God - Good or Bad?

The essay below is from my husband:

What I will be discussing today has to do with the remarkable parental heart of humans for their children. This is an important topic to me because when I was a young man turned Christian I would read over and again in the Bible that Jesus was the son of God and even that all people were the children of God. Basically, Jesus radical teaching was that God was the True Father, the True Parent of us all.

However, in reading the passages of the Bible Jesus also made statements addressing the church leaders of his time, the scribes and Pharisees, that they were of their Father the devil, who was none other than the enemy of God.

Jesus even stated once that the people persecuting him were a brood of vipers, essentially offspring of snakes or serpents. Serpents are considered to be the lowest beasts, and in Genesis we read that it was the serpent who tempted Adam and Eve; a subtle, conniving, liar, in fact the father of all lies.

Jesus further stated that the will of these people, the descendants of the Viper, was to do the will of their Father, a most notorious beast. And yet the people that Jesus was accusing were the most upstanding and respected members of the churchgoing community of their day.

How dare he attack and libel these men of the community, these stalwart leaders and upholders of God’s word, these noble defenders of the Holy Scriptures, the Bible of the time? But Jesus did label them such and he did so with no apparent subtlety that I’m aware of in my readings of the biblical passages.

Lets move on:
If a parent has 10 kids and all are happy, outgoing, successful, then I think most of us here would agree that parents whose children are happy in life bring them joy. However, let’s say that of the ten all are happy … except one … one who has a mortal illness. And let’s presume for a moment that this child is horribly crippled, convulsing without end and crying out in constant pain.

And I tell you this happens. This kind of reality exists and worse. It is happening right now in some pediatric oncology ward. As I’m speaking to you there is a horrible, heartfelt, painful drama unfolding for a dying child and the agonized parents who know only hopelessness, grief and despair.

Now I ask you, if truly loving, truly caring parents have several children who are all well adjusted and happy … and only one of the bunch is gasping and writhing in the throes of death … which of the children occupies the mind and the heart of a true parent? It is the one who is ill of course. This is because a True Parent feels agony over their child’s pain! A True Parent cannot rest, cannot be glib and nonchalant, not when the loving parent’s precious child is in death throes.

Why is this? Why is it that a True Parent cannot rest, cannot enjoy anything in life as its child is dying in a prolonged, suffering way? I’ll tell you why. Because we are not beasts. We were meant to be the sons and daughters of God, nothing less.

In spite of our degraded state after the fall there is still the core essence in each of us that comes from God, the True Father and True Mother of us all. And the parental heart is what distinguishes us from all else in creation! In spite of our fallen state as existent, sentient beings we are unique in all the known universe!

Let’s move on.
How many here saw the movie Schindler’s List?
[Schindler’s list concentration camp commander.] Good or bad?

[Mafia don’s control over “little italys” in NY.] Good or bad?

[Serial killers, e.g. BTK, Gacey, double lives as “good guys” in the community.] Good or bad?

Simply put, the folks in these examples are bad guys. Even if a serial killer had a family and kids he’d still be a bad guy. Now on to my first point: Even though some people might have believed that some of these folks I’ve mentioned are good guys, is there any possible way – really - that a half-good/half-bad person or entity can be good? No, of course not.

Can this unholy mix ever be representative of the genuinely loving heart of God, the True Father? According to scripture God abhors the mix of good and evil and God desires only that which is good. Jesus was good, he was pure, and he was without the blood stain of the fall.

God is a god of mercy, and his son Jesus was the full expression of God’s persona as Jesus hung on the cross and implored his Father, the True Parent, to unconditionally forgive humankind. He essentially pleaded with God to be compassionate and understanding since the people of that time simply did not realize what a great crime it was that they were committing.

Jesus didn’t just bring us the New Testament, he WAS the New Testament. Jesus sealed the covenant between God and man with his own blood. But was God happy to see this? If God was any measure of a parent would he be pleased at the suffering of his son? God wasn’t pleased at the suffering of his Son!

What took place was the ransom offering made to Satan in order to free humankind from Satan’s controlling accusation. This was a price paid in blood for fallen man’s bondage to self-serving, self-preserving, me-first individualism. And this me-first individualism is the grotesque expression of a race of beings mutated by the unholy mix of lineage between angels and humans.

