Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 15, 2024

Following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of ‘What I Saw at the Second Coming: Bloodline of Christ; The Big Story, Part II.‘

‘Last Days’ and the War of Ideas

Before “the media” arguably missed the biggest story in human history[1], the news business had emerged as a prestigious profession after World War II. Newspapers landed on most front porches and Walter Cronkite’s affable persona boomed from magic television sets.

Masses were mesmerized and unified by watching manned space launches, mourning the death of JFK and following prime time sports and entertainment.

Journalism was a popular major for idealistic college students in the 1970s who too often took for granted the sacrifices made by their parents’ generation who had fought and won World War II and survived the Great Depression.

Over the next fifty years “the media” changed along with everything else. The Cold War ended, the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union imploded, but Marxism in the United States somehow flourished on campuses, the media and the halls of power.

The other side of the argument somehow did not make itself heard, but feisty independence is part and parcel of the American spirit.

Therefore, when Donald Trump began to call out the “fake news” in 2016, tens of millions of America’s “silent majority” nodded in agreement.

Rise of the Left and the Second Coming

Listening to the evangelical fervor of my Marxist journalism professor at the University of Texas in 1973 and dropping in on Socialist Workers Party rallies, I found myself bored. Watching Walter Cronkite and the TV coverage of the ouster of Taiwan from the UN on Oct. 25, 1971[2] in my 1-room student apartment in Austin, I found myself deeply angered by an anti-American outrage of global proportions. For the first time, I recognized the stirrings of contrarian conservatism and patriotism as part of the essence of my being.

Meanwhile, Soviet power expanded worldwide including places like Dupont Circle in Washington, DC where pro-Soviet leftist think tanks proliferated in the 1970s before the Reagan era.

It was in this time and setting that the Lord of the Second Advent, according to his followers in the Unification Church, arrived on the global stage in the United States of America.

Who was this man? Controversial even to many of his followers as an anti-communist who had supported Richard Nixon and organized “Forgive, Love, Unite” rallies on his behalf in 1973, Sun Myung Moon communicated through translated sermons and high energy body language. Established Jewish and Christian organizations had faith in hostile critiques, dismissed him as a heretic and condemned him for the strange power he wielded over the new generation and life blood of their religious communities. For the predominantly liberal media, all this sufficed for a narrative to render judgement. ….

[1] “Christ on Earth: A Newsworthy Event?” Chapter 13, “What I Saw at the Second Coming: The Big Story, Part I,” by R.J. Morton, Origin 2021 Publishing, 2023, P. 185. The concluding sentence in the book: “Or, to the contrary, will the true historical record conclude that the fourth estate missed “the Second Coming,” the greatest story of all time?”

[2] A UN resolution, passed on 25 October 1971, recognized the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as “the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations” and expelled “the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations.” Earlier, the Assembly had voted on a separate U.S. proposal that the words “and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupied at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it” be removed from the draft resolution. This motion would have allowed the PRC to join the UN as “China’s representative”, while allowing the ROC to remain a regular UN member (if there had been enough votes for it). The motion was rejected by a vote of 61 to 51, with 16 abstentions.

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‘What I Saw at the Second Coming: Bloodline of Christ; The Big Story, Part II,‘ was published in October, 2024. Part I was published in 2023. [See Part II excerpts 1, 2. Part I excerpts 3, 2, 1]

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