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Rev. '''Sun Myung Moon''' (b.1920, [[Korea]]) is the head of the [[Unification Church]] (the "Moonies") and the founder of the [[Washington Times]]. He claims that at the age of 15, [[Jesus]] visited him and asked him to continue the work He had started 2000 years earlier.<ref>[http://www.unification.org/rev_mrs_moon.html Unification Church website] Official biography</ref> During a sermon, Rev. Moon asked any [[Judaism|Jews]] present to raise their hands. When they did, he told them to repent for killing Jesus and claimed that it was as an "indemnity" for this that 6 million Jews were murdered during the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[http://www.unification.net/news/2003/news20030302_1.html Unification Church website] Sermon given at Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, March 2, 2003</ref> During a visit to the [[United States]], he engaged in a controversial ceremony in which a Congressman crowned him.
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Rev. '''Sun Myung Moon''' (Feb. 25, 1920 - Sep. 2, 2012, [[Korea]]) was the founder of the [[Unification Church]]. 
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Rev. Moon's main goal, throughout his life, had been to comfort the "grieving heart" (Gen. 6:6) of our [[God|heavenly Father]].  
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He said that at the age of 15, [[Jesus]] visited him and asked him to continue the work He had started 2000 years earlier,<ref>[http://www.unification.org/rev_mrs_moon.html Unification Church website] Official biography</ref> to establish the "kingdom of God on earth".<ref>The Holy Scripture speaks about the Church as a Kingdom of God in a number of places: Matthew 3:2, Matthew 4:17, Matthew 6:10, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 9:35, Matthew 18:3, Mark 10:14-15, Luke 12:32, Luke 17:21, John 3:5, John 18:36, Romans 14:17, 1 Corinthians 4:20, Colossians 1:12-22.</ref>
  
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==Childhood==
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[[Al Capp]] said, "... out of him shines the most enormous good nature, the most enormous good will, the most enormous affection." [http://iunificationist.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/staying-strong-in-joy/#more-978 YouTube clip, 4:31]
  
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{{quotebox|Where does Father come from? In his childhood, he lived deep in the [[North Korea]]n countryside, in a mountain valley, a place called [[Chung Ju]]. He was a small king; he went all over the valley catching every kind of animal. He really explored the area. There is no fish he didn't know. His radius was a ten-mile area, a big territory for a child. If he didn't know everything about the area-who was living there and what they were doing-he couldn't sleep. Every morning he would go out and explore some more. That is the kind of personality he has. When there was a bully who gave a hard time to the other children, even though Father was very small, he fought against him and protected the smaller children.  - Rev. Sun Myung Moon, ''In Yun and Encounter'' [http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon90/901104.htm]}}
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Rev. Moon was known in the media and political world as the founder of the [[Washington Times]].
  
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==Adulthood==
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His daughter [[In Jin Moon]] is CEO of [[Manhattan Center Studios]] and head of the [[Unification Church of America]].
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In the immediate post-war period, Moon moved to southern Korea and joined a mystical sect called '''Israel Suo-won''', which preached the imminent arrival of a Korean [[messiah]] and engaged in a sexual ritual called "pikarume," in which the ministers purified women through sexual intercourse, the so-called "blessing of the womb."<ref>Robert Parry [http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon4.html ''Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Truth, Legend & Lies'']</ref> Moon returned to communist-ruled North Korea, and began to spread this message there but was arrested by North Korean authorities on morals charges connected to his sexual rites with young women. In 1950, however, before he had faced trial, [[United Nations]] troops overran the prison where Moon was held and he and all the other inmates were freed.<ref>ibid</ref> He returned to South Korea, where his recruitment of young studentsfrom an all-girls Christian school led to him being arrested again in 1955 for conducting more sexual "purification" rites, according to several U.S. intelligence reports which are now public. Moon was freed three months later because none of the young women would testify for fear of public humiliation, according to an undated FBI summary, released under a Freedom of Information Act request.<ref>ibid</ref>
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==The Tragedy of the Six Marys==
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==Teachings on morality==
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In ''The Tragedy of the Six Marys'' one of the earliest Moon disciples, Pak Chung Hwa, detailed the Unification Church teaching of Moon that Jesus was supposed to save mankind by having sex with six ''already-married'' women who would then have sex with other men who would pass on the purification to other women until, eventually, all mankind would have pure blood. Pak related that Moon took on this responsibility as the "second messiah" but abused the practice by turning the "six Marys" into a kind of "rotating sex club". Moon's first wife divorced him after catching him in one of these sex rituals. Pak estimated that there were at least 60 "Marys," many of whom ended up destitute after Moon discarded them. When Moon impregnated one of the women, he sent her to Japan where she gave birth to a boy, Hee Jin Moon. Moon later admitted fathering the child, who died in a train crash at the age of 13. But Pak wrote that Moon refused to admit responsibility for other illegitimate children born to the women.
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Through this teaching, he violated mothers, their daughters and their sisters, Pak claimed, but the sexual activity apparently did help in recruiting men to the church. By the early 1960s, the church was pulling in better educated young men, including some with connections to South Korea's intelligence agency, the KCIA.
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The reason Rev. Moon was against [[homosexuality]] was not so much that "God has forbidden it" but that it's a lifestyle that makes you miserable. The Bible says "Outside the city are the fornicators" not because some angel stands by the gate like a bouncer, but because fornication pulls us away from God.
  
