BOOK: "Hubris and Hypocrisy, Incitement and Disavowal: Sexuality and German Fascism" —Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State

BOOK: "Hubris and Hypocrisy, Incitement and Disavowal: Sexuality and German Fascism" —Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State http://t.co/hdvlk7mgQ4

— unificationism today (@utblog) March 6, 2015

Personal comments submitted to the July 1, 2015 article: UPF Dallas Marches for Traditional Marriage in 4th of July Parade

July 1, 2015 article: 

UPF Dallas Marches for Traditional Marriage in 4th of July Parade

Comments:

Submitted to the comment section July 1, 2015

Dear brothers and sisters

I don’t understand why we can’t advocate for “core values” of “traditional marriage” without denigrating other types of minority marriages.

Respectfully and with love

Don't Be a Sucker by U.S. War Department Published 1947

Admonishes if we let fanaticism, hatred, prejudice turn us into suckers:

SERMON: How to Prevent Extremism - In Jin Moon, Jun 28, 2015

SERMON: How to Prevent Extremism - In Jin Moon http://t.co/yD0WlZLFcI Jun 28, 2015 http://t.co/iPFMQfPfeZ

— unificationism today (@utblog) June 28, 2015

Personal Comments on Mother Moon's Latest Hoon Dok Hwe Message "This Country is God’s Homeland" April 13, 2015

Links to the Church Articles:

IPeace TV Shares True Mother’s Latest Hoon Dok Hwe Message

This Country is God’s Homeland


My Comments:*

Dear Brothers and Sisters

I have sincere and heartfelt concerns about the church's involvement in the political and military goals voiced in this report. Isn't every country "God's homeland"? The separation of church and state and the rule of law are very important for the religious freedom of us all.

It seems to me that the church is seeking governmental authority and not just religious converts. That is very troubling.

The only reason that the clergy would seek such political authority is to possess the powers of a civil government (e.g. police, army, law making, law enforcement). And the only purpose for that would be to force the public to accept their religious views and commands through physical means rather than through love, service and persuasion.

Sincerely and respectfully and with love.

"What, then, is fascism? Fascism denies the fundamental values of modern democracy, including respect for the individual and his basic rights, freedoms of speech, the press and association, and the parliamentary system. Race or nationality is the ultimate value, to be upheld by a strong nation-state..."
—Unification Church Divine Principle Chapter 5 Section 4.3.2




The Constitution of the Republic of Korea
Article 20: [Religion, Church] (1) All citizens enjoy the freedom of religion.
(2) No state religion may be recognized, and church and state are to be separated. 



"The purpose will not be to legislate, either politically or doctrinally, but to promote mutual respect..." —Sun Myung Moon

*These comments were submitted on the Church website article on April 7, 2015

Missing One Thousand Years? | "Byzantium: The Lost Empire"

The Divine Principle "Parallels in History" seems to largely ignore the reality of the one thousand year reign of the Christian Byzantine Roman Empire. It's important that we all be aware of this very critical and influential part of our history. As the old saying goes; "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."—George Santayana

Divine Principle Chapter 3 The Periods in Providential History and the Determination of Their Lengths http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/expodp/edp-history.html

Divine Principle Chapter 4 The Parallels between the Two Ages in the Providence of Restoration http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/expodp/edp-parallels.html

From Encyclopedia Britannica:
"Theirs was, in their view, none other than the Roman Empire, founded shortly before the beginning of the Christian Era by God’s grace to unify his people in preparation for the coming of his Son. Proud of that Christian and Roman heritage, convinced that their earthly empire so nearly resembled the heavenly pattern that it could never change..."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87186/Byzantine-Empire

From Wikipedia:
"It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

"Pulcheria... one of the most important figures in Byzantine and even in World History." 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcheria 

VIDEO CLIP: Byzantium: The Lost Empire, TLC — "... Pulcheria... the three roles of women laid out in the early Christian Church; sinners, virgins and mothers... "—John Romer, Egyptologist

VIDEO CLIP: Byzantium: The Lost Empire, TLC — "After Pulcheria, emperors ruled by divine right, and the right of birth, and all western kings imitated them... changed the way men saw women and women saw themselves... sexuality... "—John Romer

Religious Freedom?

"Theodosius I established, with the Edict of Thessalonica, the Christianity of the First Council of Nicaea as the official state religion, reserving for its followers the title of Catholic Christians and declaring that those who did not follow the religion taught by Pope Damasus I of Rome and Pope Peter of Alexandria were to be called heretics...

In 391, Theodosius closed all the 'pagan' (non-Christian and non-Jewish) temples and formally forbade pagan worship."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire

"Justinian I... solidified his power but ended with the deaths of a reported 30,000 to 35,000 rioters on his orders."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

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Like the Bible, if we look at the Divine Principle symbolically, poetically and metaphorically it expresses a sacred history, not a literal and scientific one.


"A religion does not need to be interpreted literally in order to be valuable and taken seriously."—Anonymous

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"Byzantium: The Lost Empire" (full documentary by John Romer)

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VIDEO: Fall of The Roman Empire...in the 15th Century: Crash Course World History