Now according to orthodox Christian beliefs the souls of unbelievers, infidels, go to Hell, a hell without end. But think on this, to send someone to Hell for eternity, even an enemy, is the act of an unforgiving being and hell is a very bad place, the worst imaginable. So we’re talking about an entity that has an unquenchable, unnatural lust for revenge. We’re talking about a being with an obsessive-compulsive desire to punish and to inflict limitless pain and agony onto others who engender its anger. But this essence of wanting to control and harm others is what put most of those souls into Hell to begin with.

The all consuming passion -- of this so-called God -- to burn souls to a crisp for eternity, is a magnitude of wrong that is infinitely, infinitely greater than the combined crimes committed by hapless souls who for the most part simply and sincerely did not realize that they were committing any kind of crime with such unjustified, terrible consequence.

If God predestined everything then these souls also were planned to come into existence for their very brief lives – to commit one or more acts of sin – and for this they would roast, and toast, forever. How can this be predestined? Would you create a universe where a multitude of people would be doomed to suffer for eternity?

Let’s look to an example. Imagine if you will a supposedly loving father who somehow knows even at the time his son is born that his boy will commit some future crime that will land him in prison for life. Imagine that the boy realizes, upon entering prison, his woeful mistake and begs for mercy.

Imagine further that upon the long-awaited parole hearing the father appears … but only to make sure that his son will never, ever, get out of prison regardless of his son’s suffering, and regardless of the level of repentance felt by the son. Is this a truly loving father? A good father?

Let’s ratchet up the scenario a bit. Let’s imagine another father with two sons, one son of which the Father really appreciates the most. He puts this favored son way, way ahead of the other all the time. Let’s add to this scenario that the father demands that the less liked son and/or any other children in the household or surrounding neighborhood must believe in, love, and swear to receive the father’s love and good grace through the favored son.

Yet what if they don’t do as the father wants? What if they like the son well enough but don’t particularly embrace and bow down before this chosen individual? What is a fair administration of punishment for the innocent misdemeanor of not accepting the favored son as his representative?

Here’s one possible idea for punitive punishment I’d like to run by you. How about if this supposedly loving father creates an oven, a torture chamber, a hellhole of unimaginable horror, and then casts the children in there who don’t bow down to his favored son? Let’s keep going.

How about, once this so-called father does this; that he then throws away the key which means the children must be burned alive forever. Is this “father figure”, who has such an insatiable appetite to control others … especially by imposing unimaginable suffering … a good father or a bad father? Seems like a silly question doesn’t it? Especially since this character seems to have a lot in common with the concentration camp commander and the serial killers.

I think I could even argue that if a good parent knew in advance before a child was to be born that the child would be doomed after its life to be in hell for eternity, that the parent would rather not bring that child into existence. There is no way that a loving parent could be heartistically detached from the suffering of the child on earth, or in the world after its life experience.

A truly loving parent would not want to bring a child into existence that would have to undergo eternal suffering. A good person would never even entertain such an idea; much less allow it to happen if at all possible.

Now, on to the point of this preamble: I refer you to the so-called “God the Father” of contemporary Christian fundamentalist faith, the creature described earlier … that relishes punishment in unlimited amounts through eternity for those He does not care for. This is not any kind of a loving God, but rather this is an imposter, a deceiver. In fact … this is none other than the enemy of the one True God … and this false God has nothing to do with the God whom Jesus loved with his whole heart, soul and being. But I’ll get around to this later. Let’s continue on….

So what kind of a creature would inflict such limitless suffering on any other creature, especially a human being? More especially, its own children!? Such a creature would be a Beast! Not human, not even animal. A monster.

Well, how ironic that this type of vindictive, capricious God is worshipped by hundreds of Christian denominations. I know because I have visited more churches than I can count, and for all the singing and all the praise, behind the façade of faith is a God of brutal atonement that demands total adoration. An incredibly insecure God that insists upon having his obsequious followers fawn over him for eternity.

