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1:07

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the Unification Church, aka the

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Holy Spirit Association for the

1:14

Unification of World Christianity, aka

1:16

the Family Federation for World

1:19

Peace and Unification, aka

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the Moonies. A manipulative,

1:23

controlling cult founded by charismatic scumbag,

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Sun Myung Moon, the True Father,

1:28

aka Moon-approved Jesus. A

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cult currently led by his former

1:33

teen bride, the now 81-year-old Haak

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Jahan Moon, the True Mother, a

1:37

totally stable woman, who

1:39

seems to believe she's a living deity and

1:42

that, you know, is totally normal to share a meal with her dead

1:44

husband. A woman still

1:47

carrying on the tradition of marrying

1:49

total strangers together in mass wedding

1:51

blessing ceremonies, according to the

1:53

cult's website, you can sign up right

1:55

now for a newsletter at familyfed.org and find

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2:11

US branch of their church at family

2:13

fed USA They just had a blessing

2:15

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2:18

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2:20

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2:31

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of Us, and The Last of Us, plays in

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the background.] Uh,

6:29

very excited to pick back up, uh, with

6:32

our timeline. With, uh, Kundioni,

6:35

AKA Black Young Jin. The

6:37

man described in the 1988 LA Times article

6:39

as follows. The Zimbabwean, described

6:42

as a baby-faced black man of medium build

6:44

in his early twenties, was a

6:46

unification church member for three years, when he

6:48

began making claims last year to

6:50

hearing the voice of Young Jin. He

6:54

has been embraced by the cult leader as actually being

6:56

his son, returned to the flesh, like he's

6:58

a fucking demon possessing someone now. And

7:01

Moon does this before ever meeting him, and

7:03

he's been given an assignment by Moon. Go

7:06

take confessions, go find out what sins

7:08

his followers have committed, some of the

7:10

highest ranking followers, and

7:12

fucking punish them for those sins. So

7:15

now, everywhere Black Young Jin goes, he

7:17

administers literal beatings to those who have

7:19

violated church teachings by using alcohol and

7:21

drugs, engaging in premarital sex, etc. This

7:25

dude spent a full year on

7:27

the road dispensing hardcore physical violence.

7:31

That's penance for anyone who wished to repent. Why would you

7:33

wish to repent? Uh, or

7:35

people pressured or forced to repent. UC

7:38

has a new sheriff in town. He's not

7:40

fucking around, and he's batshit

7:42

crazy. Yeah! After

7:44

finishing his ass-whooping world tour, Sun

7:46

Myung Moon now summons him to his East Garden home in

7:48

New York. At this meeting, Moon asks

7:51

him some standard theological questions that any member who

7:53

has studied the Divine Principle could have answered. And

7:56

Black Young Jin offers no startling

7:58

revelations or religious insights. However,

8:00

while Black Young Jin can't remember any details

8:02

from the real Young Jin's life, he

8:05

can quote from Moon's own speeches,

8:07

and that makes the narcissistic Moon

8:10

very happy. And so

8:12

Black Young Jin's convenient

8:14

memory loss, you know, regarding

8:16

like the real Young Jin's life, is interpreted as

8:19

a sign of his having left earthly concerns behind

8:22

when he entered the kingdom of heaven. Everyone

8:24

in the East Garden household now

8:26

has to embrace him, because Sun Moon has embraced him,

8:28

and they have to start calling him by their dead

8:30

son or dead brother's name, and they

8:32

have to act like he's just a regular member of

8:35

the family. Why is this

8:37

happening? Maybe this was all

8:39

some fucked up game for Moon. Is

8:41

he getting a kick out of this? I think he was. Sun

8:44

Myung Moon seemed to take great pleasure in

8:46

the reports that filtered back to East Garden

8:48

of the continued beatings now

8:50

being administered by Black Young Jin. Oh

8:53

yeah, Black Young Jin not done, dishing

8:55

out some pain. Moon would

8:57

allegedly laugh rocketry if

8:59

someone out of favor with him was dealt an

9:01

especially hard blow. You know, if they took a

9:04

solid punch to the face or swift kick to the nuts or

9:06

ribs or whatever. I mean,

9:08

if he was just making all this shit up and

9:10

had not deluded himself into believing his own bullshit, I

9:12

can understand how darkly amusing this would be. Just

9:15

thinking like, I can't believe I'm pulling shit off. Oh

9:17

my god, these dumb motherfuckers who let this

9:19

random crazy guy from Africa pretending to be

9:21

my dead son beat the shit out of

9:23

them for not following my teachings. And

9:26

they're just taking it. They're apologizing to

9:28

me for having to

9:30

go through the trouble of me sending a violent lunatic

9:33

to beat their ass. Holy fuck, I

9:35

should be in the Grifters Hall of Fame. I am very

9:37

good at this bullshit. No one

9:39

outside of the True Family was immune from these

9:41

beatings. Leaders around the world would

9:44

try to use their influence to be

9:46

exempted from the Black

9:48

Young Jin's confessional, but exemptions were not given.

9:51

Anyone outside of Sun Myung Moon's direct

9:53

relation through blood or marriage could face

9:55

this dude's wrath. Is

9:58

Tundi Yooni insane? We're all just good

10:00

carn artist. Like is he laughing his ass off about pulling

10:02

the shit off? Maybe he should also be in the

10:04

Griffiths Hall of Fame. But soon

10:07

the mistresses Moon has been acquiring

10:09

have become so numerous that

10:11

I mentioned he's fucking an untold number of young female members

10:13

he is. And the beatings Black

10:15

Young Jin are administering are

10:17

so severe that members do start

10:20

to complain. For

10:22

example, Mrs. Moon's personal maid, some poor

10:24

woman named Won Ju McDevitt, a Korean

10:26

who married an American church member, appeared

10:29

one morning with a black guy in a body covered with

10:31

purple bruises. Black Young Jin had

10:34

beaten the fuck out of her with a chair. He

10:36

also beat the shit out of Bohai Pak,

10:38

a high ranking church member in his 60s,

10:41

beat him so bad he was hospitalized for a full week.

10:44

Told doctors he fell down a flight of stairs. This

10:47

student later needed surgery to repair a broken blood

10:49

vessel in his head. This is

10:51

crazy. And I kind of love it.

10:53

I know it's sad. But this is so

10:55

entertaining. Once it became clear

10:58

that he had to disassociate himself from the violence he

11:00

had let loose on his membership, ease up

11:02

on the affairs he was having to keep some sort of revolt

11:04

from happening. Some young moon

11:06

now simply announces that Young Jin spirit

11:09

has left the young Zimbabwe Zimbabweans

11:11

body and is ascended back up

11:13

to heaven. So fun

11:15

times over. Black Young Jin was no more.

11:18

He was just kundioni again. But

11:21

the Zimbabwean not quite ready

11:23

to get off the gravy train. Sources say

11:25

he now returned to Africa and established his own cult,

11:27

the Breakaway Cult where he is the Messiah. Which

11:30

sounds right. Like once you get a taste of being

11:32

able to slap around whoever the fuck you want to

11:34

with impunity, be worshipped is

11:36

some sort of deity step above Jesus. It's got to

11:38

be hard just to go back to like a regular

11:40

nine to five. But you'd have

11:42

a tough couple of years on your resume to explain. Oh, what

11:45

did I do the past few years? Well,

11:51

I traveled the world for Reverend Sun Myung

11:53

Moon after allowing his dead son's spirit to

11:55

take over my body and working

11:57

as Young Jin now well as Black

12:00

Young Jin is what they call me. I

12:02

beat the shit out of somewhere between 500,000 people for

12:05

not following Reverend Moon's teachings. And

12:07

then his spirit left me. And now here

12:09

I am at Jimmy John's hoping to make some

12:12

sandwich coin. I wish I

12:14

knew more about Kundioni's adventures, but he seems

12:16

to have fallen off the historical record. Probably

12:18

out there to beat the shit I saw me right now. Now

12:21

we head into the early 90s.

12:23

Moon is bummed that he's not being entertained by Black

12:25

Young Jin anymore, but he's hungrier than ever for world

12:28

domination. He abandons his

12:30

identification with being anti-communist and now

12:32

coins the term head wing. He's

12:34

neither right wing nor left wing to

12:37

identify his movement's political ideological

12:39

stance. He's opening himself up

12:41

to a wider audience now. The

12:44

UC's World Media Association and the

12:46

Soviet Novosti Press Agency jointly sponsor

12:48

a 1990 world media conference in

12:50

Moscow, which includes a private

12:52

meeting between Moon and his wife and

12:54

Mikhail Gorbachev. He's now met with

12:56

the president of America and the Soviet premier. Via

12:59

this meeting in Moscow, the UC

13:01

subsequently obtains clearance to educate Soviet youth

13:04

about his ministry and he convened

13:06

some of the largest religious workshops in history.

13:10

In December of 1991, Moon then

13:12

meets another communist leader, North Korean

13:14

president, Kim Il-Sung, an

13:16

encounter that the UC interpreted as, quote, a

13:19

meeting between the world level Jacob and the

13:21

world level Esau to make

13:23

some biblical references there. 1991, North Korea had yet to

13:27

test its first nuclear weapon and Moon

13:29

claimed he proposed that North Korea agreed

13:31

to a declaration of denuclearization. Kim,

13:34

quote, responded with candor, wrote

13:36

Moon, quoting the North Korean leader is saying, think

13:39

for a moment, who am I going to

13:41

kill by making nuclear weapons? Kill my own

13:43

people? Do I look like that kind of person? According

13:46

to Masul E, who was

13:49

the public relations director of the unification church at the

13:51

time, when Moon said to Kim Il-Sung

13:53

in a meeting, please be my brother,

13:56

Kim Il-Sung replied, sure, why

13:58

not? And so, One

14:00

God makes an alliance with another.

