5/19/10

According to the Divine Principle… does Moon change our blood lineage

Does SMM have the qualifications to change our blood lineage?

This is a Divine Principle theory on why True Father (SMM) is not able to change anyone’s blood lineage and is NOT God’s central figure of the age. It will also explain from a DP perspective why the True Family is divided and at war with itself. My theory is based on True Father’s life and his own teachings, the Divine Principle. I’ll start with the genealogy of his personal family.

Public facts known about Sun Myung Moon

1. He was matched by his parents in November 1943, to Sun Kil Choi. Their son, Sung Jin Moon, was born in 1946. They divorced in 1953.
2. He was still legally married to Choi, but in the process of obtaining a divorce, when he began a sexual relationship with his second (common law —never married her) wife Myung Hee Kim. She gave birth to his second son named, Hee Jin Moon (killed in a train accident). Dan Fefferman talks about what he was told by the Koreans concerning Myung Hee and Hee Jin.
3. When SMM was 40, he married a young girl, Hak Ja Han, 15 years his junior. She was a mere 16 years old. They had 14 children. After the, so-called, “marriage of the lamb” in 1960, while he was married and his wife was having all his children, he cheated on her. The women he had adultery with is a Ms. Choi (Bob Abendroth gave me a testimony and mentioned her name when his couple lived with Bo Hi Pak’s family). Ms Choi gave birth to True Father’s son, who was legally adopted by the Pak family. His name is Sammy. I could not find any information on his birth date, but he must be around In Jin’s age, because Nan Sook (Hyo Jin’s ex-wife) mentioned him in her book, “In The Shadow of the Moons”. In Jin Nim wanted to date Sammy before she found out he was her half brother.

Things we know about True Fathers children: Hee Jin (son of first mistress) died while still a teenager. He died in a train crash. Hee Jin was True Fathers first “second”, or Able son. Sung Jin was the first son, Hee Jin was the second son. After True Father married Hak Ja Han, he had another set of Cain/Able sons. Hyo Jin Nim was the first son born to Hak Ja Han. Heung Jin Nim was their second or Able son. He died while still a teenager in a car crash. According to the Divine Principle, a man can only have one 1st and one 2nd son. Those two sons represent Cain and Able. True Father has two sets of first and second sons or two sets of Cain and Able sons. What did God do to both his second or Able sons? Both Hee Jin and Heung Jin Nim, in Able sons position, were taken by God while still immature. They were both in their teens when they died in crashes. According to the Divine Principle, God’s Will is accomplished through the unity of Cain and Able. Why would God, who has power over life and death, take the two Able sons of True Father while they were still immature teenagers?

According to church tradition, we are told God took them because we, “the members” failed our missions. If that were the case, that would mean God was setting up the Cain/Able struggle to indemnify the failure of the AA ‘members’. But according to the Divine Principle, the Cain/Able struggle is used to indemnify the “fathers failure.” In the case of Adam, he was responsible and failed to keep God’s Commandment not to Fall. Why would God, who has power over life and death, take True Father’s Able sons while they were still immature, not yet fully men? Not once, but twice? According to his own teachings, it would have to be because he, Sun Myung Moon, failed to keep his own sexual purity.

And how did Rev Moon fail? He divorced the woman he was matched to. He lived outside the morals of his own doctrine, with his lover Myung Hee, whom he never married. By doing so, he set her up to be an outcast in her own country, where sex outside marriage was considered a crime just as it is in the Unification church. He cheated on his young bride/wife, Hak Ja Han, and impregnated a women who was his mistress. According to his own teachings, he failed to live a sexually pure/principled life. Isn’t it more conceivable God took his two Able sons to show that he did NOT support the work or lifestyle of Sun Myung Moon, than because of members failure? Once Hee Jin and Heung Jin Nim died, True Father never could claim they were being used by God to indemnify any providential positions. If we look at the division and strife inside the True Family, we can see it is not of God. The Bible tells us, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

We can see from a Principle perspective that the sexual promiscuity of Rev. Moon are conditions God is NOT able to be with his family and does not support his claim to fame, God does not bow down to him like he proclaims. According to the Divine Principle, God never uses a Central Figure once they have failed in their providential roles. Therefore, there was not actual change of blood lineage because Moon fell long before his marriage to Hak Ja Han. They are unable to remove sin because they themselves are stained with sin and are not in direct dominion with God. Hak Ja Han cannot have been restored by Moon and cannot be sinless since her husband was not sinless when they married and continued sexual acts after their marriage. Therefore, the Blessing is meaningless and has no spiritual significance. When I understood this I left the church.

Tparents.org Archive

Hee Jin Moon and Myung Hee Kim

Dan Fefferman
December 25, 1998

Question: Why did Father take a concubine Miss Kim who gave birth to their son Hee Jin while he was married to his first wife Song Gil Choi? Why was this never acknowledged?