I’ve met one-on-one with ministers, bishops, pastors, archbishops, monsignors, priests, and the like. I sought them out because I wanted to get their take on the so-called “Heavenly Father”. I wanted to know their belief on this matter, and in their own words.

And what I learned is that if you don’t believe in and praise the “father god” of the conservative Christian churches and sing to him, giving him all your love -- no questions asked or allowed -- then brother you are in big, big trouble. It is most important in these denominations that you accept his son based on the specific requirements of that particular denomination … or Bam!, when you die you will be in the eternal hoosegow of unimaginable suffering. Eternal!

So for many conservative or orthodox churches, the term “to be saved” means to be saved from damnation by the very father-god you are supposed to love unconditionally. Yet this is the father that we just concluded earlier is anything but loveable. He ain’t loveable, he’s freakin’ scary. That is, as crazy as this notion might seem, as macabre as it may appear; it is the prevailing belief in many - if not most - fundamental churches that to be saved you must give your unquestioning, undying loyalty and love to this demonic, demented being. How utterly preposterous.

The god of these denominations is NOT the True Father, NOT the God of all that is right and good. The God of fundamentalist churches is therefore not the God that Jesus originally was talking about when he said “I am in the Father and the Father is in me”.

No, the God of most present-day fundamental and orthodox churches is none other than the false god that had usurped the throne of the True God at the sad beginning of human history. The false god who committed the original crime, deposed the True God, and defiled the lineage of all mankind. Worse, the evil “God of this World” as referred to by Jesus in scripture, has held the family-of-man hostage right up to these recent times.

From the beginning, fallen humans have been shackled by overpowering self-centered desires that have resulted in the shameful and wicked history of mankind. A “me first over you” mentality. This god, and along with him the false son represented by the fundamentalist churches’ distortion of Jesus, is none other than Satan … the Satan who appeared before Jesus in the wilderness to tempt him.

Having failed to bring all the world into carnal servitude, the father of all demons went into hiding and has been committing his crimes by masquerading as the very god who Christians claim supposedly loves us.

As I stand before you I feel like a lawyer defending His client in a courtroom. Wherein my client, the innocent and True God, who is the original True Parent, the Creator of Heaven and Earth and all that is good -- is being accused of crimes against humanity worse than any war criminal who ever existed. Ladies and Gentlemen, my client is completely and utterly innocent and I tell you that he has been framed and his good character so maligned that he has become another victim resulting from the original crime of the spiritual murder of the first human ancestors. My client, God the Father that Jesus spoke to and loved, has been set up!

The crime is this; that this horrible and crazy world has been made to look like it came about from the beginning of time as if God’s intended plan. Hence no matter how you look at it, everything is ultimately his fault. Whereas the real perpetrator, the actual criminal behind the scenes has been successfully covering his tracks and fooling everyone, including God’s chosen … the Israelite people 2,000 years ago.

And by golly, this evil one is doing it again today with God’s new chosen people, the millions of God-fearing Christians who faithfully do their best to worship and adore God, but who have been blinded to the demonic forces that seek to keep humankind in bondage and ingnorance.

To prove the innocence of my client, God the True Father, I must therefore work to expose the real criminal, and so I will continue by taking on a prosecutorial role. Please bear with me a bit longer as we follow the trail of blood in presenting forensic evidence that will lead us to see a different picture of the reality of life, of who and what we are, and the true nature of God.

[Revelations: The beast, Throne]
Over the centuries of the Christian providence God and Satan have been struggling against one another for the hearts and minds of the Christian peoples. Today, I strongly and firmly believe that we are in the last days. And in this time of spiritual Armageddon God and Jesus are seeking to claim the hearts of the faithful, but the devil claims the theology of the major denominations.

And the devil has succeeded in that the God of contemporary Christianity is not God, the loving and true father of Jesus. Instead the God that is generally worshipped is a distorted caricature of his true nature, a disfigured representation which has infected fundamentalist and orthodox belief. This is the work of the devil, the deceiver, and frankly, he’s done a hell of a job.

Back to forensics; now let’s discuss the DNA imprint that can help us to find the real murderer, and for starters, I tell you that the shocking truth is that the imprint is found within our own blood, spiritually stained blood, essentially every cell and aspect of our bodies.