14:03

Kim Il-Soom, we went over some of the crazy claims he made

14:06

back in episode 45. Remember

14:08

how he won a hundred thousand battles

14:10

against China, never lost one? Or

14:13

how he could control the weather? How

14:16

he actually willed the sun to rise in the

14:18

morning? How he literally never took a shit? Not

14:20

ever? Not even one time. Also,

14:22

it was taught in North Korean schools for a while

14:24

that he was an almighty God who created the world

14:26

in seven days as a divine spirit millions of years

14:28

ago, then returned to Earth as a

14:30

human in 1912 as a messiah. I

14:32

wonder what those two dipshits talk about. I

14:35

feel like a, yeah, me too, was

14:37

said a lot. Did you

14:39

know that I can control the weather with my mind? Yeah,

14:42

me too. Did you know I can

14:44

time travel? Yeah, me too.

14:46

Did you know that my battle record is a hundred thousand wins,

14:49

zero losses? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

14:51

me too. Did you know that my dead son took over the

14:53

body of an African man, spent a year, and changed, beat the

14:55

shit out of people all around the world? Yeah,

14:58

me too. Moon

15:02

told his believers after this meeting that

15:04

he, the messiah, had brought

15:06

Satan, Kim Il-sung, to his knees with

15:09

the power of love. So that's pretty

15:11

cool. Also this meeting led

15:13

the way for Moon to open

15:15

Pyeong-Woo Motors, North Korea's only joint

15:18

venture automobile factory, and he

15:20

was even allowed to put up billboards in Pyongyang. So

15:22

he did make some progress there. His pairing was

15:25

watched carefully by the US Defense Intelligence Agency. According

15:28

to their later reports, Moon donated 450

15:30

billion yen to Kim Il-sung during

15:32

his stay in North Korea from November 30th, 1991 to December

15:34

7th, 1992 in exchange for something. Access

15:42

to helping build up an industrialized economy, it seems.

15:45

That's a big donation. That

15:47

would equate to around 3 billion US

15:49

dollars based on exchange rates at the time. That

15:52

seems like fucking way too much money to me, but

15:54

that's what the reports say. Those

15:57

same IDIA reports explain that an

15:59

economic cooperation for the reconstruction of North

16:01

Korea's economy was in place, most

16:03

of the money was said to have been donated to

16:06

the Unification Church by Japanese believers, then

16:08

taken to South Korea, money laundered, then transferred

16:10

to Hong Kong, and finally taken to North

16:12

Korea. But instead of being poured

16:14

into industry, the money got poured

16:16

into nukes and intercontinental ballistic missiles. That's

16:19

cool. Sounds like Reverend Moon got

16:21

swindled, ended up helping beef up North Korea's

16:23

military. Also

16:25

in Korea, August of 1992,

16:27

the UC convened a World Culture and

16:30

Sports Festival in Seoul, South Korea, conceived

16:32

of as an Olympics of culture, in

16:35

which Moon declared that he and his wife were, quote,

16:37

the true parents of humanity, the Savior,

16:40

the Lord of the Second Advent, the

16:42

Messiah. Cool. 1994,

16:45

Moon began the process of reinventing the Unification

16:47

Church as the Family Federation for World Peace

16:49

and Unification. Right, that's the name the church

16:51

currently goes by. So

16:53

if you're part of that church, well, you're a Moonie. The

16:57

vision for this rebranded church, it was to

16:59

create a religious but non-sectarian membership organization for

17:01

people of all faiths and good content. But

17:03

it's actually just the same shit it was

17:05

before. Also in 1994, Moon

17:08

sent 1,600 Japanese female missionary

17:11

volunteers in teams of 10

17:13

to 160 countries throughout the world. Many

17:16

left their husbands and children behind. 1996,

17:19

he called on 4,200 Japanese female

17:21

volunteers to undertake missionary work exclusively

17:23

in South America. It

17:25

was suggested the Japanese followers were especially

17:27

devout, motivated to, quote,

17:30

compensate for Japan's 36-year colonization

17:32

of Korea. In

17:35

1997, the Family Federation for World Peace and

17:37

Unification officially opened a new headquarters in Washington,

17:39

D.C. An opening ceremony

17:41

included speeches by former U.S. presidents Gerald Ford

17:43

and George Bush. They were paid a lot.

17:46

Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner

17:48

Oscar Arias of Costa Rica and

17:51

former prime ministers Edward Heath from

17:54

the U.K. and Brian Mulroney from

17:56

Canada. I wonder how much

17:58

those guys did get paid. guessing seven

18:00

figures each. Despite being conceived

18:02

of as a broad-based organization, the

18:05

inauguration of the FFWPU led to

18:07

increasingly frank expressions of the UC's

18:09

messianic premises. Premises. Premises.

18:13

Premises. Premises. God,

18:15

I hate the plural of that word. In

18:17

one speech, Moon declared, prominent Christians and other

18:19

leading figures of the world have only a

18:21

faint idea of the forces that shape the

18:23

future. I know the direction that humankind

18:25

must go, and I, with the help of God,

18:28

will lead the world there. By

18:30

the late 1990s, the UC had established a dozen

18:32

or more federations, such as the Artist Association for

18:34

World Peace, the Federation of Island

18:37

Nations for World Peace, the

18:39

Federation of Peninsula Nations for World Peace, the

18:42

Federation of Continental Nations for World Peace, and

18:45

the Martial Arts Federation for World Peace. So much peace

18:48

all around the world. Moon viewed

18:50

all of these as potential successors to

18:52

the United Nations, totally. He

18:56

also decided to double down on his ideas about a

18:58

range marriage, incorporating them into his new world peace shtick.

19:01

Moon encouraged so-called exchange marriages between

19:03

partners from former enemy states, created

19:05

situations in which followers from adversarial

19:08

nations worked together, and

19:10

sent them out on missionary teams to the field. During

19:13

the mid-1990s, the Women's Federation

19:16

for World Peace sponsored a series of sisterhood

19:18

ceremonies in Washington, D.C., that

19:20

brought 4,000 Japanese women to be matched

19:22

with an equal number of American women in

19:24

eight separate sisterhood ceremonies 50 years

19:26

after the end of the Second World War. These

19:29

culminated in bridge crossings in which

19:31

a Japanese delegate crossed over a

19:33

bridge of peace, so much peace, and

19:36

met her American counterpart in the middle, where each

19:38

bowed to one another, then embraced the

19:40

other, then walked down a stairwell together

19:42

hand in hand, and then at the bottom of the

19:44

stairs, they would lick each other's bicycle

19:47

seats clean. Hail, it's a fina! I'm not sure

19:49

what they did after walking down the

19:51

stairs. As with the Family Federation launch,

19:54

the Sisterhood ceremonies included appearances by high-profile

19:56

public figures, notably George and Barbara Bush,

19:59

who were beaten Half of the half of

20:01

the return of Matthew G. Oh, fuck

20:03

yeah. And the power of grace goes.

20:05

Oh my God. I'll

20:09

be the shit out of you.

20:16

Or they just said a few words. International

20:18

marriage blessings were the third component of

20:20

FFWP's program of world peace and unification.

20:23

Whereas the first two components dealt with

20:26

conflict resolution, the sanctification of couples, so

20:28

the blessing was believed to eradicate the

20:30

root cause of conflict and division. It's

20:33

centerpiece was the drinking of moon's holy wine, which

20:36

in conjunction with other elements was understood to

20:38

eliminate original sin. Oh, how sweet.

20:41

That's some nice wine. Prior to the mid

20:43

1990s, the blessing was a narrow gate, restricted

20:45

almost exclusively to UC members. During

20:48

the mid and late 90s, blessings were open to anyone willing

20:50

to participate now. Members would go

20:52

door to door, into the streets and parks on beaches,

20:55

go to state fairs, go to other

20:57

venues to pre-bless married couples, whose unions would

20:59

then be sanctified later by moon and his

21:01

wife at international marriage blessing events. The

21:04

FFWP, you sponsored five international marriage blessings between 1995 and

21:06

2000 major arenas, three

21:10

in Souls Olympic Stadium, and

21:13

one each in RFK Stadium, Washington DC,

21:15

and Madison Square Garden in New York.

21:17

My God. With satellite

21:19

links to blessing venues worldwide, the

21:21

movement claimed to have sanctified more than half a billion

21:23

couples. Yeah, they can now bless couples

21:27

into their holy family via satellite TV. Moons

21:29

magical powers are growing. Also,

21:32

this is way more efficient than making people show up in person. However,

21:35

the continual change of the rules for

21:37

marriage blessing would end up backfiring. Rather

21:40

than holy wine, enterprising members soon

21:42

began distributing holy lemonade to

21:44

random thirsty beach goers or downtown pedestrians

21:46

with little or no explanation that they

21:49

were being pre-blessed. Just giving somebody

21:51

some lemonade and up after you're one of us now. Want

21:54

some free lemonade? Oh, sure, proceed to drink your lemonade.

