10.5 cents
Posted on 06/21/2004 9:48:35 AM PDT by I_killed_kenny
June 21, 2004 | You probably imagine your congressman hard at work in the Capitol debating legislation, making laws -- you know, governing. But your newspaper probably didn't tell you that one night in March, members of Congress hosted a crowning ritual for an ex-convict and multibillionaire who dressed up in maroon robes and declared himself the Second Coming.
On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin -- the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him "none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."
To many observers, this bizarre scene would have looked like the apocalypse as depicted in "Left Behind" novels. Moon, 84, the benefactor of conservative foundations like the American Family Coalition -- who served time in the 1980s for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice -- has views somewhere to the right of the Taliban's Mullah Omar. Moon preaches that gays are "dung-eating dogs," Jews brought on the Holocaust by betraying Jesus, and the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a system he calls "Godism" -- with him in charge. The man crowned "King of Peace" by congressmen once said, according to sermons reprinted in his church's Unification News: "Suppose I were to hit you with the baseball bat to stop you, bloodying your ear and breaking a bone or two, yet still you insisted on doing more work for Father."
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Moon's money is as green as anyone else's - that's all these jokers on Capitol Hill care about.
Where's the "Just Damn" guy?
I have a HUGE problem with this! Scary stuff!
Moon OWNS the Washington Times and UPI? Good grief....
Politics1.com has gone crazy over this story, but the way I see it is, everybody has freedom of religion. I have heard that these events with Moon occur annually, I could be wrong.
I really don't care, Moon might be a nutcase, but that is just him.
Remember, an elected official crowning someone as a god-king in a Senate building is OK.
But a Catholic bishop saying who is or is not welcome in his own private cathedral is an unacceptable mingling of Church and state.
You bet I do. Where's the ACLU screaming about 'separation of church and state'?
"freedom of religion"
yeah, but if I call myself Jesus, I can't have my ceremony in a Government owned building, can I? If I can't, he should either.
shouldn't I meant
Ping.
and that literally makes God, and gives him the right to pull that nonsese in the Senate building? I don't think so.
That's been public knowledge on the Net since the late 90s, IIRC.
Yuck! Why does this stuff go on? It can only embarrass everyone involved.
10.5 cents
I bought at 0.10 and sold in January. With the profits, my wife and I bought a lovely McD's Value Meal.
Sheesh. Thanks for the *favor*.
The reason for the spike was not because of an improved business model, it was because some investors (including Jann Werner of Rolling Stone?) bought a LOT of shares to keep Salon solvent until the 2004 election passed.
What other members of Congress were at this "coronation"? I don't care if they are Republicans or Democrats...they need to be defeated.
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