Moon's "Tear Down The Cross" seminary goes legit as Ph.D campus

[donsu]

http://iapprovethismessiah.com/2006/07/moons-tear-down-cross-seminary-goes.html


Interview-shy Rev. Moon spokesman Phil Schanker recently thanked me for, among other things, reminding the Unification Church (owners of the Washington Times and major benefactors of right-wing causes) what stuff to cover up. He wrote: "I am happy that our work is being challenged… and improved in consistency, openness and coordination, by the accountability your spotlight demands. I am not talking about simply removing stuff from websites but serious organizational re-evaluation, and improvements in consistency and clarity of our message and purpose."

Here's an example. The Unification Theological Seminary is Moon's training school, a place where kooky federal abstinence-education schemes are hatched. The state of New York has just accredited it as a legitimate place to earn a Ph.D, according to local reports.

So here you are, thinking of maybe going back to grad school and becoming an theologian. But just what can you learn there? According to a 2004 piece now missing from Moon site FamilyFed.org (via Google cache):

On June 11, 2001, lightning struck down the cross decorating the front of the Unification Theological Seminary. In view of this act of God, our True Father initiated the “taking down the cross” movement. Unificationist leaders and diverse theologians have presented many profound reasons for the taking down of the cross.

In resonance with this spirit, the Theologians Club at the Unification Theological Seminary is hosting the UTS Theologians’ Conference to begin to delineate a clear Unification theology on the cross as a symbol and why it should be removed from churches at this time.

Eat your heart out, C.S. Lewis. Anyway, that's just one of many tidbits newly unavailable on the Web.

More on Moon's "tear down the cross" movement, which climaxed with Moonists and hangers-on holding a Jerusalem "funeral" for the revered Christian symbol, here. It climaxed, of course, with a series of unlikely events on Capitol Hill hailing the advent of a replacement icon: the crown of Reverend Moon, King of Peace.

During a late-'70s corruption and influence probe by Rep. Donald Fraser (D-Minn.), former Moonist political leader Allen Tate Wood testified that the Reverend hoped to gain power by controlling professional schools in the U.S. "Once we can control two or three universities," Wood quoted Moon as telling him, "then we will be on the way to controlling the certification for the major professions in the United States." (Report of the Subcommittee on Int'l Organizations of the Committee on Int'l Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, Oct. 31, 1978.)
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let's not forget Moon is part of the neo con bushmilhousegang although he thinks it's the other way round - the neo cons are part of his gang.

some of our congress people think he is peachy wonderful.

Ph.Ds arn't what they used to be

[MindPilot]

1. Certainly an unlikely ally

for those of us who want the crosses off of PUBLIC land.

But now there's a whole new set of arguments about whether or not a crown is a religious symbol. x(

[xchrom]

2. moon is either delusional or very clever.

because no way are the unbelieving uber wealthy giving significant control of anything to him IF he is a hair on fire born again messianic nutcase.

on edit: i'm leaving room for him to be a non-believing con-artist -- who like the tapeworn he is -- is sucking money and power from everything around him -- in which case -- the other uber wealthy think he is hunkey dorey.