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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 37, No. 16. July 10, 1974

"A pseudo-religion as evil as Satan"

"A pseudo-religion as evil as Satan"

Moon started his religion in his country of origin, Korea, but now operates from a headquarters in Washington, D.C. and a 22 acre estate in Tarrytown, New York, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. He has done well for a refugee, who in 1950 turned up in South Korea claiming to be the victim of Communist torture and the recipient of visitations from Christ.

He claims to be seeking the unification of world Christianity but starts by denying that salvation is through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. It seems unlikely that with this doctrine, he will gain the support of any other Christian church. In fact the head of the Korean National Council of Churches, the Rev. Kim Kwam Suk has said:

"We consider it a pseudo-religion more evil than Satan."

Moon also teaches a doctrine that Satan attempts to foreshadow the work of God. Thus anything which is seen to be good in North Korea becomes part of a devilish plot to lure the unwary into the grip of Satan. He also makes use of this doctrine in discussing the similarities that he sees between Hitter and his version of Jesus.

"The life of Hitter was very similar to that of Jesus in the aspects of his thinking on a world wide scale, his single life, his miserable death, and his missing corpse, though his will was exactly the opposite to Jesus'. Consequently, Hitler of Germany, who provoked the second world war was the Adam-type person on the Satanic side while he fulfilled the pattern of multiplying children by advocating pan-Germanism and realised the pattern of dominating the whole creation by establishing a pattern of world hegemony." (Divine Principle, p. 488)

Moon is expecting his version of Jesus to be re-ressurrected in the near future in order to fulfil for his God what Hitler failed to do for the devil. Establish a sexist, racist, authoritarian, world dominating regime. Sexist in that:

"Between man and woman, man is the subject giving love, while woman is the object returning beauty." "The power of love is active and the stimulation of beauty is passive."

"The beauty which a wife returns in response to the love of her husband is called 'virtue'. "(Divine Principle pp 48-49)

While staggering up Mount Street in Wellington's winter wind and rain, you may have been startled by the loud flapping of a sodden flag bearing a motif reminiscent of the rising sun of Japanese militarism. Just what is it that dwells in the white mansion below.........