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The '''Unification Church''' was founded in 1954 by [[Sun Myung Moon]], a [[Christian]] minister from northern [[Korea]] and the founder of the [[Washington Times]]. The church's adherents are known colloquially as "Moonies." It preaches a universalist doctrine of salvation based on a doctrine called the Unification Principle. <ref>The church's teachings are written in Korean, and were re-translated in 1996 as ''Exposition of the Divine Principle'' [http://www.unification.net/dp96/] </ref> Rev. Moon, calling himself the Lord of the Second Advent, believes he is the new [[messiah]], sent to complete the elimination of evil, the establishment of a perfect society on earth and the cleansing of mankind of [[Original sin]].  

The '''Unification Church''' was founded in 1954 by [[Sun Myung Moon]], a [[Christian]] minister from northern [[Korea]] and the founder of ''The [[Washington Times]]''. The church's adherents are known colloquially as "Moonies". It preaches a universalist doctrine of salvation based on a doctrine called the Unification Principle.<ref>The church's teachings are written in Korean, and were re-translated in 1996 as ''Exposition of the Divine Principle'' [http://www.unification.net/dp96/] </ref> Rev. Moon, calling himself the Lord of the Second Advent, believes he is the new [[messiah]], sent to complete the elimination of evil, the establishment of a perfect society on earth and the cleansing of mankind of [[original sin]].  

==Controversy==

==Controversy==

The Church has been dogged by charges of [[anti-Semitism]] for many years, and in 1976 the American Jewish Committee published the report ''Jews and Judaism in Rev. Moon's Divine Principle'', noting "every time Rev. Moon mentions Jews or Israelites he portrays them collectively as reprobate, with evil intentions." As recently as 2003 Moon stated in a sermon at Arlington, [[Virginia]] that the death of six million [[Judaism|Jews]] in the [[Holocaust]] was a form of divine retribution: "Through the principle of indemnity Hitler killed 6 million Jews. That is why. God could not prevent Satan from doing that because Israel killed the True Parents."<ref>[http://www.unification.net/news/2003/news20030302_1.html Sermon] 2 March 2003</ref>

The Church has been dogged by charges of [[anti-Semitism]] for many years, and in 1976 the American Jewish Committee published the report "Jews and Judaism in Rev. Moon's Divine Principle", noting that "every time Rev. Moon mentions Jews or Israelites he portrays them collectively as reprobate, with evil intentions." As recently as 2003 Moon stated in a sermon at Arlington, [[Virginia]], that the death of six million [[Judaism|Jews]] in the [[Holocaust]] was a form of divine retribution: "Through the principle of indemnity Hitler killed 6 million Jews. That is why. God could not prevent Satan from doing that because Israel killed the True Parents."<ref>[http://www.unification.net/news/2003/news20030302_1.html Sermon] 2 March 2003</ref>

Unificationists deny that they are anti-Semitic.

Unificationists deny that they are anti-Semitic.