Politics & Power Quote by Sun Myung Moon

Moon’s genius and danger live in the swagger of his certainty. “The time has come” borrows the cadence of prophecy, the kind of biblical timekeeping that turns ordinary chronology into divine scheduling. It’s not just that he predicts global relevance; he declares it as an accomplished fact. “The whole world must be concerned about me” makes the self the event. In a religious landscape that usually insists the messenger disappear into the message, Moon flips the equation: history bends toward the leader, not the leader toward history.

The second line is even more audacious, because it targets a specific power center. “From now on” signals a regime change, a new dispensation with a hard cutoff date. “American Christianity” isn’t an audience so much as a prize. In Cold War-era America, Christianity wasn’t only theology; it was national identity, civic respectability, and geopolitical branding. To claim that it “must follow me” is to challenge established churches and to draft the United States into his providential narrative at once.

The subtext is recruitment by inevitability. Moon isn’t asking for consent; he’s announcing alignment as destiny, a move that converts dissent into backwardness. It also functions as a loyalty test: if you accept the premise, you accept the authority behind it. Read in context of the Unification Church’s rapid expansion, anti-communist activism, and intense devotion to Moon as a messianic figure, the quote is less a boast than a strategy - a way to manufacture world-historical stakes around one man’s leadership.