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Date Posted: 15:52:21 07/22/04 Thu
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: how koreans perceive moon's unification church.
In reply to: Nonny Moose 's message, "Re: how koreans perceive moon's unification church." on 14:45:01 07/22/04 Thu

I think heart4jc is right, UBF Koreans know very well about the bad reputation of the Moon cult. There was one Korean UBF missionary in Heidelberg with the name Martin Moon (Martin was not his real name, of course, but his UBF name). He was told to use the wrong name Martin Min instead of Martin Moon, because Germans would be suspicious of Koreans with the name Moon. (His UBF arranged marriage never worked and ended in divorce, but that's another story.) I was told there was a similar case in Chicago, with a Korean UBF missionary who was named Martin Man instead of his real name Martin Moon.

The cult around Moon is very old and one of the classical examples of a cult. So most people know about Moon, particularly Koreans I guess. What they do not know is the fact that there are many more cults around in Korea (see here).

Koreans are "good" in inventing new cultic ideas, exporting them to foreign countries and making foreign people their followers and taking their money. One recent example is the "brain respiration movement".

I am also very suspicious of Yonggi Cho, though he (still) has a good reputition among Christians. I think he is not only a false teacher, but the way they honor him too much and the very size of his church and the power he has there is very dangerous.

We need to understand that cults are far more prevalent than we were always tought, and cultic ideas and pratices can very easily infiltrate ordinary churches, especially when they practice authoritarism and separation from others as UBF does. It's not only about the few "classical" cults such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or Moonies.

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Credibility with Moon -- Mike K., 10:45:28 07/24/04 Sat