The beast that challenged God at the beginning of human history is referred to metaphorically as the serpent Satan, but I assure you he is a genuine spiritual being, an angel fallen from grace. He is the infamous adulterer who ravaged the purity of Eve; and who stained the blood lineage of all humankind by mixing his and our spiritual DNA … so to speak.

Eve, as the great, great, great, great grandmother ancestor of us all, began a lineage which produced billions of people. This has been a fallen lineage, not the pure and sinless lineage God had intended. Through this relationship the descendants of Adam and Eve have also been the spiritually related descendants of Satan. Satan has always wanted to be in the position of God over man as our false stepfather, and he has taken every opportunity to do so.

I reiterate that through Satan’s union with Eve, subsequently including Adam, this trio created fouled-blood lineage which has descended down through millennia. The incriminating evidence is man’s contradictory dual nature which makes us capable of great goodness or great evil, depending upon the level of selfishness we can sink to.

This dual nature is an expression and the result of the blood stain that bears the mark of the anti-Christ. This mark of the Beast is imprinted on the spiritual DNA of every person, every descendant of Adam and Eve, in the form of Original Sin.

As his offspring, we as mankind have inherited Satan’s addictive, adulterous, selfish ways. But doing evil just tortures people of good conscience. So from before recorded history Satan sought to beat down our conscience until it can no longer discern what is truly right or wrong. A dead conscience will allow our intellect to justify every selfish act, which is his goal.

God’s enemy across the countless ages is the evil false stepparent of humankind, who has successfully deluded contemporary Christianity into believing that God is somehow good yet capable of great evil in creating an eternal hell for souls of people who were simply and innocently ignorant of his truth and the identity of his son. A truly unjustified punishment that subtly seeks to mock the true compassionate nature of God as a true parent.

One of the things that stands out about our teachings is that you can receive this measure of grace even after this life. That is, souls who have passed on from this life will be given the opportunity to grow by helping and assisting those people still on the Earth. This is the manifestation of a genuinely loving, parental heart. This is the nature of the true God. As a true parent he will never, ever abandon his children. Never. If your god does not have this kind of heart then you are worshipping a fake god, and it is you that will be surprised when you exit this plane of existence.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please let your common sense prevail. Search your hearts in the deepest and most sincere prayer. Don’t be afraid to shed tears to find the truth. You will know, if you pray deeply enough, that what I say today is true.

That is, that the Christian concept of a God that could be so forever unforgiving is a great lie from the greatest of all the liars. This liar is none other than the original evil stepparent, Satan. He is the corrupted spiritual father of humanity who broke God’s heart by defiling and murdering his children.

Now I ask you, how is it that Satan successfully positioned himself so as to be hidden in plain sight? Amazingly he has been able to do his mischief while making it look like God is responsible. The net result is that all Christendom makes the pretense of adoring god, but in reality the fundamentalist and orthodox doctrine is a shameful and subtle accusation of God. The subconscious message is that somehow god is to account for all the horrendous crimes that actually Satan is responsible for. It’s amazing that more people don’t wonder how this can be possible!

So what I’m telling you is that the Beast prophesied in the Last Days is none other than Satan. As mentioned earlier, Satan has brilliantly chosen to hide in plain sight masquerading as, of all things, the God of contemporary fundamentalist and orthodox Christianity.

From behind his mask he tries to convince us that God is both good and evil mixed together, which defames God and disses Jesus. And here’s the kicker, the finest minds in Christianity buy into this. Mind-boggling, a real mind-boggler.

When Jesus said “I am in the Father and the Father is in me” … this Father is the God of Love who cannot and will not tolerate the continued existence of Hell forever. Hell is the result of Satanic intervention in God’s plan. The loving parental God of Jesus and Rev Moon cannot and will not rest until every single solitary soul on Earth and in the spiritual realms, is restored into God’s bosom. And when I refer to finding and saving every soul I mean from the highest realms of Paradise down to the lowest depths of Hell.

