Has anyone here heard of the Unification Church? Or "Moonies" ??

Question

I'm just curious.

Do you know anything about it?

Answer 1

Yes, I don't know if they even come up to the level of cult. It looks as though "Rev. Moon" just uses his followers as sale people to advance his personal wealth... Jim

Answer 2

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1954. Born Jan. 6, 1920 in Korea is the founder of the Unification Church. approximately 3 million members worldwide. Moon claims that in 1935 Jesus appeared to him on a mountain in Korea and told him to finish the work of establishing God’s kingdom on earth. Moon moved to the United States in 1971. He has been invited to the White house and spoken to Congress.

Teachings:

Moon claims to be the messiah of the Second Coming and his wife is the Holy Spirit. He and his wife, called The True Parents where he is the True Father and his wife the True Mother, are the first couple to be able to bring forth children with no original sin.

The cross is the symbol of the defeat of Christianity, Sin is genetically based and it is not a moral issue.

The Bible is considered scripture along with Moon’s work "Divine Principles."

The thieves on the cross represent political movements. The thief on the right side of Jesus represents democracy. The thief on the left of Jesus is communism.

Adam and Eve fell because of sexual sin. Eve had sexual relations with Satan.

The Holy Spirit is ‘the True Mother,’ or ‘the Second Eve."

Conlusion, Unification Church is a dangerous group.

Notes: Has over 300 financial institutions all over the world including publishers, jewelers, and clothing stores. Moon has spent time in a US prison for tax evasion. Moon claims to receive revelations from God. He has been involved in séances and other occult practices like clairvoyance, trances, etc.

Answer 3

yes They were out in full force in the 70's and 80's. You don't hear too much about them anymore. They were called moonies because their leader was Reverend Sun Yung Moon.It was classified as a cult ,I believe.... They would stand at airports and public places, giving gifts to people but demanding you pay them for the gift they had given you. I seem to recall that all your worldly possessions and money that you earned had to be turned over to the church. Which made the Reverend quite wealthy. Other than that I don't have a lot of knowledge about them

Answer 4

there were a lot of moonies around in the 70's or 80's -- the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is the leader of the Unification Church --it is normally considerd a cult rather than a real church -- I remember he married hundreds of people all in one ceremony and it was on TV -- google "moonies" and you get lots of info

Answer 5

Yes, in the late 70's they were real popular.

The leader was from Korea, and arranged most marriages in his flock. He even performed a mass wedding of hundreds of followers. Most of whom had met briefly prior to the wedding.

He traveled the world holding great revivals,

His followers would parade down the streets and not let you by until you took a tract.

He was arrested and sent to prison for tax evasion.

I believe he even claimed to be Christ returned.

Answer 6

yes it's based on an idea that Jesus failed in his mission... Jesus was supposed to get a wife but died instead Sung Myong Moon claims to be successful where Jesus 'failed' in his view and did married appropriately...well not his first wife but 2nd or so.. was the right one... He also had the loss of a son and made an odd claim that someone in Africa was the reincarnation of his son... interesting way to deal with grief... I do not find him credible and more important dont find him Biblical

In the end Sung Myung moon tends toward theological and sociological culticness... he sets aside the real Jesus and the real gospel for one of his making... and he controls his followers, selecting who they might marry and uses them often more to raise money than spread his bad news (how else can you describe someone who is teaching against the good news)

Answer 7

i do no longer understand what number it particularly is been. one in all them *did* make the information. It grew to become into on national headlines. An old woman, who already had rigormortis placing in, got here returned to existence. yet another that did no longer make the headlines grew to become right into a baby who that they had made funeral preparations for that got here returned in simple terms as they have been beginning up the surgical operation to reap her organs. The revival in Lakeland began as a 4 day convention in early April. they have had conferences each morning and night on account that then. Todd Bentley is the chief, and his ministry relies in Canada. there grew to become right into a rfile that a guy in his casket on the funeral in simple terms sat up in the casket. a great form of the 'raisings' have handed off in the scientific institution, yet a pair have been exterior it. in case you seek 'raised from the lifeless, Lakeland' on youtube, you will locate clips from the revival. you are able to seek miracles or healings additionally. there's a great form of clips there.

Answer 8

You used to hear about it a lot in the 1960s and 1970s. After Sun Yung Moon went to prison for tax fraud and a fund raising scandal in Japan, he was exposed as another religious charlatan, and the movement lost momentum.

Answer 9

Yes, I have. During my college days I interviewed a few of them for a class paper.

Answer 10

Yes. I couldn't tell you about their beliefs, but it is based in South Korea.

Justified or not, people often think "cult" when they hear of the church.