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Rev. Moon does not intend at all to propagate his thought in an absolutist or dogmatic way
[[Image:Rev Moon.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon]]
[[Image:Rev Moon.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon]]
Rev. '''Sun Myung Moon''' (b.1920, [[Korea]]) is the head of the [[Unification Church]] 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.
Rev. '''Sun Myung Moon''' (b.1920, [[Korea]]) is the head of the [[Unification Church]] 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>
Contrary to rumors spread by opponents, Rev. Moon has 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." [http://www.unification.net/misc/lee_ut.html]
==Controversy==
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.
==Childhood==
==Childhood==