Hee Jin Nim was acknowledged by Father as his son during his lifetime and honored publicly after his death. Some of Father's early speeches and prayers make reference to Hee Jin's death in similar terms to Heung Jin's. (both were "second" sons, both died tragically in accidents as teenagers.) When I was in Korea in 1970 Father, Mrs. Won Pok Choi and President Young Whi Kim explained the conception of Hee Jin in these terms: Father's first wife (the other Mrs. Choi) was in the process of divorcing him. The process is a long drawn out affair in Korean law. During this time in the mid 50s, Father began cohabiting with Ms. Myung Hee Kim. Because her pregnancy would have negative affects on Father both in terms of the divorce and in terms of criminal law, she moved to Japan to avoid getting Father in trouble. The baby was born there. However, while in Japan, she was either raped or seduced by a Japanese man. Father told us that if she had returned to him after that, he would have accepted her. However, she was so ashamed, that she hid from Father and stayed in Japan, returning only years later (perhaps after Father's marriage to mother.) She offered Hee Jin to Father, and Father accepted him as his son. So the answer is that

1) Father and his first wife were no longer married from God's viewpoint as Father understands it and

2) the relationship with Myung Hee Kim was acknowledged, but not at first, because of legal implications. BTW, this is the Ms Kim who was blessed on stage at MSG to Confucius. [correction about being blessed to Socrates, not Confucius]

Question: Why did Father say he needed 12 sons, not just 12 children?

I don't know, but later I heard him say that he used to think he needed twelve sons, but he realized that daughters are just as valuable as sons.

5/10/10

Done With Moon: Eighth Testimony: "Someone else’s choice had changed my standing with God."

I am surprised that this hasn’t come up yet: The Unification Church believes that being a survivor of rape is equivalent to committing fornication and adultery.

I was at my first second generation blessing workshop when I was 16, and one of the questions to the panel of church authorities was whether or not rape counted as falling. The answer was a simple, yes. Next question. My adolescent heart sank, my fears were confirmed. No explanation, sympathy, nor road back offered . Someone else’s choice had changed my standing with God.

I remember hearing stories about how Korean girls used to carry small knives in their honboks so that they could kill themselves and thus die rather than lose their virginity. I wished I had killed myself. Furthermore, because of the church’s teachings, I felt I *should* have killed myself, and that I had somehow wronged God by not killing myself.

I remember when Jinjoo Byrne was murdered, everyone was relieved that she had been killed before her body was raped. Like it made it any better. I remember people saying that it was better she had died than lose her lineage. I am still repulsed.

I can never tell anyone in the Unification Church what happened to me, because even though I know now (after years of nightmares and lots of therapy) that it wasn’t my fault, I know it makes me “fallen” in the eyes of members.

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5/9/10

“…When he died, I was not allowed to go to the funeral, he was of Satan’s family and my True Parents.”

This post a repost of what was on the ex-Moonies site that was once ran by Craig Maxim. The site has been lost but remains preserved by reocites. We are putting this up because we have received messages saying that cutting off ties to parents was not practiced. We just want to show you one person who was a member of the Unification Church in the 70s. His story is nothing exceptional or unique. It is the story of thousands of people who spent time in the Unification Church in the 70s and came to realize that it was indeed a cult. This is long but we promise that it is not boring.


My Life in the Unification Church
by Danny Harth

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~This is my story, my name is Danny Harth, I am a survivor of the Unification Church. Allow me to tell you (the readers) my story, while I was a member of the UC. Which points are relevant before, during, or after my life as a member of the Unification Church? To me all! They intertwine, one event leading to the next. Like dominoes lined up and falling in place. To save boredom and time for you though, I’m going to share just about some of the situtations which stand out in my mind. The stories that aren’t shared by the witnessing Moonies. Especially, when they are witnessing to the new sap that happens across their path.

~I am going to give you a glimpse into my life and mind as having survived my experience as a Moonie. “Survived,” is the key word here, some members have not survived, so I should try to remain truely grateful. Some have died at the hands of sleeping while driving, others died at the hands of criminals while witnessing or fundraising. Medical attention, as well as natural causes is another way some have kicked the bucket. The UC is famous for neglecting their members health.

Exploring New Paths

~I am going to start this story in my teen life. I was a teenage alcoholic and drug addict. A party animal from the late 60’s. I started drinking in the spring of 1968 at 12 years old. Barreling head first into drugs that summer. This continued at a progressively insane speed, like most addiction’s do. Rarely does an addict notice his/her world crumbling around them, I am no exception. Around 1973 I fell in love with a beautiful girl. Yes! Totally in love, young, dumb and full of …..wisdom, yeah thats the ticket.

~While attempting to win this girls devoted heart, I stopped drinking and using. Early summer of 1973 was when I began my long journey of sobriety, without recovery, by holding on to promise of love. Anything for a kiss and willing to die for more. While in love and sober I began to go the Community College path. It was there I was introduced to communal life style. I found books on various spiritual communites located all across North America. That is where I got a really bright idea, which eventually lead into my lifelong trap within the Unification Church’s grasp, becoming an Apostle want-a-be.

~The girl dumped me so typical of my life as a Romeo. With the exception of my loving beautiful wife, I have always been the dumpee and never the dumper. Broken hearted, like a dumb teenager, I decided to go and hitchhike and visit various communes and Zen Temples. I couldn’t join the foreign leagion, it didn’t exist anymore, otherwise I probable would have. I did the next best thing, I planned to became another Siddhartha or St. Francis. That would show that girl what a big mistake it was to dump me. I was off to learn from the wissest, oldest, drugged out psychotic hippy I could find.