21:56

Gotcha, you're a Mooney. Make sure

21:58

you follow the rules or Black Young Gin will follow. to be you.

22:01

Others distributed holy candy, sometimes on

22:03

automobile windshields with printed blessing affirmations.

22:06

By the end of the decade, the UC had reached the outer limits

22:08

of what was achievable or

22:10

believable. Moon himself now started

22:12

to refer to the devaluation of the blessing.

22:16

There was another problem with Moon's credibility. News

22:18

is getting out of all the women he's

22:20

been fucking who are his wife. 1995, as

22:22

these new global programs are ramping up, Chong

22:25

and Wa Paul, an early follower, publishes

22:28

an especially lurid account in Japan titled

22:30

The Tragedy of the Six Merries, which

22:33

alleged Moon's participation in ritual sex and asserted

22:35

that his mission was to cleanse the wombs

22:37

of six married women in this orgy. This

22:41

account would later be verified by some of his

22:43

own children. And then soon another explosive

22:45

story would hit the news. In 1998, Nan

22:48

Su-Kong, the recently divorced ex-wife

22:50

of Hyojin Moon, the Moon's

22:52

eldest son, published In

22:54

the Shadow of the Moons, My

22:57

Life in the Reverend Moon's Family. Let's

22:59

check out her story now to get a firsthand account of

23:02

the inner workings of the true family. She

23:05

was elected to be married to Hyojin at 15 years old.

23:07

She lived at the Irvington, New York, UC

23:10

compound for the next 14 years, practically as

23:12

a prisoner. I was born

23:14

to my faith. She writes, just

23:16

as children of more mainstream Christian religions are reared to

23:18

believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, sent

23:21

to earth to redeem the sins of mankind. I was

23:24

taught in Sunday school that the Reverend Moon had

23:26

been chosen by God to complete Jesus' mission to

23:28

restore the Garden of Eden. That

23:31

Reverend Moon was his second coming.

23:34

With his wife, the Reverend Moon would sire

23:36

the first sinless true family of God. His

23:38

children, the true children, would build on that

23:40

flawless foundation. Members of the

23:42

Unification Church would be grafted onto the

23:44

true family's pure blood lineage and wedding

23:47

ceremonies arranged and blessed by the Reverend

23:49

Moon, the mass nature of

23:51

which has attracted so much attention around the world.

23:54

From birth, Nanzuk was taught that Sun

23:56

Moon was not just a holy man or prophet, he

23:58

was anointed by God. He

24:00

was the Lord of the Second Advent, the Divine

24:02

Guide, who would unite the world's religions under his

24:05

leadership and establish the kingdom of heaven on earth

24:07

personally. Her parents were often

24:09

gone doing missionary work as Moon had instructed

24:11

them. They believed Moon's paradoxical teachings to have

24:13

as many kids as possible, but also to

24:15

travel all the time. The

24:17

Reverend Moon taught his followers that God would take care of their

24:19

children if his followers took care of him. The

24:22

urgency of the Reverend Moon's mission superseded the

24:24

personal bond between mother and child. Instead,

24:27

her grandma raised her, along with an assortment

24:29

of aunts and women called the Sisters, who

24:32

were unmarried church members who served Moon

24:34

by babysitting. For most

24:36

of her childhood, she lived in a series of single rooms

24:38

in a slum in Seoul known as Moontown, not

24:41

because of Sun Moon, but because it was

24:43

located on the treeless hillside and hence closer to the Moon.

24:46

It was a ghetto of small, dilapidated houses

24:48

packed closely together on narrow, winding streets.

24:51

The houses were all the same, single-story structures

24:53

heated by coal stoves. Every

24:55

house was topped with a tiled roof and

24:57

surrounded by a gated stone wall, the top

24:59

of which was typically embedded with shards of

25:02

broken glass to discourage thieves who

25:04

roamed the area. There was no indoor

25:06

plumbing, so they used outhouses that were rarely emptied.

25:09

Anansuk went to a school in an overcrowded elementary

25:11

school where she was too shy to ask

25:15

to go to the bathroom and often made fun of for

25:17

having accidents. The church seemed

25:19

like a safe place compared to all that. Every

25:21

Sunday they went to a 5am service

25:24

where they bowed three times and recited their pledges

25:27

of obedience and submission to Moon's vision to begin.

25:30

Every Sunday, Anansuk also watched the Moon children

25:32

descend from their fancy apartment wearing designer clothes.

25:35

Then Sun Moon would preach at 6am, sometimes

25:38

talking for as many as 15 hours. Cult,

25:42

cult, cult, keeps people tired and

25:44

confused. There was also Sunday

25:46

school and all these services. There was no

25:48

teaching of Jesus as a central religious figure. There was

25:50

only Sun Moon. His children were

25:53

also literally worshipped with their academic

25:55

and artistic accomplishments touted as proof of

25:57

their superiority, their celestial

25:59

powers. Nan Suke then entered

26:01

the Little Angels Art School in sixth grade. Like

26:04

the church that ran it was a pretty harsh environment. A

26:06

tardy student would be forced to sit on the

26:08

concrete bench outside the principal's office with her arms

26:10

raised above her head for thirty minutes straight. She

26:13

would then be required to write a letter of

26:15

apology to her teacher and classmates for the disruption

26:18

her late arrival had caused. At

26:20

Little Angels the students were thought of as clay

26:22

to be molded, sculptures to be shaped. The

26:25

teaching emphasized rote memorization and repetitive

26:27

drills, never critical thinking. All

26:30

of this would prepare Nan Suke to eat whatever

26:32

bullshit the moon's decided to feed to her. Meanwhile,

26:35

her future husband, Hyo Jin, was

26:38

living a very different life. At home with

26:40

the big family Palatial Estate in Tarrytown, New York, the

26:43

moon children were left to the care of church elders

26:45

and babysitters. At school there

26:47

were the ultimate outsiders. They

26:49

were sent to the private Hackley School

26:51

where their identities as moonies subjected them

26:53

to teasing or outright scorn. Hyo

26:56

Jin was expelled from Hackley in middle school for

26:58

bringing a BB gun to class

27:00

and shooting several of his classmates. Shooting at them

27:02

at least. He was not punished at home

27:04

for this. Sun Moon proclaimed that

27:06

his son was just a victim of religious persecution. How

27:09

dare his classmates not acknowledge that his dad is a

27:11

god. That he is a god. It's good

27:13

that you shot him. Next time bring a real gun. After

27:16

Hyo Jin was expelled from Hackley, Moon sent

27:18

him to live with Bo Hye-Pok, one of

27:20

his original disciples. Pretty sure that

27:22

guy was one of the dudes who got fucking his ass beat. Hyo

27:26

Jin and McLean, a wealthy Virginia suburb outside

27:28

of Washington, DC. Moon

27:30

believed that his followers were responsible for rearing

27:32

the Messiah's children. But Hyo

27:35

Jin's behavior only deteriorated in Washington, DC. In a

27:37

large public school, there were fist fights and more.

27:39

It was in Washington where he started doing drugs

27:41

for the first time. Going

27:43

to Washington was a great excitement for me to leave

27:45

East Garden. Hyo Jin later told church

27:47

members in an apologetic speech in 1988. Father

27:52

told me not to associate with outside kids, but I

27:54

wanted to associate with outside people. I

27:56

felt this was a chance for me to seek friends. I

27:58

didn't think, didn't care about what's going on. father wanted. I

28:01

wanted my own friends. After I went to

28:03

Washington, I started getting into drugs. I didn't

28:05

want to be pressured by bullies anymore. When you're in

28:07

high school, fistwork. I started taking martial

28:09

arts. I didn't want to take

28:11

anything from anyone. In school, they go around in

28:13

packs. The kids who had control were

28:16

the strongest. When they saw me, they saw gooks.

28:18

So I had a lot of fights. The more

28:20

I fought, the more I won. The

28:22

kids wanted to become friends. My name was notorious.

28:25

So I don't know. Was he all this? Was he

28:28

such a badass or is he kind of doing some myth

28:30

building himself here? Moon sent Shoujin back to Korea for high

28:32

school, but it didn't work. Back

28:34

in Korea, started a rock and roll band

28:36

and had a reputation of being a bad

28:38

boy. Smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey, having

28:41

girlfriends he had sex with.

28:43

Little Angel School would simply mail him a diploma. Contrary

28:46

to his father's wishes, Shoujin wanted nothing to

28:48

do with being matched for spiritual reasons. He

28:51

confessed in that 1988 speech, when

28:53

I went to Korea, I started going with many girls. I

28:55

really loved one in particular and wanted to marry her. Her

28:58

parents liked the idea. They thought father had

29:00

a lot of money. Well, yeah, he did. They

29:02

encouraged both of us, invited me to their home. They

29:05

were nice to me. We became very close, almost lived

29:07

together. I had sex with her.

29:09

I wanted to do everything in my power to stay with

29:11

her. I wanted to be matched with her or nobody else.

29:14

After school, I would sleep over at her house and she at

29:16

my house, all through high school. I

29:18

drank a bottle of whiskey a day. If I didn't

29:20

have money, I would buy corn whiskey, cheap and potent.

29:22

I had to be drunk all the time. I

29:25

touched bottom. I was listening to my heart

29:27

cry. I started suffocating. I wanted

29:29

to kill myself. How could I face father?

