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Messiah Or Manipulator?: Escaping the Grip of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church (Cult Documentary)

Ever wondered what goes on behind closed doors in a cult? Join us as we uncover the truth behind Reverend Moon’s charismatic persona and the devoted followers who see him as nothing short of a Messiah. Through firsthand accounts from former members, you’ll get an inside look at how the Unification Church operates, from its intense indoctrination methods to its control over every aspect of its members’ lives, including their marriages.

From Reverend Moon’s early days claiming clairvoyance to his encounters with religious figures, we’ll trace the origins of the Unification Church and its rise to prominence in South Korea in the 1950s.

But it’s not all spiritual enlightenment – we’ll also shine a light on the darker side of Reverend Moon’s empire, from his controversial support for politicians like Richard Nixon to his brushes with the law over tax evasion [perjury and document forgery].

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5:00 Moon was arrested in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 1946 for adultery, extorting money and disturbing society. He was arrested and jailed in February 1948 for bigamy. Moon went to North Korea in 1946, when it was under a communist regime. According to Michael Breen and others Moon was sympathetic to Marxist ideas. A study of the Divine Principle reveals embedded Marxist concepts. The false narrative that Moon was spying for South Korea, when he hated Syngman Rhee, the president, is pure smokescreen hokum. Moon was arrested for sex.

6:00 Moon's first wife, Sun-gil Choi, divorced him in January 1957, not 1960.

6:40 Note the Bible says that Adam and Eve were married before the “Fall” so a sexual interpretation is just a means of manipulating people. It has no truth in myth or reality.

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Hagiwara Ryo: “Sun Myung Moon was first arrested by the security police on August 11, 1946. He was detained for three months at the Daedong police station [in Pyongyang] on the charge of causing social disorder, for alleged sexual immorality. On February 22, 1948 Sun Myung Moon was arrested for a second time by the 内務省 Ministry of the Interior [not 内務署 the Interior Department] for his coerced marriage with a married woman, Mrs Kim Chong-hwa. On April 27 he was sentenced to five years in Heungnam prison.”

最初の逮捕は一九四六年八月一一日。文鮮明は、混淫による社会秩序混乱容疑で大同保安署（警察署）に三ヵ月拘留されたのについで、一九四八年二月二二日、またも主婦・金鍾華さんとの強制結婚事件で内務署に逮捕された。……四月七日懲役五年の判決を受け、文は、興南刑務所に服役することになった。 The Life of Sun Myung Moon – the Messiah of a Perverted Sex Religion (1991) page 70 LINK

#Youtube #Moonies #Unification Church #Lisa Kohn #Mary Jo Downey #Rick Alan Ross #Yolande Brener

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Former Moonie Tells of Training in Deception, Suicide

February 21, 1979

WASHINGTON—A former “Moonie” says she received suicide training while a member of the Unification Church, including specific instruction on how to slash her wrist.

Virginia Mabry, a 24-year-old Californian who spent a year as a follower of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, told a congressional inquiry on cults that she and others were under orders to commit suicide “if we were taken from the group or intended to leave our allegiance to Moon.”

In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Mabry said that in December, 1976, following the defection of some high-ranking church officials, a nurse who also was a church leader showed her group how to slash their wrists. “And if that wasn’t fast enough, we were told to go for the jugular vein,” she recounted.

In the event a “Moonie” was captured by a “deprogrammer,” a different method of death was preferred. “You were to throw yourself in front of a car so that the deprogrammer would be blamed for your death,” Mabry averred.

Mabry’s accusations came as Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., undeterred by an intensive lobbying and intimidation effort by Moon’s disciples, chaired an informal inquiry into cults and their mind-control techniques.

Although the hearing wasn’t directed at any particular sect, the Moonies, crying “witch-hunt,” dispatched at least 90 national and state leaders to Congress in an attempt to quash the session. When unsuccessful, they helped pack the giant meeting room and periodically interrupted proceedings with shouts of “liar” in response to critical witnesses. Outside, a protest demonstration was held, replete with band and chants.

Some religious leaders and theologians protested the hearing as an encroachment of the First Amendment right of religious freedom.

“Government is not competent to judge which religious groups are good and which are bad anymore than it can tell which religious are true and which are false,” declared Dr. James K. Wood Jr., executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs.

But Rep. Robert N. Giaimo, D-Conn., pointed out that the mantle of religion does not protect sects that break the law or abuse individual human rights, as has been alleged by a number of groups, including the Moonies.

The star witness, who was wearing a special device to help rehabilitate her mangled arm, was a vivid reminder of recent cult horrors.

