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whatisonthemoonarchive · 6 years ago

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Schism in the Unification Church: Hyung Jin Sean has just sued Hak Ja Han

Link to news article in Korean. The following is an edited summary of the article with comments.

Feb 28, 2019

“Mother has no qualification to be the successor, I am the leader”

Hyung Jin Sean Moon claims he was named by his father, the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, as the heir of the Unification Church. Sean filed a lawsuit against his mother Hak Ja Han, who claims to lead the Church. Sean says his “Mother is not qualified to be the leader,” and that his mother and those close to her wrongfully took his position away. After Han filed a lawsuit against Sean for trademark infringement last July, he fired back with a countersuit. Despite strong resistance from Han's side Sean was able to secure Han’s deposition in January. Han will have to go to the United States and face a difficult deposition. Appallingly, the leaders closest to Han approached Sean telling him that if he only keeps quiet until Han dies, they will secure a position for him. But Sean declined their offer. The battle to control the Unification Church is intensifying.

I am the successor, my dismissal is invalid

On February 22, Sean Moon filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against Hak Ja Han, HSA-UWC, FFWPU, and 8 others. Sean is the only plaintiff in the case. His Sanctuary Church is not included in it. Sean put his mother's name at the very top of the defendant's list, continuing the battle for the succession of the Unification Church. Sean sees the FFWPU and HSA-UWC as two essential organizations of the Unification Church, where Han and other defendants are board members.

In his complaint Sean states, "Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the one and only leader of the Unification Church, named me his successor in 2009 and confirmed my appointment in a written document in 2010. I was successor, but in September of 2012, after my father passed away, my mother and a few leaders took over the organizations and removed me from the position of successor. I am the only leader of the Unification Church and she has no qualification." Sean requested the courts to acknowledge that he is the only leader and successor in the Unification Church.

Sean states that in 2009 Han and the Family Federation designated him as managing agent of the Family Federation, which Sun Myung Moon acknowledged on June of 2010. He states that it is invalid for Hak Ja Han to remove him because she has no authority. In his complaint, Sean accused Han and 8 close leaders of hers who hold positions in the Family Federation of severe corrupt acts through which they enriched themselves and received benefits. He claims that they caused great harm to the Unification Church and that they engaged in organized crime (RICO). He accuses them of fraud in money transfers, money laundering, and other such acts.

But essentially, through this complaint Sean is trying to assert that he’s the “true leader” of the Unification Church, further muddying the waters in an already very muddied pool of contenders for that title including Hyun Jin Moon and Hak Ja Han.

Getting a judge to confirm he’s the successor

In his lawsuit Sean says, “I was forcefully removed from my position as board member of HSA-UWC on July 10, 2013.” On February 26, 2015 he was removed as board member of the Family Federation. He believes he was harmed by his mother Hak Ja Han.

Sean states that when he began revealing the corruption of leaders close to Han, they tried to placate him. Leaders close to Han came to him and made a proposal: “Keep quiet until Hak Ja Han passes away. We will restore your authority after she dies.” But Sean did not accept their proposal.

On February 22, Sean submitted a 34-page long complaint to the New York court accusing Han and others of 10 charges. Most importantly to her, Sean is asking the court to recognize that “Sean Moon is the only successor of the Unification Church”. He is also asking for the Cheon Il Guk constitution to be nullified “because the Cheon Il Guk constitution was not approved by me as the only legitimate leader of the Unification Church.”

With both sides holding vastly different and diametrically opposed theological views, this is most definitely a fight to define the nascent Unification Church movement. Undoubtedly, this is a lawsuit in which both sides are fighting for their legitimacy. Expect a long drawn out battle with very high fees.

Han attacked first but backfired

Sean was sued by the Family Federation first for copyright infringement over use of the twelve-gates symbol, but this is the first time that someone’s filed a lawsuit directly against Han. Sean has gone from the defensive to the offensive. In response to the copyright lawsuit, Sean filed a countersuit last September 26 against the Family Federation. In that situation, the court ordered discovery to take place. Discovery is the process where parties in a lawsuit investigate the other party to prove their case.

What the Family Federation fears the most in the copyright lawsuit is having Hak Ja Han deposed. A deposition is when lawyers from either side are given a chance to ask questions to persons of the opposing party. The tables were turned against the Family Federation when Sean requested the deposition of Han. The court accepted Sean’s request.

The Family Federation claims that Han is neither a manager, director, or officer in the organization. And that because she is only a spiritual leader she should not be deposed.

Attempt to block Han’s deposition

Sean requested Han’s deposition stating that she is the managing agent of the Family. And on January 17, 2019, the court ordered the deposition of Hak Ja Han which will take place in the offices of the plaintiff’s lawyers. The order states both parties should figure out the schedule of the deposition. It would be an understatement to say that this is a blow for Han’s side. Despite the court’s order, the Family Federation has not cooperated and tried to use every possible way to delay her deposition. There is no date set for her deposition yet, but with only 2 months left of discovery, the court will be making a decision soon.

Crisis for Hak Ja Han after taking over the Family Federation

If Han wants to avoid the deposition the Family Federation will have to drop the copyright infringement lawsuit against Sean. They will either have to admit defeat in that lawsuit or have to settle with Sean. But it is increasingly looking like Sean will not settle. The copyright infringement lawsuit may not seem like a big deal, but if she loses to the self-proclaimed successor of the Unification Church, then her own authority and legitimacy is at risk. Sean filed the new lawsuit in New York at a quick pace, so that if the Family Federation tries to settle in the copyright infringement lawsuit they will also have to ask to settle in the new lawsuit as well. Sean has nothing to lose and the Family Federation has everything to lose.

If the Family Federation wants to avoid settling with a son that flashes guns and semi-automatic rifles around, Han will have to be deposed. The schism in the Unification Church has gone full circle, but realistically speaking Sean will never be accepted back into the fold or as leader of the Family Federation, much less leader of the overall Unification Church movement; not with his different religious view, after all the insults he hurled, and all the bridges he burned. In the end, it is clear that the ones who will prevail in this situation are the leaders and bureaucratic clerics of the Family Federation who are only waiting for Hak Ja Han to die. They also have a different perspective and different theology from Han and Sean. It’s a cold and calculated move, but after dragging Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family in a nasty fight and making a spectacle out of it, they stand to benefit the most and emerge victorious.

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There is something to be said about the accusations of corruption and self-enrichment that Sean makes against the Family Federation's leadership. They ring an alarming bell and are a reminder of Jonathan Park's serious allegations of breach of duty by HSA's board members in 2017 for misusing charitable assets. Park's attempt to reveal and clean these corrupt practices were dismissed and swept under the rug by the Family Federation. Jonathan Park was silenced after he blew the whistle. Now, Sean is suing leaders close to Hak Ja Han for similar corrupt acts.

Sign this petition if you agree that this is unacceptable and hopefully it will be strong enough to make a difference.

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ucbaloney · 8 years ago

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For the Urgent Attention of All Blessed Families: Letter on the “District of Columbia” Litigation against Hyun Jin Nim

Written January 2017 (download PDF version here)

Dear Blessed Families of the Worldwide Unification Movement:

Our Unification movement is nearing a crossroad, to a point of no return. The UCI lawsuit, which presumably all of you have heard about by now, is docketed within the judicial cogwheel and places the movement’s future in the control of the American legal system. As this litigation process unfolds, I am truly concerned that the Unification movement and True Father’s legacy will be all but obliterated based on its current trajectory. Furthermore, due to the church leaders’ legal positioning of True Father and True Mother as the foremost authority over all entities related with the Unification movement, True Mother herself will bear the brunt of legal responsibility related to the numerous misrepresentations made by those behind this litigation. Neither righteous nor holy and adding no value whatsoever for God’s providence, these legal proceedings are being used by FFWPU leadership to ultimately further their self-interested agenda under the pretext of bringing the movement under True Mother. I am certain that Hyun Jin Nim would like to encourage you, as blessed families and members of True Parents’ extended family, to take time to carefully and thoughtfully read the content that I am outlining below, and gain an informed understanding of the District of Columbia (“DC”) lawsuit.

The DC lawsuit officially began in 2011. It was initiated by Hyung Jin Nim and Kook Jin Nim (FFWPU), Douglas Dong Moon Joo, Peter Kim, Thomas Walsh (UPF) and Gentaro Kajikuri (deceased, and replaced by Eiji Tokuno) (Unification Church of Japan) (referred together as the “plaintiffs”). Subsequently, Richard Bach(Original name Jin-yong Park, third son of “Tiger” Park and legal advisor to FFWPU and the Mission Foundation), Ki Hoon Kim, Changshik Yang, Sunjo Hwang, Joonho Seuk, Bo Hi Pak, Michael Jenkins and Michael Balcomb have all joined in their support of this lawsuit. It goes without saying that True Mother has also unabashedly endorsed the lawsuit initiated by then-International President Hyung Jin Nim. The matter is, in fact, a religious dispute and, as expected, by December 2013, the DC court dismissed the entire case, on the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution ground that a secular court has no jurisdiction over matters pertaining to religious and theological doctrines.

Nevertheless, the church leaders persisted with the lawsuit and persuaded True Mother to seek an appeal despite the fact that the matter will certainly be dismissed once again on constitutional grounds. Two years after the dismissal, in December 2015, the DC Appellate Court reversed the lower court’s ruling, reasoning that it was premature to decide whether this was indeed a religious dispute over which the U.S. court has no jurisdiction. The Appellate Court ruled that the FFWPU must be given an opportunity to prove their case by conducting “discovery”(The process of gathering evidence under penalty of perjury in order to develop a more complete factual record for the court) in order to determine whether this is actually a religious dispute or not. To date, and five years since the lawsuit was originally filed, the discovery, which is only the beginning phase of the court proceeding, has yet to begin.

The same church leaders are now claiming certain victory, in front of not only True Mother but to all members. They have misinformed, conducted campaigns to justify the litigation, and grossly misstated the court’s rulings as an assurance of “total victory.” On the contrary, the end of the litigation is not in sight, and the path toward ruling on this dispute seeps with theological and religious facts of the last seven year’s cosmic conflict; in short, this is a religious and providential conflict over which the court has no jurisdiction. Yet, how irresponsible and ungodly of those leaders to present a picture of inevitable “success” and “victory” in order to convince Mother to continue on with the litigation, thereby intentionally making it more difficult for True Family to come together and be healed.