What this new era means for us is that now is the time to overcome our fallen nature and throw off our own masks of selfish individualism. We must offer our own talents and resources to push humanity into understanding the unconditional love of the true God.

Christians and all religious peoples must know that Hell and the degraded human nature came about from the seeming consensual seduction of Eve which was actually based on trickery, a deceitful lie by Satan. A lie that worked in getting Eve to submit to his will for his own self-serving desire.

Furthermore, when Eve took Satan into her being the foundation was set for spiritual mutantcy to come about, an invisible genetic disorder that we refer to as Original Sin. Eve’s union with Satan was followed by her impregnation through intercourse with Adam. Their carnal act resulted in the contamination of man’s blood lineage which is passed along at the time of conception as the Original Sin I just referred to.

Like babies born to crack addicted mothers, the addictive traits of Original Sin manifest in easy weakness of our mind and flesh. Fulfilling desires of our physical bodies takes greater priority for most people than doing something beneficial for their fellow man.

Even the world of creation that was given to us as a great gift suffers from neglect and abuse. Original Sin is, in my humble opinion, a real disorder, it’s not metaphorical. And it is a disorder that can only be cleansed by engrafting ourselves to the messiah at his coming.

So what must we do?
Man must repent of his sins and be reborn through the cleansing of the blood lineage, the blood that was defiled by the archangel. This is necessary so that we can be engrafted to God. The Son of God brings the formula cure for the Original Sin.

The messiah will seek to establish international and interracial families that will eventually lead to the correction of the improprieties that derailed Adam and Eve from establishing a true family themselves. Theirs should have been a holy marriage blessed by God.

The new generation of exchange marriages - wherein partners take sacrificial vows to live for the sake of their partner and the world - requires serious risk assessment and totality of commitment.

Success is not guaranteed for each person or each couple; after all, we’re not talking about a dialysis machine for cleansing original sin. Moreover, after so many thousands of years the problems of the fall and sin are deep-rooted. So it may take several generations to take hold, but take hold it will.

The Kingdom of Heaven will not be realized fully until all God’s children are perfected in God’s image. Further, every vestige of the Fall of man – including the existence of Hell – must be removed from creation, erased completely and forevermore.

This is already taking place yet like a powerful locomotive the providence can be slowed down even though it can’t be stopped. So in spite of the chaos in the world and the many setbacks of God’s plan we are at the threshold of a new eternity, the true home of all God’s offspring.

When the world is completely restored, then and only then will the tears of the longing True Father be wiped away … and any new tears, in the eyes of God, will only be tears of joy, the deepest possible joy, everlasting and more fantastic, more wonderful than we can possibly and presently imagine

Truth and Heart

As far as we can look back through history, we can determine that humans have lived their lives following two laws: An external law defined by rules of conduct and an internal law defined by their own ability to love.

Both laws are essential in the development of human society. Rules and laws have been set by leaders, and demands of the heart have constantly challenged these rules and laws until today.

After 6000 years of biblical life humans are still looking for the perfect laws and the perfect heart, and until those are found, humans will always be in conflict with one another. This is because they cannot agree on which laws or truth are best, and which emotions and feeling of the heart should they follow.

Truth and Heart cannot live without one another. One is internal and is not visible to the naked eye. Its position is subject. The second is read and studied through religious books -- and through other kind of books which are written for non-religious individuals -- the position is that of object.

Subject and object positions do not imply superior and inferior. Rather the terms simply refer to a position at any given time. These positions are always in motion and are interchangeable. As an individual grows older in age, the Heart has the tendency to be Subject and the Truth takes an objective position.

However, for young people who have not yet experienced every possible emotion of the heart, Truth is most often in the subject position and leads the heart. Therefore, it is very important for youth to better research the truth, which will ultimately lead them to the perfect Heart.

The greater understanding of Truth will make every individual capable of withstanding the challenges of human imperfection. The individual can then leave judgment to God while growing in his or her ability to love.
So today, I want to read from what I personally consider the greatest Truth available in our time. I have never read in my life anything else that can possible compare with the Divine Principle.

