Rev. Moon marries off thousands of followers

[harry_pothead]

Source: MSNBC

ASAN, South Korea - Brides in white gowns and Japanese kimonos joined grooms in black suits and red ties Wednesday for the Unification Church's biggest mass wedding in a decade — a spectacle church officials say involves 40,000 people around the world.

The "blessing ceremony" is the church's largest since 1999, and may well be the last on such a grand scale officiated by the 89-year-old Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unification Church.

Nearly a half-century after arranging the marriages of 24 couples in his first mass wedding, Moon offered blessings Wednesday for more than 20,000 people gathered at Sun Moon University, the school he founded in Asan, south of Seoul.
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About half are marrying for the first time, some in marriages arranged by Moon himself; the rest are renewing their wedding vows. Twenty-thousand others are expected to watch via Internet broadcast at simultaneous ceremonies taking place from Sweden to Brazil.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33296507/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

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In my opinion, par for the course for a right wing cult.

[evilkumquat]

1. GOP Hates Gay Marriage But Supports This...?

Moon is a HUGE GOP supporter. He and his church own the Washington Times, a VERY conservative newspaper that is the equivalent of Fox News in the print world.

So, to Republicans, two people of the same sex who have spent their entire lives together (or at least, have known each other at least as long as most heterosexual couples usually do before getting engaged) are so much, much less deserving of marriage than people who have never met (or only a handful of times) going through an arranged marriage negotiated through "visions"...?

Between these two scenarios, which makes the REAL mockery of matrimony?

[SpiralHawk]

6. Republicons have a Major Bromance with the 'Second Coming of Christ' Moon

It's TORTURED logic to be sure, but Rev. Moon is A Republicon MONEYBAG Messiah.

[XemaSab]

2. I can't believe he's still recruiting followers

not to mention the fact that he's still alive. :P

[rebel with a cause]

16. You and me too.

When I lived in NYC almost thirty years ago I had his people knocking on my door just like the Jehovah Witnesses. I never thought he would last this long. :crazy:

[Mind_your_head]

3. I met/knew a couple who were married by moon (they were married prior to 1989)

I think in the FIRST big marriage thingy that he did.

The wife seemed like a really nice, sincere woman....a bit 'strange' though. The husband seemed really creepy to me.

In fact, the whole thing seemed *creepy* to me. The wife described how Moon went down the 'aisles' of the waiting prospective singles and said, "you with her, you with him". If I recall correctly, then they spent an afternoon or so together talking and then it was marriage.

[juno jones]

4. Most of the 70's mega cults are gone now.

The Hare Krishnas, the Rajneeshis, and others less colorful have dwindled and died after successful prosecution for illegal acts.

Two have survived intact. The moonies and the scientologists. Two that have managed to infiltrate governmental territory (See moonie coronation or scientology's 'Operation Snow White').

Two that seem conspicous by their exisitence when all these other cults from the same era are all but dead and buried along with their gurus...Of course Moon's not dead yet, but his son sits in the wings.

Why this headline?


Blackmail?

[Barack_America]

8. Or rebranded as modern day "self help" groups.

i.e. est and Landmark education.

[juno jones]

15. Yep.

It's insidious.

[blm]

11. Moon doesn't NEED to blackmail Poppy Bush - they've been aligned since the 60s and THAT is why

Moon became MORE powerful over the years. He also controls most of this nation's fishing industry. Republican rank and file know very little about Moon and know even less about the REAL Bush family.

[juno jones]

14. Thanks.

I've just always wondered about that little nugget. :)

And what you say makes sense. Jeb is in that shit up to his pointy little channelled asian warrior head. He scares the crap outta me, I can only hope bush the lesser was an adequate antidote to an imperial Jed presidency.

[InfiniteThoughts]

5. mass arranged marriage isn't always bad ...

NGOs, political parties and religious organizations arrange for mass marriages in India & other south asian countries. The objective is to help the poor manage the cost of weddings.

One such initiative: 20,000 marriages in 3 phases by TTD (TTD runs India's richest / world's second richest temple). Link: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/14/stories/2008101452530300.htm . I know from personal sources that scores of poor folks have taken advantage of the scheme. The couple are given 2 gms gold, new clothes worth 2,000 ($50 but a good amount for poor folks in India) apart from free stay for 2 days. If the folks conducted the marriage outside the scheme, they might incur Rs. 50000 ($1000), a princely sum for the poor folks.

That doesn't however make Rev. Moon a better person. He continues to be an insufferable idiot / megalomaniac.

[Divine Discontent]

7. I'm thrilled fellow DUers keep posting the truth about this fraud, and how much the GOP powers seem

to be in connection with him, and support him. Makes ya think they really don't care about the nation's most popular religion one bit, when you see how WACKJOB this Moon guy is.

Youtube has some great video stories on him and his "unification church". Go watch em if you've never seen details on him.
Here's a video 60 Minutes expose on him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne0GPf4TnGw
ENJOY watching his son go off crazy cursing at a church group at 1:20 into the video.

60 Minutes shows MYUNG MOON's son as a drug addict and abuser.

[Ian David]

9. If you visit a Moonie's house, be very careful what towel you use to dry your hands. n/t

[seafan]

10. Never forget the Moon-Bush web.

Moon presides over mass nuptials for 20,000 in South Korea., October 13, 2009







Time to dust off these old threads.


With a hat tip to Robert Parry, who is relentless in searching out the truth.



Prensa Latina: Bush Paraguay Land Grab Incites Unease, October 17, 2006


The Moon-Bush Cash Conduit




These next three are related. And not in a good way:


'Moon, who helped North Korea set up a nuclear system....'

US grants N Korea nuclear funds, 3 April 2002

Moon, North Korea & the Bushes




Rev. Sun Myung Moon's self-coronation at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, March 23, 2004


U. S. military operating inside Paraguay, reported in 2005




And the mother lode of information:

Dark Side of Rev. Moon




Bad Moon Rising.

[fascisthunter]

12. cults are dangerous

[damntexdem]

13. Whee, circuses! No bread, just circuses.

Just Mooning the world once again.