Jackie Speier, who was wounded in the Jonestown attack that killed her boss, Rep. Leo Ryan. D-Calif., noted that some cults espouse religious beliefs while pursuing a quite different course. She admonished the panel to remember “perhaps the singularly most important factor of Jonestown: It can happen again.”

Mabry claimed that the Unification Church taught that “murder is okay if it’s done in the name of the cause. . . specifically, world domination by Moon.”

In written testimony, she asserted that as a bookkeeper and fundraiser, she was ordered to commit “heavenly deception — a Unification term for fraud and deceit.” Among other things, she said she and others censored mail and telephone calls, solicited money under false pretenses, sold food donated for charity at a profit, manipulated accounting records, received state welfare for medical expenses fraudulently, stole ex-members papers and knowingly disobeyed laws. All of this was done under orders of church leaders, Mabry said.

Mabry said she almost committed suicide when she left the Unification Church a year and a half ago. “Over and over again, you were told by higher-ups, ‘You have to be willing to give your life, you have to be willing to die for the cause.’ We were told that you’ve left your allegiance with God…

“That’s why I considered suicide. I felt like Satan was a part of me because I was leaving the church,” she said. “But I had so much love for the friends I went and stayed with and my parents that I just knew that it wasn’t right, what I was taught.” Mabry sought help from a Catholic priest in Eugene, Ore.

Rabbi Maurice Davis of White Plains, N.Y., who claims to have separated 128 young people from cults, said cults generally have dictatorial leaders, unlimited funds, and a philosophy of “instilling fear, hatred and suspicion of the outside world in order to keep the victims in line.”

“Put them all together and you have a prescription for violence, death and for destruction. It is a formula that fits the Nazi youth movement as accurately as it describes the Unification Church or the Peoples Temple,” he said.

“I am not here to protest against religion or religions,” added the Rabbi. “I am here to protest against child molesters. For as surely as there are those who lure children with lollypops in order to rape their bodies, so, too, do these lure children with candy-coated lies in order to rape their minds.”

A host of witnesses called for new laws to crack down on cults. But most theologians claimed that existing criminal laws cover any illegal behavior and that any new ones might interfere with religious freedoms.

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Jackie Speier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier

Speier entered politics by serving as a congressional staffer for Congressman Leo Ryan. Speier was part of his November 1978 fact-finding mission organized to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers, almost all of whom were American citizens who had moved to Jonestown, Guyana, with Jones in 1977 and 1978.

Several Peoples Temple members ambushed the investigative team and others boarding the plane to leave Jonestown on November 18. Five people were killed, including Ryan. While trying to shield herself from rifle and shotgun fire behind small airplane wheels with other team members, Speier was shot five times and waited 22 hours before help arrived. The same day, over 900 remaining members of the Peoples Temple died in Jonestown and Georgetown in a mass murder-suicide.

#unification church #moonies #Peoples Temple #Jonestown #Suicide #sun myung moon

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20-year-old Jean Billette killed selling roses for Sun Myung Moon’s Cult (1980)

June 2, 1980

NEW YORK – He was a happy young man of 20 who told his mother he was leaving their Canadian home for “a trip around the world.”

His trip led to death on a dark South Bronx street corner, the roses he was selling for a church group spilled on the pavement.

The body of Jean Billette, a new member of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, was found sprawled on the ground at Southern Boulevard and East 173rd Street about 3:15 a.m. Sunday.

Billette, shot behind the left ear by one of two apparent holdup men, died four hours later at Jacobi Hospital.

Police said that under his body were 64 long-stemmed roses he apparently had been peddling to bar patrons and night owls to raise money for the church. Some $12 was in his pocket.

“It sounds crazy, but that’s what they were doing,” said Bronx police Detective James Cyran.

Police said Billette, a native of the Montreal suburb of Pierrefonds, had walked south to 173rd Street after he and other rose-laden church members were let off about 12:30 a.m. at Westchester Avenue and White Plains Road.

Police said four witnesses told them they saw two men approach Billette and talk to him. Police said the witnesses told them that, after what looked like a brief argument, one of the two men pulled a pistol from a jacket pocket and shot Billette. No gun was recovered.

Billette lived at 4 W. 43rd St., the site of the old Columbia University Club and now the headquarters of the Unification Church.

Detective James Cyran of the E. 160th St. station said Billette was assigned by the church to a team of rose sellers. Other members of the team were left along other routes, Cyran said. The route assigned Billette, he said, took the young man into bars, social clubs and other businesses in the area. The team leader told police that he had planned to pick up Billette in a van at 4 a.m., Cyran said.

He said church officials have offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the killers.

