I was walking around downtown today and 2 girls approached me and asked if I had 5 minutes. Brought back memories of when I had to solicit time from strangers, so I agreed.

They were from a group called CARP and asked me if I had ever heard of it. They promote world peace through service, is what one of the girls said. So for their survey, they asked me 2 questions: 1. What are the 3 most important things to you? 2. Do you believe in world peace?

So after a little bit of chatting (we established that I was a Christian), they started telling me about their group. They meet right above the GAP and gave me a flyer for their introductory meetings.

I looked at the bottom of the flyer and this is what it said: "The vision of CARP has been inspired by the work of Dr. Sun Myung Moon, who had dedicated his life to finding paths of peace."

As soon as I read that, my whole body tensed up. Part of me wanted to scream at them, "do you know you're part of a CULT???" But how do you tell that to someone tactfully and show them the love of Christ at the same time? Our Christ. Not Dr. Moon's Christ. Because I'm sure they would say, "yeah, we love God, too." The other part of me told me, "Don't give them any more information. Get the hell out of there."

So I gave them an excuse about usually getting off work late (I know, bull), which was why I wouldn't be able to attend any of their meetings, and I took off.

Apparently, Dr. Moon has over 1000 organizations that he works through to appear legitimate, and President Bush is involved with some of them. I read this letter a former Moonie wrote to President Bush. The first part of that letter freaked me out... cuz had I been there 10 minutes longer, they would have taken me to their 5 o'clock meeting.

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