29:31

I thought the best way was to disappear. Then I

29:34

would have no burden. Many times

29:36

I sat with a gun pointing to my head, practiced what

29:38

it would be like. I only cared about my physical body.

29:41

I was worse than other kids. I was so physical

29:43

and selfish. I didn't care how I affected other people.

29:45

That's how I grew up. Maybe

29:48

that was how I grew up. Nansuka never thought

29:50

about him. She knew that Moon would select a match for

29:52

her and she'd have to accept it. What was

29:54

the point of having crushes? But

29:56

when Nansuka was 15, everything changed. There were whispers that Moon was

29:58

looking for a match for his own. eldest daughter

30:00

Ji Jin, everyone

30:03

expected the groom to be chosen from amongst the sons

30:06

of his earliest disciples, Jung-we

30:08

Kim or Hyewon Yoo. Their

30:11

sons Jin-kun Kim and Jin-seung U

30:13

were friends of Nan Suk's older

30:16

brother, but it was going

30:18

to be her older brother Jin. He

30:20

was to be married to the daughter of the Messiah. He

30:22

was to become a member of the true family of

30:24

God. Jin was 17. When

30:27

he got word that he got matched, he was also informed

30:29

that his wedding would be the next day. This

30:31

was the first wedding of a true child of the Reverend

30:34

and Mrs. Moon. At the ceremony, Nan

30:36

Suk spotted Hyewon Jin, the bad boy with the

30:38

long hair. After the wedding,

30:40

the dinner reception was held in a large ballroom

30:42

at the Palace Hotel. Nan Suk and her siblings

30:44

were not invited. Soon after the

30:46

wedding, the moon's Jin and Hyewon Jin flew back to

30:48

America. Hyewon Jin was a student at Smith's

30:50

the Women's College of Massachusetts. Jin

30:53

moved into Moon's house and sold with Hyewon Jin

30:55

and a large household staff. Jin

30:57

still had a year of high school left, though

30:59

Hyewon Jin spent most of his time having sex

31:01

and smoking cigarettes. Then one

31:03

day Nan Suk was called out of school. She was

31:05

brought to an enormous private residence where Moon sat at

31:07

the head of a table, his wife next to him,

31:09

Nan Suk's mother next to her, but

31:12

they all just had dinner and Nan Suk had no idea what

31:14

was going on. Next day, Nan Suk's

31:16

mother sent her to a beauty parlor, have a new dress

31:18

spot. They returned to the Moon's

31:20

house where Nan Suk was instructed to kneel down on

31:22

the floor. Then Sun Moon asked her parents to give

31:24

her to the one true family. And

31:27

they said yes. She would

31:29

of course be Hyewon Jin's match, meant

31:31

to steer him towards a more righteous

31:33

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31:35

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31:37

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now we return to the arranged marriage of Hyojin

36:28

and Nan Suu. Hyojin

36:31

was waiting in an adjoining room. Nan Suu had

36:33

never been alone with a boy. He sat

36:35

on a couch and held hands. Then he

36:37

said that they better return to his parents. She

36:39

was now officially engaged. The next

36:41

week would be spent shopping and having dinner parties thrown in

36:44

her honor. Whenever she was alone with Hyojin,

36:46

she was nervous. Alone in his sole residence, he tried

36:48

to have sex with her. But

36:50

she said that she wouldn't have premarital sex

36:53

because that sent you to hell as your

36:55

dad teaches. Within

36:57

a matter of months, she would leave before the

36:59

US with Hyojin in order to obtain a visa.

37:01

The Unification Church lied, said Nan Suu was performing

37:03

in a piano competition. Nan

37:05

Suu spoke no English. This

37:08

was because of one of Moon's teachings. English

37:10

is spoken only in the colonies of the kingdom of

37:12

heaven. When the Unification Church movement

37:14

becomes more advanced, the international and official

37:16

language of the Unification Church shall be

37:19

Korean. The official conferences will be

37:21

conducted in Korean. Similar to the Catholic

37:23

conferences, which are conducted in Latin. Still,

37:26

she went through customs and then a car whisked her away

37:28

to the East Garden. There she was alone

37:30

with the Moon family for the first time before a

37:32

driver took her back to the Belvedere estate with her

37:34

parents. She'd be shocked by what she found

37:36

out over the next few weeks. Like the Moon

37:38

children did not have breakfast with her parents, but began

37:40

each day by bowing to them. Then

37:43

they were led away to the kitchen to have a separate breakfast. On

37:45

the day of her wedding ceremony, when she's still 15, she's

37:48

led down a long hallway to the library. A Korean woman

37:50

whispered to her, don't smile or

37:52

your first child will be a girl. That

37:55

was easy for Nan Suu. She didn't feel like smiling. She

37:57

wasn't happy about a lot of this. Moon was dressed in

37:59

long white ceremony. robes, Nan-Sook and

38:01

Hyojin, he was 19, stood

38:03

before the true parents at an offering table laden

38:05

with food and Korean wine. Afterwards,

38:08

a new couple were delivered to the cottage house, where they

38:10

would live, to get dressed for the reception,

38:12

which would be at the ballroom of the Manhattan Center. Immediately,

38:15

Hyojin insisted they have sex. Nan-Sook

38:17

begged him not to, they only had an hour, but he

38:20

insisted. He was rough, excited at

38:22

the prospect of deflowering a virgin. For

38:24

hours afterwards, Nan-Sook said she burned with

38:26

pain. At the reception, which

38:28

was in English, Nan-Sook laughed when everyone else laughed, smiled when

38:30

everyone else smiled, she didn't understand what the hell was going

38:32

on, she didn't understand a word that they were saying. The

38:36

celebration didn't end even after they got back to

38:38

the East Garden. It's a Korean

38:40

tradition for wedding guests to strike the soles

38:42

of the groom's feet with a stick for

38:45

his symbolic thievery of taking his bride. Back

38:48

at cottage house, Hyojin put on several pairs

38:50

of socks, I guess, in preparation for this

38:52

ritual assault. Moon

38:55

and Mrs. Moon laughed as church leaders now

38:57

tied Hyojin's ankles together so he could not

38:59

escape. Excuse me. Every

39:02

time they hit Hyojin's feet, Moon

39:04

would express mock outrage. Stop, I will

39:06

pay you not to hit my son. Those

39:08

wielding the stick would then take his money and go back to beating

39:10

him. I'll give you more money if you

39:12

stop, Moon would shout. And again, the laughter would begin

39:15

as they stuffed his money into their pockets and began

39:17

hitting Hyojin again. But then they

39:19

got a little less money, because Black Young Jin

39:21

showed the fuck up and he wasn't playing around

39:23

with that stick. He grabbed it, hit

39:25

Hyojin so hard he fractured both of his feet. Then

39:28

he started hitting him elsewhere as his dad cried tears

39:30

of laughter. He broke his arms, fractured his skull. Moon

39:33

finally stood up and applauded. Oh, Black Young

39:35

Jin, you are my most humorous son. No

39:38

one makes me laugh like you. Of

39:40

course, that part's not true. Black Young Jin

39:42

was too busy beating followers of his own cult probably to attend the

39:44

wedding. Nan

39:46

Suke quickly learned that everything to do with their marriage,

39:48

including the honeymoon, was going to be

39:51

supervised either by the moons or by

39:53

assistance. However, even though

39:55

she was carefully controlled, the family couldn't stop

39:57

Nan Suke from noticing certain things, like how

39:59

Haak Jahan... The mother of

40:01

the True Family was a gambling fiend. Moon

40:04

also liked to gamble. He liked to play blackjack. He

40:07

would give instructions to an assistant named

40:09

Peter Kim, so he wasn't gambling directly.

40:11

That's fucking weird. He'd send Peter to the

40:13

casino, instruct him on how to bet, I guess. Moon's

40:16

rationale for this, he had to mix with the sinners, just

40:18

like Jesus did. And

40:21

everyone knows that Jesus loved blackjack. No one likes

40:23

to split on a pair of aces or double

40:25

down an 11, more than the Messiah. Nan

40:28

Suke also noticed the family's secrecy when

40:31

they enrolled her in public school, not private like they

40:33

did for their kids. They did it under a pseudonym.

40:36

At the age of 15, yeah, she's still 15, Nan Suke

40:38

was waking up at 6 every morning to attend her sophomore

40:40

year of high school. It's crazy.

40:42

Exhausted from the night before, as Shoujin would come

40:44

back late and demand sex. Nobody

40:47

at the school was supposed to know about anything to sell. She

40:49

wondered if it was also godly why it was a secret. Where

40:52

did all their money come from? Why was the

40:54

answer she was given always just to pan? And

40:57

if the moon children were so godly, why were they

40:59

spending almost every night hanging around and getting drunk in

41:01

Manhattan nightclubs? And if Sun Moon was

41:03

Jesus, why was he beating his kids in the city that came out

41:05

of love? Why would he do

41:07

things like slap small children in the face when they wouldn't

41:10

be quiet for church services? There

41:12

was nobody to answer her questions. She cried

41:14

herself to sleep most nights, her knees raw

41:16

with carpet burns from having to constantly kneel

41:18

before the moons and worship them as deities.

