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Your article [Sept. 16] implies an acceptance of present church racial discrimination by members who, in fact, believe in full equality for all. They are working within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through example, education and patience to change the present practice...
...Korean Folk Ballet, kicked off an eight-city tour that climaxes his drive to build a base in the U.S. just seven years before the Messianic Age is to begin. Moon, through an interpreter, told the Garden-goers in guttural shouts, "The time of the Second Coming of Christ is near, and America is the landing site!" Half the crowd filtered out during the 2½-hour oration, but for many of those who stayed, there was little doubt that the Messiah is Moon himself...
...Korea, four times. The church's best-known practice is its arranged marriages, preferably in massive paramilitary ceremonies, after which the couple must not engage in sexual intercourse for 40 days. Moon thinks that the fall of man came when Satan seduced Eve. The first Messiah, Jesus Christ, had the major God-given task of finding the right woman and founding the Perfect Family. Since the Jews, according to Moon's teaching, "murdered" Jesus, and thus aborted that mission, Christ's death on the cross provided only a half-salvation...
That is where the Second Coming comes in. A new Messiah, who combines Christ and other holy men, must return to father the Perfect Family and redeem mankind physically. And this "Lord of the Second Advent" must be born as a normal man in Korea in this century. Who is he? Moon himself, devotees naturally assume. The Master does nothing to discourage the idea...
...Lord require of thee," says the Book of Micah, "but to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians, exhorts Christians to "be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you." And St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in the 12th century, wrote engagingly that "if mercy were a sin, I believe I could not keep from committing it." Moreover, as a French Jesuit theologian observed last week, by building a religious scaffold for the pardon, Ford may well have hoped...