More on Moon’s coronation
Politics, Religion 06/21/2004 |Kirsten pointed me to a Salon article following up on the bizarre coronation of Rev. Moon. I’m so flabbergasted by this event.
On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin — the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him “none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”
To many observers, this bizarre scene would have looked like the apocalypse as depicted in “Left Behind” novels. Moon, 84, the benefactor of conservative foundations like the American Family Coalition — who served time in the 1980s for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice — has views somewhere to the right of the Taliban’s Mullah Omar. Moon preaches that gays are “dung-eating dogs,” Jews brought on the Holocaust by betraying Jesus, and the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a system he calls “Godism” — with him in charge. The man crowned “King of Peace” by congressmen once said, according to sermons reprinted in his church’s Unification News: “Suppose I were to hit you with the baseball bat to stop you, bloodying your ear and breaking a bone or two, yet still you insisted on doing more work for Father.”
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Ryan Waddell
June 21st, 2004 at 1:04 pm
Sounds like a very sane, rational person.
June 21st, 2004 at 10:07 pm
So, Johan — was that sarcasm, or trolling?
July 8th, 2004 at 7:47 pm
Your “flabbergasted” reaction is typical. How could these senators and congressmen even allow themselves to be associated with such an event? Certainly, if Moon had sent out an invitation on Unification Church letterhead, saying, “Come crown me the King of Peace in a U.S. Senate Building” he would have had few takers. But Moon is adept at getting people to participate in these things by making the event appear to be something else. Basically, Moon holds a conference or an awards ceremony involving genuinely accomplished people, and hands out accolades and even gifts. Then at the end of the event, he reserves the greatest honors for himself and his wife. People feel too ingratiated to him by the honors and gifts he handed out to begrudge him his bizarre coronation. I am very familiar with Moon’s deceptive tactics, because I am an ex-member of Moon’s church. A sample from my memoir, Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, can be read by going to my website, http://www.moonbook.com/index2.html. The book is available through the website or from Amazon.com.