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Date Posted: 13:10:30 12/05/04 Sun
Author: Nick T.
Subject: broader ban on American culture in general
In reply to: Anonymous 's message, "Ban on secular or modern music" on 17:30:25 12/04/04 Sat

That observation about modern and even secular music is pretty accurate. To me, it seemed like a broader ban on all forms of American culture. Not just music, but American movies, entertainment, sports, fashion, slang, etc. ubf is pretty much against everything American. Even having a normal Americn job was treated as a sin against God.

Here are some of the ways that American culture was treated with contempt.

Super Bowl Satan - on the Sunday of the Super Bowl, EE would try to make some distraction such as a piano concert, special music, etc. And everyone was pushed to bring people to the ubf in order to fight against "Super Bowl Satan".

ban on all American sporting events - anyone who went to a baseball (or whatever) game was considered unspiritual. It later got to the point that going to a sporting event showed a person to be an Easu. However, when Korean athletes did well at the Olympics, or the World Cup Soccer, the ubfKoreans spoke how "God gave us victory". For ubfKoreans, sports was a sign of their greatness, for Americans sports was the seal of Esau.

ban on American fashion - from the very beginning, ubf has always forced Americans to rid themselves of contemporary clothing. When I was recruited, I wore nice polo shirts and what not. Then ubfKoreans criticized my clothes as those of a macho man, so I needed to get some plain, collared shirts, and some ugly ties. Then I was called a 'shepherd' and spiritual. And on Sunday I was only allowed to wear a plain white shirt, as colors or pinstripes were unspiritual.

ban on American movies - nobody even had time to go to the theatre to see recent movies. Instead, the ubf program was to watch a slew of lame movies that EE Chang Woo picked. You may have heard or seen them. 'Uncommon Valor" "Karate Kid" "Quiet Man" "Seargent York", the Bible movies with Charlton Heston, and a few others. All other American movies were deemed corrupt and had the power to damn anyone who watched them. American TV was banned as totally corrupt.

ban on American news - nobody at ubf seemed to know anything about the news scene, on a local or national or international level. Instead, when EE spoke during announcements he gave the ubfins all they need to know about what was going on in the whole world. Ee knew nothing except what he read in Time magazine. The ban on news was complete. While in ubf I did not read a paper or watch any news show for at least five years while in ubf. The only news item I can remember from those times is the story of John Tower, which was made a huge deal at ubf but actually was like nothing on the normal peoples' news radar. Not jsut me, the entire ubf was the same, totally in the dark.

I could go on and on. ubf is anti-social, anti-American, and pretty much anti anything that is not ubf. There is nothing from the Bible that would justify their anti-American attitudes. And at the same time they are so pro-Korean, though Korean culture is very dark in many ways such as abortion, opposition to adoption, corrupt system of elder authority, lack of charity and honesty and humility, etc.

As Americans, we have things to repent of and to be humble about. It is just not appropriate or healthy to be turned into anti-American, esp. by very hypocritical people like EE Chang Woo and his followers.

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Replies:

Ban on sporting events -- Anonymous, 17:20:04 12/05/04 Sun
The Karate Kid and UBF -- PECAS, 13:41:16 12/06/04 Mon
Re: broader ban on American culture in general -- Brother in Christ, 13:45:03 12/09/04 Thu