Freedom of Press stupidity

Well they did it again; the cartooning of a religious leader has nothing to do with Freedom of Press but every thing to do with, insensitivity, stupidity, carelessness, and ignorance. When sincere people throughout the world are trying to communicate with one another and find a way to ever lasting peace, others are responsible for lighting the fire of war through careless and childish behaviors. These people are not worth the attention given to them and if they keep doing what they do they will soon loose a lot more than just their ever so precious freedom to be stupid.
Anne-Marie

Jewish and Christian alike

2000 years ago when the Beloved Jesus Christ of the Christian people was alive in Jerusalem, what kind of people did he meet? I believe that the Israelite people of that time were educated, very religious, and deeply committed to fulfill God's will. However, they did not recognize the Son of God, did they?What make Christians so different? Christians are educated, very religious, and deeply committed to fulfill God's will. How can they be so sure that they will recognize the Son of God when he comes again?Let us not be arrogant and assume that we will have an "easier time" and let us not assume that Jewish people of 2000 year ago were "dumb" enough to miss the "boat", I don't think so. It must have been very difficult to recognize the Son of God, and that is why they missed Him. They had the scriptures, they had great knowledge of them but when confronted with the Anointed One, they could not see Him. They did not hear His words and did not recognize His deeds. He was different than expected. He brought them a new truth but they could not hear it.

So, when He comes again, what about then? Are we going to repeat the same old mistakes? Are we going to cling on to our old truth and not listen to the new one? Are we going to feel so righteous and call him an anti-Christ just like Jesus was accused of being of the devil? Are we going to be afraid, just like they were?

Will we learn from history’s mistakes? Are we going to have the courage to go beyond our self comfort and seek deeper truth? We have so little to be proud of as Christians, we give to God only lip services most of the time and most definitively do not practice the principles we claim to live by.

If you have read all the way to here, then I am grateful. I have a very simple goal through this rhetoric; it is for you to read a book titled “The Divine Principle”. Read it first, talk about it after. That it is. Thank you.

Rev. Moon's world tour

I have not written on this blog for several months now. May be I had nothing to say, or I just didn't know how to say it. There is a lot of news that do not get published, why? I am not sure, but most likely because, either it is too controversial, or too boring, but most likely not financially rewarding enough. And, the news that gets reported must be reported in a way that will give the most financial benefit to the publisher. There is a piece of news that I believe should be reported, but is not, at least I have not seen it on the American newspapers, it is the 100-cities world tour performed by Rev. Moon and his wife. It is going right now and will be completed by the end of December. The theme of the talk given is the same in all cities: Peace and Reconciliation. How to achieve it and why it is not there yet today. I have found no other public figure who can explain in just a few pages of written words how to truly achieve peace in our troublesome world and be happy about it. No matter our religious beliefs and political stance, this talk is worth listening too for anyone who truly has the desire to participate in the creation of a peaceful world.

For those of you who might read this blog, take notice that if you do find any comments on the majors US newspapers about Rev. Moon, you will not hear about this world tour, but you will hear a lot about rumors and hear-say. If you ever had to deal with the media, you should know that their sole interests in reporting news are: financial rewards, entertainment, avoiding liability, and partial truths. If you want to know the real thing you will have to go and dig it yourself.

That is all for now.
Anne-Marie

Rev. Billy Graham

Today, Saturday June 25th, 2005, is a special day. People are traveling throughout our nation to hear the Rev. Billy Graham in New York. Thousand and thousand of people are expected for the next three days to attend this last revival. I think it is good. Rev. Billy Graham has preached his whole life about God's love and he did it in such a fashion that he was able to convince many of us that the love of God is genuine. He has given advice and encouragement about how to live our lives and how to behave. He is a beloved preacher who will be remembered for a very long time. Even the media is giving him praise and are not afraid to speak about him, to speak to him and to spread his words and pictures all over the TV screens. It is safe. No one is going to argue about it. No special classes or special groups within our society are going to complain.

