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          What does the Moonies and Jerry Falwell have in common?

This Article was taken from the magazine: The C.F. PREVUE
                                 address: The Colossian Fellowship
                                          P.O. Box 12933
                                          Seattle, Wa   98111

    Mr. Sun Myung Moon, founder and leader of the Unification Church, was 
release from prison on August 20, 1985, with a five month early out for 
good behavior.  He was convicted of tax evasion in May 1982 because he 
failed to report some $162,000 in personal income.  His appeals failed and 
he was sentence to 18 months in prison beginning July 20, 1984.
    Immediately after his release, he was taken to a dinner given in his 
honor at the Washington, D.C. Shoreham Hotel and was presented with a four-
foot trophy, all sponsored by the Coalition for Religious Freedom.  There 
were some 1,600 people in attendance, mostly Moonies, but also present were 
some "Christian" ministers and Idaho Senator Deitor Bayer.  Rev. Joseph 
Lowery, a Methodist minister and head of the Southern Christian Leadership 
Conference, charged that there was racial discrimination involved and that 
the churches were accountable to God only.  We of the Colossian Fellowship 
agree that churches and their leaders are accountable to God, but the 
personal incomes from corporations and private enterprises are accountable 
to the government ( Rom.13:1-2;Matt.22:17-21).
    Rev. Jerry Falwell has been in the news over his supportive statements 
concerning South Africa (which supports apartheid--racial discrimination, 
but this is not all that he has been up to.
    Falwell is a leading member of the Coalition for Religious Freedom.  
Right after Mr. Moon's release, Rev. Falwell said, "I think the president 
should pardon Rev. (Moon is not a trained or ordained minister of God)  
Moon...I personally do not think he was guilty of tax evasion..."  Why does 
the Rev. Jerry Falwell support Mr. Sun Myung Moon, whose followers hail him 
as the return of christ?
    Had enough?  What do Jerry Falwell and the Mormon Church have in 
common?  They should have nothing in common, but this is not the truth.  
Falwell actively supports the Freemen Institute, which is the political arm 
of the Mormon Church.  Rev. Falwell believes that, because the Mormons 
believe the same as he does on major issues (abortion, homosexuality, 
prayer in school), he can use them and their voting power.  So he pushes 
the Institute and their teachers upon the unsuspecting Christian populace.  
Soon it will be more confusing because The Freemen Institute will be 
changing their name to the National Center for Constitutional Studies.
    Mr. Sun Myung Moon?  The Mormon church?  Who will Rev. Jerry Falwell 
embrace next?  Would Jesus Christ have joined with the "great deceiver" to 
achieve anything?  Why does Jerry Falwell
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Sysop's opinion:  We have now seen Jerry Falwell embrace the PTL Club even 
though his theological view is in complete odds with theirs.  But if he can 
get along with the Moonies and the Mormon's then he shouldn't have to hard 
a time getting along with PTL.  This is the result of being lead by your 
intellect and not by the Holy Spirit in accordance with the Word of God.  
Never support men such as these! 
      
                                      - Dave Geauvreau    

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