The simple fact is that the DC litigation is just one of many disgraceful symptoms of the last seven years’ underlying cosmic conflict over God and True Father’s legacy and the providential direction of the Unification movement. The litigation, filed in 2011, was initially framed as one son disobeying True Parents because of jealousy. With the continuing revelations by Hyung Jin Nim and True Mother in recent years, it has now become painfully obvious that this is not a simple case of sons fighting one another and their parent over assets. Instead, there were all along grave spiritual battles being waged over True Father’s authority and proper inheritance of his providential mission. Sometimes out in the open but usually beneath the surface, these battles are being waged by “four axes of power”: True Mother with her Han lineage and God’s Only Begotten Daughter theology, Hyung Jin Nim with his “Second King of Cheon Il Guk” theology, the church leaders and their ecclesiastic agenda of the “Supreme Council” and “Cheon Il Guk Constitution,” and, finally, Hyun Jin Nim, who, since being blessed by True Father to lead the Unification movement in 1998, continues to walk the path of a filial son, helping True Father’s providential mission.

The discovery process, once it begins, requires extensive exposure of personal and institutional matters. Witnesses with relevant information will undergo the rigor of videotaped and transcripted questioning about their personal and professional life. Given the nature of the church leaders’ claims, True Mother will become the main focus of the lawsuit. Discovery must include evidence related to the conflicting claims to spiritual authority within the movement and succession to True Father, including those made by the aforementioned four parties.

Besides explaining the rationale behind her Only Begotten Daughter and Han Lineage Supremacy doctrines – which blatantly contradict Father’s teaching about the mission and role of the restored Eve – True Mother will have to explain why she altered the sacred texts which True Father explicitly forbade. Discovery will lay bare all actions, since 1998, to subvert Hyun Jin Nim. Mother will have to answer very uncomfortable questions about her part in forming, endorsing and participating in a “consortium” comprised of church leaders, Hyung Jin Nim, Kook Jin Nim and In Jin Nim. This “consortium” was formed with one goal in mind: to remove Hyun Jin Nim, the legitimate elder son and successor, from all positions of authority and influence.

True Mother will be asked not only about her own actions, but also about her endorsement of the subversive actions of Hyung Jin Nim, Kook Jin Nim, In Jin Nim, as well as those of Dong Moon Joo, Peter Kim and other church leaders in their attacks on Hyun Jin Nim in numerous countries around the world in order to disrupt his providentially crucial work. Currently, various members of that consortium are now at odds with each other because of their individual selfish agendas. Yet, this destructive alliance forms the basis of the legal claims made in the District of Columbia in 2011, and part of that alliance currently acts as the axis of control in the movement today.

True Mother and other consortium members will have to address the differences between each of their conflicting motives and theological rationales for power and explain how and why their relationships with each other have deteriorated. It will be extremely embarrassing for True Mother to have to explain how, in collaboration with Hyung Jin Nim, she made Father, dishevelled in his bed at a predawn hour, sign a declaration against Hyun Jin Nim while endorsing Hyung Jin Nim and the consortium’s position of power within the movement. She will also be queried about the reasons for Hyung Jin Nim’s outrageous public ranting and insults against her, depicting her as the “whore of Babylon” and “fallen Eve” who has not only deviated from but betrayed True Father. Although True Mother’s to-date policy of silence regarding Hyung Jin Nim has been deafening, it will soon be impossible to measure the reputational damage the evidentiary record will cause to Mother’s image once the details pour out, both as True Mother and as mother to her own sons.

The other consortium members will be similarly questioned and will have to account for their conflicting divergences from True Father’s teachings. Hyung Jin Nim will be questioned about his gross distortion of the coronation ceremonies, which he interprets as literal coronations for theocratic power, and the behavior of True Mother, the church leaders, Kook Jin Nim and In Jin Nim, who wholeheartedly supported his rise (The coronations were to ceremonially recognize God’s sovereignty, based on True Father’s establishment of the Three Great Kingships; they were never to appoint a person to a position of power). Hyung Jin Nim will also be questioned about his tenure as the FFWPU International President, when he derailed the Unification movement from the providential direction that Father and Hyun Jin Nim were guiding, changing FFWPU from a broad and inclusive family-centered spiritual movement to a narrow, denominational church; why he orchestrated with True Mother, Kook Jin Nim, In Jin Nim and the church leaders blatant attacks on Hyun Jin Nim through worldwide character assassination tours – from the pulpit and through the media – while legitimizing them through the consortium’s institutional base; why he instigated multiple lawsuits, both civil and criminal, against Hyun Jin Nim; why he removed Hyun Jin Nim’s entire family of three generations from the bereaved list for Father’s seonghwa (funeral), even physically preventing them from attending; why he forced many in our movement to pledge their loyalty to his concocted authoritative structure, both in writing and on video; and why he enthusiastically supported True Mother’s divinization as “Wife of God” and her co-equal status with Father while she supported his rise, but now openly challenges her authority as True Mother as well as challenging her “Only Begotten Daughter” doctrine.

The church leaders will have to explain their false portrayal of True Father as the founder of a religious institution, structured like the Catholic Church, and their distortion of the era of the Family Federation as simply a legal name change from HSA-UWC to FFWPU. Let us recall Father’s teachings: he did not give his life to establish a church(“It was necessary to hang out a church sign, but in my heart I was ready to take it down at any time. As soon as a person hangs a sign that says ‘church’, he is making a distinction between church and not church… this was not my dream.” [Father’s Autobiography, page 121]), but to establish the proper precedent for the true family ideal. That ideal would serve as the root of a new culture into which blessed families would graft through the Blessing, becoming true parents, true children and true families in our own right, according to God’s ideal.

Likewise, the self-serving authors of the “Cheon Il Guk Constitution” will have to answer questions about the theological and factual history and basis for a constitution in the Unification movement as well as who gains and who loses politically from their “constitution.” This ill-conceived document thoroughly subverts True Father’s clear intent, which is to set the precedent for inheritance of authority and providential responsibility within his direct lineage. It is through the settlement of the true family ideal that God’s love, life and lineage are substantiated. Instead, the Cheon Il Guk Constitution replaces that authority with the “Supreme Council” which is not accountable to anyone and is controlled by the aforementioned church leaders. The motivation of these church leaders has always been to eliminate the living physical root of True Lineage, to derail Father’s succession plan, and thoroughly undermine the messianic mission. Why are only her daughters at Mother’s side? What better way to banish Father’s lineage to inconsequence than to eliminate his eldest living son? By continuing this lawsuit, these aggressors are continuing to drive a wedge between True Mother and Hyun Jin Nim, preventing them from coming together while giving themselves further possibilities to inflict damage. Meanwhile, they wait like wolves for True Mother to pass away or become too infirm to lead, so that they can ultimately control True Father’s legacy and foundation.

As you can imagine, what will come out of the deposition from all parties involved will be nothing short of a made-for-TV drama, which no matter how one tries to explain will make a complete mockery of True Parents, the True Family ideal of unconditional love and sacrifice, and most importantly, the honor and sacredness of the True Family. I personally know that Hyun Jin Nim has toiled over the last seven years trying to protect Father’s family despite horrendous challenges and abuse by his own family members so that True Mother and his siblings can assume their proper position and together bring healing and dignity back to this holy institution. Even to this day, Hyun Jin Nim offers his respect and honor to both True Father and True Mother. All his efforts have fallen on deaf ears until this point. If the litigation proceeds further, there will be no turning back since many court records will be public for the entire world to see. It will be the end of the ideal of True Family and True Father’s original legacy.

We need to ask ourselves, why are those leaders pushing so hard for this litigation? Who benefits the most if the True Family is damaged beyond repair and torn apart through the course of this litigation where the mother and sons are pitted against one another? Without a doubt, it is those church leaders who are silently vying and positioning themselves to assume authority over the Unification movement and therefore True Father’s authority when that time comes. Under the guise of the so-called “Cheon Il Guk Constitution” and the “Supreme Council,” (which were opaquely established and are operated behind closed doors beneath a thin veneer of True Parents’ stamp of approval), before you can even comprehend its nature, the Unification movement will soon be ruled by an ecclesiastic order that will define who you are and what you have believed all your life to be True Father’s teaching and legacy. The only one standing in their way is Hyun Jin Nim.

In July 1998, when Father passed the responsibility for guiding the movement to the Second Generation, he proudly declared at Hyun Jin Nim’s FFWPU vice-presidential inauguration ceremony that he is the one to head up a new phase in God’s providence in the “Era of the 4th Adam” and the “Age of the Children” and that he has to accomplish even more than Father did in his lifetime in order to finish the work Father began. He declared at Hyun Jin Nim’s inauguration that the True Family had now achieved the victory of Three Generations of Kingship, which finally opened up the way for the substantial establishment of God’s Kingdom on Earth. This was the root of the victorious years, at the beginning of this century, when Father repeatedly emphasized that the time for God’s Kingdom through the establishment of God’s sovereignty had arrived. This was all to have been accomplished by Foundation Day. Tragically, none of this came to pass due to the derailing of the movement. I will not go into the details of that tragedy here; you can study the facts in various presentations and texts(Refer to the Family Peace Association’s website for further information: www.familypeace.info. Also, the Family Peace Association’s 3-day lecture series and Mark Bramwell’s paper End of the Cosmic Conflict provide factually rich explanations). The fruits of the flagrant deviations from God’s providence are all too clear through a cursory glance at the current dilapidated state of our movement.

Some 27 civil and criminal legal attacks in numerous continents and jurisdictions have been brought against Hyun Jin Nim and those supporting him, with the intention of destroying his work – work which is inspired solely by God’s and True Father’s dream for world peace. Besides supporting individuals in their personal spiritual lives, Hyun Jin Nim’s work is making substantial contributions to resolving religious and political conflicts at a time when the world is threatened by new wars.(Refer to the Global Peace Foundation’s website for further information: www.globalpeace.org) Legal attacks brought against him have not been successful in the past, yet, despite the risks, the waste of valuable resources and the repeated failed attempts to undermine his work, a group of mal-intentioned individuals are persisting in their efforts.

Based on their distorted explanation of True Father’s mission and teachings, the church leaders have hijacked and are using FFWPU as their own vehicle in their corrupt bid for power over the Father’s entire providential legacy. Suing UCI and bringing Hyun Jin Nim to his knees is a prerequisite to that ambition. They have reported to you that their acquisition of UCI through legal action would deprive Hyun Jin Nim of resources for his global work, which would supposedly put an end to his work and to his identity as true elder son in the True Family. Until now, Hyun Jin Nim has consistently and deliberately refrained from talking about his own providential mission and identity, with the expectation that we as blessed families will come to realize by ourselves the significance of his role in God’s providence through the fruits of his life, family and global work. The attacks on Hyun Jin Nim, True Parents’ eldest living son, are far removed from the ideals of true love, family and brotherhood for which True Father invested his entire life.