I know another preacher who is also going to talk today in New York, tomorrow in DC, Monday in Chicago, and Tuesday in Los Angeles. He will gather many people but not as many of Rev. Billy Graham. For one thing, he will not be talked about on TV. His pictures will not flash across our screens. He is an old man just like Rev. Billy Graham. He has preached about God all his life, just like Rev. Billy Graham has. He has motivated young and old people alike, just like Billy Graham. He has met the most influential religious and political people of the past three decades. He has made more effort for world peace than any other human being that I know off. His words will not be known by the masses for a while longer. Most likely only after his death will mankind and historian realized how important this man is today. Today his is still too controversial in his presentation and his delivery of God's will and God's love. No media are going to touch him, they are too afraid of the many classes and special groups. It is not safe for them. So, it is much better to ignore him.

I am lucky and blessed to know the Rev. Sun Myung Moon for the past 34 years of my life. I am lucky that I was able to attend many of his Sunday preaching while I lived in New York. I had not had the need to rely on hear-say to make my own opinion. I have never heard of any one else speaking with so much depth about God's will, God's plan for mankind, God's purpose for the creation, God's desire for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. I have never seen someone with so many tears during prayers.

Our country, with all its permissiveness and evilness, has another side that can be seen when people like Rev. Billy Graham calls and we respond. We have many young and old people alike who want to have a great meaningful and purposeful life. People who truly and sincerely want to participate in the building of great world societies where decency, respect, trust, and true love are the norm.

I wish that soon there will be such a need for a revival that people will seek truths where ever it might be published or spoken. I wish that soon no one will be afraid to lose their own faith and will research any thing and every thing that speaks of God. I wish that soon our young people will be so tired of the world they live in, so tired of their boredom and self centeredness that they will go beyond themselves and finally learn what is already out there for them. I wish that they will have the strength, the compassion, and the love needed to do what we and the people before us failed to do. I wish that the words of my Rev. Sun Myung Moon could be listened and studies on their own merit before that are judged.

That is my prayer for today. Amen.

Wishful thinking

Humm...I have created and deleted this posting several times now...So I am not sure if it is going to go anywhere at all.
I am trying to learn what a blog is and how it gets read and what the purpose of a blog is. My goal is simple but looks like the actualization of it is going to be more complicated than that.
All right, let me go back to my title of the day. When I look at the news (CNN and Fox) I get bored. I can easily count on one hand how many news item they actually had over the past one week. They fill the time with so many experts who repeat themselves.

There must be something out there worst reporting....
I wish the news was more challenging, not so opinioned, and more diverse. I wish the good things that people do in our country and abroad would get more air space, and then we may be able to influence in a better fashion the lives of our future generations.

About Universal Unification

"To accomplish the gigantic historical task [of unification], you must discover the extraordinary power of love, love that does not become the circumstantial victim of society. Supreme love transcends every national, racial, and cultural barrier. People have always talked about love, but human love alone will never accomplish the task of universal unification. Therefore, we rally around one love - the love and heart of God." Sun Myung Moon

About motivation

"I don't look at you from the standpoint of success or failure of your task, but centered on your motivation of heart. It is important whether your motivation is self-centered or God-centered. When your standard of heart is the same as God's all problems will be solved" Sun Myung Moon

About Peace

Peace is a want and a need. It is present on most people wish list with the reasonable feeling that it is accessible only at a limited level in our society. It becomes a word that we sing about, dream about, talk a lot about, but in the end we feel that it is out of reach for our world of today. Many of us may not even think that it is possible to achieve at all.

Peace will not be achieved in our humanity of today unless and if we truly search for the reason that created the chaos to begin with. I will not bring religion or God, not yet. I will ask, however another question. What is it that makes us feel that we must strike, hurt, and kill? Reasons for conflict are fear and misunderstanding. These two simple elements have led us to the crimes that populate our lives as humans.

Introduction

This is my first blog.

I have a specific goal for this and will try to explain as I go along.

What it is: Discussion about God, religions, the purpose of mankind, the future of our planet

What it is not: Endless arguments about scriptures coming from the Bible or any other religious books

My target audience: Any one who feel a sense of responsibility towards themselves and other as well as towards the creation. Any one who desire to have a fulfilling life, where boredom is unknown

Not my target audience: Any one who wishes to advance themselves first before there own children, spouse, friend, co-workers.Any one who do not feel the desperation to leave behind a better world that they started with