~After traveling around a little, changing my mind in going to a Zen Temple, the haircut is what helped me come to my senses. I decided to see some sights. I then visited a cultish pentecostal Christian commune in Morro Bay, California. Talk about insane, I didn’t last longer than a weekend there. Tried to find my long lost love, quite unsuccessful I might add. I must have figured she would be walking down the rual roads of Highway 1. Starving and filthy, I decided to come home to Riverside, California via bus, through L.A.. No one in there right mind hitchhikes through L.A.. Not that I have ever been in my right mind. It was while changing busses in downtown L.A., that I was approached by a lovely Dutch girl. Her name was Hetti Canton. After a sincere attempt by me to invite Hetti to laze around the beach and escape for the evening. I succumbed to her wishes. I went to my first UC meeting.

An Answer To Life’s Questions

~After listening to the introductory lecture of the Divine Principle(DP), I left the LA Center and went home. I left them with their mouths wide open,scratching their heads and other parts of their bodies. At home the profound ability, of the round piece of DP to fit into a square hole, began to work on my mind. I rested the whole weekend and first thing Monday morning, I showed up at the front door of the Center in Riverside. It was a new Center, which lasted a very short time, a record short time. The members were all in shock and disbelief, due to me just showing up. Me, ready to go to the Camp Muzumdar in the San Bernadino Mountains was too much for them. They believed I was a secret spy of destruction. I sat through their scrutiny and waited for them to call Hetti, to confirm my bizarre story. After this, they finally began to relax. I wish I would have really known why they were so paranoid, maybe I would have high tailed it to the hills. I had never heard of the Moonies before. Lack of education was my dilemma. They sent me to the camp, where I had the time of my life. It was so campy, so summer campish, so Brady Bunch and Happy Days combined. I thought it was so real, when it was more like a fantasy with “The Children of the Corn.”

~Having grown up in a financial disadvantaged family, I had never been to a summer camp at least one that was like this summer camp. I was easily overwhelmed. The group singing, the entertainment during and after dinner. Deep friends appeared out of the woodwork. I began to fall in love with some of the girls at the blink of an eye. The girls would get some dirt in their eyes, blink, and I would be in love again. While at the camp I stayed for the typical 3, 7, and then the 21 day workshops. All those DP points seemed to fit like a glove, for a highly-educated teen like me. They covered so many, if not all, the questions I had about life. They appeared so perfect and original. Little did I know that they were neither original nor perfect. Many people I encounter on various UC e-mail sites argue that the DP is still the truth. With close investigation, as well as good research, one can find many flaws and mistakes throughout the whole Aquarian DP. From the camp, I was sent to the Riverside Center. It was my choice, I wanted to save all my friends and family. Like Paul the Apostle, I wanted others to follow the new Christ, Rev. Sun Myung Moon. I wanted to save my family and friends, I wanted to be a hero to them. A famous hero, that would go down in history for all of eternity. No small dreams for this young lad. Instead, I ended up alienating all my family, friends, and even my high school teachers. Friendships that would never mend and be the same again. Even I wonder about some of my family relationship, though they have improved a lot. My parents on the other hand, have perfected the art of un-conditional love.

Separated From My Family

~During this time, by Grandfather became real sick, stayed in a hospital and eventually died. He was hospitalized 5 blocks from the Center, prior to his death. I was told to stop seeing him to do God’s work and I would see him in heaven for eternity. That control over me, as a new slave of the UC, was so typical of power minded Central Figures (CF). When he died, I was not allowed to go to the funeral, he was of Satan’s family and my True Parents (Rev. Moon and his wifee) would take me to heaven. Eventually, my family and ancestors would also be saved by SMM. I secretly weeped deeply about this, to do so in the open would be an admission of faithlessness, I loved that old man. From Riverside, shortly after Gramps death, I was sent to the Hollywood Center. It was a few blocks away from the famous Hollywood Blvd., a witnessing Mecca, filled with runaways, wanderers, hookers, homosexuals and many other religious groups. In Hollywood I became very close to a sister. She was my new love, we were good friends, we would witness and pal around and have a great time. The CF for the Center saw we were getting too friendly for UC standards so she came up with a brilliant idea…. MFT! It would make a man out of me. I was sent to the Pasadena Center to fundraise on there Mobile Fundraising Team (MFT).

Serving On M.F.T.

~In the Pasadena MFT, I went around for a few months learning how to fundraise, how to approach strangers in shopping center parking lots, how to ask for change if they didn’t want the silly product. Then the MFT took me to Texas, to milk the Texans with $20 generaiums. Shortly after this, they sent me to the best of the best fundraisers. I was sent to fundraise on “Fathers Special Task Force” MFT. The kamikaze fundraisers, the Green Berets of MFT’ers. The ultimate in slavery. I would go down in history as “ONE OF THEM”. Little did I know what it was ultimately going to really cost me, physically, mentally, and spiritually. To do this many of us were flown to N.Y.. Where we went to a huge house across the street from Belevedere. It was given a name, like all the other property that the UC and Rev. Sun Myung Moon (SMM) owns. I cant remember it’s silly name. It was a georgeous classic mansion, overwhelming beautiful, radiating big bucks. There, we endured many more lectures and trained in the secrets of fundraising. Then I was sent to the Philadelphia Center. Friendships I made, I thought would last for eternity. As P.T. Barnum once said, “A Sucker is Born Every Minute”, or was that W.C. Fields? There they began to train me, by working me to death, on how to fundraise. I began my training as a spiritual Jedi, (under the guise of the MFT), heavenly warrior, Green Beret for the UC and the pocket book of SMM. Like that other saying, “To be all you can be”.

