There is less persecution of Reverend Moon and his movement today. Why?
Yes, today, the persecution is largely ending. The reason is simple. After 60 years, the many works of Reverend Moon and Unificationism are better known and appreciated by many. A recent article in Newsweek magazine, the largest circulation news magazine in the United States confirms this fact. (September, 2006). According to the article “the Unification Church has now largely outgrown its image as a cult.” It also praises that those who joined the Reverend Moon’s Unification church and other new religious movements were “cultural innovators”,” trendsetters” and says that they ” distinguished themselves as what the sociologist Wade Clark Roof calls, in the title of his 1993 book, “A Generation of Seekers.” The article quotes Dean Hoge, a sociologist at Catholic University of America “To be sure, followers of the maharishi, or the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, or Hare Krishnas, Scientologists or the people who called themselves Jesus Freaks were a minority among the boomers. But they were the tr
