The Washington Times must be a creepier place to work than a life-sized doll house. I knew that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was weird, but I didn’t know he was a complete hypocrite.
But this family values crusader harbored a secret. While he was promoting marriage as the solution to society’s woes and inveighing against “free sex,” his personal life was full of philandering—including at least one adulterous relationship that produced a son. To hide the boy’s identify from his followers, Moon instructed his right-hand man, who was also the founding president and publisher of the Washington Times, to raise the child. Moon’s illegitimate son, Sam Park, who is now 47 years old and lives in Arizona, also helped guard his father’s secret, by staying silent. Until now.
They don’t call it the Moonie Times for nothing.
Cue Captain Renault!!
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
What about 1970s cults did folks not know about the most financially successful one.
I would be most curious as to the relations between the Korean CIA, the CIA, and the Unification Church leadership. That would explain a lot about the Washington Times.
I need five more Facebook likes to reach a thousand.
I suspect that this is not all that unusual with persons who create and lead cults. There’s a history of their exempting themselves from the rules they impose on their followers.
Because, natch, they are special.
Tell me again how there is no morality without God.
Oh,man. It’s way worse than that. What I discovered a while back is hardly anybody knows anything about Moon or where he came from.The most informative thing I ever saw on that was an article by Jeffrey M. Bale, “‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church”, Lobster, issue 21.
excerpt:
“When the war ended in 1945, he returned to northern Korea and attempted to found a small community church near Pyongyang, without much success. He then joined a mystical sect in the southern Korean province of Kyong Ki-do called Israel Suo-won, whose tenets foreshadowed both his later theological principles, in their emphasis upon the imminent appearance of a Korean messiah, and his ritual practice of ‘blood purification’ via sexual intercourse (pikarume). (22) Six months later he returned to Pyongyang and began preaching, but complaints about his missionary practices (including pikarume) by other, established religious groups led first to his excommunication and then to two arrests by the North Korean authorities, the second of which occurred on 22 February 1948. (23) The charges against him are alternately listed as adultery and polygamy, or — according to one ‘official’ UC source — espionage …”
I couldn’t link to the above-quoted article because it is behind a firewall, but here is one by Robert Parry that has a lot of the same information.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon4.html
Is it really any wonder what has happened to the whacko right when their hero, Reagan, read the cult rag Washington Times every day?
This from a supporter of the Clintons?