Meanwhile, Billette’s family — Jean was one of five boys and two girls born to Jean and Fleurette Billette — was in mourning. Two of the brothers were expected to arrive here today.

‘‘I’m a Roman Catholic,” his mother, the wife of a Canadian post office administrator, said by telephone from Pierrefonds. “To tell you the truth, I believe nothing happens that God doesn’t want.”

She said her son, a heavily built man of 6-foot-2 with brown hair and eyes, had joined the Unification Church last October in San Francisco, where he had gone to visit an ex-neighbor.

“Then I got a letter,” she recalled. “He said, ‘Mother, I’m going to please you very much because I’m going to study your God. I’m going to take a Bible course for two weeks.’”

In his next letter, she said, the young man said he was canceling an intended trip to Venezuela to see his godmother and would instead join the Unification Church for three years.

“He said he had never been so happy,” the mother said. “He said he had never been so busy in his life.”

She said telephone conversations with him showed a change. “He was really a jolly fellow, always happy. There (at the church) he was more serious,” she said.

Yet, Jean remained close and continued to write.

"We asked why he couldn’t come to visit us," she said. "It was so hard to see him go. We loved him so much."

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The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press June 5, 1980

Service Held for Murdered ‘Moonie’

MONTREAL (CP) — Jean Billette, murdered on the streets of New York City while selling roses to raise money for the Unification Church, was buried in a Catholic cemetery near his home in suburban Pierrefonds Wednesday.

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Montreal girl dies fundraising for the Unification Church

By Josh Freed The Montreal Star January 7, 1978 Montreal girl dies, parents harassed

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Ken Sudo describes the rape of several sisters

Atsushi Funaki was murdered while selling roses for the UC in Philadelphia, PA

“They put a gun to my head and asked if I’d rather be shot or raped.”

Man charged with strangling Seattle teen on church trip

#unification church #sun myung moon #moonies #cult #true parents #murdered

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 2 days

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Shamanism (excerpts)

From the book, The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture

Korean Sociologists say that the depersonalizing and dehumanizing aspects of Confucianism contributed enormously to the continued survival and popularity of shamanism because shamanistic rituals provided direct, immediate relief to many of the intellectual and emotional problems caused by the strict Confucian code of conduct….

Korean educational writer In Hoe Kim said in an article entitled “The Values of Korean People,” published in 1979 (Seoul, Munumsa), that the traditional shamanistic beliefs of Koreans had become identical with their most basic goals –a long life that was peaceful, mentally and physically comfortable, envied by others, and ensured continuation of the family line. But the very things that made shamanism an “easy” religion for people to accept and follow had a negative side that also fundamentally affected Korean attitudes and behavior.

Recent studies of shamanism conducted by the Korean Institute of Policy Studies (KIPS) say that shamanism promoted childish submission to the supernatural, precluded self-reflection, and discouraged any attempt to develop self-esteem, to improve one’s own character or habits, or to be the master of one’s fate and take pride in creative efforts of any kind. On the plus side, shamanism valued human life and human happiness and sought to maintain a harmonious relationship between people and the cosmos at large, from local nature spirits to the gods of the universe.

While the KIPS noted that the general influence of shamanism on people was that it made them passive and submissive, the flip side was that if their lives were disrupted by any outside force, regardless of its source, they were prone to blindly lash out with extraordinary violence.

The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture Boyé Lafayette De Mente ISBN: 978-0804842716 Reprint edition 2012

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Shamanism is at the heart of Sun Myung Moon’s church

Sun Myung Moon – Emperor, and God

Holy Grounds and the Shamanic Guardians of the Five Directions in Moon’s church

Shamanism: The Spirit World of Korea Any understanding of the so-called New Religions of Korea would be difficult without some knowledge of shamanistic influences upon them.

Fear and Loathing at Cheongpyeong

The Moons’ God is not the God of Judeo-Christianity

Hananim and other Spirits in Korean Shamanism

#Korean shamanism

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 7 days

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Moon: “Women have twice the sin”

The Japanese members are taught that women have twice the sin of men. This is because Eve had two sexual relationships – she fell with Lucifer and then seduced Adam. The men are told they should be grateful they are not women. In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had a choice of one. After the early mass marriages in Korea, Moon gave most members a choice of one. Then the members are taught that because Eve started a relationship with Adam without God’s permission, they should accept Moon’s authority, in the position of the messiah, to decide when they can come together as couples. (Different rules apply for Korean members.) Without Moon’s holy blessing in marriage, followers will never be cleansed from original sin. Satan’s dirty blood will flow inside them, and be passed on through their lineage forever. Moon believers are trapped. They have to accept whoever Moon gives them as a spouse with gratitude. Moon did not pull the double sin guilt-trip on western women, but nevertheless he put American women down and said things about them that caused a lot of dissatisfaction.