~I remember the first time I played soccer. It was on a Sunday, in the front yard of the MFT Center in Phili.. Pure fun. I was a goalie and gave my all. Playing for God’s Providence coupled with the joy in just having a day off. Days off, no matter how few in-between they were, always were the most enjoyable times. While on the MFT we would get token days off. We would go to real nice restaurants and eat or go to the movies. Just relax but remember we would work 7 days a week, from morning to night, and real late on Friday and Saturdays. Doing bar hopping fundraising from 10PM to 2AM. So token days off with an expensive restaurant and a token movie was really nothing. To us it was something, but in reality it was a token nothing. I was then put on a team with a Captain from the insane Berkeley Family. His name was Tom Philips. After slaving away for sometime, we were sent to the Georgia area to fundraise. Our Commander was Mr. Simba, he died of stomach cancer or intestinal cancer later on. While I findraised parts of Georgia, Tom told me to have no more contact with my evil, sinful, descendants of Satan family. No more weekly letters to mom, no phone calls too. That was a heart breaking time for me, I really love my parents deeply. My mom was also heart broken, I use to send her weekly letters telling her of all the wonderful sites I had seen, now nothing. No warning, no see you in several months, just nothing. This gave her time to talk to friends and be a living example of how the UC and SMM take kids away from families. Tom must have been a public relations person for the DMV in his past life.

~On a Sunday, I broke a financial record not only my personal fundraising record. I also broke the teams record and earned the highest amount for the whole districts area for that day. I was the top 3 in the nation on that interesting day. It was over $300 for that shortened day. Sundays were most always shortened fundraising days, we would start at 11 AM instead of 6 AM, and finish by 9 PM instead of 10 PM. This $300 record brought a lot of new attention to me. Attention that was brought to the Head Hauncho of the MFT, Mr. Kamiyama. When there was a gathering of all teams, for a weekend of lectures and games, I was singled out and put onto a top fundraising team.

A New Central Figure

~My new team Captain was Mr. Tsijumura. We were sent to So. Florida, Tampa to the Keys. As a group, we broke all kinds of records, we had several of the best fundraisers in the whole UC on our team. I was just a want-a-be. Someone had to be low man and by-golly I made sure I was always that man. Held the record for being low man the most on that team, damn proud of it too!

~Several times I was awarded with prizes only reserved for the top MFT’ers in the world. Autographed pictures of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and his family. OHH, AHH, so cool, so special, so cheap. I also have acquired autographs from Bo Hi Pak, Kamiyama, Sudo, and the Great Hyo Jin Moon. This was done by groveling and ass kissing at special events dedicated to inspire the troops to earn MORE MONEY! Mr. Tsijumura was an interesting character, he was real nice one minute,then yelling at us or me at the top of his lungs the next minute. Psychologists today, call it stark raving lunacy. I just thought it was natural for CF’s and maybe even a prerequisite for the position of power. It didn’t matter if it was a private or public place when the yelling began, didn’t matter who saw or what we felt, this was war and he was a Sargent Snorkle want-a-be, while I was Beetle Bailey. He would practice karate with me on occassion. It started out in the shopping center parking lots, then advanced to more private places. His reasoning was to teach me self-defence, whether I had asked for it or not. I still have no idea what made him think of this, I had never asked.

Physical Abuse

~It was fun at first, then the 6’3”, 250 pounds of Japanese muscle started to get rougher and rougher. The fun was gone quick. He would corner me, sometimes in a bathroom stalls and pulverize me. He would brutalize my shins by kicking the same spots over and over again. At the same time he would be slugging me all over. He would get all angry and controlling but God forbid if I ever got angry. Remember he was my Central Figure, my Abel, my way to God through chain of command, or so I believed. He was an abusive bimbess ass. My last beating was the worst, he beat the hell out of me in a bathroom stall,while he let other members watch on. It was very painful physically,emotionally, and spiritually. I was left on the floor, next to a toilet, to recouporate. After he had been on top of me cornered, slugging, hitting, kicking and beating the life out of me. In his childhood, he must have been the class bully. Maybe SMM has a special training course in abuse for MFT Captains? More abusive means more promotions. Shortly after that, Tsijumura replaced Simba as a Commander of that area’s MFT, he then began to pick my captains. I had one real good captain, Jeff Schaefer, but that was cut short. He must have noticed Jeff and I getting along and that HAD to change! Then I had the Captain from Hell, Philip Loveless. We use to be the best of friends, while fundraising, then he got promoted and I was put on his team. Life in absolute hell. If you ever wonder if a person is your real friend, let that person become your boss or fundraising Captain, you will see why some people say, “Absolute Power Corrupts Absoulutely!”

