Ardent nationalists need not jump to New Zealand's defence. He went on to comment that the trend is visible throughout the "western world", a trend for university students and young people to reject rigorous thought and accept unthinkingly any ill-founded and bankrupt philosophy.

"Bankruptcy" of course, is used here metaphorically. Founding a religion can actually be very profitable. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the movement discussed in this article is alleged to be worth about five million pounds, which he has invested in fields ranging from titanium and pharmaceuticals, to air rifles and even ginseng tea (a treatment for impotence).

Moon is the spiritual leader of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, an organisation which in Wellington flies its flag from a large and expensive house in Mount St. From this base the faithful go out to accost Wellington shoppers with the questions, "Do you believe in perfection?" and "Does your life have a purpose?" A reply indicating interest will elicit a potted version of the philosophy contained in Moon's Divine Principle, five hundred odd pages of garbled Judeo-Christianity seasoned with Korean Buddhism.