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Sun
Myung Moon
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Moon is a South Korean citizen and the founder and leader of the
Unification Church, a world-wide occult organization that
believes Moon to be the "Messiah" sent by God to
complete the earthly mission of Jesus.
In 1960, at the age of 40 and recently
divorced, Moon married the teenage daughter of Mrs. Soon-ae
Hong, who at the time did the cooking for his church. Many
members were surprised and dismayed, as some believed that they
had received revelations that they would be the 'bride of the
Messiah'. The bride, Hak Ja Han Moon, was 17 years old at the
time of the 'Holy Marriage'.
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In the early 1970s, Rev. Moon was denounced as a cult leader who used
mind control and brainwashing on his followers to extort money from
them. Moon was accused of breaking up families by aggressively
encouraging young college students to break off contact with the outside
world, and sell trinkets and flowers out on the streets to raise money
for the church. Even with numerous complaints of fraud, extortions, and
brainwashing lodged against him, plus pending criminal charges, Sun
Myung Moon was given permanent residency status in the U.S. in 1973.
By 1976 Moon had homes and "training camps" in San Francisco,
CA
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In a single ceremony
in 1995 Moon and his wife, in the role of the
"True Parents of Humanity", gave 360,000 couples the
marriage " blessing of god".
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In February 2003, Moon and Han re-affirmed their wedding vows
after 43 years of marriage in a ceremony named the 'Holy
Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth.
As a frightening example of the control Moon has had over
lukewarm Christians; that same year heretic Christian ministers
began joining Rev. Moon's 'take down the cross' campaign
theme. Nation wide, Christians removed the Cross from their
churches and homes in a gesture toward the acceptance of a One
World Church under Rev. Moon's leadership.
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"Reverend"
Sun Myung Moon was crowned "Messiah" on March 13, 2004
in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. |
The
media ignored the Messiah Crowning event at the time except for
Moon's Washington Times which gave it glowing praise. However, freelance
journalist John Gorenfeld spent the next three months reconstructing the
details of the event. His writings forced a sheepish Washington Post,
scooped by Web sites, to cover the Senate ritual, which The New York
Times editorial page compared to "an act of the Roman emperor
Caligula".
The invitation for the event lists Representatives Danny Davis of
Illinois, Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland,
Sanford Bishop of Georgia, Chris Cannon of Utah, and Harold Ford of
Tennessee as 'Congressional Co-Chairs'.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, representatives Tom Davis of
Virginia and Phil Crane of Illinois, and Republican consultant Charlie
Black (whose PR firm represents Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress)
were among a list of members of the 'Host Committee'.
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Attending
the Messiah Crowning ceremony were seventy-one people,
including two senators, congressmen, dozens of ambassadors to
the United States, and various other figures from the religious
and political establishments of the nation and world. |
Most
of those named as in attendance later denied it, and/or claimed to have
had no idea what was going to occur at the event, stating that they
didn't expect a coronation but thought the awards dinner was only to
honor activists from their home states as 'Ambassadors for Peace'.
Davis, who actually placed the crown on Moon's head, later said, 'I'm
not involved in any cult activities.'
The awards ceremony was the grand finale of the Family Federation's
coast-to-coast 'take down the cross' tour, intended to inspire almost
300 Christian ministers to remove crosses from their churches, the idea
being that the cross has been an obstacle to uniting religions.
Moon
has more recently announced that he will save everyone on Earth just as
he "saved the souls of even such murderous dictators as Hitler and
Stalin", who he claimed had received 'the Blessing' through
him. Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him from the
spirit world, calling him "none other than humanity's Savior,
Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent".
Is
it really necessary for me to state that Sun Myung Moon is a false messiah?
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