41:20

What an odd reality she was living in. The

41:23

one time she did try to report her husband's infidelity

41:25

to Mrs. Moon, she told Nan Suuk that she was

41:28

failing as a wife. It was

41:30

her job to make Hyojin want to stay home, not

41:32

go out. And In Jin,

41:34

the eldest Moon daughter, was constantly telling her mom lies

41:36

about Nan Suuk, making her out to be

41:38

a troublemaker. Soon, Nan Suuk grew wary of

41:40

trusting anyone. The one exception was

41:42

Eun Jin, a Moon daughter a year younger than Nan

41:44

Suuk. While the other

41:46

kids were out clubbing, Eun Jin and Nan

41:49

Suuk would stay up late baking, chatting. Eun

41:52

Jin was a wonderful cook, generous spirit, sharing her

41:54

chocolate chip, cheesecake, and homemade cookies with the security

41:56

guards who had an office in the basement of

41:58

the mansion. There was a

42:00

whole ecosystem of attendance and employees here. The

42:03

kitchen sisters and the babysitters went to sleep six

42:05

to a room in the attic. They

42:08

were given a small stipend, but no salary, kept

42:10

totally dependent on the church. Situation

42:12

was a little better for security guards, gardeners, and handymen

42:14

who took care of the moon properties. The

42:17

moon's attitude was that church members were privileged to live in

42:19

such close proximity to the true family. So they didn't really

42:21

need much money. Besides

42:23

Un Jin, her only other respite was math

42:25

class. There she was in 12th grade

42:27

algebra, practicing concepts she'd already mastered way

42:30

back in fourth grade in Korea. But

42:32

mostly her life felt hollow. She

42:34

would describe it like this. I was beginning

42:36

to see the truth. Our marriage was a sham. Hyojin

42:38

had gone through with the wedding, but he had every

42:40

intention of living the life he had before. I

42:43

suspected that Hyojin was having sex with the hostesses

42:45

at the Korean bars he frequented, but I had

42:47

no proof. When I would ask him

42:49

what he did when he stayed out all night, he told me

42:51

that it was impudent of me to question the son of the

42:53

Messiah. I would lie awake in our

42:56

bed, imagining that I heard his car when it was only

42:58

the sound of the wind. Within

43:00

just a few weeks of their wedding, she

43:02

had proof of his infidelity. He gave

43:05

her an STD. By then she also

43:07

knew that he still had a girlfriend back in Korea and no plans

43:09

to break up with her. Soon

43:11

he left for Korea not to return for months. During

43:13

that time, Nan Suuk learned she was pregnant with his child.

43:16

After hearing about the pregnancy, Hyojin returned from Korea

43:18

and without a word of apology or explanation, moved

43:21

out of Kadech House. He apparently realized

43:24

he wasn't actually legally married to Nan Suuk and

43:26

planned just to leave his life in the church

43:28

and abandon Nan Suuk and their baby. When

43:30

his dad's son Moon found out, he was furious with

43:33

Nan Suuk berating her for not being a

43:35

better wife. And he said

43:37

that if Hyojin returned, she had to forgive

43:40

and forget. She had no choice. Soon

43:42

the Moons would pay Hyojin's girlfriend off in Korea

43:44

to leave him and then Hyojin with no GED,

43:47

no degree, no job and no money aside from

43:49

his parents had to return home. Also

43:52

her mother-in-law, Haak Jehan Moon, was pregnant

43:54

again with her and Moon's 13th kid.

43:58

Her obstetrician had warned her after the birth of the moon. of their

44:00

10th child that another pregnancy could endanger her health

44:02

if not her life, and then Moon just

44:04

had her change of doctors. He was

44:07

determined to bring in as many sinless, true children of

44:09

the Messiah into the world as possible. More

44:12

tumultuous was coming. Sun Moon in 1982 was

44:14

being indicted for tax fraud, which went

44:16

over in the previous episode. He'll go

44:18

to prison. Nan Suke would later note

44:20

that Sun Moon didn't seem worried about his conviction. It was

44:22

almost like he welcomed it. He was

44:24

able to carve this narrative out that he was being

44:27

persecuted for his race and religion. Nan

44:29

Suke, meanwhile, was now a little more than Mrs.

44:32

Moon's lady in waiting, accompanying her on walks on

44:34

the beach, even to the bathroom. Then

44:36

at night, Hyojin demanded sex as he berated

44:38

Nan Suke for her changing

44:40

pregnant body. Soon

44:43

it was February 1983 and the baby was due. She'd

44:45

be born February 27th after a day of labor.

44:48

She was just under seven pounds. Nan Suke

44:50

named her Shin Jun. Because

44:53

she wasn't a boy, everybody was disappointed except for

44:55

her. Hyojin now left again

44:57

for Korea. Wouldn't return until late summer. Soon,

45:00

Nan Suke would begin her junior year at a

45:02

private single-sex school. Yeah, she's still a young teenager

45:04

in high school. Thankfully, there

45:06

were several other Korean girls there she could speak to. During

45:09

her junior year, she had a miscarriage. Hyojin berated

45:11

her for looking ugly when she cried about it.

45:14

God, these fucking monsters. Her

45:17

senior year, Nan Suke learned to drive after

45:19

her graduation. Vice President George Bush gave the

45:21

commencement address. Nan Suke got ready in her

45:23

bedroom. As

45:25

her toddler played on the floor. A year

45:28

later, after his release from prison for tax

45:30

fraud, the Reverend Moon's hubris culminated in a

45:32

secret ceremony. Oh

45:35

my gosh. Which he, sorry, I

45:37

thought this was a different thing for a second. This

45:39

is still pretty funny. He actually crowned himself and Huck

45:41

Jehan Moon as Emperor and Empress

45:44

of the entire universe. Oh,

45:46

fuck yeah. Oh,

45:55

the Emperor of the universe and the

45:57

Bush guys are alive! Preparations

46:02

for the lavish clandestine event at Belvedere took

46:04

months, cost hundreds of thousands of

46:06

dollars. This craziness marked a turning point for Nan Suke and her

46:08

parents. It was the first time they

46:10

confided in each other that maybe they weren't

46:12

so sure about this whole thing. Maybe

46:15

the moons weren't so great and holy. Maybe

46:18

just maybe. They were narcissistic,

46:20

power hungry, and sane sadistic grifters. But

46:23

Nan Suke had so much on her plate already to worry

46:25

about, including her toddler and becoming a freshman at New York

46:27

University, she didn't want to deal with the thought of having

46:29

to start a life over again. So

46:32

she posed her concerns down and tried to ignore them. Her

46:35

freshman year, she was also pregnant again. And

46:37

when she visited, she held gin and soul the summer after

46:39

her finals, he started to beat her. Once,

46:42

when she locked herself in the bathroom to avoid his wrath,

46:44

he broke down the door using his guitar as a sledgehammer.

46:47

Meanwhile, at least her studies are going well. In

46:50

1988, after earning high grades at

46:52

NYU, she transferred to Barnard, a security

46:55

guard from East Garden, would drive her to and from class.

46:58

Not even the professor who served as her advisor knew who

47:00

she really was. Over

47:02

the ensuing years, sometimes Nan Suke would flee for

47:05

Korea with her children. She had another

47:07

girl, then a boy, which would always return, partly because

47:09

of her faith and her inability to question Sun Moon.

47:12

And partially because she knew that Hyojin or Hyojin would

47:14

always find a way to track her down and get

47:16

her back. For sheltering

47:18

her and soul, Nan Suke's parents were punished.

47:21

Her father mocked during business meetings, humiliated

47:23

in public. Nan

47:25

Suke ended up being cut off from her

47:27

parents completely, started having her calls monitored, but

47:30

at least she'd given birth to a boy. And that

47:32

made the Moon family a little bit kinder towards her.

47:35

In April of 1988, Hyojin made what was billed

47:37

as a dramatic confession before a church gathering in

47:39

the grand ballroom of the World Mission Center, the

47:42

old New Yorker Hotel in New York City. It

47:45

was Parents Day at church holiday. I listed some

47:47

of his quotes from the speech earlier. He

47:50

also said, many blessed members blame father for

47:52

my wrongdoings. It is not father's

47:54

fault. It is my fault. It wasn't

47:56

easy for me to come to America. It was a

47:58

spawning ground for my hate and misunderstanding. People

48:00

tried to explain, but I never listened. I had

48:02

a lot of anger in my heart. I hated almost everybody. He

48:05

went on to deal with his escapades, drinking, romances, as

48:08

though that was all behind him now. I

48:10

wanted to do everything right from now on. That was

48:12

the past, and it comes and haunts me many times. I

48:15

have told you everything. That I slept around, that I had

48:17

many women. I have nothing more to tell you. Please

48:20

forgive me. He finished. But,

48:22

you know, that speech was a sham. It was just given

48:25

due to parental pressure. His behavior did not change a

48:27

bit. He kept going out, kept

48:29

fucking mistresses, wrecking some cars, even wound up in

48:31

jail a couple times. He

48:33

also cut his first album. Hyo

48:35

Jin Moon recorded Rebirth at

48:38

Manhattan Center Studios, which was another

48:40

church-owned facility, next to the

48:42

church-owned Old New Yorker Hotel. Hyo

48:45

Jin would sell CDs and tapes of his music to

48:47

his only audience, the Unification Church, which

48:49

included the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles,

48:51

right, CARP. I

48:54

think we mentioned them last episode, which

48:56

he served, and he served as their figurehead president. Rebirth,

48:59

the first of many albums for Hyo Jin.