Furthermore, the lawsuit against Hyun Jin Nim is posing a serious legal threat to True Mother and the movement. Sensitive information about Mother is already on court record. Joo, Kim et al are claiming to the court that the control over all Unification movement-related organizations is held by the FFWPU, which did not even exist when UCI was created, and that True Parents have ultimate control. What makes this claim not only absurd but particularly destructive for True Mother, as the actual sole leader of the worldwide FFWPU, is that they clearly contradict years of statements which the plaintiffs themselves have made, many under oath, to government agencies and the public about subjects such as the actual roles of True Father and True Mother, including their scope of legal control, immigration and tax issues, as well as the legal and operational independence of numerous organizations relating to international maritime and aviation activities, and news reporting, especially at the Washington Times. Some of the activities implicate issues of U.S. national security.

It must not be forgotten that Father was imprisoned for almost two years simply for failing to pay taxes on less than $10,000. Already, after questioning Bo Hi Pak, the very first “discovery” witness last August, the record contains highly sensitive facts about True Mother’s U.S. immigration. One only has to imagine the breadth and scope of our movement’s activities worldwide, from the U.S. to Japan, and the questions about these activities – assuming that the church leaders’ narrative continues to be accepted by the court. Despite all of these dangers, church leaders, corrupted by their desire for power and influence, are continuing with this lawsuit in denial of historical fact and with a callous disregard for True Mother and the movement. The accumulation of evidence in the court record to support their narrative will be exactly what the enemies of the movement have waited for, not only in the U.S. but around the world.

Soon, True Mother herself will be deposed, personal information about her lifestyle will be exposed, and she will be required to answer questions under oath about her ideological persuasions and her leadership role in the Unification movement. Sensitive details about the movement’s history in all areas, including its activities, governance and finance will be brought into the public arena. Wonju McDevitt and Mother’s closest assistants would all be deposed. Hyung Jin Nim’s videos and anyone associated with him will also come under scrutiny. The deposition of Hyung Jin Nim and Kook Jin Nim will be extremely traumatic for Mother, as they are full of resentment against her.

Those pushing for litigation are thoroughly aware of these dangers, but are withholding this information from Mother and blessed families. They apparently consider neither the health of Mother nor the welfare of blessed families and the movement to be of particular importance. Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been wasted through litigation in the United Sates, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Korea and Paraguay (most of which they have lost) and it would probably take several years and tens of millions of dollars more before the DC court renders its final judgement, should these corrupt leaders, in the name of True Mother, decide to continue. By that time, the court proceedings will have caused irreparable harm to Father’s legacy.

Courts are not a panacea to solve problems. On the contrary, once you hand over your problems to the legal system, it takes over completely and you lose all control until resolution. Furthermore, you may not like the way the courts go about solving your problem. In addition to True Mother, the Unification movement, especially HSA-UWC in the U.S. and Japan, is a group that is vulnerable here because it has a long history of making legal and financial blunders. HSA-UWC in the U.S. would likely have to answer, among other things, why it hid and even financed the infidelity of its Chairwoman, In Jin Nim.

The same church leaders who are pushing for this litigation are now challenging Hyun Jin Nim to simply give up if he is so worried about True Mother being put at risk. They are asking why he is forcing True Mother to a deposition and making his lawyers ask her all those difficult questions. The fact is that Hyun Jin Nim is a defendant in this case, and only the plaintiffs can drop this lawsuit. How disingenuous it is for the same leaders who pit True Mother against her son to ask him to just stand naked and surrender with hands over his head when True Father’s eternal legacy is at stake. Furthermore, all lawyers, representing both the plaintiffs and the defendants, are officers of the court, who are bound by duty and obligation to ask all relevant and necessary questions in order to extract the truth and put it on record. That is why litigation is the worst and most damaging way to resolve a conflict. Yet, the very leaders who should do everything possible to convince True Mother to avoid this path are the ones that goad her on. Is that not the Devil’s modus operandi? I am explaining these facts to you plainly so that we, as blessed families, can take full control over our destinies and the destiny of our movement, which are all part of our True Father’s legacy. We must understand the selfish motivations behind the attacks being made on Hyun Jin Nim, how irresponsible they are from the viewpoint not only of the Principle, but also in terms of common sense, common morality and family relations. Hyun Jin Nim remains committed to protecting his mother as best as he can under the circumstances. He has tried numerous times and will continue to try to engage with Mother directly. Distressingly, however, whenever Hyun Jin Nim has reached out to True Mother for her sake, the leaders report to her that this is a sign of his weakness, that victory is near, and that she should persist in litigating against her son. Blessed families must understand one thing: as this litigation proceeds, the risks to Mother are escalating and it is becoming increasingly difficult for Hyun Jin Nim to protect her.

Litigation will never work as a way to mend our movement; Hyun Jin Nim and True Mother must mend it directly with each other. Nor is there any rational basis to pursue the litigation, as I have clearly shown above. In the end, just as every past attempt to bring claims against Hyun Jin Nim has brought the downfall of his mal-intentioned adversaries, so too will this FFWPU lawsuit bring complete destruction – but at True Mother’s expense. Should the case begin, a thorough exposition of the facts through the court proceedings will in the end vindicate Hyun Jin Nim rather than those who are seeking to eliminate him. This, however, is not his prime concern. Although it would be in Hyun Jin Nim’s best interest to see this to the end, he is deeply concerned that the public disclosures required in litigation will cause irreversible collateral damage and an historical, public record that will become a source of immeasurable hardship to True Mother and True Father’s legacy as well as to blessed families and their clans and descendants. This will be a disgrace to all that is sacred to God. That is why I am writing to blessed families now. We must recognize our responsibility to act without being held back by any self-interested issues such as our standing within the Unification movement.

Hyun Jin Nim is absolutely determined to protect True Father's legacy in terms of his family, the blessed families, and the foundation he created through the movement. As blessed families, we need to remember God's and Father's aspirations and how we committed our lives to those high ideals. We cannot stand by and allow True Mother and the movement to sink into the morass that is awaiting them should this lawsuit continue. It is still not too late; Joo, Kim et al can still end the DC litigation if they choose to and if True Mother demands it. As blessed families, we are joint owners of the movement and of God's providence. Let us feel responsible to support reconciliation between True Mother and Hyun Jin Nim. This could begin by demanding from those who are leading the movement, first, a full explanation as to why they continually attack Hyun Jin Nim as the eldest living son of True Parents while he is carrying out his father's providential work, and, second, a thorough and truthful report about the risks, the costs to date, and anticipated costs involved in the litigation.

I cannot overemphasize the seriousness of the situation and the risks it is posing to True Mother in particular. As blessed families, please prayerfully reflect on this and act to protect True Mother, God's providence and True Father's legacy.

Sincerely,

Kyounghyo Kim International Senior Vice-President Family Peace Association

#Corrupt UC leaders #H1

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salvatoresan · 8 years ago

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The Constitution of Cheon Il Guk

http://sanctuary-pa.org/index.php/constitution/

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 1 year ago

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Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation Andrew Seidel – Christian Nationalism & Information Warfare PodcastOne 9/20/2023

Constitutional attorney, author, and YouTuber Andrew Seidel joins Lola & Meagan to discuss Christian Nationalism, why it's based on a myth, how it led to cultural shifts in the U.S. during the 1950s, its impact on the Supreme Court today, the practice of cherry picking ideas from the Bible, the worst case scenario of where it can lead, and why the separation of church and state was a uniquely American concept.

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Hak Ja Han’s Cheon Il Guk Constitution is troubling

Sun Myung Moon: “church and the state must become one”

The CIG constitution is the paperwork for what Fraser and every Moon org critic has warned was the Moon org’s goal all along

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

Contents

Fraser Report – Conclusions and Recommendations (1978)

Michael Warder comment on Congressman Fraser

Moonie “Dirty Tricks” against Donald Fraser, MinPost, 2012

Congressman Fraser info from the Gifts of Deceit book

Robert W. Roland statement to the Fraser investigation, June 22, 1976

Congressional Information Meeting on Cults 1979: Statement of Robert Boettcher

The Mysterious Death of Robert Boettcher in 1984, New York Times

Bo Hi Pak and the KCFF scam – and Sun Myung Moon’s ROFA scam

Minions and Master – a short extract from the Gifts of Deceit book

Gifts of Deceit book review by Allen Tate Wood

Fraser Final Report on the Moon Organization. pages 312-392

Moon’s aggressive move into U.S. political affairs in early 1970s – Confessions of a former Unification Church member

Bo Hi Pak and the “Unification Church Pension Fund International”

Fraser Report: Summaries of Representative Documents including FBI Reports, State Department Memoranda, KCFF Minutes, etc.

#Christian Nationalism #Andrew Seidel #Supreme Court #Cheon Il Guk #moonies #theocracy #Sun Myung Moon #Hak Ja Han

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 6 years ago

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Ford Greene and the Moonies

Ford Greene: Attorney at odds

By Tad Whitaker, IJ reporter January 9, 2005 Marin Independence Journal

San Anselmo resident Ford Greene sounds like a typical Marin County lawyer, what with his outspoken liberalism, scruffy hair and a white Porsche in the garage. But this self-described “cult buster” is anything but that.

Greene was in the spotlight recently for posting a large political sign on the side of his office building along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, where commuters are faced with messages against the Iraq war and President Bush, among other things. …

But the furor surrounding the sign doesn’t compare with what’s been stirred up in Greene’s professional life: He has been prosecuted for kidnapping in Colorado and has won a landmark case before the California Supreme Court against the Unification Church that enabled former followers to sue for damages. Greene says he has de-programmed more than 100 followers —often called Moonies— of the church, which was founded in 1954 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Those professional chops made Greene one of six finalists for the honor of Trial Lawyer of Year in 2003 by the organization Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. But his drive stems from an experience many people would try to forget.

“I was a Moonie slave,” he says. “The Moonies’ nickname for me is a special servant of Satan.”

Greene’s “cult-busting” and colorful past, however, have turned him into a lightning rod for criticism for the organizations he targets.

“He’s a wing nut,” says Jeff Quiros, president of the Church of Scientology of San Francisco. “He really is.”

Aylesworth Crawford “Ford” Greene III, 52, comes from a family whose Ross Valley roots can be traced to the 1880s. …

Greene grew up the oldest of four privileged children who were raised around San Anselmo and Ross. The nuclear family expanded when two cousins needed a home after their mother died of cancer.

