*IN DEFENSE OF REV. MOON*
Kate Tsubata offers the most excellent defense of Rev. Moon I've
ever seen! Tired of people criticizing and persecuting True Parents?
Well get this post and you will put the persecuters to shame!



From: Kate Tsubata

Dear Ross,

I'm no expert, but I have a few pieces of information which may help.
Steve Hassan is a guy who joined in Queens, New York, for a period of
about
6 weeks, as I remember. Since then, he has made a living accusing our
movement, by any means possible. He wrote a book, not long ago, repeating
many of the false allegations which he has constantly repeated during the
past 20 years as his "ticket to fame." He's a publicity hound. I met him
in Boston, when he was trying to whip up anger towards our church there, in
front of television cameras, in 1979. At that time, I confronted him, on
camera, and demanded him to admit how much money he charges for a
deprogramming. He refused to answer, because his dirty little secret is
that this is a business for him. I told him "You joined the church for 6
weeks, and are using Rev. Moon to make money for yourself." He couldn't
respond, because it was all totally true. This is not a guy who can make
it in life by contributing something positive to society, because he needs
the dynamic of fear and power to make himself feel important.
Unfortunately, his time has passed, as the Cult Awareness Network, and
people like him, have been sued and bankrupted because of their illegal
activities of kidnapping adults, holding them hostage, subjecting them to
the same techniques they accuse the various religious organizations of
using (isolation, coercion, sleep deprivation, emotional manipulation, and
sexual temptation). In the US, they are finished. Perhaps in other
countries, they have not yet been exposed and regulated. The CAN group
were advisors to US Attorney General Susan Reno on the Waco standoff,
and
their advice convinced Reno to order the FBI to storm the Branch Davidian's
complex, causing the immolation of many unarmed, defenseless people,
including children. That in turn led to other disasters like the bombing
of the Federal Building in Oklahoma by Timothy McVeigh. Scientologists
have gotten CAN convicted in court, and fined, for their illegal
activities, resulting in the complete turnover of all CAN materials and
assets to key Scientologists. For Hassan to style himself as the "expert"
of a group that has so many actual crimes and loss of lives to its' credit
is sort of like claiming credit for the Holocaust. You have to feel sorry
for him. He's a sad guy, who thought his ticket to wealth and success lay
in fomenting hate, and now, his arsenal has been spent, and his raucous
cries of "lynch the so-and-so" don't work, because everyone else is turning
from hate to love.

Regarding dealing with such comparisons as the Unification Movement
to suicide cults, etc., I would be very matter of fact, and point out the
actual record. While those groups sought to isolate from others, we go out
and serve all others. While they glorified suicide, we teach that this is
the worst thing one can ever do, because of the difficulty of restoring
this from the spirit world. While they teach free sex, or sexual activity
with the leader or leaders, we teach purity before marriage and absolute
fidelity within marriage. While they focus on their small goals of
gathering power, money or members, we have continually served those who
do not belong to our movement, and have encouraged them to in turn, serve
the greater community. (Science conference, World Media Conference,
IRFF, Summit Council, Washington Times, home church, and now Family
Federation for Unification and World Peace.)

Rev. and Mrs. Moon, in contrast to nearly every leader of powerful
religious or charitable organizations, have a simple lifestyle, don't
gather large amounts of material goods for themselves or their family, wear
simple clothing, go to humble areas of the world and do physical hard work
like fishing, and continually invest money, time, love and energy into
things that help others, not themselves. Not even the Pope can stand up to
that level of service and humility. What other religious man or woman has
started boat building enterprises, machinery works, newspapers (well, a few
here--Christian Science Monitor comes to mind), health food and herbal
medicine companies, highway projects, etc.? Who else has entered the
capitals of the worst dictatorships and anti-Christian countries and spoken
directly about God to their top leaders? And who was the first one to give
aid and help those countries, once they renounced the former system?

