Friday, March 18, 2011

Why has Rev.Moon been anti-communist?


"Rev. Moon predicted the fall of Communist regimes and stirred bold anti-communist advances in the West. Moon was recognized as the most dangerous anti-communist by the Soviet Intelligence. Since Rev.Moon got in their way, several Communist regimes made attempts to assassinate him. According to high officials in the White House, Moon played major role in ending the Cold War, mainly with his paper, Washington Times. That's one of the main reasons for the vicious negative campaign against his church and the sect accusations in the past."

Rev. Moon, started active campaign against communism already in the sixties. He was one of the first to reveal the the atrocities of communist regimes and dictatorship. His organization CAUSA , according to research exposed communistic evils and gave counter proposal to Marxist ideology through Victory over Communism Theory. In the seventies Rev.Moon supported hard anti-communist policy of Nixon. This connection brought bad publicity to Unification Church after the unfortunate Watergate scandal .


Rev.Moon’s religious position was that communism rejects God, morality and leads to erosion of human values.Moon himself was imprisoned by the rising North Korean regime in 1948 for energetic religious activity, part of the communists' agenda to erase religion and churches. He spent 3 year in a hard labour camp till his release by UN forces in 1950.
Survivors of the camp claim that the Heung Nam fertilizer plant was a place where "death reigned" and an average person did not survive beyond six month of hard labour and unbearable living conditions.

But Rev.Moon explains that fighting the perverse communist ideology he never harboured resentment against his oppressors nor hated the people under the communist regimes. On the contrary his work was to expose the evils and help the communist countries restore their freedom including that of religious worship.
He met Gorbachev in 1991 and pushed for religious freedom in the Soviet Union.(Personal interview with Gorbachev).

Another of Rev.Moon’s organizations Professors World Peace Academy sponsored a conference in 1985 in Geneva. Unprecedented debate predicted the fall of Communist regimes and stirred bold anti-communist advances in the West. In the Soviet Union Rev. Moon was a recognized anti-communist and his speeches were studied by the Soviet Intelligence. Allegedly, as Rev.Moon got in their way, several Communist regimes made attempts to assassinate Moon in USA.


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