There are a number of organizations founded, run, or supported by the
Unification Church, and its founder
Sun Myung Moon. Commentators have mentioned Moon's belief in a literal
Kingdom of God on earth to be brought about by human effort as a motivation for his establishment of groups that are not strictly religious in their purposes. Others have said that one purpose of these organizations is to pursue social respectability for the church. These organizations have sometimes been labeled "
front groups", an expression which originally referred to Soviet supported organizations during the
Cold War.