Greene’s father was a successful corporate lawyer who attended Yale University with former New York Sen. James L. Buckley, who became the young Greene’s godfather. His mother served as chairwoman of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and was on an advisory commission for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Greene attended … The Thatcher School in Ojai, near Ventura, for high school. But he ran away during his freshman year in 1969 and came home.

“I wanted to be a hippie at Redwood with my friends,” he says.

Greene says he “terrorized” his parents while attending Redwood and ultimately graduated from Woodside Priory in Portola Valley. He briefly attended college in Southern California but left, depressed over a difficult romantic relationship.

Back in Marin, Greene bucked hay, milked cows and unclogged sewers at Straus Family Creamery before taking a backpacking trip in which he climbed 16 14,000-foot peaks in three months. At about that time, his sister Catherine, 18, disappeared.

Moonies expanding

The year was 1974 and the Rev. Moon was expanding his Unification Church in the United States. Moon, who is from South Korea, was a wealthy but controversial figure accused of brainwashing young people to support his religious organization by selling flowers among other items.

Catherine —the second youngest child and closest in nature to Greene— had joined the Unification Church and gone to a camp called New Ideal City Ranch, outside Boonville in Mendocino County. When she finally called her family, Greene says she had changed.

“It sounded like her loyalties were being split,” he says. “She sounded torn up.”

Greene traveled to the Boonville camp a few days later to confront Catherine, but it was difficult; she was surrounded by Moonies at all times. A church leader invited Greene to return the following weekend for a training session.

Greene drove home, still depressed and, he recalls, even suicidal because of a difficult relationship with his father. He decided to hear Moon speak in person at the San Francisco Opera House. Greene recalls that Moon sounded Hitler-like, “but there was a calmness afterward, and that appealed to me.”

Greene went to the training camp with two friends, but he says they were separated and escorted everywhere —including the bathroom— by at least one church member, a process he says the Moonies called love bombing. Joined by new recruits from all over the Bay Area, he attended a group session at which he explained that he’d come to rescue his sister. But then everyone turned toward him and began singing about how much they loved him.

“Holding hands and singing with 200 people felt really good to me,” he recalls. “My programming had begun.”

Greene’s friends left the camp after the weekend, but he stayed behind to listen to lectures, singing groups and discussions about personal experiences. Although images of Hitler Youth kept popping into his mind, he says church leaders poured on the love when he confronted them about the program —a strategy that helped reinforce the power structure and created self-doubt. After all, says Greene bluntly, “You’re being an a--hole to someone who’s being nice to you.”

Still unable to fully believe what he was being told —that Moon was the second coming of Christ— Greene went to a nearby creek to pray. But later that afternoon, Greene says he received an affirmation from God.

Faith begins wavering

Greene moved back to the Bay Area to live in Unification Church dorm houses in Berkeley and San Francisco, where members were expected to share toothbrushes stored in a bucket and hand over the keys to their cars. He took a job at a church-owned gas station on Market Street and, when his faith wavered, he returned to the ranch for re-education.

The re-education periods reinforced a belief that anyone against the church was Satan, he says, but it also gave him some perspective on what was happening. He remembers seeing new recruits arrive with doubts but eventually snapping under the pressure, turning their minds over to the church. It provided him with a guilty pleasure that they, too, had been unable to resist.

“That bothered me a lot,” he recalls.

It took Greene three attempts to leave the church before he was successful. In July 1975, he drove his BMW back to his parents’ house in Ross and began working with his mother, who was an outspoken critic of the Unification Church and supporter of deprogramming.

“She was a one-woman clearinghouse,” he says.

▲ Daphne Greene

Testifying before Senate

At the request of his godfather, he testified about cults at a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1976. On that day, he says, about 50 Unification members —wearing matching blue suits with red flowers in the lapels— walked into the Senate chambers to listen.

“It was hairy,” he says.

Greene says he never worked with a deprogrammer. Using therapy, he deprogrammed himself. “It was an experience that hurt me but I was able to overcome,” he says.

Throughout his time in the Unification Church, Greene says he rarely saw Catherine. While he was working at the church-owned gas station, he says the church put her youthful good looks to work as part of a team that traveled the country raising money and bringing in new recruits.

“She could make a $1,000 a day selling flowers,” he says.

From 1976 to ’78, Greene says he deprogrammed Moonies, including the Prince of Tahiti with the cooperation of the royal family. He was even mentioned in journalist Josh Freed’s book “Moonwebs.”

One of his biggest failures, however, was an attempt to deprogram his own sister.

Greene set up a plan, using his mother as bait, to capture Catherine. Handcuffed and blindfolded, Catherine was taken by family members to a boarded-up house in Lucas Valley. But deprogramming his own sister proved harder than deprogramming strangers, with whom he could be tougher, he says.

He eventually let Catherine go after she intentionally cut her hand and had to be hospitalized. By then, Moonies were picketing his father’s law office in San Francisco and pressing the Marin County District Attorney to file kidnapping charges against the family.

No charges were ever brought against the family, but Catherine returned to the church and filed a $5.2 million lawsuit against Greene, his parents and others who helped with the abduction.

“It was horrible,” he says. “The experience is that they’re dead but you can’t put them in the ground.”

In 1977, Greene says he was hired by Colorado authorities to kidnap and deprogram a man who tried to sign over the family farm to the Unification Church. Greene worked with police officers and private investigators, but was arrested and prosecuted for kidnapping after the man ran away and returned to the church. He successfully fought the kidnapping charge because he was acting under a court order.

Off to law school

Although he never earned a bachelor’s degree, Greene was enrolled in the New College of California Law School in 1978. During that time he started getting death threats, but he was determined to go after Moon.

“This man is no different than Adolf Hitler and, as an American, I had to do something,” he says. “To play in that arena, you had to be a lawyer and I went to law school.”

After passing the California State Bar exam, Greene worked as a criminal defense attorney with San Anselmo attorney Carl Shapiro, who had developed a reputation for working with families to reclaim family members who joined cults.

With Shapiro’s help, Greene argued and won a case in 1988 before the California Supreme Court that opened the door for former Moonies to sue the Unification Church for damages and, he says, “put cult-busting on the legal map.”

In 1989, Greene says he sued the Church of Scientology on behalf of the church’s head of worldwide security and his wife. In 2002, Greene celebrated his biggest victory against Scientology, when he and two other lawyers received an $8.7 million judgment in another case.

For Greene, religious organizations must be held accountable for any socially destructive conduct that exploits the best in people. “In my book there isn’t anything worse than that,” he says.

But Scientologists say Greene’s crusade against them isn’t very effective.

One-man campaign

Quiros, of the church’s San Francisco branch, likens Greene to someone shooting Scientologists in the back with a BB gun. Greene may be a hassle, Quiros says, but he represents nothing in the grand scheme of things for an organization that has 8 million members worldwide.

“This is a one-man campaign to discredit the fastest-growing church in the world,” Quiros says.

Quiros likes to direct people to a web site — www.friendsofsananselmo.org — that seeks to discredit Greene. Posted on the site are Greene’s run-ins with the law, ranging from shoplifting to kidnapping to stalking, along with a host of other critiques.

According to internic.net, an Internet domain name information site, www.friendsofsananselmo.org is registered to Allen Long at a private postal box at 10 Liberty Ship Way in Sausalito. Long did not answer requests for an interview sent via e-mail or in a note left at the postal box.

Web site counterattack

Quiros says Scientology has nothing to do with the web site, although he appreciates what it brings to light. “That is a great summary of Ford Greene,” he says. “He’s a nut case. I’m trying to think of a better word but there isn’t one.”

Greene eagerly and openly explains every claim on the web site. He says he was guilty of shoplifting a set of sheets in college, pleaded guilty to trespassing over a dispute with a former girlfriend he handled poorly, was never charged with burglary or stalking, and a driving under the influence conviction listed on the web site is actually his father’s.

“It’s all a big smear,” he says.

▲ The mass wedding of 1,275 couples in Korea, January 1989.

Reached at a Unification Church site, Catherine —who was married during a mass wedding of 1,275 couples and is now Catherine Ono— says although Greene may continue thinking she’s brainwashed and not in control of her mind, she still cares for her brother. “To me it’s like, come on,” she says. “That’s old.”

Ono, who remains a Unification Church member, lives in Somerville, Mass., with her husband and their two daughters. The couple will celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary next week.

Ono says she didn’t see her family between 1977 and ’83 because she feared they would try to kidnap her again. She says she began seeing them again after Greene and her parents apologized —a claim Greene disputes— and visited Greene with her daughters last August.

“The aftermath was pretty devastating,” she says. “They realized they had betrayed my trust.”

But Greene says the entire family rarely speaks with Ono anymore and that he never apologized for the kidnapping, and his mother didn’t either. “Catherine may be nice, but she makes me sick,” he says with a laugh.

Although he says it was good to see her last summer, he can’t relate to her because her entire world view is defined by Moon’s ideology.

“Catherine thinks I’m Satanic at the core,” he says.

In his San Anselmo office, Greene has created a Scientology war room lined with volumes of books, stacks of promotional and instructional videos and an enormous flow chart that illustrates the command structure of Scientology. Asked whether he is just going after Scientology’s money, Greene makes no qualms about it. “I have every intention of trying,” he says.

Even though he was once a devoted member of an organization he calls a cult, Greene says he isn’t worried about surrounding himself with information about Scientology and other organizations he targets.

“I’m confident in my instincts and I trust them,” he says.

Ford Greene is featured in the book Moonwebs

The book was made into the movie, Ticket to Heaven

Suppose the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification were to take over the whole world?

Hak Ja Han’s Cheon Il Guk Constitution is troubling

“Ancestor Liberation must be done” Hak Ja Han 2015

Hak Ja Han and Sun Myung Moon and the United Nations

Moon’s ultimate truth is … absolute obedience

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Greene

#Moonies #Sun Myung Moon #Hak Ja Han #Ford Greene #FFWPU #cheon il guk constitution

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 7 years ago

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The Cheon Il Guk Constitution, Personal Freedoms, and Meritocracy

The Cheon Il Guk Constitution is the document meant to govern the nation(s) whose national governments publicly accept Rev. and Mrs. Moon’s position as the True Parents of humankind: essentially, for whichever nation(s) the church “takes over”, for lack of a better term. Because the worldwide UC is currently focused on the goal of “Vision 2020”, in which at least one nation fulfills this goal by the year 2020, this document is very important in the UC. It is the law of the land that would govern such a nation.