49:02

Here's a little clip from a concert. Hyo Jin Moon put

49:04

on in Osaka, Japan in 2003. This

49:07

song is called I Love You from his

49:09

1990 album Star Songs, one of 16 albums

49:13

of original music. He cranked out before he died in 2008.

49:16

He performed this track as the encore for the

49:18

show in front of about, I'm guessing, 200 people.

49:21

All church members, I'm sure. Oh, get ready to be blown away.

49:35

Should we turn that one up a little bit, Logan?

49:37

Yeah, I'll go experience this. Oh,

49:39

God, yeah. Oh,

49:43

yeah, oh, yeah, that's good. Mm-mm!

49:53

What a talent. I mean, I can't speak the language, So

49:55

I don't know what he's saying, but I don't think it would make the song better if I did.

50:00

The birth of the couples third daughter,

50:02

Sin Och in October of Nineteen eighty

50:04

Nine. She was twenty three years old

50:06

now had four children than a ninety

50:08

ninety two. Mrs. Know demanded a non

50:10

soup accompany her and ten city tour

50:12

of Japan, even on answer was pregnant

50:14

again. It. Was extraordinary seen with

50:16

his. Church. Members truly treated Mrs

50:18

Will end on soup like royalty. First.

50:21

Members are brought her stacks of money at

50:23

what juncture a a member was Darlene answers

50:25

here and the noticed she had misplaced or

50:28

watch. Within. The hour a

50:30

jeweler was inner oh tell room with trays of

50:32

expensive watches for to choose from as a gift

50:34

from her Us Japanese hosts. Are.

50:36

Way home she was given twenty thousand dollars in cash

50:38

to smuggle back in of Us. Couple.

50:41

Months later, January ninth and Is Reece would find out

50:43

that the daughter grown inside of her did not develop

50:45

a brain. Would. Not survive outside

50:47

the womb was you have an abortion.

50:49

Said that yourself to seven Privacy while

50:51

she mourned Mrs Moon found out be

50:54

raided her for untrustworthy for on trustworthiness

50:56

saying she was trying to undermine the

50:58

holy work of the true parents. That.

51:01

Would take their anger out on nonsense parents as

51:03

well. Nice know through your father was removed by

51:05

the Moon's from his position as President of Unification

51:07

Church in Europe. When home to Korea

51:09

where he was ostracized by the religious movement

51:11

that he and nonsense mother had helped Sun

51:13

Moon build. And he'll

51:16

just abuses escalating. He. Chased around

51:18

the house one night in a paranoid cope field

51:20

frenzy. when Nonce or Zuko shouted for help, nobody

51:22

came that he beat the shit out of. When

51:25

I said he for only dream of that

51:27

sheath and Georgians someday live apart. She.

51:30

Was twenty years old. Result: so much older. That.

51:33

March she learned she was up pregnant again. To

51:35

gin was now recording more often than ever

51:37

and supervise the audio media blushes the church.

51:40

New jobs and we met more money to finance

51:43

his coke habit is growing arsenal, guns, As

51:45

alcohol binges, I'm sure our tickets bitters up.

51:48

In. L get loaded machine gun get from his parents

51:50

under his and nonsense bed. Or

51:52

once would not suit with seven was pregnant. I beat

51:55

her when she caught him doing coke and bathroom. He.

51:57

also embezzled millions from his com

52:00

Manhattan Center Studios. November

52:02

of 1994, Nan Tzu gave birth to their fifth

52:04

child, a boy named Shin Hoon. Hyojin

52:07

said he was too tired to drive to the

52:09

hospital to witness his son's birth. Turns

52:11

out he was busy fucking an employee at the music studio,

52:14

a lady named Annie. Adultery

52:16

was the single worst sin in the unification

52:18

church since so much emphasis was placed on

52:20

these marriages. But Hyojin said to Nan Tzu

52:22

that the rules did not apply to him. His dad,

52:25

Sun Moon, was unfaithful, so why couldn't he be? He

52:27

said his sexual liaisons were providential or

52:29

ordained by God. God wanted him to

52:31

ride as many bicycles as possible. Why can't

52:34

you get that? I have to put

52:36

my dick in every hole I can. God

52:38

telling me. Sometimes I'm like, God, I'm tired.

52:40

I'm just joshy. Get some fucking, go get

52:43

some more puss. Nan

52:45

Tzu went directly to Mrs. Moon with Hyojin's claims.

52:48

She was both furious and tearful. She

52:51

said she hoped that such pain would end with her and

52:53

that it would not be passed on to the next generation.

52:55

She disagreed with Hyojin's claims that he had the

52:58

same authority as his dad. She

53:01

said, no, father is a messiah,

53:03

not Hyojin. What father did was

53:05

in God's plan. My

53:07

God, the mental hurdles, people jumped,

53:09

the rationalizations. What? My son

53:12

is cheating on you? Oh, that simply

53:14

will not do. He blamed on his father. Well,

53:17

yeah, his father cheats. Of course, he

53:19

does. He's new Jesus. He

53:21

can do whatever he wants. But Hyojin, he's

53:23

not even like new Abraham. He's not even

53:25

like new Job. This is not

53:27

okay. She said that her husband's infidelity was

53:29

just part of her course to suffer to

53:32

become the true mother. But there

53:34

is no excuse for Hyojin to do this. Sun

53:37

Moon would also reiterate to Nan Tzu that

53:40

his own infidelities had been providential, but

53:42

his son Hyojin's weren't. Yeah, totally.

53:45

I mean, God wanted him to put his dick in

53:47

a bunch of wet holes. But not his

53:49

son. What? Not my son. Now

53:52

things are starting to make more sense for Nan

53:54

Tzu. The constant adoration of the true mother, all

53:56

the money she got. Was it

53:58

to make up for Sun Moon's constant infidelities? Woody. So.

54:00

That she would expose him. She. Started it's

54:02

our to see the truth She said. it's that

54:05

this family was fussing rotten to the core. Now.

54:07

January Nineteen Eighty Five. Non

54:09

supine, decide it's time to go signal legacy

54:12

mode. er. Mrs. Moon be any kind of.

54:14

Besides, I've figures if everything, literally everything about

54:16

them is so fucked up. To.

54:18

Now believe the god whatever he was had given

54:20

up on this family. An Airforce Beardsley.

54:22

She was freed ago. So. She starts

54:24

make a plan. For. Ally would be

54:27

unlikely ones. Madeline, Seal Gens Assistant.

54:29

She. Was also planning to leave her husband an

54:31

Australian Shepherd mess with. Mean. Wash Your

54:34

Jin has been banned from the recording studio

54:36

by his parents, are then refuses to go

54:38

to rehab than is reinstated as a recording

54:40

studio. Despite the protests, have many work there.

54:44

Any we still abusing on suits? And. Sex

54:46

abuse got worse one night. two the tub

54:48

of us who be tube of lipstick holder

54:50

down and scribbled stupid all over her face.

54:53

Little. Tiny forced her to stand naked while he i

54:55

walked around are mocking her and spitting on are. Sort.

54:58

Of the literally spit on her any chance he got.

55:01

By. June non smokers packing. For. Brother

55:03

Jane and call to say that there was a

55:05

house for sale across three from him in Massachusetts.

55:07

He is why to been exiled bar for years

55:09

this point. Song. Soup one of nancy sisters

55:11

would live in the areas. will. Have an

55:13

escape the match move made for her back and real.

55:16

Ah, she bought the house. For. Parents who

55:18

were out of the cold makes it easier for to leave. She

55:20

didn't have to worry about them getting punished for what you don't.

55:23

Over the ensuing months she centre staff, babysitters,

55:25

helpers back home for quote visits to see

55:27

extended hoping it would stay until she was

55:30

gone and have protected by virtue of distance

55:32

from the moon family. Said. A

55:34

move furniture out printed security guard wouldn't only

55:36

one. Finally she has two kids

55:38

of the one leave the said no She

55:40

knew she was gonna stay but instead they

55:43

exploded into happy excited giggles. By

55:45

the good ones, leave a shit show behind as well.

55:47

They're probably sick happening cause he bowed their grandparents. Maybe.

55:50

Also scared the bogeyman black some gin. Return to

55:53

lay down some hard on. I'm. On.

55:56

Aug Eighteen, Nineteen Eighty Five Of Time. With.

55:58

The kids man suit or med. Elon on an

56:00

isolated three corner with a loaded their suitcases into

56:02

a man. They were state a motel

56:05

that night arranged by Jim Nance, whose brother. Then.

56:07

Moved to a modest house and lessons in Massachusetts.

56:10

I wanted a new home. She met with the police

56:12

fall in order for touch and from the moon family.

56:14

Still, Had learn to cook clean, do laundry. All the

56:17

things the servants had done for her for based their

56:19

entire life she had not to run a dishwasher, had

56:21

a mole on, had operate a washing machine, First.

56:24

Time the toilet overflowed, She completely panicked.

56:27

But. He was happy or struggles were completely worth it.

56:30

For kids are to learn basic life skills. They

56:32

made friends as equals. None of the grandkids of

56:34

the Messiah, The Moon, The course of Furious. The.

56:36

Tried to hide their fury and or letters an

56:39

audio tapes that they sent a non suit besieging

56:41

her to come home. In.

56:43

A custody proceeding it would follow. Surgeon insisted that

56:45

he had always been a present father. But.

