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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".
Sun Myung Moon
is a false messiah with many gullible followers.
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