At UCLA back in the 1970’s a young man came up to me at a bus stop and invited me to a “spaghetti dinner” and “discussion” at an off-campus apartment. I knew something was wrong when he looked at me with a weird smile and eyes glazed over, like he was on drugs. But he wasn’t. He was a Moonie.
There was a group there at that time called CARP (Collegiate Assoc. for the Research of Principles). It was a front for the cult. I told him I was busy, he handed me a flyer and left.
The CARP table was often set up on Bruin Walk, the main thoroughfare on campus. I can’t imagine how many young, impressionable minds they ensnared.
I encountered the CARP folks too. They appeared to have been taught that I Thessalonians 5:2 stated that the Lord would come as a thief in the night (as if the Messiah would be unrecognizable at first) rather than that the day of the Lord would come as a thief in the night.