Health Problems

~Around the same time as this, pain was screaming throughout my legs. Pains from the karate kicks, sleeping in vans, and carrying boxes by my side. Chiropractic and Neurological problems would become lifelong bedfellows. Pain that has ruled me, throughout my life. I have spent a small fortune to my Chiropractor and Neurologists, even caved into the wishes of the local witch doctor. Should have sought damages in the form of a lawsuit but the Statue of Limitations have expired by the time I realized that sueing SMM would not be sueing Christ. That is another story, which maybe will be talked about when I write my second story, “Prodigal Son Returns.” Tsijumura’s answer to this pain was so profound, I wondered why I hadn’t thought of it. It was not to get medical attention. It was, “get the kid a wheelchair”, this way I could continue to do God’s work. Gotta do Gods work untill I drop, if I want to go down in history as a hero. The wheelchair was a real money maker, it would rely on pity and the good will of people who saw a cripple asking for money for God’s work! It didn’t matter of the cost, for me and you. Regardless of what I felt or thought, in pain or conscience, it was all in the name of God’s Will Be Done. I was forced to act totally crippled and could not get up and walk around or I would surely pay the price by public scrutiny. Roll around for money, bathroom breaks, and lunch. Going across the parking lot, in-between cars, and avoiding getting hit at all costs by surprised drivers. I got pretty good on the thing, it’s a pity it didn’t recline and have a TV with a drink holder. Maybe then, I would have lasted longer than I did. After doing this for a good period of time, I gave up, I demanded medical attention. I was sick and tired and it was real hard to wheel from one shopping center to the next shopping center. I told this to Loveless, who loved to just yell at me. How dare I demand anything, dont I want to go to Heaven? Yada, Yada, Yada. Heck no, I did all this because I wanted to go to Hell, didn’t he know! I then told him I was just going to leave the UC, bring me home to the Center and I would just leave. I needed to pack my signed pictures mind you, they may protect me from evil doings and they may have power like the Shroud of Jesus? His logic for this problem was simple. He yelled at me, then he slugged me and pulled me off the chair and pushed me into the van. All this with the team mother just sitting by watching with those lovely Japanese judgemental eyes. He then got into the van and yelled more, as loud as he could. I argued with him so he punched me twice, punches in the chest and stomach and then he slapped me hard across theface. He laughed at me, while I sat and cried. I weeped like a little baby, I was crushed inside and I dare not hit him back. If I knew then what I know now, while he was doing this, I would have reverted back to my criminal ways. The ways which helped me survive incarceration and all my many drug dealings. What was a little more jail time on my rap sheet. But then that is neither here nor there, I didn’t know any better, back then.

Emotional Abuse

~He then took me to the Center, where I became the scum of the Earth. My great friends disappeared into the woodwork. Tsijumura let me have it verbally, emotionally, and socially. He would ostrasize me from all doings and everyone else. I would become the leper of the MFT, I’m surprised they didn’t send me to a leper colony or at least a bad MFT’er colony. Why did I take it? The same reason why I put up with the bull in the first place. I believed that Rev. Sun Myung Moon was the new Messiah. I believed he would change the world and I would see it happening in the next few years. I wanted so much to be the hero of my family, by going down in history like Paul the Apostle. I wanted so much for this to work. To do otherwise, I would have to admit I had made a mistake in the first place. I neither had the resources, nor the knowledge, to know I had been taken in the first place. Like I said earlier, “Lack of education was my delima!” I was sent to the headquarters, the New York Center. The New Yorker Hotel was not purchased yet.

Confusing Orders

~The Director of the Manhattan Center was Dr. Bergman. A real nice man, no complaints about this guy. He had a real radical Ch. 2 lecture. One that has probably caused many sexual hangups in many members. He was the one that began my medical jouney that set me on the path of healing. There, I became the Director of Transportation and I was a driver for the next couple of CF’s of the 4 West 43rd. Street Center, Mr. Sawada and Rev. Sudo. Prior to me leaving for a medical sabbatical, which meant I would go home and my parents would fork out the dollars for medical treatment, Mr. Sawada left his mark with me. Mr. Sawada’s mark: began while we were in a French Restaurant in Manhattan.While ordering our food I was questioning the waiter about the alcohol content in the food. I wanted food with NO alcohol. I still had not had a drink or drug, since I was 17 years old. I wanted to keep that solemn promise I had made to God. A promise I made prior to joining the UC. In the middle of my questioning, Sawada butted in,and started to lecture me. He reminded me I had not had anything to drink for almost 5 years. I was now working for the Second Christ and destined for a life in Heaven. Why was I scared of alcohol anymore? He then told me, “You are cured by now, go ahead and order anything, I insist. The DP and SMM will protect you, and guide you all the way.” Tell that one to Hyo Jin. Since I had no real Alcoholics Anonymous knowledge and it all sounded so right and so true, I said OK. I went ahead and ate, drank with them and thought all was merry. Then I went home for about 7 months of medical healing. Top with my first drink destined to learn the truth in the A.A. saying, “One is too many, and a thousand is never enough!” Should I share about my experience with a counseling appointment I had with Lady Dr. Kim? Where her advice for me with raging hormones was to pray and stroke the lizard at the same time. That was one real sound advice I just couldn’t follow. It just seemed too bizarre, now if a sister could help me, that would be different. Maybe in my next story, “Coming Back, and Being Rejected for the Matching and Blessing, and Surviving Cruel Remarks,” or something along this line, I can dwell into this advice by Lady Dr. Kim. Thank you, oh great wanderer. And remeber the Truth will set you free, like it has for me. If only I could get over the anger and regret part.To anyone who has read my story, thank you for your time. It does me a world of good to just share the truth. I spend some time on the newsgroup alt.religion.unification I use to spend time on Global Village Inn, but as I write this story of mine, I am being kicked off because the Members of the Unification Chuch just cant handle the truth. No more lies from me about the Unification Church.

