John Mildew

Religion too needs security guarantees

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

They even raided this restaurant!Everywhere I go I hear about raids. It seems that the Special Prosecutors in Korea will raid everything.

Just in the last year:
1.Yoido Full Gospel Church
2.Rev. Lee Young-hoon’s home/office
3.Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC)
4.Rev. Billy Kim’s home
https://t.co/pmH88hjbwG Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) HQs
6.Dr. Hak Ja Han’s residence
7.People Power Party (PPP) headquarters
https://t.co/V74beO2ZkH company with PPP membership servers
9.Ministry of Justice and Supreme Prosecutors’ Office
10.U.S. military base in Korea
11.Regional FFWPU offices
12.Pastors’ private residences

#ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@Liberfach0 Modern problems require modern solutions

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@MattWallace888 Ragebait

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@monarchreport25 Not a chance

[Luc Jean @seeking12gates]

Mistakes and deceptive practices are the unfortunate reality of ALL religious institutions, not just the #UnificationChurch .

Hold those who did such things accountable, but not by denying #ReligiousFreedom to all church members.

The Catholic Church isn’t dissolved for its mistakes. Neither are countless other Christian denominations, the Mormons, or all of Islam for that matter. And they shouldn’t be.

So why is the Unification Church the exception, and why is its leader still held in unjust detention?

#ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@seeking12gates It's called getting carried away. Not a foundational problem

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@sogefather12 @elonmusk Or what he actually contributed for that matter

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@sogefather12 @CultExpert Two years in a 'cult', 40+ making a living off those two years. Textbook definition of having trouble getting over an ex.

[@mcgudrunzh @mcgudrunzh]

"Cult" has become a term, an adjective almost, that's thrown at any one group that doesn't please the observer - #religious, #political, #ecological
#freedom of #belief

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@monarchreport25 Walking the talk!

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

Three reasons why the cult label doesn't even apply to the Unification Church:
1. Cults in the modern sense are like prisons. You are stripped of freedoms and privileges. No evidence has been provided to support the claim that the Unification Church ever held people against their will
2. Cult of personality. This is the practice of putting leaders in a position of God. There is confusion between classic Korean family-like treatment of Elders in a Korean type hierarchy, but Rev Moon himself did not demand such treatment. He was the opposite, despite claims by critics to the contrary.
3. Anti cultist scholar Yoshihide Sakurai himself said the cult label was not adequate when discussing the Unification Church. It was not accepted by society, but cult labels were reserved for anti-social groups that caused problems or committed crimes. His overall outlook towards the Unification Church has always been critical.

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@mcgudrunzh Similar to how 'far-right' is used. It has the effect of giving consent to violence.

[猫耳男@パン焼き男子飯部 @GeqQv]

公安の監視対象である日本共産党は10億円集めても問題視されない。
家庭連合には過剰献金だって言うくせに　笑。

我々は政党助成金をもらってないぞ！
貰える資格があるのか考えたいですよね。

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@zakujiji1 @koume_withlove Koreans would have been way too proud and stubborn to use Japanese names for economic reasons. Imagine a Japanese using a Korean name for economic reasons. Pride wouldn't allow it. Honor wouldn't even conceive that idea

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@zakujiji1 @koume_withlove I think it happened the other way round, my friend

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

In the name of religious freedom

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

Last Saturday, 18 July, Falun Gong practitioners gathered in London to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the start of the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party regime.

I was unable to join them in person, but at their request I provided a message which was read out on my behalf. In it I said:

"The persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP is one of the most tragic, harrowing, heartbreaking and outrageous injustices of our times. For more than ten years I have been deeply engaged in helping to raise awareness about the suffering of Falun Gong practitioners in China, and to advocate for international action. I will not stop until the persecution stops and Falun Gong practitioners are free to practise their beliefs, based on the principles of “truthfulness, compassion and forbearance,” in peace and without fear.

I seek the same freedom for people of all faiths and beliefs throughout China. ...

.... I am also deeply concerned about increasing transnational repression ... No one in Britain – a free and democratic society – should ever be intimidated or silenced by a foreign power extending its long arm of repression onto our streets. We must make sure our government does everything possible to protect all communities, to hold the perpetrators to account, and to stop transnational repression in its tracks and defend and secure our freedoms.

I have spent almost all my adult life – more than 30 years, since I was a student – advocating for human rights. I believe in all human rights and fundamental freedoms, particularly freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression, as set out in Article 18 and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights respectively. These are basic human rights that should be protected, defended and promoted for everyone, everywhere, no exceptions. I have lived my life for these values, defended them for people all over the world, and I will continue to do so. I will not stop speaking out for freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression and other fundamental human rights for all – and especially for all the people of China."

Read the full text of my message here 👇

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

He told his students to go to the windows.
Get out. Jump if you have to.
Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it.
He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs
The gunman was in the hallway.
It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old.
At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor.
Liviu heard it. He understood immediately.
He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like.
He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body.
The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move.
He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through.
Liviu stayed.
Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out.
The shooter kept firing through the door.
Liviu held it shut until every student was safe.
Then the bullets killed him.
When police arrived, they found his body at the door.
All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured.
Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania.
He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen.
He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing.
Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go.
He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him.
In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings.
In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care.
He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics.
April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression.
Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom.
He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach.
He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students.
He chose to stay.
The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time.
Room 204 had zero casualties.
Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone.
His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory.
His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others.
A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years.
On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too.
Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007.
Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor.
302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech.
22 students out the window.
He held the door.

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@KristianHoldhus

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

Three reasons why the cult label doesn't even apply to the Unification Church:
1. Cults in the modern sense are like prisons. You are stripped of freedoms and privileges. No evidence has been provided to support the claim that the Unification Church ever held people against their will
2. Cult of personality. This is the practice of putting leaders in a position of God. There is confusion between classic Korean family-like treatment of Elders in a Korean type hierarchy, but Rev Moon himself did not demand such treatment. He was the opposite, despite claims by critics to the contrary.
3. Anti cultist scholar Yoshihide Sakurai himself said the cult label was not adequate when discussing the Unification Church. It was not accepted by society, but cult labels were reserved for anti-social groups that caused problems or committed crimes. His overall outlook towards the Unification Church has always been critical.

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@seeking12gates @kangminlee A professor from South Korea pretty much gave the same answer. He was asked about the assassination of Shinzo Abe and in a beat said 'it was caused by a cult' without going into any details. Just like that. It's nonchalant to just make ot about a cult without thinking.

[John Mildew @seventtoo1]

@keisukebot @The_Abyss_2025 You have no moral benchmark yourself