Yasue Erikawa, Moon, money, shame, guilt, fear and hell.

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If you read the Adam and Eve story in the Bible, you will see that Adam and Eve were HUSBAND and WIFE before the "Fall" so the manipulation described above is Bullshit. Sex had nothing to do with the fall if A&E were "married".

Genesis 2:24

"Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Now the serpent was more subtle than any other —"

And anyway Adam and Eve in reality did not exist. Sun Myung Moon was a con man.

#moonies #cult #manipulation

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 7 days

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Click above for the photos!

#unification church #sun myung moon #moonies #cult #family federation for world peace and unification #coffin

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 15 days

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Gabor Maté is a multi-bestselling author and a world leading expert on trauma and how it affects us throughout our whole lives. A holocaust survivor and a first generation immigrant, Gabor’s knowledge and wisdom on the scars trauma leaves behind is deep and drawn from personal experience.

Topics: 0:00 Intro 02:04 Early context 08:16 How does someone correct their traumatic events? 09:33 How did your traumatic event show shape you? 14:54 What did you focus on in your career? 16:40 What did working with patients towards the end of their life teach you? 20:34 The importance of following our passion 27:13 The Myth Of Normal 30:57 How would our approaches change if we took away the concept of normal? 41:06 How parents behaviour can impact a child 44:27 How do you define trauma? 46:57 Does everyone have trauma? 50:51 Why can two people with the same trauma turn out differently? 01:01:44 Being controlled by our trauma 01:04:20 Do we ever cut the puppet master strings? 01:05:56 How does someone become more aware? 01:09:18 Addictions and how we develop them 01:13:28 How do we find our sense of worth? 01:14:05 Why is authenticity so important 01:18:51 Taking personal responsibility 01:20:09 The 5 Rs to take control of your life 01:26:36 ADHD 01:40:40 Do you think society is getting more toxic? 01:50:27 What are you still struggling with? 01:54:25 The last guest’s question

#Gabor Maté #Youtube #trauma #childhood trauma #emotional neglect #ptsd recovery

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 17 days

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MOONCHILD 1981 (True Story) short film

True story of Chris Carlson and others, who joined The Unification Church run by Sun Myung Moon. The cool thing about this film is these are not actors, most are the actual people who escaped the cult.

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Moonwebs by Josh Freed (the book was made into a movie) 1 of 3

Ford Greene – the former Moonie became an attorney

Crazy for God: The nightmare of cult life by Christopher Edwards

Background of those times and techniques in this outstanding paper: 1978 - Social organization of recruitment in the Unification Church by David Frank Taylor – The University of Montana

Sun Myung Moon invested nearly $3 million in a cruel chinchilla farm at Boonville

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from Moonie Buddhist Catholic: A Spiritual Odyssey. by Thomas W. Case (pages 106-109)

Another time when I took it into my head to drive up to the Boonville camp I found a locked gate across the dirt road, and a couple of Moonie guards a short distance away. I pulled up in my little red Subaru and stopped, feeling that this gate was something I wanted to crush. I wanted to drive my car right through it. Instead I climbed out of the car and felt immediately suspected. The gate reflected on me. I was under observation. The tone of things had tightened up. I realized there had been trouble. The recent publicity flashed through my mind. A TV show on deprogramming. An interview with Dr. Durst on local TV, where he was asked about a couple of organizations he was involved with called “Creative Community Project” and “Ethical Management Project”; and he insisted that these organizations had nothing to do with the Unification Church. I knew better and the TV interviewer knew better. This was stonewalling, and it was tied up with the kidnappings and deprogrammings and the first public contentions, a story just beginning that caught hold of something basic in the infantile heart of America. The question was put immediately into the framework of parents and children, their mutual fight for ownership and autonomy. The question of adult liberty versus psychological control of adults was hardly touched on. (It was too touchy a subject.) The question of spiritual validity was not mentioned. Dr. Durst obviously felt that “you people would just not understand.” So he stonewalled. He was bound to a Higher Truth.

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#Thomas W. Case #moonies #unification church #Boonville #child neglect #childhood trauma #True Parents

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 18 days

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The Unification Church Infiltrated Japan’s Government. Now Its Sights Are Set on the U.S.

▲ Reverend Sun Myung Moon gestures dramatically as he speaks at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1974. His chief associate, Col. Bo Hi Pak, right, translates from Korean to English

TIME April 4, 2024

#unification church #sun myung moon #hak ja han #moonies #cult #family federation for world peace and unification

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 19 days

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The Unification Church has got a lot of mileage over the years out of Moon’s endorsement by the self-proclaimed psychic, Arthur Ford.