God Bless you Nansook Hong, your book has helped me tremendously.

5/4/10

Could the UC possibly be a cult?

Sometimes Moonies joke about being in a cult because they believe they could not possibly be in one. Most of the time, the word cult angers them. If you are conditioned your whole life to support of oppose something, it is hard to break free from the way of thinking itself. BC’s are conditioned throughout their life in many ways. Whether it is intentional or not, second generation members have been molded to react a certain way toward words such as deprogramming, brainwashing, and cult. If you at all imply that they are apart of a cult they will backfire with, “We’re normal people” or “We’re not like we used to be” or “Every new religious group is considered a cult”. Let us look at the definition of cult, though.

Cult - a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.

Now we can argue if this sect is false, but it is considered false by about 6 billion people. That is a pretty substantial amount of people. Not only that, but it is considered extremist, with the “heavenly deception” techniques and the belief in ansu exorcisms/healings and other strange/unorthodox practices that are clearly abusive and deceitful. Now, most Moonies do live in conventional society (though there are many who live in centers and at one point most members did live in centers) but are under the direction of Reverend Sun Myung Moon in each aspect of their life. Do not deny this. The prayer of a Moonie is sent to “Heavenly Father and True Parents”, and there is an emphasis to have a spiritual relationship with Rev. Moon and to report to him in a reverent, prayerful manner throughout the day.

International Cultic Studies Association has a check list to see if an organization is a cult. Let us go over it.

1. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.

• As we’ve gone over, there is an unquestioning commitment towards Reverend Moon by most members. Many will not even consider that the affairs of Moon actually went down, despite it being solidified as a fact by several elders, leaders, and even the “True Family”. Others will brush this fact aside and will not even try to understand that it contradicts Moon’s position as a messiah and in the state of perfection, unable to sin.

2. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.

• The fact that Dave Hunter has warned members about this blog and there has been a great push to get rid of it is quite an example of this. Members also became quite emotional if you say anything “negative” about the church and its people. These same people forget that without honest criticism, there cannot be any improvements. This has led to blind believers and broad ignorance in the movement.

3. Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).

• Is ansu not a great example of this? You are put in a room with thousands of people singing the same song dozens of times while clapping and hitting yourself (and others). Many times, people get lost in a trance-like state during ansu. This does not at all support the belief that it is a supernatural or spiritual experience, but plainly proves that it is a psychologically manipulative one. In Cheong Pyeong, this practice is done twice a day for over an hour for 40 days straight. Is that not in excess?

4. The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry—or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).

• In the Cheon Seong Gyeong, Moon instructs to which side a man should part their hair. Is that not a bit much? The Cheon Seong Gyeong repeatedly has instructions on the tiniest details of life. The fact that marriage is not completely one’s decision, though this tradition is dying out in the Unification Church, shows how much trust members have for Moon and how much they are willing to yield to their master. Though the lives of members were much more dictated in the 50s-80s when members were under the complete control of “central figures”, this still applies.

5. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).

• Well, the Unification Church do consider the members the model to humanity and the chosen people, such as those of Israel. One cannot attend a single youth workshop without hearing the great hope the BCs are for the sake of the providence of restoration. And well, Moon is leading this chosen people as the Messiah, King of Kings, Lord of the Second Advent, etc.

6. The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.

• Let us not even pretend this does not exist. Many members do not like holding close relationships with non-members and feel as if they cannot have relationships of depth with “outsiders”. It is normal for non-members to be called “outsiders” and the world around them the “outside world”. Dae Mo Nim even spoke out against children having sleepovers with outside children. Such advice must confuse and complex the Unificationists’ ideas on relationships with non-believers and cause tension between the two. This certainly cannot be good for the “One Family Under God” motto.

7. The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).

• Moon definitely believes he has the most authority. Let us look at several quotes of the self-proclaimed sovereign Sun Myung Moon:
  -“Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.”
  -”Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.”

8. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members’ participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).

• STF, the youth missionary efforts of the Unification Church, would fundraise and say they were apart of a non-denominational Christian youth group. This tactic of lying when fundraising has been done all throughout Unification Church history. This so-called “heavenly deception” is still practiced throughout the world by missionaries of the Unification Church.

9. The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.

• The fact that Mrs. Kim and other campaigns of leadership were done in the US to discourage members from cooperating with the Global Peace Festival and Hyun Jin Moon is a recent example of such a practice. Hyun Jin was said to be a criminal and straying from the way of the Providence. This tactic has also been done to members in Japan to restore their ancestry and beloved family members, as well as throughout the world.

10. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.

• This practice has been modified and altered to a great degree, but when members joined in the 70s and 80s in the US, they were asked to call their parents and to cut communication with them. Many parents of members had no idea where their children were and did not understand that their children were involved with the Moonies. This practice continues for new members in smaller nations such as Thailand and the Philippines.

11. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.

• Nowadays, there are desperate attempts of evangelism (ex. Lovin’ Life Ministries) but when the Church began in the US there was an intense air of pressure to bring in new members and have “spiritual children”. Hours and days of straight witnessing on the streets of New York and San Francisco and all throughout the US. After members began to settle down, such a pressure died out but continues among programs like STF.

12. The group is preoccupied with making money.

• When the palace was being built, there was incredible pressure to invest thousands into it’s construction. Certain members in each community would check up on local members and talk to them about donating. Even recently there was pressure during church “town hall” meetings to donate to the construction of the new temple in Korea, though the meeting was unrelated to this plea. Such pressure has flooded the history of the UC and is incredible in Japan, where most members are thousands of dollars in debt.

13. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.

• In nations in Southeast Asia, members are to live public and many times communal lifestyles where they spend hours fund raising and witnessing. This was of course the norm of the early church throughout the world.

14. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.

• This is similar to the elitist ideas that the Unification Church holds.

15. The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.

• Even non-believers in the Church are scared to leave and cannot see themselves outside the UC due to building all their dreams and hopes within the Church and their social network being mainly in the church. I know that I once believed that my life would be futile if I were not in the Church.

So we’ve gone through the whole checklist and it looks like each description can apply to the Unification Church. Though other mainstream religious groups can check a few of these, the UC can check them all, though maybe not to an extreme for each. Yes, the church has changed and has evolved in certain areas. The fact still stands that it can check them all and continues to be a negative power in the world. So, are you part of a cult? From the deceptive tactics, the abuse of members, the mind-control… you can decide for yourself.

5/2/10

Guest post by a dissident

Wrote you all my two cents, if you’d like it:

I’m writing in as a guest, and as someone who has recently decided to part ways with the UC after a dedicated involvement from age 17-22(ish), two failed “Blessings” (one legal, still, as my spouse and I decide the best way to start the divorce processes), and a “Blessed Child”. I’m not going to give you my name, call me a coward if you want to, but honestly, I want to save myself the trouble of dealing with a shitstorm of people calling either to take me down or “save” me. I’ve been checking in with this blog from time to time, and I find it interesting. It would not sway my beliefs or decisions one way or the other, I am old enough and mature enough to make my own decisions about my life and my system of belief. I also recognize that a lot is based on 1) opinions and criticisms of the writers, and 2) things that I have already heard of, regarding the “True Family” and the Unification Church. I regard this blog in several ways:

1. I think it’s good for the writers of the blog to help reflect and express and reconcile with themselves any tough emotions from parting with a stability they have had their whole life thus far. This has nothing to do with truth or holiness or what spirit world is influencing them. The fact is, it is hard to part ways with something that you have known your whole life.

2. It is good for their peers to critically examine their own faith. In my beliefs, the UC is not guaranteed to be the One and Only Truth. Could it be? Sure, but to believe that, you do need faith in it to make some leaps in logic unaccounted for in Rev. Moon’s words, UC traditions, and Divine Principle Theology. There are gaps, it is not a solid Truth. It is a religion, and I’m not saying it’s wrong, I’m just saying there are jumps of faith that one needs to be willing to take. If you examine those gaps and decide that you want to- for whatever reason- take those blind leaps of faith (that every religion requires, not just this one), then good for you. If you don’t, well, then you have to decide if you are okay being half-heartedly in a belief system that demands a lot from your life (for whatever reason, usually convenience), or if you need to do some soul searching to reconcile those gaps, either through strengthening of faith or by refuting it.

3. It’s a resource of all the rumors* that have ever gone around about the UC… in a BLOG. Does Kook Jin have an illegitimate child? I don’t know. Did In Jin have an affair? I don’t know. Did Rev. Moon have children out of wedlock? Yes, that I know. Were they “providential”? I don’t know. If these things were being published somewhere other than tumblr, I would say that news source has a major issue. But it’s a blog. It’s something for the writers to write as they wish and you to take as you wish. If you feel threatened by a blog, well, damn. How insecure are you? There are blogs out there that say a lot of things. If I believed everything blogs said, I would build a bomb shelter in my basement, join Scientology, buy a lot of sex toys, and vote for Sarah Palin in 2012. Maybe the world is ending, maybe Scientology is the true path to enlightenment, maybe I should buy those awesome sex toys, and maybe Sarah Palin would make a great president. Blogs.

What appalls me is the response. Legal actions? Seriously??? If your reputation is so fragile that it cannot handle a blog from tumblr.com, the problem is not in the blog. It’s in your reputation. If you feel so threatened by accusations (NONE OF THEM NEW) written anonymously by former young adult members, you need to figure out why. If you don’t have answers to their accusations, then I suggest you find them and address the issues at hand. Especially for a community as demanding as the UC- to the point of asking people to relinquish their freedom to choose their own life partners, and then pay absurd amounts of money- members have the right to question. Maybe the only answer is, “That is a leap of faith demanded by this religion.” That’s okay. But if that’s the only answer, that’s the only answer. You’re going to lose people with that answer, but that is the truth and non-manipulative.

What IS manipulative is rallying the extremists to seek out and find a bunch of what, 19, 20 year olds, for posting a blog? What does that say about control mechanisms? What does that say about the truth? Legal action against college-aged people who couldn’t afford to hire a legal defense? On what grounds, they gossiped about you on a blog?
Why?

