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Sun Myung Moon: What Every American Should Know
Dear Fellow American,
This
tract is not about freedom of religion or freedom of speech. We can be
proud that as Americans we have both those freedoms. However, we must
use the rights of those freedoms to protect America and ourselves.
Sun
Myung Moon is the founder and leader of the Unification Church, which is now
called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. He is
currently on a speaking tour across the United States. This tour is
labeled "We Will Stand! 2001 fifty state national tour to rebuild the
family, restore the community and renew the nation and the world. Let is
look carefully at what this is all about. One side note, his tour does
not include West Virginia, which he may feel is either not a state or he
cannot change. However, we need to look at Moon's teachings to
understand the full messages here.
Even though Moon is gathering some Christian ministers to follow him along the way, his teachings are totally against Christianity. Many of his statements can be found in the booklet, "Sun Myung Moon: What Every Christian Should Know" and on the web- site >www.TLEM.net<. Therefore we list only a couple of those teachings here. "I know the established Christian theology. I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war" (Sun Myung Moon, Today's World, November 1993, p. 14)
"Abraham was the
father of faith, Moses was a man of faith, Jesus was the son of man, trying to
carry out his mission at the cost of his life. But they are, in a way,
failures." (Master Speaks, "Victory of Defeat","
translated by Won Pok Choi, March 31, 1973, p.1)
"Of course, in order
that the ministers feel at home, you must declare your love to Brother Jesus,
but at the same time do not forget you goal, which is to bring them to the
Lord of the Second Advent." (The Victory of Love, 1992, pp. 65-66)
While
those statements may apply to Christians, Moon goes far beyond that in his
teachings and his reach for power. Moon does not believe in the
separation of church and state. Some of his teachings clearly
demonstrate not only the combining of the two, but also that he "the
messiah, lord of the second advent, savior and empire of the universe (this
world and the next) (Sun Myung Moon) should be that ruler.
"In
the Medieval ages, they had no separate cities-statesmanship from the
religious field- because people were corrupted at the time. But when it
comes to our age, we must have an automatic theocracy to rule the world.
So we cannot separate the political field from the religious." (Sun
Myung Moon, Master Speaks, May 17, 1973, p.12)
"The
whole world is in my hand, I will conquer and subjugate the world." (Sun
Myung Moon, Master Speaks, May 17, 1973)
"Am I foolish and
insignificant or am I great? I gave all individuals in the world cause
to kneel down in front of me." (Sun Myung Moon, Today's World,
March 1995, p. 6)
"So from this time of peak every person or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will diethose who do against our movement." (Sun Myung Moon, Master Speaks, February 14, 1974)
"Any
politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few
years." (Sun Myung Moon, Today's World, Nov./Dec. 1994, p.19
"No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely." (Sun Myung Moon, Today's World, August 1996, p.13)
"The time has come
when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American
Christianity must follow me." (Sun Myung Moon, Today's World, November
1993, p.5)
Thus,
when he is teaching about rebuilding the family, he is rebuilding it around
himself. As a parent he claims his children are sinless, yet his oldest
son was divorced because of his abuse to his wife, an alcoholic/drug and
pornography problems. Another son committed suicide and also had family
marriage problems. There are reports that at least two of his daughters
are unhappy with their family life. He himself had at least two
illegitimate sons, one while married to his present wife, and one while
married to a previous wife. He deserted his first wife and their
three-month old son for six years. He then divorced her shortly after
his return. For the most part, church members raised his children, and
he actually suggests parents have their children also raised by group foster
case so that they would be free to promote the growth of the church.
This is not the family style we should try to follow. In restoring the
community and renewing the nation and the world the message is very clear that
he wants to rule the world.
Gold
watches, fancy rings, being wine and dined, or fat checks should not be worth
the cost of our freedom. You need to as, Paul Harvey emphasizes,
"know the of the story." Now that you have a clearer picture
of Moon's goals and the rest of the story, I pray you will not support him,
but rather speak out against his teachings and help to protect that which we
all hold so dear.
I strongly suggest you read
Nansook Hong's book, In The Shadow of the Moons.
Sincerely In His Service,
Dr. Frederick H. Miller,
Th.M., Ph.D.
Director
True Light Educational
Ministry Inc.
P.O. Box 310
Shirley, NY 11967-0310
631-395-4646
>www.TLEM.net<
e-mail at TLEM@juno.com
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