News – Overall Japanese leader Rev. Song’s words at Meeting of Japanese National leaders
on March 27 2011 (Osaka, Fukuoka), March 28 (Tokyo, Hokkaido)
Rev. Song is the Korean leader sent by Kook Jin Nim in charge of Japan. First, a summary of his speech. Not for the faint of heart or the hypocritical.
- Church members are responsible for the terrible disaster in Japan
- If you say one wrong word, history can go in the wrong way
- Don’t do prayers to show off – Heaven will not receive them
- We never know when we will experience the same thing again
- Even if the grass is greener on the other side, don’t look over there
- The way of good is to go to Heaven through the tunnel of grief
- There are many people who let things go through one ear and out the other
- The churches in Japan have to bring 11, 15, and 17 times bigger [financial] results than before
- Mentioned generous contribution to the Red Cross
- Told members to give donations of repentance
- Misfortune can turn into a blessing
- God has been enduring a lot
- Stroke of good luck amidst misfortune
- Even the words I say in a sudden moment are not my words.
- This is not the end.
- God says that by bringing 11, 15, 17 times more [financial] results the disasters will end with this
- Tsunamis are more terrifying than earthquakes
- You can’t think that you survived [the tsunami/earthquake]. Make the donations by selling your house
- Build Cheon Il Guk and then you can die
- Say that you will die after building Cheon Il Guk even if a tsunami comes
- God told me that Japan’s misfortune will turn into a good fortune
- Many people seem to have died in the tsunami
- People who are willing to die will be saved, and those who squirm and struggle to live will be killed by a tsunami. Even if they’re not killed by a tsunami there’s many other ways to be killed. Always be prepared when walking the way of the Will
- Now Japan is entering a phase in which it is calming down
- 40,000 people have to set the standard of being patriots – Standard for True Parents’ day and the standard of extending the period [of sending in donations] for 11 days
- Make regular people participate too
- Construct a tower of dedication where the tsunami past by
- It’s a piece of cake. So easy.
“Patriot’s dedication” donation: 1,100,000 yen (13,500 US dollars) per family.
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I am church member in good standing; I’m not someone against True Parents. But I write here anonymously because there’s nowhere else to go. The church is reaching a ridiculous point in its history and there’s really nowhere to go to complain about it. I read the news about Japan and thought it necessary to transmit to others.
Is it right for the Unification Church to demand 1,100,000 yen to our members when Japan faces the most difficult crisis in its recent history?
Kook Jin Nim, Hyung Jin Nim: You talk nicely and put on a nice show, but who is violating human rights in this situation? Who is squeezing the blood out of the church members? No matter how much you go to the members and clean their feet and cry on their shoulders, you are still pushing them to sell their houses to fill the donation quota. Earthquakes, tsunamis, vast national devastation, irreparable economic damage, nuclear radiation is not enough suffering for you? Of course we are all “sinners” and should be ashamed of it. But why not do something about it?
Is the construction of the Cheon Bok Temple really providentially that important that it needs this sum of money to be wringed out of Japan at this time? Did True Father authorize this irrational push, or was it the idea of other people?
Kook Jin Nim is proud of giving 1.7 million dollars of church money to the Red Cross. Every church website from Korea, Japan, America, is proudly showing that off. I resent that.
Take a second to think that actually it’s just a drop in the bucket, no, a drop in the ocean of money that Japan gave to the Church. Billions and billions of dollars year after year. How can they push for this donation “tsunami” on top of the crisis they just had? Just take a look at this “patriot dedication” donation: The goal is that 40,000 families in Japan donate 13,500 dollars each. It comes out to 540,000,000 US dollars. That’s squeezing 540 million dollars from a nation that just went through a horrible crisis. They’re asking people to sell their houses and die for Cheon Il Guk.
In this perspective the donation to the Red Cross hardly seems like something worth mentioning or something to be proud of. If I were the Red Cross I wouldn’t take money which most likely came from the Japanese UC members. While it may be noble, the “Japan UC member’s human rights” charade feels completely inappropriate.
From this day on I am not going to support the church with my donations. They don’t deserve it any more.