It’s strange that the messiah would go looking for an endorsement from a con man. One has to wonder what kind of fees were involved. Consider these facts: LINK

#con man #unification church #sun myung moon #moonies #Arthur Ford

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 24 days

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The Messiah who ‘Bows to Moon’

To accompany the post Jesus ‘Bows to Moon’, here is a Huffington Post article by Presbyterian pastor John Ortberg on the man Jesus, and how he changed the world.

Six Surprising Ways Jesus Changed The World

John Ortberg, Senior Pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church

Both President Obama and Governor Romney have had to repeatedly address their views about an itinerant rabbi who lived 2000 years ago.

But why does anyone care? Yale historian Jaroslav Pelikan wrote, “Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of Western Culture for almost 20 centuries. If it were possible, with some sort of super magnet, to pull up out of history every scrap of metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would be left?” It turns out that the life of Jesus is a comet with an exceedingly long tale. Here are some shards of his impact that most often surprise people:

Children In the ancient world children were routinely left to die of exposure — particularly if they were the wrong gender (you can guess which was the wrong one); they were often sold into slavery. Jesus’ treatment of and teachings about children led to the forbidding of such practices, as well as to orphanages and godparents. A Norwegian scholar named Bakke wrote a study of this impact, simply titled: When Children Became People: the Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity.

Education Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones’ mind. The first legislation to publicly fund education in the colonies was called The Old Deluder Satan Act, under the notion that God does not want any child ignorant. The ancient world loved education but tended to reserve it for the elite; the notion that every child bore God’s image helped fuel the move for universal literacy.

Compassion Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. His compassion for the poor and the sick led to institutions for lepers, the beginning of modern-day hospitals. The Council of Nyssa decreed that wherever a cathedral existed, there must be a hospice, a place of caring for the sick and poor. That’s why even today, hospitals have names like “Good Samaritan,” “Good Shepherd,” or “Saint Anthony.” They were the world’s first voluntary, charitable institutions.

Humility The ancient world honored many virtues like courage and wisdom, but not humility. People were generally divided into first class and coach. “Rank must be preserved,” said Cicero; each of the original 99 percent was a personis mediocribus. Plutarch wrote a self-help book that might crack best-seller lists in our day: How to Praise Yourself Inoffensively.

Jesus’ life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. Historian John Dickson writes, “it is unlikely that any of us would aspire to this virtue were it not for the historical impact of his crucifixion… Our culture remains cruciform long after it stopped being Christian.”

Forgiveness In the ancient world, virtue meant rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies. Conan the Barbarian was actually paraphrasing Ghengis Khan in his famous answer to the question “what is best in life?” — to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

An alternative idea came from Galilee: what is best in life is to love your enemies, and see them reconciled to you. Hannah Arendt, the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton, claimed, “the discoverer of the role of forgiveness in the realm of human affairs was Jesus of Nazareth.” This may be debatable, but he certainly gave the idea unique publicity.

Humanitarian Reform: Jesus had a way of championing the excluded that was often downright irritating to those in power. His inclusion of women led to a community to which women flocked in disproportionate numbers. Slaves — up to a third of ancient populations — might wander into a church fellowship and have a slave-owner wash their feet rather than beat them. One ancient text instructed bishops to not interrupt worship to greet a wealthy attender, but to sit on the floor to welcome the poor. The apostle Paul said: “Now there is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave or free, male and female, but all are one in Christ Jesus.” Thomas Cahill wrote that this was the first statement of egalitarianism in human literature.

Perhaps as remarkable as anything else is Jesus’ ability to withstand the failings of his followers, who from the beginning probably got in his way at least as much as they helped. The number of groups claiming to be ‘for’ Jesus are inexhaustible; to name a few: Jews for Jesus, Muslims for Jesus, Ex-Masons for Jesus, Road Riders for Jesus, Cowboys for Jesus, even Atheists for Jesus.

The one predictable element of this fall’s U.S. presidential campaign is that it will be called “the most important election of our time.” As the last one was called, and the next one will be.

Meanwhile, the unpredictable influence of an unelected carpenter continues to endure and spread across the world.