But even more intrinsic, who has worked tirelessly to bring all people,
regardless of country or religion, back to the most central truth of our
lives: that to be happy, we must be pure before marriage and faithful
within marriage? Can any religion oppose this? No. Does it gain him a
dime? No. Does it get him glory, members, political clout? Not so far.
He's 77--it would be rather late for him to be building up to an eventual
political career. Even if he was, marrying people or blessing them in
their marriages seems like a detour, if anything, from a method of gaining
power.

The positive side of all the attack he has endured is that no one group
or
church or country or race can say "he's ours." He never compromised his
conscience to curry favor with the South Koreans or North Koreans,
Japanese
military or American government, though he served all of them with heart,
work and money. Thus, they all jailed him, slandered him and treated him
as the worst criminal. The communists attacked him--and he responded by
loving them and lifting them out of their self-made nightmare. The
Christians attacked and vilified him as the antichrist--and he loved them,
served their churches and ministries, and uplifted them. Truthfully
speaking, black people have the clearest conscience in regard to him,
having more consistently been open and kind to Rev. Moon and his
movement than any other group. Perhaps the white, Christian Americans
have been the most prominent in their accusations and attacks. Yet, he has
loved and served them more than any other group.

The facts are that in 77 years, no one has ever found one slightest speck
of wrongdoing on his part, except the subjective interpretations of "he
doesn't agree with me." It is because he won't succumb to bribery,
seduction, drugs and alcohol, power-tripping, clique-based choices and
other corruption that he has been rejected. Yet, he never rejected those
same attackers. After being falsely accused, tried and convicted of
trumped-up tax evasion charges in America, he went and shook hands with
the prosecutor. He served the unjust and unearned jail sentence with love
and
service for all the other inmates, working side by side with them, honoring
all the gag rules and uncomplainingly accepting the disrespect heaped on
him. No one can maintain an act for 77 years, without letting the mask
slip under pressure. He has endured concentration camp for 3 years,
torture, starvation, poverty, death of his beloved children, massive
persecution, assassination plots, betrayal--and yet, is smiling and
cheerful, full of humor and compassion, free from bitterness or complaint.
Even that is evidence of a character of great goodness.

Finally, the truest test is the test of time. If people had listened to
Hitler and watched his actions in 1932, they could have foreseen World War
II and the Holocaust. Though millions of Germans cheered for him in 1940,
by 1946, he was the most reviled of all people, because time exposes
each***
of us for what we are. Our thinking creates our actions, and our actions
create our character, and our character creates our fate.

Jim Jones' thinking was hate filled, his actions were self-aggrandizing,
and his character became ruthless and exploitative, culminating in a
horrible fate for him and those who followed him. Same with all the false
messiahs. Only one whose words are true, whose actions are loving, creates
more and more goodness in the world through his or her existence.
Ultimately, that is the kind of friend we want. That's the kind of
defender we want at our side when we are in trouble. If Chile were being
strangled by a dictatorship or an insurrection, who would they want to
visit their leaders? A wimp, who won't tell them the truth? Or a man who
will tell them even what they don't want to hear, but what is truly
beneficial for the country? That is what the Russian people found, the
people of the East Bloc, the people of North Korea, the people of Africa.


Rev. Moon has met with more than 100 world leaders, of many
political and religious hues. But, he never changes his advice to any of them
because of what they would like to hear. He tells each one "Love your wife.
Be
faithful in marriage. Teach your children purity. Be the moral educator
of your nation, not just the leader. Educate the youth for purity and for
leadership." Whether speaking to leaders in Washington or Burkina Faso,
his message is the same.

Will Chile perish if it follows Rev. Moon's advice? Will marriages
crumble if they follow his suggestions? Will the young people be stifled?
Lose free will?

If people can't foresee that these things lead to goodness, they will just
have to wait and observe the results over time. But then, when the realize
the time they have wasted, they may have some feeling of regret over not
having been part of the process.

These are just some of my thoughts and observations. I hope some will
be helpful.

ITPN,
Kate Tsubata


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