CULTURAL WAR

There is a cultural war and the hope of victory lies with deeply religious people who are not of this depraved world. Even though the vast majority of Unificationists have jobs, families and live in the suburbs, this does not diminish the idiotic crusade of Hassan. He is so filled with hate for the few years he lived a monk like life that he can't see what has happened. Like the Mormons the UC is growing and proving itself to be a force for conservative values. Elshtain speaks at BYU and doesn't see that America needs their example of a strong religious lifestyle. Mormon's respect for Hinkley, who they call a prophet, and Roman Catholics who believe the Pope is infallible, is disgusting to Hassan. Many Americans have been brainwashed and succumbed to Hassan's "mind control" and by his friends who despise New Religious Movements.

Feminists hate the Mormons and Promise Keepers. But it is the intensely religious people that will save America, just as the Pilgrims, another cult as defined by Elshtain and Hassan, founded America and gave it strength to fight big government and feminism.

She writes often how Americans since the 1960s have given up a respect for healthy authority or as she says "legitimate" authority. She wants her cake and eat it too. She wants "compromise" and yet "Certain issues -- slavery, for example -- do violate so deeply the constituted principles of a democratic order that compromise isn't warranted. But most issues aren't like that." She is vague about what those "issues" are. That is why God sends his champions to give those "issues." She wanders around between conservative and liberal ideas but someday she and everyone will have to unite on absolute values that look very cultish today. She was on the right track when she had a cover story for the liberal magazine The Nation in 1979 that "criticized feminists for their antipathy to child rearing, heterosexuality, and the family in general. 'The family, however shakily and imperfectly, helps to keep alive an alternative to the values which dominate in the marketplace,' she wrote, sparked a wave of angry letters."

Fundraising must stop

One of the worst things that happened in the UC was when it lived in socialist communes in the 60s and 70s. Then they invented the terrifying MFT. The result was a total disaster. Steve Hassan says it well in his books, Combating Mind Control, when he tells of how he fundraised like crazy and never got enough sleep. He fell asleep driving and broke his leg in a serious car crash. He interprets this as abuse and labels the UC as dangerous. I label it stupid idealism. Even in the new millennium the UC still has some fundraising teams. This must stop. Don't listen to glowing stories of personal growth from members who look back at their years of mindless MFT days as somehow a time when they grew because they traveled across America and saw many kinds of people. It was a half-full experiment. One of the core values of a good society is honesty. How can you have trust if there is massive deceit? The ends do not justify the means. There may be an exception now and then, but not for the average person. For America to trust the UC it must apologize for the terror instilled in people as they deceived America. We need to settle down and stop this incessant moving. Travel is fine, but we need to live in a stable base camp. The UC has moved away from the extreme socialism of the 70s, but there is still so much socialist/feminist thinking that it cannot grow.

UC communities must honor individuality as much as they honor obedience to central figures. The UC is not "dangerous" like Hassan writes, but it is doing so many things wrong that it is a failure as a movement. Too many members still defend the movement when there are articles in national magazines about the confusion some young people have experienced on the MFT that still exists. Hassan has thrown the baby out with the bathwater. We did the same for 7 years, but finally realized that the Principle is true and that most members don't really know what principled relationships are. The bottom line is that they do not know that they are supposed to live in capitalist, democratic communities that are run by brothers in their own homes and in the community government. This no reason for Hassan to spend decades attacking Unificationists who have proven themselves with the test of time to be law-abiding people who are not under some strange mind-control spell.

His book, Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves is not the truth. Steve does not realize that God wants people to think, but He also wants people to think what He thinks about the core truths of the universe. Hassan has gone back to being a Jew. The Old Testament is the story of 2000 years of God speaking through a small religious movement that has been viciously persecuted for 2000 years. It is the height of stupidity to wake up each morning with a burning desire to attack new religious movements. Many have done that in human history and have killed such great men such as the Jewish carpenter who had disciples give up their jobs and beg with him from town to town and Dietrich Bonhoffer who was killed by the Nazis. What does Steve want? For Unificationists to wear a patch like the Jews did under Hitler's Germany? Does he want everyone to boycott Unificationist businesses? When Rev. Moon celebrated his 80th birthday in 2000, former Vice-President Dan Quayle was there to congratulate him for all he has done for humanity. No one can become famous for working over 60 years and not be known by his fruits. Reagan's daughter appeared on Playboy. Life is messy. But Reagan is seen as good man. Clinton was exposed for who he was in his fifties -- a womanizer. Jesus is seen as not deserving capital punishment. The book Inquisition clearly shows that Rev. Moon was innocent and should not have gone to jail. Jerry Falwell defended him against those charges and has become friends with Rev. Moon. Hatred toward what is different is very easy to ignite. America must open its eyes to the greatness of Rev. Moon and his teachings. The focus of unity is on True Parents. The only way for this world to unite and become harmonious is to become deeply religious and have the same religion. Until that happens God wants us to be tolerant of other religions unlike Hassan who says he does but his books are just twisted justifications for persecution.