Sun Myung Moon’s thoughts on JESUS and Christianity – “IDIOTS”

Peace King Moon and his two gun factories

Moon business, Tong-il Heavy Industries, manufactures machine guns

Unification Church business manufactured the Vulcan 20mm cannon

Sasakawa and Kodama of Japan may have had another reason for their alliance with Moon

Yongpyong Resort, covering 4,300 acres, is owned by the Moons

The Ocean Resort in Yeosu is owned by the Moons

“It was also agreed that Japanese and Korean churches would cooperate with the committee tackling the Unification Church problem in Yeosu city in South Korea. Japanese representatives pointed out that the Unification Church sponsored resort development in Yeosu is supported by funds stolen from Japanese victims, and stated their policy to thoroughly investigate the source of the funds to stop the development in Yeosu.” LINK

Beaché Palace is owned by the Moons. Who paid for it?

The Moons’ Jets and Helicopters

Moon’s unused Geomun Island Palace

The $1 billion Cheonjeonggung Museum has been called a ‘palace’ by some people. It should never be called a palace.

#Jesus #moonies #unification church #ffwpu #sun myung moon #hak ja han

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 26 days

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Lincoln’s Dilemma Over the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring the psychology of partisanship, and how to effectively handle disagreements with those around us. This week, we conclude our US 2.0 series by turning to the past. We’ll explore how one of the most important leaders in American history — Abraham Lincoln — grappled with the pressing moral question of his time. When, if ever, is it worth compromising your own principles for the sake of greater progress?

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Sun Myung Moon's manipulation to exploit:

Minions and Master An army of obedient servants would have to be recruited and trained to restore the Kingdom of Heaven to earth under Sun Myung Moon. They would have to work as people had never before worked because there had never been such a great mission. They would have to go wherever Moon sent them to raise the $300 million he needed for making his project worldwide and the billions more he needed to control the wealth of the planet. But Moon did not have shiploads of chained tribal people at his disposal when he arrived in America in 1971. Involuntary servitude was against the law. Could he make people think they were actually willing to be slaves? LINK

#Abraham Lincoln #slavery #psychology of partisanship #Hidden Brain

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 26 days

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Minions and Master (An army of obedient servants for Sun Myung Moon)

Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean scandal

by Robert B. Boettcher (with Gordon L. Freedman) 1980

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pages 144-186

An army of obedient servants would have to be recruited and trained to restore the Kingdom of Heaven to earth under Sun Myung Moon. They would have to work as people had never before worked because there had never been such a great mission. They would have to go wherever Moon sent them to raise the $300 million he needed for making his project worldwide and the billions more he needed to control the wealth of the planet. But Moon did not have shiploads of chained tribal people at his disposal when he arrived in America in 1971. Involuntary servitude was against the law. Could he make people think they were actually willing to be slaves?

He got the answer he wanted from idealistic American youth. He and they were ready for each other. They were people in the age group eighteen to twenty-four, in transition from adolescence to adulthood, student to professional, getting in or getting out of school, family life to life alone. For one in search of a coherent view of the world, college had the effect of making things more confusing by presenting so many different approaches to life without identifying one as altogether right. In the “real” world, problems abounded, from family disunity to the threat of nuclear destruction. At best, things were in disarray; at worst, life was chaotic, depressing. Such minds were fertile soil. Their idealism was the key. Describe how happy people would be if discord could be turned into harmony. Show how this can be done through uniﬁed love for God. Then play on the distance between what a person thinks he is and what he wants to be. Hold up ideals and make him ashamed of not living up to his own standards. Instill ideas of self-worthlessness. Make him feel guilty about putting concern for himself above group unity. The burden of guilt could be lightened by working as a family with others who believe the ideals can be attained here on earth. The family has a father who will lead the way. The harder one works for Father, the closer one gets to achieving the goal. Follow Father. God has shown him alone the path to perfection because he is the Messiah.

Moon taught a clear strategy for attracting prospective converts. Until the prospect is converted, he must not know that a strategy is being used. Later he will appreciate being deceived because the motive was his own salvation. First, all church members must make as many new acquaintances as possible. Befriend them by taking a personal interest; do not disagree with their views, whether right or wrong. Do favors. Find the right style to use on each kind of person. Classify his personality. Introduce him to a church member with a similar personality, but don’t reveal that he is a church member. Meet together like that two or three times. Get into conversations on current issues, ethics, or morality. Then say, “I know where there are many serious young people talking about things like this,” or “I have heard of some lectures about a new philosophy, very sincere, very interesting, talking about the problems of life. I would appreciate it if you would go with me so I can get your opinion on it.” The prospect will pay attention to the lecture because he has been asked for criticism. When he says it was wonderful, say, “Oh, I don’t know. Not necessarily so.” But suggest going again in order to learn more about it.

