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struggle4progress

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19. It's a dangerous rightwing famly-business empire, hidden behind a personality cult

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Mar 2018

Moonie leader 'crowned' in Senate
Julian Borger in Washington
Wed 23 Jun 2004 21.49 EDT First published on Wed 23 Jun 2004 21.49 EDT

The US Senate was used for a bizarre ritual in which the Rev Sun Myung Moon, the head of the Unification church, was "crowned" and declared himself the messiah in the presence of more than a dozen Republican and Democratic members of Congress, it was reported yesterday.

"Emperors, kings and presidents ... have declared to all heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's saviour, messiah, returning Lord and true parent," the 85-year-old Korean "Moonie" cult leader told several hundred guests at the meeting in one of the Senate's office buildings on March 23, according to the Washington Post.

He also claimed endorsement from Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler, who had all been reformed and reborn through his church's teachings ...

The glittering event in the Senate's Dirksen building reflected Mr Moon's extraordinary influence in US politics. He owns the conservative newspaper the Washington Times and the US news agency United Press International ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/24/usa.religion

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ABSURD: Church blesses AR-15 assault rifles [View all] True Dough Mar 2018 OP

Who Would Jesus Shoot? TBA Mar 2018 #1

More like who would Reverend Moon shoot. rsdsharp Mar 2018 #5

Now, now. trotsky Mar 2018 #2

I'm not waiting on permission to use the term absurd! True Dough Mar 2018 #4

What if the "lord" is a god of war? Act_of_Reparation Mar 2018 #6

Then he/she/it is absurd as well True Dough Mar 2018 #7

We need an assault god ban. Pope George Ringo II Mar 2018 #9

The Sons of Mars aren't going to like that. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2018 #11

this good guy gun thing is a bunch of crock AllaN01Bear Mar 2018 #3

Moonies. MineralMan Mar 2018 #8

Oh seriously? It's the fucking Moonies? Iggo Mar 2018 #17

IMO it's a very rightwing Korean group masquerading as a church. These are the folk struggle4progress Mar 2018 #10

Many "real" churches are rightwing, nationalist Bretton Garcia Mar 2018 #12

Whatever you think of Judaism or Christianity, the Moonies really have nothing to do with either struggle4progress Mar 2018 #13

It's clearly an offshoot of Christianity marylandblue Mar 2018 #18

It's a dangerous rightwing famly-business empire, hidden behind a personality cult struggle4progress Mar 2018 #19

From the article you linked marylandblue Mar 2018 #20

No one, who has himself crowned messiah, can be considered Christian struggle4progress Mar 2018 #22

Anyone can call themselves a Christian marylandblue Mar 2018 #23

"Anyone can call themselves X and other Xs are free to say he is not" is a useless argument-form struggle4progress Mar 2018 #24

And you are qualified to judge who is a Christian and who is not? MineralMan Mar 2018 #26

IMO Lewis handled such issues rather well in "Mere Christianity" struggle4progress Mar 2018 #31

So, you do feel competent to decide? Interesting. MineralMan Mar 2018 #32

C. S. Lewis died long before the Moonies existed. MineralMan Mar 2018 #33

Moon's original organization dates from about 1954. Lewis died in November 1963. struggle4progress Mar 2018 #37

Scientist has a generally agreed definition marylandblue Mar 2018 #28

Indeed it is Brainstormy Mar 2018 #29

Christianity originated as a Jewish cult near Roman-occupied Jerusalem struggle4progress Mar 2018 #38

The "Unification Church" is not simply a "church" with a lot of rightwing nationalist members struggle4progress Mar 2018 #14

And then, there's this: MineralMan Mar 2018 #30

... Sharpton said .. he would never join the church .. and maintained that he knew struggle4progress Mar 2018 #36

Washington Times struggle4progress Mar 2018 #15

And what other Christian organizations have funded ALEC do you suppose. MineralMan Mar 2018 #27

That could be a description for many Southern Baptist churches, frankly. MineralMan Mar 2018 #25

Guns are more important than people. Iggo Mar 2018 #16

The Fall of the House of Moon struggle4progress Mar 2018 #21

And the Right-Wing Christians are aiming to do the same thing. MineralMan Mar 2018 #34

Life is short, and there are other fires to put off struggle4progress Mar 2018 #39

What's next? worshiping a nuclear weapon? DinahMoeHum Mar 2018 #35

Ah, Moonies Bradical79 Mar 2018 #40