THE slow disintegration throughout the 1990s of the Reverend Moon Sun-Myung Unification Church may be reversed now that the barmy brainwashing cult has a spanking new, $100-million World headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, and fresh blood at its helm.
Moon Hyung-Jin,30, left, and Moon Kook-Jin, 40, plan to revive the fortunes of the brainwashing cult
Days before the Rev Moon turned 90 earlier this year, a pair of his sons prominently joined him to inaugurate the new building.
The five-floor structure has a marbled lobby, an all-embracing prayer room with Islamic inscriptions and portraits of Christ, Buddha and Confucius, and a main hall large enough to hold 1,200 of the faithful.
According to this report, two brothers, Moon Kook-Jin, 40, and Moon Hyung-Jin – at 30 the youngest of Moon’s seven sons and seven daughters – represent the best hopes for infusing new fervour into the Unification empire as both a business and a religion.
Moon Kook-Jin, who is in charge of the church’s finances, is a Seoul businessman and owner, among other enterprises, of the New York-based gun manufacturer Kahr Arms. He said in this interview that he sees no contradiction in owning a weapons factory. “To build a peaceful country, we need the police and an army,” he asserted, a black Kahr Arms baseball cap perched on his head.
Old man Moon and his 67-year-old wife – the flock’s “True Parents,” as they call themselves – now live mainly in Korea, sequestered in their “palace” nestled in mountains halfway between Seoul and the demilitarised zone.
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April 8th, 2010 at 6:05 am
Here is a link to a rather interesting video of a talk given by an ex-Moony explaining how people can become vulnerable to such trickerywickery.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ex_mo.....think.html
April 8th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Excelent link Heather,
I was brainwashed as an infant, and didn’t achieve my release (on my own, without help)until my mid-twenties, but the dark hole of mental battle I fell into cost me everything in life I valued. While I sat in the shadows licking my wounds, my ex took my children away, to whom I was painted a demonic monster.
Since then, I tried to find an accurate view of the universe, reality, without overcorrecting. To find the center. To never assume anything any more without evidence, but, I find myself belittled again. They want me to believe the universe is an accident. Well, okay, show me the proof before you call me a fool!!!!!!
NeoWolfe
April 8th, 2010 at 10:40 am
NeoWolfe
Is an earthquake an accident? Or, for that matter, a nice sunrise? “Accident” implies some sort of clumsy oaf somewhere in the process. Natural processes, by definition, just happen. For myself, I find a non-teleological universe to be oddly comforting.
April 8th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Gronk,
I understand the point, but, no, an earthquake is not an accident. It is the result of moving tectonic plates that snag and suddenly release. Tsunamis happen as a result of seduction faults in the same sort of cycle, or by subsurface landslide. But, that’s beside the point I was making.
Science knows that you never get something for nothing. While energy and matter are different forms of the same thing, neither can be destroyed or created. Yet, the big bang theory puts forward the idea that this unimagineably huge universe blasted into existence out of nothing.
The other side of the coin is equally disturbing. That some grand intelligence set it in motion? But, wait, what is the nature of IT’S origen? Did it have a beginning? Who created it? YIKES!!!!
Questions for which there are no answers, at least not yet. Dr. Harwood doesn’t like that I call myself an agnostic, but, the term really means “not knowing”. But, I learned my lesson, I will never assume anything again that cannot be proven. And, I am sad to say, that I have endured abuse by atheists for taking that stand. But, they are the group with whom I share the most in common, so I hang around as the red headed stepchild.
NeoWolfe