Chris Elkins was president of his fraternity at the University of Arizona when John Shea, a recent acquaintance, invited him to attend a lecture about something called the One World Crusade. What he heard was philosophical, nonreligious, and interesting. So he went again each week for a month or more. The One World Crusade was explained as a movement encompassing all aspects of life. He was impressed by the magnetism of the lecturer, Dr. Joseph Sheftick. He and his fifteen or twenty followers had an aura of confidence, friendliness, and sincerity. They related well to his own interests and seemed warmly concerned about him. As the lectures progressed, a Korean named Sun Myung Moon was mentioned as a great teacher, but the main stress was on the coming of a Messiah to build heaven on earth. It dawned on Elkins that Sun Myung Moon must be the Messiah in question, although no one had said he was. During dinner with the group one night, he stated that observation. Dr. Sheftick raised his head, sat up straight, and announced, “We have a new brother: Chris Elkins.”

Elkins did not affirm Sheftick’s declaration, nor did he deny it. He simply went along for the time being. In fact, he was seriously considering joining. The goals were so noble: peace and brotherhood at all levels. Fund-raising didn’t appeal to him, but he could swallow it because he felt he and the movement really belonged together. And the people gave him so much love and attention that he couldn’t just say no. His best friend tried to dissuade him. When his family protested, Dr. Sheftick warned that Satanic forces work best through those most loved.

Euphoria prevailed during his honeymoon period with the Moon cult. Then the atmosphere became more serious. Elkins didn’t like fasting and staying up all night praying aloud with the others. After a couple of weeks, it all seemed too heavy. Driving back to Illinois to visit his mother in the hospital, he was in a daze. He tried to think things out. What had he got into? Was this the life for him, separated from the rest of the world? The love . . . the concern . . . heaven on earth. . . . What if Moon was really what they said he was? Could he risk losing what they offered? From Illinois, he called the group. It felt good to hear their voices. He would return.

He resigned as president of the fraternity. The Moonies sent him to Phoenix to fund-raise by selling peanuts on the street. He was still restless because Satanic spirits were at work inside him, so he was grateful that another member was by his side at all times. His parents wanted the car back, but a leader chided him: “Who needs it more? Your parents or the movement?”

He was learning. The great crusade required everything he had. The attachment to Father must be total, as Father said:

“Your whole body, every cell of your body, every movement, every facial motion, even every piece of hair, every ounce of energy must be directed to this one point.”

Just as other members were always with him physically, Father was always with him too:

“You must live with me spiritually all the time—while you are eating, while you are sleeping, while you are in the bathroom, while you are taking a bath, taking a rest, even in dreams you can be sitting with me and discussing with me. That’s the only way. This is the secret of our movement. Whoever has that basic, fundamental attitude and that spiritual power will perform miracles.”

Spiritual regeneration required mental somersaults. What once seemed true was now false. What once seemed unreal was now real. The world Elkins had known since birth was the product of original sin. The fall of Adam opened the ﬂoodgates to Satanic spirits, which had inundated the lives of Elkins’s ancestors. If he gave himself to Moon completely, he could rid himself of that awful heritage and be restored:

“You will rearrange the mechanism within yourself in good order so that you will feel in the right way, think in that way, say things in that way, and act out in that way. So you are your body, but your mind is my mind.”

Chris Elkins had sung in choirs before, so he was told that joining the New Hope Singers was something he might like to do. Rehearsals were held at the Belvedere training center in Tarrytown, New York, purchased after a nationwide candle-selling blitz had yielded about $800,000.

▲ Belvedere from above

The schedule at Belvedere was rigorous: get up out of the bunkbed at 6:00; exercise at 6:05; clean up and get dressed at 6:15; pray at 6:35; eat oatmeal and water at 7:00; do chores at 8:00; attend training sessions at 8:45; eat bread, butter, and jelly sandwiches at 1:00; tend the grounds at 1:45; shower at 3:30; attend training sessions at 4:00; eat casserole with flecks of meat at 7:00; attend training sessions at 8:00; go to team meetings at 11:00; do individual study at midnight; go to bed at 1:30. There was no free time, and everything was done in groups supervised by a leader.

The three functions in the life of a Moonie—to be indoctrinated, to fund-raise, to recruit new members—required so much time that only a few hours were left for sleep. Working with limited rest was a purifying act of self-sacrifice that proved one’s allegiance to Moon. The timetable for achieving his goals was short. In three years’ time he had to have thousands of servants “marching the main streets of the capital of each nation.” And by 1981, Communism was to be defeated. To keep down individual dissatisfaction about sleep, he whipped up group thinking in his training speeches:

MOON: Would you prefer to sleep seven hours instead of six hours? CULT: NO! MOON: Would you prefer to sleep for seven hours or five hours? CULT: FIVE! MOON: Would you prefer to sleep five hours or four hours? CULT: FOUR! MOON: Would you prefer to go to work without sleeping or sleeping? CULT: WITHOUT SLEEPING! MOON: I don’t want you to die, so I will let you sleep barely enough to sustain your life. What I’m thinking is that although you get thin like ghosts, with big eyeballs, skinny all over and stooped down like this in walking, stuttering—but if by your doing that, by your being like that, we are successful in God’s providence, I would prefer to have you do that.