And furthermore:
Would you accuse me now? And for what? Being as objective as I possibly can, without feeling like I am compromising my own beliefs?

Believe what you want, and say what you want, but recognize overreaction for what it is.


Editor’s Note: We really appreciate our viewers reading with a completely open mind. We also applaud you and the others who have written to us. There really is no proper discourse in the UC and this is completely unacceptable.

* We stand by our statements as not baseless gossip, though it has been, but verified and confirmed by several trustworthy sources. Yes, we know that not revealing our sources makes us look incompetent, but we have to keep their identities secret for their sake.

5/1/10

Anonymous asked: Why did you leave part of the document out? If you want us to know the whole truth then don't show to us part of it. Just my 2 cents.
Anonymous

We did not leave any of the document out. It was a PDF file and in order to upload it, it had to be converted to an image format. We converted it to a PNG based image and it is two pages long like it seems. If you try to highlight the images, you will notice how it is two pages/images just like the PDF. The top and bottom images are connected as you can tell when it is read. We are sorry for this and know it doesn’t look the best. If we cropped/edited the documents to take out the empty spaces, the authenticity of the documents will be criticized and so we just wanted to make it as genuine as possible. If you and many others strongly feel we should cut off empty portions, we will. Thanks for reading.

4/30/10

Recent Developments

A lot of you were shocked, disgusted, and outraged by what we had to say regarding some recent “True Family” findings. If you knew of the many other wrongs they have done, you should realize these things pale in comparison to the numerous sinful deeds performed by the Moon’s. In Jin Moon did have an affair with the person we stated despite what many want to believe. We hid the name of the man after we received a message telling us to please do so since the family has been through a lot because of that. In Jin has created deep wounds in the family and is somehow a top leader in the church. Her forked tongue speaks to many members weekly and many members do not realize what a fraud she is. Though we stand by what we said in knowledge of it being completely true, we had to take down certain posts due to legal issues. Yes, Kook Jin threatened to take legal action. That post we took down can still be found on this page.

We have been flooded by messages calling us cowards, hypocrites, and a variety of things, and we admit that we have done some things with this blog that may be a bit sketchy and irresponsible. Tossa Cromwell wrote a few posts verifying the things we said and quickly took them down. Preston Moon wrote an arrogant post that was quickly changed and we have it up on the blog for anyone who is interested. We feel this is something that separates them from us. We acknowledge and post our corrections and removals instead of hiding behind them. Anyway, that is the past and we try our hardest to be informative, honest, and professional. We continue with our goal to show the Unification Church in its most accurate form due its corruption that has affected millions of lives across the globe. From Reverend Moon’s affairs to the Japanese church’s deceitful tactics and abusive ways, we affirm these as beyond claims but facts. We also affirm those posts taken down due to legal issues.

Hold on, a “True Child” is suing another person? This is certainly the ideal path to the Kingdom of Heaven and World Peace. No, it is time to cease the apologetic thinking and behavior. Many have undoubtedly scoffed at our statements of the church suing other people for actions to similar to ours. Surely many would think this is an exaggeration to make the church seem as nefarious as possible. Will you members brush this legal document off as well? Some members continue to irrationally criticize our anonymity. We positioned ourselves for situations like this since we knew there is a great chance of them arising. Situations like this have happened in the past and we stated this a number of times. After all, it was the church’s noble youth leaders who went on a hunt to find the writers of the blog. Therefore, why would anyone drive themselves into the wall with such stupidity. Corporations have put up countless articles on the UC, but are not sued most likely due to their amount of power and money. The UC would not dare to sue them, but it is easy for them to shut down Tumblr and regular people. Many times, cease and desist letters are only intimidation tactics used by large companies to smaller companies or the common people. Even if they have little to no case (like Kook Jin), it is something they can do and it usually works.

I am sorry that we cannot answer every message and we cannot address each message we receive. We are flooded with many questions, as well as many brief attacks with little substance. We do try to address your questions to the best of our ability. If you leave your email in your message, we will respond as soon as possible.

We know the top brass of the Unification Church has been looking at this for a long time. After all, it was a few youth leaders who originally sparked interest and page views in this blog. It was Preston Moon who responded with the upmost arrogance and clear sign of ignorance. It was Dave Hunter, Jaga Gavin, Tossa Cromwell and many other members who created blogs in response, but have stayed mute for a lengthy period of time now. Several of them refer to us as cowards throughout their blog and advised us to reveal our identities. Well, they are long gone now and that is the end of that. I apologize for the digression, but we need people to understand what kind of people are leading them. We get thousands of hits from the New Yorker Hotel and the 43rd Street Building. We even had Kook Jin’s lawyer threaten us. They have reason to be nervous. In Jin is quietly pushing us aside and ignoring us hoping that the storm shall pass. The storm will not pass. And if for some reason we lose this site, we will start another one. And if we lose that site, we shall start another one. We will not be killed off by the skewed censorship of the Unification Church. We are being fought because we hold something powerful and frightening: the truth. How long will it take for the thousands of you who visit this site each week to realize that you are following a man-made cult? More importantly, when will you break the grip that holds you to it and inform others of what you know?