11/19/09

Drama with Hyun Jin!

Hyun Jin, or known in the business world as Preston, has been getting in drama. After returning from a year of exile in Montana and coming back to his family, he had to face the reality of losing almost all the power he held in the Unification Church. His youngest brother, Hyung Jin, has been handed control over the Unification Church internationally and has been given control over organizations that Hyun Jin once headed. A few years back many had seen Hyun Jin as Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s choice of successor, but things are not looking that way anymore. And it seems like Hyun Jin cannot take it… and he is hurt.

People are saying that as “an act of rebellion” he had fired top Unification Church members working at Washington Times and had them escorted out of the building by security guards. An act of rebellion? That is debatable. Still, though, UPI has been taken out of his hands… as well as the Universal Peace Federation. And it seems that Hyun Jin knows exactly what to do. The Global Peace Festival, a little celebration of religions and life and a nice subtle way to introduce the world to Moonie ideas, is becoming separate from the Universal Peace Federation and will have no affiliation with the Unification Church any longer. Hyun Jin will now run GPF conferences and events independently from the Church and Rev. Moon.

Hyun Jin has recently moved his whole family, including his daughter-in-law Jinhwa (Shinhwa) Yoshida to Seattle, and is currently not speaking to any Moon’s, especially not Rev. Moon or Hyung Jin or In Jin. Definitely not In Jin. Especially after she gave a sermon on a rebellious brother who takes over a garden even though it does not belong to him. In the sermon she says, “If this older brother had a bunch of friends who really loved him with all their might and all their heart, and these friends could see the situation realistically, and if they were really this brother’s friends, what should they do? The kindest things the friends could do is to tell him, ‘Older brother, I love you to death. You’re my best friend. But what you’re doing to your family and to your neighbors is just not right. I want to walk with you. I want to play with you. I want to be with you all the time, but because I love you I am going to walk away from you. I am going to leave you so that you can experience the consequences of your actions. Because if you were to take the fruits of my garden from me, I would not be a good friend, to pretend that nothing happened. I would be very upset, and I need you to know I am upset. And you need to know that your parents are upset. If I am your friend, I am going to give you the opportunity to work it out with your parents, to work it out with your younger brother, and I’m going to walk away from you because I truly love you.’That’s what a true friend would do.”

It is clear she is talking about the Hyun Jin situation.

There has been bragging about the unity in the True Family… what about Hyun Jin? What about Un Jin? Ye Jin? Yeon Jin? Jeong Jin? Kwon Jin? And how about Sung Jin? Sammy Pak? These guys matter, too, even if Rev. Moon had them as a result of an affair.

So the Church is in a mess. And it is coming to the public eye. Hopefully you Moonies will question yourself and I pray you may really seek to answer one question. How well do you know your Moon?