Commitment was total. Cult members should commit suicide rather than fail in their duty to Master. They were even made to practice wrist-slashing techniques.

And there have been suicides.

April 3, 1975: Bill Daly went down to the railroad tracks near Moon’s seminary, took off all his clothes, placed his neck over a track, and was decapitated by an oncoming train. Friends, ex-Moonies, say the cult’s constant hammering about guilt had gotten to him.

June 6, 1976: Allen Staggs fell twenty stories down an elevator shaft to his death in the old New Yorker Hotel, which, under Moon’s ownership, was renamed the “World Mission Center.” The Moonies said it was an accident. A policeman who investigated the incident was surprised that Staggs’s fellow church members acted as if they didn’t know him and appeared “annoyed that their schedule was being interrupted by the whole thing”; “they didn’t seem to care.” The police closed the case without ruling whether the death was an accident or suicide.

August 23, 1976: Kiyomi Ogata, a Japanese Moonie, plunged from the twenty-second floor of the New Yorker.

August 23, 1979: Junette Bayne, again the New Yorker Hotel, from the twenty-first floor. Her estranged husband, not a Moonie, said, “If she wasn’t pushed physically, she was pushed psychologically out that window.”

Health problems were a nuisance Moon could not be bothered with. If the spirit was strong, the body would follow. If the body was weak, there must be spiritual problems. A girl with a broken ankle was told to pray and drink ginseng tea. She fund-raised for three days before getting treatment at a free clinic on her own. Another girl was left with permanently impaired eyesight after an emergency operation for a detached retina. The doctors said she would have been all right had they been able to treat her months earlier when she skipped the appointments her father had made. Listening to lectures on the Divine Principle was more important, cult leaders had said. She almost went blind. A Moonie from Kansas suffered a nervous breakdown. When Chris Edwards finally went to a hospital and was told his infected hand might have to be amputated, he felt ready to welcome the loss as justifiable “indemnity” for his sins.

Across the road from the training center, Moon and his family lived at a $600,000 estate—East Garden. Master had fresh sheets put on his bed every day and his clothes were washed three times before wearing. He told the cult his estate and fine car were necessary in order to show the world something other than the miserable side of life.

With the New Hope Singers, Chris Elkins accompanied Moon on the twenty-one city “Day of Hope” speaking tour during the fall of 1973. The tour began with three nights of lectures at Carnegie Hall in New York City. An advance team of one hundred to two hundred spent two weeks in each city at fund-raising, putting up posters announcing Moon’s appearance, luring dignitaries to a banquet for Moon, and saturating the local media with press releases. Among Moon’s tour trophies were appointments with governors and mayors (always with a Moonie cameraman in tow), keys to cities, and many “Day of Hope” proclamations and telegrams from unsuspecting officials—including New York Mayor John Lindsay, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Washington Mayor Walter Washington, Ohio Governor John Gilligan, and Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia.

Chris Elkins had become an accomplished fund-raiser. He had learned to vary his sales pitch. Depending on the kind of person being solicited, he asked for money for drug rehabilitation, a youth center, or a new choir called the New Hope Singers. Connection with Moon or the Uniﬁcation Church was not revealed. All the money was turned over to church leaders.

Elkins made a good impression on Neil Salonen, the president of the Uniﬁcation Church in the United States. Salonen also headed the Freedom Leadership Foundation, one of the political arms of the Moon organization, and he thought Elkins was suitable for use in the movement’s expanding political activities in Washington. Elkins welcomed the transfer. It would relieve him of what he liked least—fund-raising—and involve him in Father’s exciting new campaign to save Richard Nixon: Project Watergate. When Nixon’s image was rehabilitated with Moon’s help, Elkins was told, Nixon would be forever indebted to Moon.

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More of the book can be found here:

Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean scandal by Robert B. Boettcher (with Gordon L. Freedman) 1980

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

The Unification Church and the KCIA – ‘Privatizing’ covert action: the case of the UC

Robert Parry’s investigations into Sun Myung Moon

The Fall of the House of Moon – New Republic

The Resurrection of Rev Moon

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