56:48

Could not tell the court the ages of his

56:50

own children or what grades are in school. I

56:53

such a deuce early December, despite the Moon's

56:56

wealth and influence, than Suda was word full

56:58

custody until such time as Shields and demonstrate

57:00

himself to be sober for least two months.

57:03

With literally never consider desk. Or

57:06

he would ever be jailed for failing to pay child

57:08

support. Jailed. As Sun Moon to

57:10

lecture to around the country preaching about the lack

57:12

of family values. In. The media

57:14

and in the culture. And

57:17

l a check back in. With. The true

57:19

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I'm back. It's late 1997. The

58:32

leader of the Unification Church is still going strong, but maybe

58:34

not quite as strong as he was a few years back.

58:36

He might not know it, but his church is

58:39

past his prime. November

58:41

29, 1997, Sun Myung Moon presided over a mass

58:45

wedding at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington,

58:47

D.C. It was a far cry from

58:50

a similar event in Madison Square Garden in 1982. For

58:52

this latest gathering, the Unification Church had to beat the

58:55

bushes to fill the stadium. The

58:57

church had peaked. Membership was now declining. Most

59:00

of the 28,000 couples who attended were already married

59:02

and members of other religions. Most

59:04

accepted free tickets passed out at suburban shopping

59:06

malls and in supermarket parking lots to attend

59:09

what Unification Church billed as a World Culture

59:11

and Sports Festival. In

59:13

1998, Nan Suuk and Eun Jin,

59:15

who claimed her husband had abused her as well, go

59:18

on 60 minutes and unleash a flurry

59:20

of allegations about sex, drugs, and violence

59:23

inside Moon's supposedly holy and ideal family.

59:26

Moon was still reeling from this bombshell when the following

59:28

year his second youngest son, who was given the Americanized

59:30

name of Philip, hurled himself from

59:32

the 17th floor of a Harris Casino

59:34

in Nevada and died. Philip

59:37

also had been trapped in an unhappy marriage.

59:40

It's almost like the premise of marrying strangers

59:42

together, like he'd been doing for decades, is

59:44

really fucking stupid, unnecessary,

59:46

and damaging. Luckily,

59:48

Philip Moon quickly returned in the body

59:51

of a 52-year-old Brazilian named Fernando aka

59:53

Brown Philip. And soon Brown

59:55

Philip would write the Moonie ship

59:57

through another whirlwind ass whoop-a-tour! I

1:00:00

wish. No, he just stayed dead. He

1:00:03

didn't even get to teach special classes in heaven or make

1:00:05

Jesus run errands for him or anything. All

1:00:08

this family turmoil was making a mockery of

1:00:10

Moon's family-first teachings. Moon had

1:00:12

already lost some of his political leverage during

1:00:14

the early 90s as communism crumbled and Democrats—he

1:00:16

was in bed with mainly Republicans for a

1:00:18

while—seized control of Congress and the White House.

1:00:21

Now many disillusioned followers began turning their backs on

1:00:23

the church. Moon, who now

1:00:25

espoused in America's culture, was of what

1:00:27

he called moral degradation, had lost his

1:00:30

children's downfall, not his shitty parenting and

1:00:32

ridiculous copalies. He grew bitter

1:00:34

towards his adopted country, which he

1:00:36

branded Satan's harvest. Totally.

1:00:39

This is all Satan's fault. But

1:00:41

he didn't give up on the U.S. entirely.

1:00:43

Instead, he began courting new groups, such as

1:00:45

socially conservative black churches, democratic politicians. The

1:00:48

church also launched the Women's Federation for World Peace,

1:00:51

which packaged histology as a tool for the liberation

1:00:53

of women. Okay. Mrs.

1:00:56

Moon, whose role in the church had been mostly ceremonial

1:00:58

up until this point, was named the new president. She

1:01:01

began traveling the world proclaiming herself a co-Messiah.

1:01:03

Oh, that's cool. Urging women to

1:01:05

devote themselves to their families. She

1:01:07

told a conservative crowd in Seoul, we

1:01:09

must spread to the whole world a

1:01:12

model movement in which we

1:01:14

embrace our husbands and raise our children properly.

1:01:17

On several occasions, former President George H.W.

1:01:19

Bush, a major beneficiary of Moon family

1:01:21

donations over the years—we don't know how

1:01:23

much they gave him, but I'm guessing

1:01:25

millions—appeared alongside her, as did his wife

1:01:27

Barbara, and in a major departure

1:01:29

from his previous teachings, Moon formally declared Mrs. Moon

1:01:32

to be his equal and

1:01:34

promised she would inherit everything from father.

1:01:37

Despite these changes, Moon still has not given up

1:01:39

on his dreams of world domination. In

1:01:42

the spring of 2000, he invited 120 American ministers

1:01:44

to South Korea, gave him diamond-studded gold

1:01:46

watches in a blatant attempt to bribe them into

1:01:48

joining his movement. Then

1:01:50

just after the 9-11 attacks, Moon convened a summit

1:01:53

in New York City of religious and

1:01:55

political leaders, including Jerry Falwell, Dan

1:01:57

Quayle, Richard Hol—excuse me. Richard

1:02:00

Holbrooke, Dick quota met and

1:02:03

acknowledged and the nation

1:02:05

of Islam's president Louis Farrakhan whose

1:02:07

million family march moon had supported the previous year

1:02:10

they stated goal of this gathering was to

1:02:12

find solutions to global violence but

1:02:15

the mood was fractious especially after Farrakhan suggested

1:02:17

that Osama bin Laden had been wrongly scapegoated

1:02:20

instead of united behind moon as he had

1:02:22

predicted the post-cold war world was growing more

1:02:24

divided however with every setback

1:02:26

moon's plans only grew more grandiose later

1:02:29

that year he made an announcement by February of 2013

1:02:31

all humanity would join

1:02:35

hands under the banner of a global

1:02:37

nation of cosmic peace and unity called

1:02:39

Chun-ul-guk do you remember when that

1:02:41

happened back in 2013 God that was a great day back

1:02:43

in February 2013 when literally all of us held hands and

1:02:46

we just you know everything was peaceful and there

1:02:48

was a lot of cosmic unity moon

1:02:51

and his followers began preparations in Korea launching

1:02:53

a police force commissioning an anthem which I'll

1:02:55

share later with you in

1:02:57

adopting a flag they also literally built

1:02:59

moon an elaborate castle shaped like the US Capitol

1:03:01

building if moon couldn't actually spiritually conquer

1:03:03

America he could at least do so in symbolic

1:03:05

form around this time In

1:03:08

Jin was living in Boston and pursuing a

1:03:10

doctorate in divinity at Harvard her

1:03:12

dad who was splitting his time between New York and his kingdom

1:03:14

in Korea no longer kept close tabs on her over

1:03:17

time she shed her sense of familial obligation and

1:03:19

started writing and recording romantic pop songs so much

1:03:21

music in this family you

1:03:23

see how I burn beneath you a steady gaze you

1:03:26

see how I yearn to be a meadow where

1:03:29

you graze one went

1:03:31

hey Alucia Fana sadly

1:03:33

I can't find any recordings on the web

1:03:35

of her early work early solo work but

1:03:37

I will share some of her recent hit

1:03:39

music a bit later March

1:03:42

23rd 2004 at a ceremony in the Dirksen Senate

1:03:44

Building in Washington DC moon crowned himself with what

1:03:46

was called the crown of peace Republican

1:03:49

lawmaker Roscoe Bartlett oh what a fucking

1:03:51

great name that's

1:03:54

another guy who'd show up in Crown of

1:03:56

Peace events I'm Roscoe Bartlett let's get this

1:03:58

shindig go haha yeah This

1:04:00

fucking douche literally bowed down before the couple and

1:04:03

then Democrat Danny Davis another douche Carried

1:04:06

in one of two golden crowns Replacing

1:04:09

that how embarrassing ah? Fucking

1:04:12

stereotypes these politicians acting like fools to grab.

1:04:14

I'm sure fat paychecks handed their way Moon

1:04:18

then informed the audience that kings and

1:04:20

presidents had declared him humanity's Savior and

1:04:22

that Jesus Buddha Hitler

1:04:25

and Stalin had been reborn

1:04:27

as new persons through his teachings Yeah,

1:04:30

totally that's not a crazy thing all to say publicly, and I'm

1:04:32

sure those politicians. Just nodded like oh, yeah, no that's great Around

1:04:36

that same time in Jin Moon began having an

1:04:38

affair with a keyboard player named Alistair Farron's her

1:04:40

husband James Park was crushed Park

1:04:43

now started binging on coke and Paradigm

1:04:45

global advisors his financial company

1:04:47

suffered According to people with

1:04:50

inside knowledge one of parks business partners began angling for

1:04:52

control of the company now and Park began hunting for

1:04:54

a buyer Friendly to his interests and

1:04:56

his luck would have it he found one in an

1:04:58

unlikely quarter then senator Joe Biden's

1:05:01

family Story just keeps getting

1:05:03

weirder James Biden your

1:05:05

brother approached a business associate named Anthony

1:05:07

Lottito Who connected him with

1:05:09

parks camp and the three men began negotiating

1:05:11

to buy paradigm? They signed an agreement

1:05:14

that gave them a controlling stake in the company in

1:05:16

return for 21 million dollars in cash to be paid

1:05:18

in six months hunter Biden

1:05:22

Joe's son who had no financial industry experience was

1:05:24

named CEO and given an annual salary of 1.2

1:05:26

million all fun I love the hunter Biden

1:05:28

is now randomly appeared in this story if

1:05:30

only Donald Trump was part of this business deal Trump

1:05:33

was paid 2 million dollars by the moonies

1:05:35

in 2022 according to

1:05:37

2023 tax filings for appearing and speaking at

1:05:39

two church events with Mike Pence Must

1:05:42

be nice to make a million bucks for an appearance

1:05:46

Back to the paradigm situation. I wonder how much coke

1:05:48

hunter and James Park's in order together How

1:05:50

many escorts were there to snort it with him did

1:05:53

black young gin show up snort a little coke fuck some

1:05:55

escorts And then beat the fucking shit out of everyone in

1:05:57

the room Soon

1:05:59

became clear the paradigm had $200 to $300

1:06:01

million under its management, not the $1.5 billion claimed.

