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:"Begin with a well-seasoned Taoist philosophy, add Christian words and phrases and some Bible verses, and stir briskly until they blend. Now add a bit of spiritism, a pinch of numerology, a dab of physics, and a dash of anti-communism; mix it altogether, using a Korean Messiah, and you have the recipe for one of the newest religious movements sweeping America." - The Unification Church, founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.<ref>Quoted by John Ford in ''What If I'm Right?'', p. 157</ref>
:"Begin with a well-seasoned Taoist philosophy, add Christian words and phrases and some Bible verses, and stir briskly until they blend. Now add a bit of spiritism, a pinch of numerology, a dab of physics, and a dash of anti-communism; mix it altogether, using a Korean Messiah, and you have the recipe for one of the newest religious movements sweeping America." - The Unification Church, founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.<ref>Quoted by John Ford in ''What If I'm Right?'', p. 157</ref>
The Unification church is criticized over what is seen as attempts to appeal to Christianity by using the Bible in order to teach a form of [[New Age]] theology, by applying various esoteric and metaphysical meanings to such biblical words and terms as sin, salvation, born again, etc.
The Unification church is criticized over what is seen as attempts to appeal to Christianity by using the Bible in order to teach a form of [[New Age]] theology, by applying various [[esoteric]] and [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] meanings to such biblical words and terms as sin, salvation, born again, etc.
In Divine Principle 9 it is stated, "It may be displeasing to religious believers, especially to Christians, that a new expression of truth must appear", and that "the Bible is not the truth, but a textbook teaching the truth", as revealed by Moon.
In Divine Principle 9 it is stated, "It may be displeasing to religious believers, especially to Christians, that a new expression of truth must appear", and that "the Bible is not the truth, but a textbook teaching the truth", as revealed by Moon.