STRETCH

God is asking each of us to stretch. Bigots like Hassan deceive themselves they are "empowering people to think for themselves." They are simply competing to persuade people to what they believe the truth is. The voices for what is "normal" are often of Satan. Satan does not want people to become deeply religious and live together in close communities. He wants people to have lukewarm beliefs and not push for moral perfection. He wants anyone who has a goal of utopia -- of world peace and works like a fanatic for that goal, to be seen as psychologically sick. We have to go slow, be careful, do everything perfect. This is the philosophy of OSHA and all the other government bureaucrats who, if they lived in 1620 would not have not let the Mayflower sail because it did not meet federal regulations for hygiene and safety. Steve Hassan would be carrying signs and imploring the King to put Bradford and the rest of the poor souls who blindly followed him to their death in Plymouth Plantation in jail. To go to the dangerous American wilderness with children and pregnant women in winter would be from Hassan's judgment the height of madness. From God's viewpoint it had to happen. It was madness for General Eisenhower to send young men to their death by the thousands on D-Day. Hassan has no idea that there is a battle for people's minds from the diabolical feminists. Moon fights feminists. Hassan didn't see that God wanted him to be a fighter against the real evils of the world. He is the one who has his mind controlled.

The Principle Empowers People to Think Clearly

With Rev. Moon we learn that Satan is the ruler of this world. Sadly, not only Hassan does not know that the Divine Principle is the truth that will free mankind of Satan's mind control, but most UC members don't know how Satan works. We pray our books will end that ignorance. Satan got the movement to embrace fundraising that broke Hassan's heart. It almost broke ours. Satan has the movement in the palm of his hand when he has so many members come out with anti-femininst statements mixed up with feminist teachings. Anyone holding two contradictory views will be immobilized. The UC in America and Europe is dead because they have been digested by feminism. Unificationists are supposed to live in patriarchal communities in homes or condos they own.

Sun Myung Moon

Rev. Moon has gone past the growth stage to complete maturity as taught in the Divine Principle. By studying him we learn the absolute nature and goal of God. The title of this book lists some of those goals. Every person will ultimately bow in respect to Rev. and Mrs. Moon as their True Parents. This means every person will accept the Divine Principle as the ruling ideology of the world. Everyone will live as brothers and sisters with the same spiritual parents.

Anti-Moon books like those of Steve Hassan and those in Christian bookstores mistakenly see world unity as a pipe dream that only madmen would dream of. The truth is that God and Satan both have that ideal. Satan's one world dream is the Communist atheist feminist world of Marx and Lenin. God's one world dream is taught by Sun Myung Moon in his thousands of speeches he has given over a fifty year period. He is a practical idealist, not a monomaniac totalitarian.

Politically, the ideal world will be democratic and capitalist. Moon's opponents incorrectly see him as teaching a rigid theocracy like the Ayatollah of Iran where there are few rights and lots of punishments. Rev. Moon is not focused on politics. He is focused on the family -- the traditional family. He is tolerant and sees happiness for mankind as communities living with the wholesome values taught in the Bible. He is of God and therefore against violence. Steve Hassan used violence in deprogramming people when he began his crusade of being a religious bigot. Later he stopped using being coercive, but Rev. Moon has never used force, like Steve and other violent people have used against small religious movements that do not conform to what the majority defines as "normal."

In the title of our book we say that communities will be tight-knit. I have been the president of our neighborhood association and all we could ever do was simple little projects and an occasional pot luck. Americans need to revolutionize their thinking and live in co-housing style communities. All the co-housing communities are secular and therefore are far from the strong communities God wants. Every person is to live in houses they own, but they should also eat together for breakfast, lunch and dinner. At best most co-housing communities eat four dinners together a week. They are too individualistic. Our focus should be on the community, not nuclear families or individuals. We are to value the individual, but a person needs the security and joy that comes from being part of a community instead of an isolated person or family. A major task of women is cooking and dishes. In a spiritual community that always ate together there would be a big stainless steel dish washing machine in the common house that some teenagers could run for a fee. They would be thrilled to have the job and women could actually sit down for dinner and enjoy their family and friends instead of slaving over the shopping of food, cooking and cleaning. The goal of every UC member should be to form communities of many families -- lets say anywhere from 40 to 400 and have a beautiful dining room that serves food without exception just like a hospital does. People need to be fed regardless of individual's problems. Children need the love and protection of these spiritual communities. And only the Divine Principle is an ideology that is strong enough to unite this world as loving communities.

Tight-Knit

We have the word "tight-knit" in our title because communities need to be made of close friends. We had a neighbor of ours once that began drinking and could not keep a job. The wife was a friend of Claire's and had no idea what to do. His parents lived in town but they too had no idea of what to do and rarely came over or said anything to him. I did not know him at all and I had no interest in knowing him. How different it would be if he and I signed a statement of values that said no drinking and that a man had to provide for his family. We were friends and there were other men who felt the same way and lived all around him. If he came home drunk, then the wife would have the help of 40 men to talk to him and help him. If men lived in these kinds of communities, would any man even think of turning to drink and irresponsibility in the first place? I doubt it.

America has embraced the socialist/feminist agenda so even blood relatives don't care to help their own. They will tell their loved one to get counseling from the government and get welfare. Whenever the UM begins to live in loving communities then the media will take notice -- the intelligentsia will take notice -- and the world will beat a path to our doorsteps.

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