Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moonwas a Korean religious leader, businessman, political activist, and media mogul. A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Unification Church, and of its widely noted "Blessing" or mass wedding ceremony, and the author of its unique theology the Divine Principle. He was an ardent anti-communist and advocate for Korean reunification, for which he was recognized by the governments of both South and North Korea. His business interests included News World Communications, an international news media corporation...
NationalityKorean
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth25 February 1920
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
I will conquer and subjugate the world.
Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
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.
I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.
The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.
So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.
I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.
Those who are the most devout, outstanding Unification Church members are they the most beautiful people externally or just so-so? Very often, those who have the features of an Idaho potato are the most loyal members of the Unification Church.
Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm.
The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning!
If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.
Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.