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Moon has been monitored by U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence agencies since the 1960s and '70s, considering him a potential national security threat to the United States. Reports by the [[CIA]], the [[FBI]] and the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] demonstrated his close ties to [[South Korea|South Korea's]] brutal intelligence service, the KCIA, as well as to prominent right-wing industrialists linked to the [[Yakuza]], the [[Japan]]ese [[mafia]].<ref>ibid</ref>
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==Controversy==
  
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==References==
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Contrary to rumors spread by opponents, Rev. Moon had no plans to establish a [[theocracy]]; that would violate human free will.
  
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* Dr. [[Sang Hun Lee]] wrote, "Rev. Moon does not intend at all to propagate this thought in an absolutist or dogmatic way. He intends it to be popularized by obtaining the approval of many people after letting it undergo the research and critique of many thinkers and scholars, as many of the past scholarly works did."  <ref>http://www.unification.net/misc/lee_ut.html</ref>
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During a sermon, Rev. Moon asked any [[Judaism|Jews]] present to raise their hands. When they did, he told them to repent for killing Jesus and claimed that it was as an "indemnity" for this that 6 million Jews were murdered during the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[http://www.unification.net/news/2003/news20030302_1.html Unification Church website] Sermon given at Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, March 2, 2003</ref> During a visit to the [[United States]], he engaged in a controversial ceremony in which a Congressman crowned him.
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==Childhood==
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{{quotebox|Where does Father come from? In his childhood, he lived deep in the [[North Korea]]n countryside, in a mountain valley, a place called [[Chung Ju]]. He was a small king; he went all over the valley catching every kind of animal. He really explored the area. There is no fish he didn't know. His radius was a ten-mile area, a big territory for a child. If he didn't know everything about the area-who was living there and what they were doing-he couldn't sleep. Every morning he would go out and explore some more. That is the kind of personality he has. When there was a bully who gave a hard time to the other children, even though Father was very small, he fought against him and protected the smaller children.  - Rev. Sun Myung Moon, ''In Yun and Encounter'' <ref>http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon90/901104.htm</ref>}}
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{{quotebox|... the pain of seeing his parents grieve for their children, underscored for the young Sun myung Moon what was later to become his core teaching: that of God as the grieving parent of a lost mankind. God, too, has lost his sons and daughters. <ref>[http://www.tparents.org/library/unification/books/sm-early/Chap02.htm Sun Myung Moon, The Early Years, 1920-53] By Michael Breen</ref>}}
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==See also==
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*[[Bo Hi Pak]]
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==References==
 
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*[http://www.euro-tongil.org/swedish/english/esontag.htm 1976 Interview with Professor Frederick Sontag]
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Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon

Rev. Sun Myung Moon (Feb. 25, 1920 - Sep. 2, 2012, Korea) was the founder of the Unification Church. Rev. Moon's main goal, throughout his life, had been to comfort the "grieving heart" (Gen. 6:6) of our heavenly Father. He said that at the age of 15, Jesus visited him and asked him to continue the work He had started 2000 years earlier,[1] to establish the "kingdom of God on earth".[2]

Al Capp said, "... out of him shines the most enormous good nature, the most enormous good will, the most enormous affection." YouTube clip, 4:31

Rev. Moon was known in the media and political world as the founder of the Washington Times.

His daughter In Jin Moon is CEO of Manhattan Center Studios and head of the Unification Church of America.

Teachings on morality

The reason Rev. Moon was against homosexuality was not so much that "God has forbidden it" but that it's a lifestyle that makes you miserable. The Bible says "Outside the city are the fornicators" not because some angel stands by the gate like a bouncer, but because fornication pulls us away from God.

Controversy

Contrary to rumors spread by opponents, Rev. Moon had no plans to establish a theocracy; that would violate human free will.

  • Dr. Sang Hun Lee wrote, "Rev. Moon does not intend at all to propagate this thought in an absolutist or dogmatic way. He intends it to be popularized by obtaining the approval of many people after letting it undergo the research and critique of many thinkers and scholars, as many of the past scholarly works did." [3]


During a sermon, Rev. Moon asked any Jews present to raise their hands. When they did, he told them to repent for killing Jesus and claimed that it was as an "indemnity" for this that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.[4] During a visit to the United States, he engaged in a controversial ceremony in which a Congressman crowned him.

Childhood

Where does Father come from? In his childhood, he lived deep in the North Korean countryside, in a mountain valley, a place called Chung Ju. He was a small king; he went all over the valley catching every kind of animal. He really explored the area. There is no fish he didn't know. His radius was a ten-mile area, a big territory for a child. If he didn't know everything about the area-who was living there and what they were doing-he couldn't sleep. Every morning he would go out and explore some more. That is the kind of personality he has. When there was a bully who gave a hard time to the other children, even though Father was very small, he fought against him and protected the smaller children. - Rev. Sun Myung Moon, In Yun and Encounter [5]
... the pain of seeing his parents grieve for their children, underscored for the young Sun myung Moon what was later to become his core teaching: that of God as the grieving parent of a lost mankind. God, too, has lost his sons and daughters. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Unification Church website Official biography
  2. ↑ The Holy Scripture speaks about the Church as a Kingdom of God in a number of places: Matthew 3:2, Matthew 4:17, Matthew 6:10, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 9:35, Matthew 18:3, Mark 10:14-15, Luke 12:32, Luke 17:21, John 3:5, John 18:36, Romans 14:17, 1 Corinthians 4:20, Colossians 1:12-22.
  3. ↑ http://www.unification.net/misc/lee_ut.html
  4. ↑ Unification Church website Sermon given at Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, March 2, 2003
  5. ↑ http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon90/901104.htm
  6. ↑ Sun Myung Moon, The Early Years, 1920-53 By Michael Breen

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