In reading this document, I have found that there are some troubling sections, which follow:

“Article 23: Forfeiture and Recovery of Rights

Some or all of the rights of a Cheon Il Guk citizen shall be forfeited in the event that he or she is found to have committed any of the following:

An act disavowing God and True Parents

An act disavowing the identity and ideology of Cheon Il Guk

An act disavowing the Cheon Il Guk Constitution

An act that hinders the substantial establishment and completion of Cheon Il Guk

Article 24: True Parents’ Family

True Parents’ family is defined as True Parents’ direct descendants and their spouses.

The value of members of True Parents’ family is legitimized through their relationship of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience with True Parents.”

“Article 30: Chairperson and Vice Chairperson [of the Cheon Il Guk Supreme Council]

The Chairperson shall be appointed by True Parents from among True Parents’ family members, and shall concurrently serve as the World President of the Cheon Jeong Won (Cheon Il Guk Government).

The Vice Chairperson shall be appointed by True Parents…”

These excerpts elicit several questions:

Doesn’t Article 23 violate the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of religion?

Considering that the Cheon Il Guk Constitution is designed to be used for decades, centuries, and possibly millennia to come, how can Rev. and Mrs. Moon appoint the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson (not just of the Supreme Council, but of any branch of government) once Mrs. Moon passes away? (And arguably, to what extent can church members be certain that even Mrs. Moon is able to appropriately interpret the will of her late husband from the afterlife?) Will someone, or some group of people, be vested with the supposed authority to channel Moons’ wishes from the afterlife?

Why can the Chairperson only be chosen from “True Parents’ family”? This seems to fly in the face of the concept of a meritocratic society.

Note: The Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the Cheon Il Guk Supreme Council are not the only individuals whom the Constitution states are appointed by True Parents

What’s most troubling about these sections of the Constitution is that they likely received approval from Mrs. Moon. Remember, this constitution is meant to be used for whichever country fulfills the goal of Vision 2020 and acknowledges Rev. and Mrs. Moon as the True Parents of humankind. Considering that Vision 2020 is the primary objective being worked toward throughout the worldwide UC, and was instituted directly by Mrs. Moon, it is extremely unlikely that Mrs. Moon did not review the Cheon Il Guk Constitution before it was released. That Mrs. Moon approved a constitution that seems to blatantly violate individuals’ freedoms of speech and religion, and institute a variant of monarchy in regards to certain high positions of government, casts doubt upon her status as the True Mother of humankind.

On a broader note, I also think it is also worthwhile to ponder whether the (at least partial) union of church and state that occurs under the Cheon Il Guk Constitution is a step forward or backwards for personal freedoms and society as a whole.

#Unification Church #unification theology #cheon il guk constitution #ffwpu #vision 2020 #submission

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 6 years ago

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Hak Ja Han’s Cheon Il Guk Constitution is troubling

The Cheon Il Guk Constitution, Personal Freedoms, and Meritocracy

The Cheon Il Guk Constitution is the document meant to govern the nation(s) whose national governments publicly accept Rev. and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon’s supposed position as the True Parents of humankind: essentially, for whichever nation(s) the church “takes over”, for lack of a better term. Because the worldwide UC is currently focused on the goal of “Vision 2020”, in which at least one nation fulfills this goal, this document is very important. It is the law of the land that would govern such a nation.

In reading this document, there are some troubling sections, which follow:

“Article 23: Forfeiture and Recovery of Rights

Some or all of the rights of a Cheon Il Guk citizen shall be forfeited in the event that he or she is found to have committed any of the following: 1. An act disavowing God and True Parents 2. An act disavowing the identity and ideology of Cheon Il Guk 3. An act disavowing the Cheon Il Guk Constitution 4. An act that the substantial establishment and completion of Cheon Il Guk”

“Article 24: True Parents’ Family 1. True Parents’ family is defined as True Parents’ direct descendants and their spouses. 2. The value of members of True Parents’ family is legitimized through their relationship of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience with True Parents.”

“Article 30: Chairperson and Vice Chairperson [of the Cheon Il Guk Supreme Council] 1. The Chairperson shall be appointed by True Parents from among True Parents’ family members, and shall concurrently serve as the World President of the Cheon Jeong Won (Cheon Il Guk Government). 2. The Vice Chairperson shall be appointed by True Parents…”

(Note: In Article 28, the Cheon Il Guk Supreme Council is defined as, “The supreme decision-making organ of Cheon Il Guk..”)

These excerpts elicit several questions: • Doesn’t Article 23 violate the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of religion? This Constitution is stating that those who publicly disagree with the Church will have their rights revoked.

• Considering that the Cheon Il Guk Constitution is designed to be used for decades, centuries, and possibly millennia to come, how can True Parents appoint the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson once True Mother passes away? (Additionally: how can anyone be sure that True Mother is accurately interpreting Rev. Moon’s will from the spirit world, assuming that the spirit world exists?) Will someone, or some group of people, be vested with the supposed authority and ability to channel True Parents’ wishes from the spirit world? How can anyone be sure that this person or group is conveying True Parents’ will accurately?

• Why can the Chairperson only be chosen from True Parents’ family (i.e., True Parents’ direct descendants and their spouses)? This flies in the face of the concept of a meritocratic society. Moreover, haven’t the scandals and feuds involving the True Children (e.g., Hyo Jin’s drugs and extramarital sex, Hyung Jin / Kook Jin / Hyun Jin’s opposition to True Mother) dispelled the notion that the True Children are somehow superior to regular members?

What’s most troubling about all this is that the Constitution most likely received approval from Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon. Remember, this constitution is meant to be used for whichever country fulfills the goal of Vision 2020 and acknowledges Rev. and Mrs. Moon as the True Parents of humankind. Considering that Vision 2020 is the primary objective being worked toward throughout the worldwide UC, and was instituted directly by Mrs. Moon, it is extremely unlikely that Mrs. Moon did not review the Cheon Il Guk Constitution before it was released. (And if she didn’t review this Constitution, that is also very troubling.)

That Mrs. Moon approved a constitution that (a) seems to blatantly violate individuals’ freedoms of speech and religion, and which (b) institutes a variation of monarchy, casts doubt upon her status as the True Mother of humankind.

President of Zimbabwe to attend Hak Ja Han’s Peace, Family Festival

Hak Ja Han going to Zimbabwe to hold mass wedding

“Ancestor Liberation must be done” Hak Ja Han 2015

#Hak Ja Han #CIG constitution #Cheon Il Guk

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 4 years ago

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Should ex-second generation members be asked to forgive their abusers?

Updated January 27, 2022

Concerning abuse, the elephant in the room was Sun Myung Moon. He was the master manipulator and abuser. As someone said, “shit rolls downhill from the top”. A good place to start is to look at Sun Myung Moon’s behavior and “the fruit of his tree”, his family, his organizations and his families’ financial empires. Moon hated and abused the Japanese. Moon said he could never forgive the Japanese. How can Moon himself be worthy of being forgiven? His legacy of the destruction of families and individuals in Japan continues under Hak Ja Han. (The present UC regime in Brazil may also be harsh.)

Jesus had a thousand times more love and compassion than Sun Myung Moon.

Moon and Hak Ja Han do not honor a Christian God. Theirs is more like an angry Korean volcano-nim with some shamanism thrown in. See investigations HERE and HERE.

The Moon / Hak Ja Han families primarily run businesses. Follow the money. A tax-exempt religious façade is very convenient.

Almost everyone wants “World Peace”. It is an appealing buzzword. Have the Moons achieved world peace? Anywhere?

What is the content of the Moons’ “Cheon Il Guk Constitutions”? It seems there would not be much freedom or peace for any citizens of a possible future Cheon Il Guk. The realm of CIG is not recommended for the second gen, or anyone.

The UC organization, including CAUSA, donated money to support the Bolivian “cocaine coup” and worked with the Nazi “Butcher of Lyons”. They shipped thousands of CAUSA books to Bolivia, then had to beat a hasty retreat when the cocaine flowed into the US doing terrible harm to many citizens.

In November 2019 the UC President of IAPP (the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace) was prosecuted by the FBI in New York for money laundering and drug smuggling.

Moon and his Washington Times raised money to fight against the legitimately elected government of Nicaragua. Thousands of innocent people died or were harmed for life. Ronald Reagan and the CIA even mined a Nicaraguan harbor. Bo Hi Pak praised numerous right wing dictators who had tortured and murdered thousands in Central and South America. Dropping living people into the ocean from helicopters was one regime’s disposal method. Children were taken from mothers and given to childless regime leaders – then the parents were murdered. These are the people Bo Hi Pak and CAUSA and the Moon organization supported. One regime torturer became a leader in the Unification Church of Uruguay. See investigation HERE.

Sun Myung Moon helped North Korea with technology for launching nuclear missiles from submarines. See investigation HERE.

Where is world peace and justice? It will never be found under any of the Moon family.

Many second gen are damaged because they are the fruit of Moon’s often disastrous matchings of unsuitable people who were then guilted/shamed into staying together.

For ex-members to be liberated they need to understand that almost every single one of them are morally superior to, and have more integrity than Sun Myung Moon ever did. That is a good place to start towards healing.

Then understand the process of manipulation and the erosion of self-esteem done by Moon’s church. Jen Kiaba (UC second gen) gives an excellent introduction. LINK

Some look at everything through the lens of the Divine Principle. Let’s use that flawed DP book to look at the life of the leader.

First Blessing The Divine Principle is toxic because it promotes and idea of perfection. No one will ever be perfect, but if you are a leader who wants to guilt or shame underlings, it is a useful concept. Sun Myung Moon lied thousands of times. He claimed authority through meeting Jesus when he was 15, 16 or 17 at Easter but maybe it was another time, his birthday, he says. He has told the story in so many different ways, it seems to have been made up, probably by using a combination of the experiences of Lee Yong-do and Kim Baek-moon whose stories have some credibility. (Moon knew about Lee’s life, and he studied under Kim.) Moon’s story has no credibility. See investigation HERE.

Moon lied about carrying Pak Chung-hwa for 600 miles from Pyongyang to the south of Korea. HERE

Moon lied about going to Waseda University in Japan. HERE

Moon lied about being a virgin until he was 40 and married Hak Ja Han. HERE

Moon promised to give money to an orphanage in Guyana and got lots of good press. He never gave the money.

Moon had no integrity. He was a liar and a deceiver. He did not fulfill the first blessing.

