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miriam_eIt is not often that I howl with laughter listening to a documentary program, much less a religious program. Tonight I was alternately laughing and horrified while listening to The Spirit of Things and the amazing tale of the Reverend Moon (remember the crazy brainwashing cult of the Moonies from the '70s?) who was crowned King of America at a ceremony in a government building in Washington D.C. attended by a slew of US Conservative government officials. Apparently Moon travels the world with George Bush, owns the Conservative newspaper The Washington Times, and is a huge contributor to Republican politics in USA. After being convicted of fraud and tax evasion decades back he didn't vanish from USA the way he managed to vanish from the headlines. He is now one of the most powerful people in USA and Japan. In Japan his "church" is been the target of a long-running class action because of their habit of extorting money out of rich widows.
Moon calls himself the true messiah, and maintains that he and his wife (the second one after the divorce) are the parents of the universe, the only perfect beings.
It is astonishingly stupid and funny, but also very, very scary because of the power this nutcake wields among the most powerful people in the world. He, himself has managed to become one of the richest men in the world.
Go to
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2008/2217464.htm8
to download the audio (soon -- the streaming audio is already there) and take the link to the video of the coronation.
http://www.gorenfeld.net/book/cinema/
A little info about the coronation is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon_coronation
[sigh] USA. Just when you didn't think it could get weirder...
Moon calls himself the true messiah, and maintains that he and his wife (the second one after the divorce) are the parents of the universe, the only perfect beings.
It is astonishingly stupid and funny, but also very, very scary because of the power this nutcake wields among the most powerful people in the world. He, himself has managed to become one of the richest men in the world.
Go to
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2008/2217464.htm8
to download the audio (soon -- the streaming audio is already there) and take the link to the video of the coronation.
http://www.gorenfeld.net/book/cinema/
A little info about the coronation is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon_coronation
[sigh] USA. Just when you didn't think it could get weirder...
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Date: 2008-04-24 01:23 am (UTC)That is amazing.
I expect we have similar people running our country. [sigh]
Arthur C. Clarke once said a brilliant thing (I think it was in his book "Imperial Earth"). I'll try to dig up the exact quote, but it was something to the effect that people who want power are the least qualified to get it. Instead, people with proper qualifications should be dragged kicking and screaming into office, and get time off for good behavior.
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Date: 2008-04-24 01:39 am (UTC)Yah, I think there is some wisdom in that quote.
I do have hope though. I have seen some promising signs. I do believe some will go into politics in order to be able to serve humanity and the earth rather than just to serve only themselves. They are a rarer breed certainly but I feel like there's going to be more and more of them.