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Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, founders of the Unification Church. The Unification Church (Korean: 통일교; RR: Tongil-gyo) is a new religious movement derived from Christianity, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes informally Moonies.
Moon had long been an advocate for anti-communism.He was born in what is now North Korea and had been imprisoned by the North Korean communist government during the Korean War, [24] [25] [26] and believed that the defeat of communism by democracy was a necessary step in the Divine Providence to establish the Kingdom of God on earth.
Sun Myung Moon was born Yong Myung Moon on 6 January 1920 [29] in modern-day North P'yŏng'an Province, North Korea, at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule. He was the second son in a farming family of thirteen children, [ 30 ] eight of whom survived. [ 16 ]
Diane Benscoter and Dr. Steven Hassan, both former members of the Unification Church, act as 'exit counselors' to QAnon followers' families.
The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? is a 1984 book written by British sociologist Eileen Barker. The book describes the religious conversion process to the Unification Church, whose members are sometimes informally referred to as "Moonies". Barker spent close to seven years studying Unification Church members.
Moon claimed to have had a vision of Jesus at age 16, prompting him to preach a new doctrine starting in 1946 in North Korea. After fleeing to South Korea, he established the church. [ 4 ] It expanded to Japan in 1958, helped by the Cold War 's anti-communist climate, connecting with Japanese politicians and establishing the Asian People's Anti ...
Prosecutors pinned Vallow’s motive in the murders of her children on three pillars of a ‘cult playbook’: Power, money and sex. But a survivor of one of America’s most notorious cults tells ...
On October 15, 1981, [1] Moon was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with three counts of willfully filing false federal income tax returns (for the years 1973, 1974, and 1975) under 26 U.S.C. § 7206, and one count of conspiracy—under 18 U.S.C. § 371—to file false income tax returns, to obstruct justice, to make false statements to government officials, and to make false ...