Second Blessing Sun Myung Moon had six ‘wives’ and had sex, according to at least two of his own children and other witnesses, with hundreds of women. One woman testified on national Japanese TV, another was Sam Park’s mother. In North Korea Moon was jailed for adultery in 1946 and bigamy in 1948. Moon’s family is a disaster. Hak Ja Han threatened to divorce her husband. Moon’s children were abusive and one committed suicide. Nansook Hong shines a light on some of the many dark places in his family. LINK

Moon messed up the second blessing more than most people ever could.

Third Blessing Sun Myung Moon said, “live for the sake of others”. He had the “Original Palace” built by the lake at Cheongpyeong and then another one built up the hill. The second palace cost one billion dollars. Then he had another palace built on Geomun Island off the south coast and the Moons have other luxury mansions and apartments around Korea. Moon instructed Kwak Chung-hwan to buy him 84 luxury homes around the world. When Moon went fishing, he threw his drink cans and bottles and other things into the ocean. He watched them float away. Moon never cared about the creation. (Following Moon’s example, on Ocean Church most trash was thrown in the ocean.), etc.

Some say the world is fallen? How? In what way is it fallen? Was there ever a literal Adam and Eve? Was there a sexual fall? Sun Myung Moon’s explanation of the fall does not make any sense at all because the Bible states Adam and Eve were married before the Fall. And Lucifer was already fallen before he “seduced Eve”. See Genesis. The Biblical ‘Fall’ is an allegorical tale, but a sexual interpretation opens the door for Sun Myung Moon to have lots of sex. LINK

How was the original sin transmitted from the “fall” to present generations? Since there is no such thing as original sin, it does not matter.

The Divine Principle refers to a “foundation of faith” and “a foundation of substance”. Sounds like jargon or perhaps “loaded language”. Is it connected to the Cain-Abel mind-fuck theology? Absolutely obey your leader, who is in the Abel position. Know you are in the Cain position and don’t have murderous Cain-type thoughts.

“Absolute faith, absolute love, absolute obedience” is a Unification Church mantra.

The Divine Principle is an instrument for shaming, guilting and manipulating – and recruiting and retaining members. There is no liberation in the Divine Principle. Only enslavement to serve and worship the new “Emperor of the Universe” – Sun Myung Moon.

Sun Myung Moon stole all the ideas for the Divine Principle and had Eu Hyo-won, Choi Won-pok, Kim Young-oon and others systematize the book. Within its own circular logic, the Divine Principle is clever – but it adds nothing useful to human knowledge.

The parallels of history do not add up. LINK

The 1952 edition of the Divine Principle stated that Jesus was married, but that changed in the 1957 edition. LINK The Divine Principle is a human concoction which morphed to suit Moon’s agenda. There was never any divine revelation.

God is not an impotent being who needs to be rescued by Sun Myung Moon who himself does not embody parental love. Just look at his family.

The four or more types of sin itemized in the Divine Principle are all hokum. They are in the DP for the purpose of manipulation. See it for what it is. No one should not be guilt tripped through the DP. The UC lecturers pile on guilt and shame when they come to teach chapter two, the so-called Fall of Man.

No responsibility should be put on the second generation to forgive their abusers. They need to be helped to discover how they were made to feel guilt and shame, and to be supported and embraced on their journey to rebuilding their self-esteem as they move towards liberation. Their painful experiences may never be forgotten (but they should be recognized and acknowledged). The second gen need to be heard. Hopefully the pain will lessen as the years pass. For victims of rape, it is doubly hard. For the first and second gen who died in the Unification Church it is too late. For those on the way out of the matrix, love and time will help the healing.

It is important to know Sun Myung Moon, the founder, and to really study his behavior. His words may now ring very hollow. His teachings do not bring enlightenment or liberation.

How well do you know your Moon?

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Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church accused of involvement in drugs trade in Paraguay The Irish Times October 14, 2004

Sun Myung Moon’s theology used to control members

Sun Myung Moon makes me feel ashamed to be Korean

The six ‘wives’ of Sun Myung Moon

#Sun Myung Moon #Unification Church #Divine Principle #second gen

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 4 years ago

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The Cheon Il Guk Constitution, Personal Freedoms, and Meritocracy

▲ A recent statue of Hak Ja Han at the $1billion Cheongpyeong Palace. She is the figure larger than anyone else. Jesus, and probably Sun Myung Moon, are lesser figures who are paying homage to Hak Ja Han. She claims to be the Only Begotten Daughter of God. She is holding a scepter which denotes her dominion, or authority, over a physical kingdom.

Scepter definition: a staff or baton borne by a sovereign as an emblem of authority.

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The Cheon Il Guk Constitution is the document meant to govern the nation(s) whose national governments publicly accept Rev. and Mrs. Moon’s supposed position as the True Parents of humankind: essentially, for whichever nation(s) the church “takes over”, for lack of a better term. Because the worldwide UC is currently focused on the goal of “Vision 2020”, in which at least one nation fulfills this goal, this document is very important. It is the law of the land that would govern such a nation.

In reading this document, I have found that there are some troubling sections, which follow:

“Article 23: Forfeiture and Recovery of Rights

(Note: In Article 28, the Cheon Il Guk Supreme Council is defined as, “The supreme decision-making organ of Cheon Il Guk..”)

_________________________________________

What’s most troubling about all this is that the Constitution most likely received approval from Mrs. Moon. Remember, this constitution is meant to be used for whichever country fulfills the goal of Vision 2020 and acknowledges Rev. and Mrs. Moon as the True Parents of humankind. Considering that Vision 2020 is the primary objective being worked toward throughout the worldwide UC, and was instituted directly by Mrs. Moon, it is extremely unlikely that Mrs. Moon did not review the Cheon Il Guk Constitution before it was released. (And if she didn’t review this Constitution, that is also very troubling.) That Mrs. Moon approved a constitution that (a) seems to blatantly violate individuals’ freedoms of speech and religion, and which (b) institutes a variation of monarchy, casts doubt upon her status as the True Mother of humankind.

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The Impact of Cult-like Behavior on Democracies

The Cheon Il Guk Constitution: Isolationist Dogma

The CIG constitution is the paperwork for what Fraser and every Moon org critic has warned was the Moon organization’s goal all along 

Church and state: A personal and public tug of war

Sun Myung Moon: “church and the state must become one” 

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization 

Politics and religion interwoven 

The Resurrection of Rev Moon

#Hak Ja Han #Only Begotten Daughter of God #Female Jesus

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 4 years ago

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Where does the Psychology of the Adversary come from?

extract from: Interview at North Texas State University (Summer 1985)

Hello I’m Tom Waldren and with me today I have Allen Tate Wood, former chief political officer and former state leader of the Unification Church, commonly known as the Moonies....

Where does the Psychology of the Adversary come from?

Allen Tate Wood: … it comes out of Moon, out of his experience, out of his understanding of the world, out of his understanding of his own life. It also grows out of the teaching, which is essentially dualistic. It gives you a psychology with an adversary. For instance those of us who are inside a cult group, we are the chosen people, we are the special people, we are the remnant of God. We are the ones that God has placed his trust and faith in. Anybody who is outside of our group who is critical, they are the adversaries and they are the enemy. So Moon, like other demagogues and dictators before him, has become very adept at identifying an external enemy. For Hitler it was the Jews and the communists. For Mr Moon, it’s the communists and/or anybody who is opposed to his movement. Once you have that adversary setup then it’s much easier to control and manipulate people. …

TW: We’ve covered several of your seven aspects of your morphology of a cult. Could you go over some of the others with us? 

ATW: Sure. Briefly, I use these seven points in order to provide a fresh audience with a grid to help them ask and answer for themselves the question, ‘Am I in the presence of a destructive cult? Am I in the presence of a totalist social system, or some kind of social organization that’s interested in getting a hold of people through the use of unethical influence.’ Very briefly the seven points are you have an absolute leader. This is talking about a religious cult. You would have an absolute leader who’s in direct contact with God. The cult members believe he’s on a 24 hour hotline to God. The next aspect is that he brings with him, or her, an absolute teaching. It’s not an improvement on an existing scripture, it’s the absolute truth itself, it is the final revelation from God. Then you have, what’s common to most organizations, you have a hierarchical social structure. In your destructive cult, the thing that is significant is that, in terms of the continuum from loose to rigid, in the destructive cult the hierarchy is extremely rigid. It’s very, very powerful. The fourth point is you have this adversary psychology. The cult group sees itself at war with a very powerful enemy, a ubiquitous enemy—the communists, the Jews, whoever. That tends to produce tremendous cohesion inside the group. The leader is warning everyone to purify themselves, training them to prepare themselves for the great battles, and he’s also pointing out the ever present enemy who’s attacking. The fifth point, is the ends justify the means philosophy of operation. You know, ‘where we’re going is so good that individual human beings may need to be broken or crushed on the way to getting there’. The Nazis exemplified that kind of philosophy. Our idea is more important than actual human beings. You know, so if Tom Waldren gets in our way, we may have to brush him aside, and in the end he’ll thank us for that, and history will thank us too, because his suffering will pave the way towards the kingdom of heaven, or you know, this bold new future we’re going to.

The full interview is here: Allen Tate Wood on Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church

Examples of adversarial thinking:

Rallies ahead of Capitol riot were planned by established Washington insiders

The Impact of Cult-like Behavior on Democracies

The Cheon Il Guk Constitution, Personal Freedoms, and Meritocracy

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A look at Sean Moon’s “The Constitution of the United States of Cheon Il Guk.”

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Steve Bannon Tells Messianic Gun-Toting Conspiracy Theorists That the Left Wants to Steal Pennsylvania From Trump

By Peter Montgomery | October 23, 2020 3:10 pm

Steve Bannon speaking at CPAC 2016. (Flickr.com/Gage Skidmore)

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon made a virtual appearance earlier this month at the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival in Pennsylvania, The Trace’s Champe Barton reported Thursday. The Rod of Iron rally was organized by two sons of the late Sun Myung Moon, a messianic Korean religious leader who founded and bankrolled the right-wing Washington Times newspaper. Bannon delivered a message seemingly meant to incite the several thousand attendees:

“What the left intends to do — and you’re seeing it in Pennsylvania right now,” Bannon told the crowd. “Use the courts, use social media, use the mainstream media to try to make sure Trump is not declared the winner that night.” He said falsely that “uncertifiable” mail-in ballots would be used to “steal the presidency” away from Trump. “Look we’re going to win this thing,” he said. “Pennsylvania is the key that picks the lock for a second Trump term.”

