the rabble-rousers. They control minds to think wrong more than the
small groups they criticize. Some make a living out of this such as
Steve Hassan, Rick Ross, and Margaret Singer.
One
of the worst journalists in the national media is Tom Brokaw of NBC
News. There are a number of Christian writers who feel it their duty
to warn America of the danger of small religious groups.
All of these people would have denounced Jesus if they had lived 2000 years ago. If they were contemporaries of those who founded different Christian denominations, they would have warned the people of such dangerous rebels and heretics like Martin Luther, John Lesley, George Fox, Joseph Smith and William Penn. Penn, you may recall, is the founder of the state of Pennsylvania.
Hassan and
Ross list some of the groups they hate. Two of them are the Jehovah
Witnesses and the Mormons. Christian bookstores have books against
them. One of the most popular booklets against the Unification Church
that most Christian bookstores sell is by Yamamoto.
Jerks like Hassan and Ross don't just list new religious
movements as dangerous but also some older established groups that
many call sects. It seems there is a progression from cult to sect to
church. These pathetic dream killers do not list the Catholic church
and mainline Protestant churches such as the Lutherans and the
Methodists. There are plenty of books and articles written by former
nuns and priests who give their horror stories of their years living
in total obedience, poverty, and celebacy. They say they finally saw
the light and walked away from the abuse. The reason Hassan and Ross
do not go after the Catholic
church is because they are powerful. Tens of thousands of monks and
nuns are celebate in monesteries throughout the world as I write.
Their life has got to be "bizarre" by any definition. Rev. Moon does
not ask thousands of his followers to take vows of silence and give
up having sex for life. Yet Hassan and Ross and TIME magazine
think this is normal. Everyone thinks that monks and nuns are normal.
There 
are
horror stories in absolutely every organization on earth. People have
been abused in everything from General Motors to the U.S Navy.
Americans look at Rev. Moon and see "bizarre" mass marriages in which
thousands of people have given him the power to choose their mate.
There are some strict Jewish communities in America and throughout
the world where people go to matchmakers and have wedding ceremonies
that are not seen as "bizarre" simply because they've been doing it
for thousands of years.
Does it look "normal" to see Jews with their strange clothes standing
at a wall in Jerusalem weaving back and forth in what looks like a
hypnotic trance as they read the Torah out loud over and over
again. New religious movements are the new kids on the block and fair
game. Fallen man hates what is new because Satan hates what is new.
Change is dangerous. To be truly educated does not mean someone has
fancy degrees and is well read. It means to be wise. By that
definition, Hassan and Ross and the Washington Post are poorly
educated and stupid.
If 
faith
breakers and stupid journalists lived long ago, they would have put
them on their list. They would have helped the family of St. Thomas
Aquinas who got so upset when he joined what they thought was a cult
over 1000 years ago. They had him kidnapped and locked in a room in
their castle for over a year. They tried to break his faith. In the
process, he converted his sister to become a nun in this so-called
cult. Eventually they tired of this and let him go back to the
"cult." He went on to write the classic book, Summa Theologia,
which is the main theology of the Roman Catholic church.
Religion is a difficult thing to understand. There have been
countless religious groups 
that
have come and gone. The early Christians were just one of many groups
in the Roman Empire. Tragically, Christianity broke into many
competing groups. Catholics and Prodestants are killing each other in
Ireland today. Life is messy. Too often people are impatient and
prejudiced. Too often people turn to agressive behavior to fight what
is new. There are endless ways that people use to express themselves.
We should be careful and cautious about taking nonconformists to
court. If some people want to speak in tongues than they should be
left alone. If some people want to only wear orange colored clothing
because some Indian guru told them to, then so be it. If Rev. Moon
wants to match and marry tens of thousands of people, so what? Leave
them alone. Be respectful of differences. The Boy Scouts teach to be
tolerant of different religious beliefs. Anti-Moon people are more in
line with the K.K.K than with the Boy Scouts.
Hassan and Ross see themselves as freedom fighters and would
have fought to keep the world free of dangerous men like Martin
Luther and John Wesley. When they were founding the Luteran and
Methodist churches, they were attacked by the status quo. Hassan and
Ross would have been the leaders of the mobs who threw stones at John
Wesley in America. 
Anti-cult in ignorant religious bigoted journalists like TIME magazine would have led the way to put down the Pilgrims who were jailed in England as being dangerous radicals. They would've been the first to put down George Washington and his "cult" at Valley Forge as being dangerous, violent revolutionaries. They would've inspired the crowds to convince Pilote to crucify the worst "cult" leader of all time -- the self proclaimed messiah who is really just a young single carpenter from some dirt-poor small town in the middle of no where. His followers were the scum of the earth. And when Jesus was carrrying his cross his disciples were betraying him, telling everyone that they had been brainwashed.
To faith 
breakers
the Jehovah's Witnesses are dangerous even though they've been around
for almost 100 years. The Mormons are dangerous even though they've
been around for almost 200 years. The distinguished senator from
Utah, Orrin Hatch, is Rev. Moon's friend. When Rev. Moon was
sentenced to go to jail in America, many mainline churches came to
his defense. Many famous people came to his defense. Senator Hatch is
the chairman of the Judicial Committee of the U.S. Senate who holds
hearings on who will be a Supreme Court Justice. Senator Hatch along
with Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy held a special hearing in the
Capitol for Rev. Moon. Senator Hatch has called Rev. Moon, and I
quote, "A great man."
It 
is
people like Hassan, Ross, and Singer who create an atmosphere of fear
that results in violence. It is people like Hassan at the time of the
founding of the Mormon Church that created the hysteria that formed
the mob who killed Joseph Smith. Hassan and his religious bigoted
friends created an atmosphere that led to Rev. Moon's incarceration.
A good man went to jail because journalists at TIME magazine
and the Washington Post don't do their homework and rely on
the junk coming out of the mouths of a few faith breakers.
Dear reader, you have a choice to make. Either Steve Hassan is right about Rev. Moon or Senator Orrin Hatch is right.
