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| Quote (CeilingCat @ Mar. 17 2008,02:54) | Uncommon Descent descends to quoting from a Moonie encylopedia!
In this article, Uncommon Descent brings our attention to an article by Jonathan Wells in the New World Encyclopedia. If you follow the adventures of Jesus Christ, AKA Reverand Moon and his Moonies, "New World" will ring a bell. And, since Jonathan Wells is a high ranking Moonie Clergyman, those bells will be ringing for a reason.
Sure enough, go to the article in question, click on "Menu/Main Page" and then "Vision" at the bottom of the page and Shazam! There it is:
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"The originator of this project is Sun Myung Moon. The philosophical and axiological foundations for the project derive from his life and teachings, especially as they are systematized in Unification Thought and other publicly available texts.
The worldview that informs this encyclopedia proceeds on the basis of universal values found in the life and teaching of Reverend Moon and in essence from all religious and spiritual traditions and in people of conscience, values drawn from original human purpose, and the purpose of creation." |
That sharp intake of breath you heard was the entire faculty (minus one) at the Southwest Baptist Seminary and BBQ gasping at the new honors the Reverand Dr. Dr. Dembski has brought to them.
ALL SCIENCE SO FAR! |
But wait, there's more! Look at Moon's entry on his own, private encyclopedia:
His Worshipfulness, the 2nd Coming Himself
A juicy part of the entry:
| Quote | | Most Unification believers understand Reverend Moon to be fulfilling the mission of the promised "Second Coming of Christ." Also, together with his wife Mrs. Hak Ja Han (Moon) (???, ???),believers understand them as the "True Parents" of all humankind. The latter ascription derives from the view that Reverend and Mrs. Moon are the first human beings to realize the "original ideal of creation," a responsibility originally given the first human ancestors, the biblical Adam and Eve. |
For Christians, this is blasphemy of, well, biblical proportions. To plot the deltas between Moon and orthodox Christian theology and, say, Darwin and orthodox Christian theology would require a log scale.
EDIT: spelling--more than once, even.
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Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reason for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. --Sam Harris
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