The group is continuing to promote Trump. A group of South Korean and Japanese members of the Moons’ Rod of Iron Ministries—based in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles south of Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton—showed up outside an early-voting location in Wilkes-Barre on Thursday. Researcher Erin Gallagher called attention to Rod of Iron’s Pennsylvania activities in a Twitter thread Friday.

Tom Dunkel profiled Rod of Iron Ministries and the affiliated Sanctuary Church for the Washington Post Magazine in 2018, complete with photos of worshipers reverently carrying assault rifles. Pastor Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon, who says the 9/11 attacks were a “false flag,” had decided that a passage in the New Testament book of Revelation referring to the returning Christ ruling the Earth with “a rod of iron” was a reference to an AR-15. Pastor Sean’s sermon denounced the Democratic Party, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Pope Francis—who he called “a socialist, communist devil.”

Shortly before the 2016 election, Pastor Sean’s brother Kook-Jin “Justin” Moon called Hillary Clinton the “Fallen Eve” and Donald Trump an “Adam-type figure.” In Dunkel’s story, Justin sounds like a QAnon believer, saying there are “a lot of pedophiles in the Democratic Party” and they “realize that Trump is coming to get them. Literally. Round them up and put them in prison and execute them.”

Rod of Iron Ministries offers training to “equip 2nd Amendment Christians with the tools and training that enable Patriots to grow closer to God while defending America’s founding principles.” The two brothers happen to own a gun manufacturer.

According to the ministry’s website, Sean hosts a three-hour YouTube broadcast six days a week offering “spiritual guidance and political and social commentary from a biblical viewpoint.”

The website also includes a link to “The Constitution of the United States of Cheon Il Guk.”

The preamble to the constitution explains that “Cheon Il Guk, The Kingdom of God (and/or Heaven), a sovereign and actual nation does not yet exist in this world, but is the long awaited culmination of the End of Time as prophesied in the Biblical Scripture.” It continues:

This Constitution is not an ecclesiastical Constitution of a church or religious body, but is a Constitution for a real and sovereign, future nation, being the literal fruit of God’s Providence. All history longs and awaits this future Kingdom of God.

At the end of the preamble, Hyung Jin Moon asserts a kingly and messianic role inherited from his father:

Now as I, Hyung Jin Moon, take my rightful place as King of the Second Kingship of the Kingdom of God, Cheon Il Guk, as the Crowned Successor and Representative Body of the Cosmic True Parents of Heaven and Earth and full Inheritor of the Kingship of God, with all the authority endowed in me by my Father, Sun Myung Moon—The True Father, Messiah, Lord at the Second Advent and King of Kings, hereby declare the following Immutable and Unchangeable, “Constitution of Cheon Il Guk,” that shall NEVER be abridged or added-to, in their enumerations.”

The “Constitution of the United States of Cheon Il Guk” borrows the structure of the U.S. Constitution, adapting the Bill of Rights, before the inclusion of sections explaining the authority of the king and the first “principle” focused on maintaining a “pure lineage” of God:

The Constitution of the United States of Cheon Il Guk

We the People of the United States of Cheon Il Guk (CIG), in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish in Heavenly Father’s name this Constitution for the United States of CIG.

Principle I: Maintain the Pure Lineage of God

The division of the sexes being ordained by God where man is the subject partner and woman is the object partner, congress shall pass no law that contradicts this divine edict. Faithful marriage between a man and a woman being the ideal of God’s creation, the government of CIG will pass no law which interferes with or contradicts this Divine Law. The fruit of faithful marriage being the conception of children, congress shall pass no law which permits the injury to all persons born or unborn. Sexual abstinence before marriage being the ideal condition for newlyweds, congress shall pass no law supporting or giving aid to alternative life styles.

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-bannon-tells-messianic-gun-toting-conspiracy-theorists-that-the-left-wants-to-steal-pennsylvania-from-trump/

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U.S. Presidents Endorse Sun Myung Moon From ‘Spirit World’

CHURCH & STATE magazine Americans united for separation of church and state

U.S. Presidents Endorse Sun Myung Moon From ‘Spirit World’

October 2003

During their lifetimes, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison opposed theocratic government, arguing frequently that union of church and state crushes religious liberty. But in death, the two men have apparently had a change of heart at least according to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church.

The church recently ran a two-page ad in the Moon-owned Washington Times, asserting that 36 U.S. presidents from George Washington to Richard Nixon endorsed Moon during a series of “spirit world” conferences

The advertisement, which ran Sept. 3, reprints brief testimonies from each president. It asserts that the statements were collected between June 8, 2002, and Aug. 1, 2003, at a branch of Sun Moon University in Chung-Nam, Korea.

Moon longs to merge the world’s religions under his church and establish himself as supreme religious and political leader of the globe. Jefferson and Madison, according to the ad, have no problem with that plan.

“People of America, rise again,” Jefferson is reported to have said. “Return to the nation’s founding spirit. Follow the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Messiah to all people, who has appeared in Korea. There is no inconsistency between our founding spirit and his teachings. Well-known presidents and kings from history are excited by the greatness of his philosophy of peace.”

Madison was allegedly equally enthusiastic about the Korean evangelist and far-right operative.

“There is something that people must fulfill for the sake of their eternal lives in the spirit world,” the author of the Constitution is recorded as saying. “All the people of America must follow the teachings in the Unification Thought and Divine Principle of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who is the returning Lord in this age and the Messiah.”

Madison went on to note that he had “studied Divine Principle and Unification Thought several times here.”

According to the advertisement, the “spirit world” event was chaired by Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Franklin D. Roosevelt offered the closing prayer. The presidents, the ad claims, endorsed a six-point “Proclamation of Resolution.”

Point Three reads, “We resolve and proclaim that Rev. Sun Myung Moon is the Lord of the Second Advent, the Messiah, the Savior and the True Parent.” Nixon then led “Three Cheers of Eternal Victory.”

Nixon’s prominent role as Moon cheerleader at the event is perhaps not surprising. He and Moon collaborated in the physical world. During the Vietnam War, Moon created a pro-war front group, American Youth for a Just Peace, to counter anti-war protests on college campuses. During the Watergate fiasco, Moon ran newspaper advertisements demanding that the American people forgive the president.

Although the appeal was unsuccessful, Nixon met with Moon in the White House Feb. 1, 1974, to show his gratitude.

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“Moon’s Law: God Is Phasing Out Democracy” by Frederick Clarkson

Missing Pieces of the Story of Sun Myung Moon by Frederick Clarkson

Trivializing FFWPU mass weddings and underestimating the Christian Right

The CIG constitution is the paperwork for what Fraser and every Moon org critic has warned was the Moon org’s goal all along

Hak Ja Han’s Cheon Il Guk Constitution is troubling

Church and state: A personal and public tug of war

Sun Myung Moon: “church and the state must become one”

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

Politics and religion interwoven

The Resurrection of Rev Moon

#Sun Myung Moon #church and state #CIG constitution #constitution #Hak Ja Han #Family Federation for World Peace and Unification

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Sun Myung Moon: “church and the state must become one”

Sun Myung Moon March 2, 2003 Hoon Dok Hae Washington, D.C., Sheraton National Translation by Tim Elder; Notes by Michael Jenkins

“... To recreate Israel, the church and the state must become one as Cain and Abel. Instead they became one with Rome and captured and killed Jesus. They united with Rome. Who are the Jewish members here, raise your hands ! Jewish people, you have to repent. Jesus was the King of Israel. Through the principle of indemnity Hitler killed six million Jews. That is why. God could not prevent Satan from doing that because Israel killed the True Parents. Even now, you have to determine that you will repent and follow and become one with Christianity through Rev. Moon. ...

To unify Korea we must unify church and state. We must establish a political party and then unify church and state. We must be able to unify the UN and deal with the Cain type countries. The current administration in America must be guided by the religious leaders. If you follow Rev. Moon, you will not go down. In the future those who hear my words and believe will go to heaven, those who don't will not. Even if you have to take the skin off of your body and offer it to God. It is worth it. Once everything is offered to God then that nation will be able to come into the kingdom of heaven.”

https://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon03/SM030302.htm

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“Moon’s Law: God Is Phasing Out Democracy” by Frederick Clarkson

The CIG constitution is the paperwork for what Fraser and every Moon org critic has warned was the Moon org’s goal all along

Hak Ja Han’s Cheon Il Guk Constitution is troubling

Church and state: A personal and public tug of war

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

The Resurrection of Rev Moon

Missing Pieces of the Story of Sun Myung Moon by Frederick Clarkson

Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy

Trivializing FFWPU mass weddings and underestimating the Christian Right

#Sun Myung Moon #church and state #CIG constitution #Hak Ja Han

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Group Founded by Sun Myung Moon Preaches Sexual Abstinence in China

By Elisabeth Rosenthal New York Times September 12, 2000

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/12/world/group-founded-by-sun-myung-moon-preaches-sexual-abstinence-in-china.html

For several years now, a small New York-based foundation has aggressively spread its conservative message in China: sex before marriage is immoral, fidelity in marriage is essential and abstinence is the only way to prevent AIDS.

Offering free seminars and workshops, the International Educational Foundation has been warmly embraced by a range of conservative Chinese officials distressed about their country’s slide toward sexual freedom.

In partnership with a government health education institute, the foundation has now worked in every province, and its Beijing office is in a Health Ministry building.

But in many ways the foundation is a strange bedfellow for the Communist Chinese government, which has been waging an especially harsh campaign against evangelical religious groups and spiritual movements.

The International Educational Foundation was started by the ardently anti-Communist Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the South Korean founder of the Unification Church. Its headquarters is in the church’s main building in Manhattan. And its leaders are prominent members of the Unification Church.

“Many Chinese officials are very conservative, and those that support the ideas being taught by the foundation don’t worry too much about what else is behind it,” said Qiu Renzong, a specialist in medical ethics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who has criticized the group for undermining China’s AIDS prevention effort.

Critics of the group say many Chinese supporters – for the most part loyal Communists and atheists – are only dimly aware of the foundation’s religious roots or what the Unification Church represents. Mr. Moon has said he is a messiah who at age 16 was asked by Jesus to continue his divine work; he says he and his wife are the “true parents” of church members, and he prefers to personally select their spouses.

But in China as in the United States, Moon-affiliated groups have consistently succeeded in promoting their conservative social agenda in even the most hostile environments, generally by tapping into the fears of local conservatives and forming alliances with them.

Playing down religion and their links to the Moon organization, the foundation uses its deep pockets to support a number of conservative social causes, and local allies tend not to ask too many questions.

