Unification Church and politics

The Unification Church has engaged in a lot of political activities. It was founded by Sun Myung Moon who was a Korean inependence activist. It has been very controversial over perceptions as a power-hungry organization that threatened Separation of church and state.Tingle, D. and Fordyce, R. 1979, Phases and Faces of the Moon: A Critical Examination of the Unification Church and its Principles, Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press  p86-87

In the 1950s-1980s people criticized them for promoting nuclear war.

The Church runs the right wing newspaper The Washington Times. 

Shinzo Abe was killed by an opponent of the Unification Church, because he was helping the church. Moon's son Hyung Jin Moon participated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

See also
 Christian democracy, a political movement blending social democracy, social conservatism, Catholic social teaching and Neo-Calvinist principles 
 Korean reunification 
 Secularism
 Separation of church and state
 Zionism

References

External links
 What is Cheon Il Guk? - Sun Myung Moon - January 31, 2003
 The Role of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in the Downfall of Communism
 Unificationists in the Voting Booth
 Problems with translating Rev. Moon from Korean to English
 Official Unification Church teachings on democracy and totalitarianism
 Exposition of the Divine Principle