Hello everyone,
I hope you are well. This Monday past, I started work at McAfee on the team developing and
supporting a network security product, Network Threat Response, so I will be gainfully employed for the near
future, which definitely takes a weight off my mind.
It would
seem to me that promoting persons over principle is the very definition of a personality
cult. Heaven help us from personality cults. We saw plenty of them in the 20th century
which became totalitarian traps, where leaders violated Godly principles, yet people
could not leave, either because of loyalty to an unprincipled leader, religious or
tribal group, family complications, or force. Political personality cults led by
totalitarian leaders killed millions of people and caused misery for so many more, while
religious and ideological personality cults built up people's hopes, and often crushed
them emotionally and psychologically when the leader was found to be a fallible human
with proverbial feet of
clay.
I
am all in favor of promoting God's principles, Divine Principle, Natural Law, or whatever
you want to call it. They amount to the same thing. And I will support anyone
who promotes those principles by their words and deeds, regardless of who they
are. It would seem to me that the age of religion and organized churches is
waning, and the age of living according to our conscience is dawning. What does
the future hold? Whatever you decide it to be. There is no heaven to go to,
only a heaven for you to build for you and those you care about.
The
reason I became a member of the Unification Church is because Rev. Sun Myung
Moon taught and promoted ideas which explained God, the origin of evil, and the
way to make God's ideal a reality on the earth. The pinnacle of that teaching
was the strategy to love your enemy and win him over to become your friend and
even beloved. It was never a personality cult supporting any one leader or
group. I supported the man called True Father because his mission became my
mission, not because I worshiped him personally. Never did, never will. I
worked with him to achieve a common goal.
The
fall out of the In Jin Moon scandal is continuing in the Unification Church,
though I don't attend often, and find that I have more common cause with the
outcast Hyun Jin “H1” than any of the loyalist insiders. He just completed a
conference in Atlanta, GA and people were apparently inspired and uplifted by
the event and the content of the presentations. Here are videos of the speeches
that I found on YouTube:
Bernice King spoke at the
GPC. She is Martin Luther King's daughter and the CEO of the King Center in
Atlanta.
http://youtu.be/0MhGUTInKVY
State Senator Emanuel
Jones, GA, Co-Chair, Global Peace Convention 2012 Opening Address
GPF Intro 720p
Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon
remarks at the Opening Banquet of the Global Peace Convention 2012
http://youtu.be/bPXF0p7fenw
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http://youtu.be/KN3fjO23dh0
Have
a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah,
and Happy New Year, whichever of those you celebrate!
And Happy
Doomsday to all you preppers!
"Heaven is not any kind of Disneyland; heaven is in the
midst of you because the place where you are becomes God's dwelling place and
the dwelling place of your parents."
Word and Deed, January
30 1977, Rev. Sun Myung Moon (1920 - 2012)
"Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied,
“The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people
say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
"