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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1981
Local
CARP wants University recognition
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By BELINDA McCOY
Battalion Staff
People call them “Moonies,”
and they are usually portrayed by
the media as paupers-cum-
monsters feeding on the innocent
generosity of well-meaning Amer
ica, torturing and enslaving stray
youth who have wandered into
their den.
Indeed the horror stories of
Moon inspired several
students in Japan in 1964
to establish CARP. His
purpose was to create a
campus organization to
‘‘revitalize the founding
spirit of Judeo-
Christianity, ” based on
the Unification Principle
— Moon's teachings.
brainwashed youth could prob
ably fill books. Many of those stor
ies may be true, but some students
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at Texas A&M University who
have met any of the Moonies living
in Bryan might wonder how the
picture ever got painted that
color.
“Moonies” is a name given to
members of the Holy Spirit Asso
ciation for the Unification of
World Christians, or the Unifica
tion Church.
The Unification Church is a cult
founded in Korea in the mid 1950s
by Sun Myung Moon, more com
monly known as Reverend Moon.
If anything, these followers of
Moon, selling flowers on the
street corners in Bryan and Col
lege Station, seem to be the anti
thesis of their stereotype.
"People get all these horror
stories,” said Ron Tewson, off-
campus adviser of OASIS, a cam
pus Christian organization oppos
ing the Unification Church, “and
then they meet one (a Moonie) and
they (Moonies) are being polite
and kind and loving, and they in
vite you over to dinner, and they
give, and you say, ‘Man, whoever
wrote those articles was really off
the wall,’ so you discredit all of the
media coverage.”
But the people selling flowers
are not necessarily members of
the Unification Church — they
are members of the Collegiate
Association for the Research of
Principles (CARP), said Kim
Dickinson, a local member of
CARP and the Unification
Church.
Moon inspired several students
in Japan in 1964 to establish
CARP. His purpose was to create a
campus organization to “revitalize
the founding spirit of Judeo-
Christianity, ” based on the Uni
fication Principle — Moon’s
teachings.
Dickinson said there is no
“direct affiliation” by CARP with
the Unification Church. CARP’s
members are not required to be
members of the Unification
Church.
Dickinson said that five CARP
members live together in Bryan
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now. Sometimes, she said, that
number climbs to ten.
Since its founding CARP has
recruited more than 6,000 student
Since its founding CARP
has recruited more than
6,000 student members
and has expanded to
more than 100 campuses
world-wide.
members and has expanded to
more than 100 campuses world
wide.
Now the organization is trying
to add one more campus to that
list.
Recently CARP presented a
petition for recognition as a stu
dent organization to the student
activities department at Texas
A&M.
Even though the group has
been in Bryan since last spring,
said Dickinson, it is just now get
ting organized.
CARP may have trouble get
ting officially recognized on cam
pus, though, because of “mecha
nical reasons,” said Dr. Carolyn
Adair, student activities director.
CARP submitted its second ap
plication for recognition to the stu
dent activities department. The
first application was rejected by
the department because CARP
failed to meet certain require
ments.
The second application is hav
ing some problems, too.
One of the requirements for a
student organization on campus,
Adair said, is that it “must show
how this organization can be be
neficial to the students (at A&M).
There is not enough detail in the
application. It is fuzzy as far as
what they plan to do is con
cerned. ”
Before an organization can be
come recognized it must also have
a faculty adviser, said Adair.
Roy Gilbert, associate profes
sor of economics at Texas A&M
has consented to be faculty adviser
to CARP.
The organization is receiving
another type of opposition, be
sides administrative opposition.
“There are some people who
are prejudiced,” said Dickinson.
One of those groups opposing
the recognition is OASIS.
“If people know who they really
are, I don’t think their chances are
very good (for recognition),” said
Tewson. “They oppose almost ev
ery major teaching of the Bible,
and yet they call themselves
Christians and that fakes a lot of
people out.”
Tewson has spent several years
of self-study on the Unification
Principle and recently lectured on
the subject at an OASIS meeting.
The Unification Church
iy Margarita Jinn
Kim Dickinson, a member of the Unification Church associ
ated with the Rev. Moon, sells flowers on the corner of Villa
Maria and Texas Avenue. Members of the church have been in
town for the past month trying to strengthen their studenl
organization CARP on the Texas A&M campus.
through CARP teaches that the
Bible was written figuratively, not
literally as Christians believe, said
Tewson.
“They say the Bible is figura
tive, not to be taken literally ...
The purpose of the Bible was to
communicate truth, not to be
obscure,” said Tewson.
Dickinson defended the Uni
fication Church’s beliefs in a later
interview.
“When the Bible says, ‘Thou
shalt not kill,’ I figure it’s literal,
explained Dickinson. “But when
they say eating a fruit is a source of
evil, I thinks it’s a little deeper
than just eating a piece of fruit. ”
Members of the Unification
Church rely on the Divine Princi
ple— a document written by
Moon — for their interpretation of
the Bible.
Tewson argued that not every
thing in the Divine Principle is
supported by the Bible.
“The Divine Principle as a book
is, in their words, the fullest expla
nation of the scripture,” Tewson
said. “It is an explanation, an in
terpretation of the Bible. They
also admit — and I’m glad they do
— that not everything in it is in the
Bible and not everything in it is
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supported by the Bible. They say
that it is the most logical anil
reasonable explanation of the
Bible.”
Dickinson explained: ‘‘Nothing
in the Divine Principle contra
dicts the Bible, but sometimes its
a deeper explanation based on the
Bible and what the Bible is
saying. ”
Moon teaches that Christ left
his mission incomplete with his
death, Tewson said.
“They believe his mission was
to marry a perfect wife, and have
perfect children, and createaper-
feet society, and that he foiled by
his death, Tewson said.”
Dickinson said, “Jesus didn’t
fail, the people around him failed
They failed to believe in him and
have faith in him. If they had be
lieved in him, they wouldn’t have
killed him. There would have
been no reason to kill him, be
cause they would have loved him
You don’t kill someone you love
After a while, it was obvious that
that was the only thing he coulddo
— sacrifice his life.”
Tewson also said that the Uni
fication Church denies thedeityof
Christ.
“They say Jesus was the son of
God, not God,” Tewson said.
Dickinson said that the Unifica
tion Church believes Jesus was
the first person to ever be the im
age of God.
“In Genesis, it says we were
created to be in the image of God
So all people were meant to be in
the image of God. Jesus was the
first person ever to be in the image
of God, so in that way he’s one
with God. But he’s the first person
ever to be one with God, and we
were all meant to be that way. Of
course, Jesus is more extraordin
ary in that he was the first to ever
be that way.”
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