Balanced view on the world of Unificationists, followers and friends of Sun Myung Moon. Not for dogmatic Unificationists and not for staunch anti-Moonies.
I know Sun Myung Moon and his teaching very well.
This blog is to inform about him, about his children, about his teaching and about his church.
Learn what is good in that teaching and learn what is not good.
Contact me if you need to know more about Sun Myung Moon. Contact me if you're a Unificationist and you have doubts. I spent over 20 years of researching Rev. Moon and his movement. I was and am persecuted daily by them, but i refuse to let hatred or resentment control my actions. I believe in doing God's will.
An advertising board for Pyeonghwa Motors in Pyongyang
From www.nasdaq.com (July 15)
"A South Korean auto company operating in impoverished North Korea has made a profit for the first time since it opened there 11 years ago, officials said Wednesday. Pyonghwa Motors, owned by the Unification Church, said it posted a net profit of $700,000 last year."
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Libertarian Party UK leader Ian Parker-Joseph spoke about monetary reform in the House of Lords last Monday at a conference organized jointly by Global Vision 2000 and the Universal Peace Federation UK. His speech was generally well received but got objection from the Universal Peace Federation.
Members of the Libertarian Party UK, who apparently were only partly aware of the identity of the Univeral Peace Federation, later discussed the discrepancies between Libertarian thought and Unificationists views in this blog.
The writer of this blog summarized the position of Global Vision 2000:
"Global Vision 2000 aims to rise to the challenge by seeking answers to pressing questions such as
• Who really runs the country, the world? Is it our democratically elected governments or unelected banking and financial oligarchs?
• Who really creates and controls credit and the money supply? Is it central banks or private banks?
• Why is usury taken for granted despite the fact that everyone is drowning in debt?
• Do we need to go beyond framing the debate in terms of regulation and reform and advocate rejection of the status quo?
• Why have our institutions, from the government, to political parties, to the media, to the unions been emasculated, and what are the new mediums for social and political transformation and new models of governance?
• Does the Bretton Woods global financial architecture and the military-industrial complex need to be dismantled?"
According to the author of this blog, Global Vision 2000 are pan-islamists with a broadly libertarian view. These views don't seem very much in alignment with those of the Universal Peace Federation.
Why did the UPF and Global Vision 2000 cooperate in organizing this conference?
The writer of the Libertarian Party members blog, answering this question, put it this way:
"As for the event: inter-faith dialogue. Or trying to form a cartel in other words; but they really don't seem compatible. No doubt they'll find some things they can agree upon: such as the stoning to death of sinners. "
Tokyo, Japan — In the early summer heat, some 500 people gathered in a public park located within the government quarters of Tokyo last week, to offer quiet prayers for freedom of faith in Japan.
At this outdoor meeting, chairman of its organizing committee and president of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Japan, Rev. Eiji Tokuno, pointed out, "Over the past 40 years, more than 4,000 followers of our church were abducted and/or detained" by their relatives in order to change the members' minds.
The church bases the number on its own statistics. But a dozen books have recorded victims' accounts of how they were kidnapped, detained and deprogrammed by Christian pastors, professional deprogrammers and lawyers who were hired by the victims' kin, including their own parents.
"The head of the Unification Church said Monday he will resign after some church members were arrested and indicted for allegedly selling expensive personal "hanko" seals by telling people they would suffer bad fortune if they did not buy them."
"Gentaro Kajikuri, a 72-year-old executive member of the church, will succeed him, Tokuno said."
In Japan hanko tends to refer to seals used in less important documents. According to this Wikipedia article:
"A Seal, in an East Asian context, is a general name for printing stamps and impressions thereof that are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring acknowledgment or authorship."
Robert A. Schuller, the minister who formerly co-hosted the weekly show “The Hour of Power,” is part of the team that has acquired the independent AmericanLife TV Network in an effort to change the face of “family friendly” programing. ALN, formerly owned by the Unification Church, has more than 12.7 million cable subscribers and a library of 700-plus hours of programing.
The video lower down was posted on April 13, 2009 and lists some recent activities of the Universal Peace Federation. The video shows as a who's who of worldwide politicians attending to Moon's organization. Don't these people realize they are submitting them to a new 'king of the world?' He may bring peace allright but what about those who don't want to bow down for him? Rev. Moon himself made friendwhip with the Kim Il Sung, the late Korean dictator. Rev. Moon brought much money to North Korea, a nation that now is threatening the West with its secretly built nuclear arsenal. Is that the kind of peace we are wishing?
According to this article on Consortiumnews "The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's business empire, which includes the conservative Washington Times, paid millions of dollars to North Korea's communist leaders in the early 1990s when the hard-line government needed foreign currency to finance its weapons programs, according to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents."
She writes: "Why is it that in the summer we crave sweet, juicy fruit? Not only does fruit’s cooling properties help us feel refreshed, but the energetics of fruit is also very uplifting. Many fruits grow high up on trees close to the sun, soaking up the rays all day long. When we eat them, it’s like taking a bite of sunshine. Compare that with taking a vitamin C tablet. The tablet was created in a laboratory and produced in a factory. The energy in a tablet isn’t alive the way the energy in an orange is. The orange spent its lifetime absorbing the sun during the day and the moon and stars at night."
I'm not sure what to think of this video. Is this a joke or is this a serious 'Moonie?' See for yourself. The video is from The Defining Moment TV, which is a front group of Unificationists.
Frederick E. Sontag, biographer of Sun Myung Moon, died at age 84
“Moonies” – Biographer of Unification Church Founder Sun Myung Moon, Frederick E. Sontag, 1924-2009 By Douglas Burton June 26, 2009
"Just days prior to his retirement at Pomona, College where he had served as teacher and mentor to three generations of students, Frederick E. Sontag, author of the first fair and informative biography of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, died in Claremont, California. He was 84.
Sontag, the author of 30 books on philosophy and religion, and a distinguished professor of philosophy for 57 years at Pomona, College, was in the news nine years ago when he survived a knife attack by a delusional student, and then forgave him; according to the L.A. Times, he went on to testify for the student and assisted him to get legal counsel.
Sontag was an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ who never pastored a congregation but who found his calling in teaching and mentoring students over 57 years. He had a reputation for defending students who were on probation or at risk of expulsion, and in some cases he bailed them out of jail." Read the entire article at NeatArticles.com
Frederick E. Sontag dies at 84; Pomona College - Philosophy professor Frederick E. Sontag, who was to retire this month after 57 years of teaching, was PomonaCollege's longest-serving faculty member.
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