Posted on 10/13/2009 11:12:01 PM PDT by Steelfish
Rev. Moon Marries Off Thousands of Followers Unification Church leader, 89, presides over another mass wedding
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon has presided over numerous mass weddings over the years, including this one, attended by some 40,000, at Seoul's Olympic Stadium in 1992.
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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yes, stupid, but also idealistic and naive.
My cousin joined the Moonies in the early 1970s. He was a college student who got sucked into the idea that he would be joining a peaceful movement and would make a difference. He got married in one of those mass wedding ceremonies, to a woman he didn’t know. He went up in the Moonie organization because he was an accountant and they wanted his skills. Eventually he did some independent thinking about where the money was going. He left the movement. His wife joined him a year or two later.
He seems pretty normal now, and lives a quiet life in a small town. His wife, however, I don’t think ever completely gave up on the Moonies. I think she still has friends in it, or in a spin-off from it. Perhaps she thinks she’ll finish raising the kids and then go back to it, or return to her native Belgium. I think she has learned to find the good in normal married life, but my gut instinct is to doubt whether she will stay with it for the rest of her life.
My cousin’s family says during the Moonie years, he only came home with “minders”, never by himself. He had been raised an observant Catholic, and his family says it was naive idealism that allowed him to be manipulated like that. And of course, in the early 70s, he was one of many joining cults. I guess we should just be glad he didn’t join Jim Jones, and that he came home eventually.
There are idealistic young people around today. If you don’t want them joining up with Obama, you need to find another healthier cause they can give themselves to.
>Rev. Moon Marries Off Thousands of Followers Unification Church leader
Marries IN
Our friend’s daughter became a Moonie in the ‘70’s. She sold her house, boat, car, everything, and gave it all to the Moonies.
She married a guy she met on her wedding day, that they assigned her, then had two babies, both of whom were taken from her and given to God knows whom.
The “couple” only see each other once or twice a year, she runs some Moonie thing in Northern Cali and her husband is down South somewhere.
What an evil bunch of people...but people fall for those cults, the Moonies, the Scientologists, the fake Christians.
Ed
He’s still alive? This guy must be almost fossilized by now.
When did he get out of a federal prison?
“two babies, both of whom were taken from her and given to God knows whom.”
Gosh, if that wasn’t a wake-up call, what is? I guess your friend’s daughter is irredeemable.
I’m so very sorry for your friend’s family.
Yeah, it’s pretty bad.
In fact no one in her family has talked to her, seen her or visited her, or even knows how to get ahold of her, for many, many years.
Ed
That sounds like a lie to me. Do you have any proof? Evidence? News reports? Anything?
My guess is you don't know a thing about their faith, just another loud-mouth bigot trashing an unpopular faith.
Go ahead, prove me wrong.
Uh...we’re friends with her father and mother, and they told us that.
It could be that they’re lying to me, and you, in fact, DO know the truth of the whole matter.
But I don’t think so.
I think you’re just a twit, probably a brainwashed twit, based on the hostile attitude you’re displaying to soemthing widely known to each and every one of this family’s friends.
Ed
Remember he is the owner of the Washington Times, one of the most conservative papers in the USA.
I think you’re just a twit, probably a brainwashed twit,
So, in fact, you don't know the truth of the matter at all. You don't know a single one of them. You don't know anything about their faith or motivation. Yet you saw fit to smear them with a made-up story. And you call me a twit? Brother, that's bigotry and you're the one who's brainwashed.
Wow, what an oaf you are.
You’re the second-most obtuse Freeper I’ve had respond to me in all these years.
I don’t know a single one of them? I’ve known her her entire life and I’ve known her parents for many decades...since the ‘70’s.
Oh bother...I’m done with this.
If you are in fact a Moonie, wake up, please.
Ed
You’re the one who resorts to name calling. If that’s all you’ve got, get lost. Loser.
owner of the Washington Times
True, I guess. Obviously, it is possible for even a harmful cult to get some things right. After all, they wouldn’t attract people if they didn’t actually do something that was attractive. (Like the Hare Krishnas occasionally serve some tasty curries to the public.)
Is that paper prospering, or on the “media deathwatch” with so many other newspapers?
Oh, please.
Daily I watch the glee of the death of the so-called “old media” on this site. They do not discern whether the media in question deserves to be killed or whether it has purpose.
It’s repugnant, but it happens here all the time.
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