Zhu Qi, a Chinese health official who has sponsored the foundation’s work in China, said he was aware that it was a “church-affiliated group,” although he said he was unsure which church it represented. He added that the group was “welcome, so long as they weren’t doing missionary work.”

“It’s true that it’s very unusual for Chinese organizations to cooperate with foreign religious groups,” he said. “But I think the reason we can cooperate is that their Christian values are in line with traditional Chinese values. Also, they have a degree of economic strength.”

This summer, the Chicago school board discovered that a similar Moon-affiliated group, the Pure Love Alliance, had been given permission by inner-city principals to teach its abstinence-only curriculum in classrooms. The chancellor of the Chicago public schools angrily banned the group when its links to the Moon organization were discovered.

Though acknowledging their ties with Mr. Moon, the foundation’s leaders emphasize that their focus is on “actualizing virtues that are universal, like respectability and honesty,” not on promoting religious dogma, said Alan Saunders, who is based in New York. Mr. Saunders said the group was independent from the church, supporting itself through its business ventures and donations. He added that Mr. Moon financed only large conferences.

“Many people who work with us are not Unificationists,” Mr. Saunders said. “In Russia we’re in 5,000 schools. Most of the teachers do not have the Unificationist perspective, so we’re not endorsing religiousity.”

But critics in China complain that the foundation has misled people, presenting second-rate science to promote a health policy based on conservative values rather than research. They say the group’s focus on abstinence undercuts the fight against AIDS in China.

The foundation’s lecture material denies that condoms can prevent pregnancy, transmission of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, or other sexually transmitted diseases. And lecturers tell students that there is no such thing as “safe sex.”

“When H.I.V. was spreading province by province through China, the Chinese government spent a lot of time working with religious groups to use morality to defend the people against AIDS,” said Wan Yanhai, who runs a Chinese Web site about H.I.V. and recently co-authored a report called “The Foreign Shepherd,” about the International Educational Foundation’s work in China.

Others criticize the group for obscuring its religious background and particularly its ties to the Unification Church, a far-flung group with a controversial history, hundreds of intertwined businesses and some unconventional religious beliefs.

“I think most Chinese don’t have a good idea of what this group is, even if they have heard it’s the Unification Church,” said Er Yan, the other author of “The Foreign Shepherd,” who is also the general coordinator of the Chinese Society for the Study of Sexual Minorities. “They portray Mr. Moon as just another respected religious leader.”

Mr. Er and others worry that the Moon organization is using the seminars to promote its own goals at the expense of sound health policy. Former members of the Unification Church say Mr. Moon has long wanted to gain a foothold in China.

“The group has a 30-year track record of using lots of money to gain access to high political positions,” said Steven Hassan, a former senior member of the church who has since become one of its critics. “They create a front group, offer lots of money, set up conferences. And inveigle their way into whatever can be inveigled.”

Although the foundation’s teaching materials and lectures focus on secular virtues, the vocabulary and practices of the Unification Church creep into the curriculum – with occasional references to the “true parents” (Mr. Moon and his wife) and ceremonies in which foundation teachers perform mass blessings of marriages. The International Education Foundation, with offices in New York, London, Moscow and Beijing, says it has operations in more than a dozen countries, although its Web site focuses mostly on the former Soviet Union, Mongolia and China.

The Moon organization has been cultivating ties to China since the early 1990’s. The foundation itself first came to China in 1994, Dr. Zhu said. Today, with Dr. Zhu’s help, the foundation generally works directly with local government bureaus across China to set up seminars on abstinence and chastity.

Foreign groups are not allowed to operate in China without a local partner, and the Moon group tends to work with socially conservative Chinese bureaucrats, generally associated with the Education or the Propaganda Ministry or with the All China Women’s Federation. They see the growing number of liberal, often Western-trained health officials as the enemy.

The group has apparently helped overcome any misgivings with cash.

Researchers at the All China Women’s Federation, who said they were aware of the group’s ties with the Unification Church, said the foundation often lavished money and other perquisites on officials and cash-poor local governments.

Mid-level officials and, sometimes, their children have been treated to trips abroad to attend conferences, a rare opportunity for most Chinese college students.

This spring, the foundation flew more than 100 Chinese students to a seminar at the University of Bridgeport, in Connecticut, which is owned by the Unification Church. Mr. Er, the co-author of “The Foreign Shepherd,” said it was an offer that many Chinese couldn’t refuse.

“Even if they don’t believe in the message,” he said, “they see it as a free trip for their kids.”

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My experience within the hierarchy of the Moon cult during its years of expansion in Russia and in the CIS

Press Release on the FFWPU by the Department of Communication, Nizhny Novgorod province, Russia

Sun Myung Moon was eager to infiltrate the European Parliament

The CIG constitution is the paperwork for what Fraser and every Moon org critic has warned was the Moon org’s goal all along

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In order to rule the world, Sun Myung Moon had to start with Korea.

Robert Boettcher: “In order to rule the world, Moon had to start with Korea. It was essential that he have loyal cultists inside the government. They had to be well placed so they could sway powerful persons and become influential themselves. They must be skillful in portraying the Unification Church as a useful political tool for the government without revealing Moon’s power goals. By Moon’s serving the government, the government would be serving him. Avenues to more power could be opened. Recognition at higher and higher levels could come. His service could become indispensable. The government could come to need him so much that he would be able to take control of it.

Four of his early followers were young army officers close to Kim Jong-Pil, the chief planner for the Park regime and founding director of the KCIA: Kim Sang-In (Steve Kim), his interpreter, later to become KCIA station chief in Mexico City; Han Sang-Keuk (Bud Han), who became ambassador to Norway; Han Sang-Kil, who became Moon’s personal secretary after serving at the Korean Embassy in Washington; and Bo Hi Pak, Moon’s advance man in Washington during and after Pak’s service as assistant military attaché at the Korean Embassy.

Kim Jong-Pil made a two-week official visit to the United States as KCIA director in the fall of 1962. Included in his entourage was Steve Kim as interpreter. The Korean Embassy mobilized for the occasion, and the Kennedy administration rolled out the red carpet. Lieutenant Colonel Bo Hi Pak was the Embassy’s officer in charge for Kim’s meetings with CIA Director John McCone, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and Defense Intelligence Agency head Lieutenant General J. E. Carroll.

En route home, Kim Jong-Pil met secretly in his room at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco with a small group of Moon’s early activists, who had been sent to proselytize on the West Coast, and some American converts. Kim Young-Oon, beginning in Eugene, Oregon, in 1959, had moved to Berkeley, California. Choi Sang-Ik [Papasan Choi], having established the church in Japan, had moved to San Francisco [after he was deported from Japan]. Kim told them he sympathized with Moon’s goals and promised to help the Unification Church with political support from inside the government. He said he could not afford to do so openly, however, which fit Moon’s plans perfectly.

Kim Jong-Pil had learned from Moon’s followers in the KCIA that Moon was a zealous anti-Communist. That could be useful to the government. He was also aware of Moon’s ambition to build influence in Korea and beyond. That could create problems for the government if the influence were not properly channeled. Moon was anxious to increase church membership in cities and villages throughout the country. Fine, thought Kim, just as long as they don’t get out of bounds. The KCIA must be the one calling the shots. He decided the Unification Church should be organized satisfactorily to be utilized as a political tool whenever he and the KCIA needed it. Organizing and utilizing the Unification Church would be a simple matter anyhow. After the military coup overthrew the elected government in 1961, all organizations in Korea were required to apply for reregistration with the government. Undesirable elements were identified through a process of reevaluation and dealt with accordingly. Kim could maintain effective ties with Moon’s organization through the four army officers, but the Moonies had best not be told of Kim’s plans to manipulate them. It was a situation favorable both to Moon’s plans for expanding via the good graces of the government and to Kim Jong-Pil’s plans for building a personal power base.

▲ Bo Hi Pak, Won-bok Choi, Sun Myung Moon, Mrs Pak and Hak Ja Han.

Bo Hi Pak’s work for Moon in America was of crucial importance. Pak is a model Moonie. For him, Master always comes first. From the time he joined Moon in 1957, he endeavored to make everything he did contribute in some way to Moon’s divine mission. Assignment to the Embassy in Washington in 1961 was a precious opportunity to do missionary work in the United States. As a diplomat, he could foster Moon’s interests within the R.O.K. government and keep Moon apprised of important intelligence. It was God’s providence that he go to America, he believed, and he must make the most of it.”

Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean scandal by Robert B. Boettcher (with Gordon L. Freedman) 1980 pages 38-40

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“Moon used to play golf regularly with Kim Jong-pil”

Sun Myung Moon’s desire to take over the League (WACL) for his own financial and political ends

Sun Myung Moon’s One-World Theocracy

The Moon Organization and the KCIA – ‘Privatizing’ covert action

Sun Myung Moon was eager to infiltrate the European Parliament

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USA

Minions and Master

Fraser Committee Report on Moon org.: “these violations were related to the overall goals of gaining temporal power.”

The Political Setup of Moon’s Organization – a 1977 Report.

FBI and other reports on Sun Myung Moon

The CIG constitution is the paperwork for what Fraser and every Moon org critic has warned was the Moon org’s goal all along

Robert Parry’s investigations into Sun Myung Moon

Statement of Linda Anthenin to the Fraser Committee

Notarized Statement of Linda Anthenien to the Fraser Committee

The Resurrection of Rev Moon

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Russia

My experience within the hierarchy of the Moon cult during its years of expansion in Russia and in the CIS by Lev Semenov

Press Release on the FFWPU by the Department of Communication, Nizhny Novgorod province, Russia

A representative of Rev. Sun Myung Moon offered a Russian minister $1 million as a personal gift to distribute Moonie textbooks

Bizarre entry to Moon’s orbit as empire fell and a cult flourished

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How Sun Myung Moon’s organization helped to establish Bolivia as South America’s first narco-state.

Sun Myung Moon organization activities in Central & South America

Group Founded by Sun Myung Moon Preaches Sexual Abstinence in China

Mongolia – Battleground of the Han and Kwak groups

Sun Myung Moon: The Emperor of the Universe

Hak Ja Han’s Cheon Il Guk Constitution is troubling

Sun Myung Moon’s One-World Theocracy

Sun Myung Moon: The Emperor of the Universe

After Moon’s help, North Korea Launch an SLBM Missile in 2019

Sun Myung Moon – Emperor, and God

#Robert B. Boettcher #Gifts of Deceit #Bo Hi Pak #Sun Myung Moon #Hak Ja Han #Family Federation for World Peace and Unification #world domination

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