1:06:03

Now the Biden's main financier backed out, but the

1:06:05

Bidens found a way around their sudden lack of

1:06:07

capital. According to court documents and

1:06:09

people close to both sides of the negotiations, they

1:06:12

approached Park, who was still in treatment for coke

1:06:14

use, and cut a new deal. Instead

1:06:16

of $21 million in cash, they would fork over

1:06:18

an $8 million note. People close

1:06:20

to Park say he was emotionally fragile, felt indebted to

1:06:22

the Bidens, which put him in a vulnerable position. Finally,

1:06:25

in 2008, the economy collapsed with a

1:06:27

housing market crisis, after which

1:06:29

it emerged that Allen Stanford, whose firm was

1:06:32

soliciting investors for one of Paradigm's funds, was

1:06:34

running a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Ah,

1:06:37

sweet! This is all connected to a Ponzi scheme as well.

1:06:39

Awesome. While the Paradigm

1:06:41

fund itself was solid overall, investors were spooked, and

1:06:43

in 2010, Paradigm folded, filed

1:06:46

for voluntary liquidation. Park was

1:06:48

never able to collect on the $8 million note, found

1:06:50

himself faced a mountain of debt. The little

1:06:53

dance with the Bidens was over. Park

1:06:55

and Injun were saved, though, from financial ruin

1:06:57

thanks to Moon Family ties, and Moon throwing

1:06:59

money. In Jin's younger brother Preston,

1:07:02

a Harvard grad, former Olympic question who controlled

1:07:04

most of the family's American enterprises, he

1:07:06

agreed to bail the couple out with several million dollars, a

1:07:09

decision he would later regret because

1:07:12

of the family fracturing. March 17, 2008,

1:07:15

Hyojin Moon dies of a heart attack at

1:07:17

the Moon family home in Seoul, South Korea. He'd

1:07:20

remarried to Yoon Ah-Choy and

1:07:22

had four more kids. He

1:07:25

completely abandoned his original family, you know, like father,

1:07:27

like son. His death

1:07:29

raised the question of leadership succession, and Moon was

1:07:32

in his late 80s now, needed an heir. This left

1:07:34

an opening for Injun, who maneuvered her

1:07:36

way to the helm of the Manhattan Center, the only one of

1:07:38

Moon's daughters to assume a leadership role. She

1:07:41

immediately gave her lover, that previously

1:07:43

struggling musician, Alistair Ferrant, a top

1:07:45

position, fired half the staff, many

1:07:48

of them long-standing church members. She

1:07:50

also began courting new talent, including a

1:07:52

30-something rock musician named Ben Lorentzen. She

1:07:55

will soon leave Alistair for Ben. These

1:07:58

two are still together and making the decision. best music.

1:08:01

Their most recent release, a cover of Fleetwood

1:08:03

Mac's dreams, lighting up

1:08:05

YouTube right now. It has 63

1:08:08

views in the past four months. Several

1:08:10

of those are mine. Here's

1:08:12

a little taste of more Moon family music. No

1:08:17

thunder only happens

1:08:19

when it's raining.

1:08:26

Playing only

1:08:29

when they're playing.

1:08:34

Say when they

1:08:37

may come and they may

1:08:39

go. When

1:08:45

the rain washes the

1:08:47

clean you know. You

1:08:53

know. I

1:08:57

mean, that rendition would for sure

1:08:59

be better than at least some of the other

1:09:01

cover songs sung in a random karaoke night in

1:09:03

just any bar. Ben

1:09:06

actually released a fair amount of songs on his own. In 2022, he released the

1:09:08

track Second Man on the Moon. Get

1:09:10

it? Cause he, cause his wife, oh

1:09:13

yeah, they're gonna get married. I'm jumping the

1:09:15

gun a little bit. But she's a member of the

1:09:17

Moon family and some other dude wrote her bicycle before

1:09:19

he took a spin. I think that's

1:09:21

what the title refers to. I'm not sure. Sounds

1:09:25

like it was

1:09:27

released in 1996. No, it

1:09:30

was released in 2023. It's

1:09:47

doing a lot better than the other song. 267 views

1:09:49

in a year. Actually it's

1:09:52

not as bad as I was hoping.

1:09:54

He is talented. I wish I

1:09:56

hated it. That summer helicopter Reverend and Mrs.

1:09:58

Moon were traveling aboard. Crashed

1:10:00

into a South Korean mountainside and

1:10:03

unfortunately they both survived But

1:10:05

while they recovered their children began squabbling over

1:10:07

the only major piece of Moon's Empire that

1:10:10

remained up for grabs the unification Church of

1:10:12

America Which oversees the movement's US congregations along

1:10:15

with hundreds of millions of dollars perhaps

1:10:17

more than a billion dollars in assets

1:10:20

Preston saw himself as a natural heir But

1:10:22

in Jin spotted an opportunity her

1:10:25

family hadn't fully recovered from the paradigm debacle according

1:10:27

to people close to her She was hungry for additional

1:10:29

income Clearly her music alone

1:10:32

not quite paying the bills When Justin

1:10:34

Moon approached her about staging a takeover. There's so many

1:10:36

moon kids She agreed the

1:10:39

American Church then convened a board meeting led

1:10:41

by engine Most of the existing board members

1:10:43

were pressured to resign were replaced with engines

1:10:45

allies After which engine was

1:10:47

formerly elected chair bitter family feud

1:10:49

ensued the true families experiencing civil

1:10:51

war Preston later staged his

1:10:53

own bedroom coup at a unification at unification

1:10:55

Church International The holding company for

1:10:57

the Moon's family's US business giving

1:11:00

him unfettered control over billions of dollars in

1:11:02

assets He was a proceeds to fund

1:11:04

an offshoot movement that drew on his father's teachings without

1:11:06

deifying the moon clan in Jin

1:11:08

meanwhile assumes the role of chief pastor of the

1:11:10

American Church in 2009 Begins

1:11:13

using it as a vehicle for her own passions Her

1:11:16

aim she said was to transform the church into

1:11:18

one that people especially young people were dying to

1:11:20

join. Oh, that's cool She

1:11:22

renamed the church loving life ministries Shelled

1:11:25

the old hymn books launched a rock band

1:11:28

hell fuck Yeah, an offshoot of which played

1:11:30

New York clubs under the moniker Sonic cult

1:11:33

Here's that band playing little Beach Boys

1:11:35

fucking rocking out with some Beach Boys at

1:11:38

the bitter end club We're

1:12:06

Come join my colt

1:12:09

with my wife's money,

1:12:11

my father-in-law, the fucking

1:12:13

lunatic. Again,

1:12:15

it's not bad. It's almost worse. And

1:12:19

probably a lot of colt money in his bank account now. Now

1:12:21

rather than adhering to the church line on

1:12:23

a range marriage, Injin encourages young

1:12:25

people to play a role in choosing

1:12:27

their own spouses. How very progressive. They're

1:12:30

the new moonies. They're the cool moonies

1:12:32

who play beach boy covers at bars. Her

1:12:35

affirms were met with heated resistance though. Across

1:12:37

the country moon's disciples took to the internet

1:12:39

to denounce Injin's bling-bling style. Whatever the fuck

1:12:41

that means. One online

1:12:43

critic dubbed her ministry the mushroom church because

1:12:46

all you do is sit passively in the dark

1:12:49

and are fed bovine excrement.

1:12:51

Boom! Mic drop! Yeah,

1:12:53

go eat your bovine excrement. I

1:12:56

can't respect people who say excrement in slams like

1:12:58

that. Just say shit, you fucking douche. Some

1:13:02

were already leaving and following her siblings into the splinter

1:13:04

groups. The eldest, Yeonjin aka Preston

1:13:06

broke from the church in 2009, refused to give

1:13:09

up major UC assets he controlled in Korea and

1:13:11

the Americas, eventually set up

1:13:13

the Family Peace Association as an alternative. The

1:13:16

youngest, Chungjin aka Sean, broke

1:13:19

away from the church, continued using the UC

1:13:21

logo for his services, set up the World

1:13:23

Peace and Unification Sanctuary aka

1:13:25

the sanctuary church in

1:13:28

Newfoundland, Pennsylvania as an

1:13:30

alternative. We'll check in with Sean a

1:13:32

bit later. Main church struggled in the face

1:13:34

of all this division. Within two years nationwide

1:13:37

multi-attendents in the US plunged from roughly 26,000

1:13:39

a couple years before to

1:13:41

less than 7,500. According

1:13:43

to internal church documents, yet Injin

1:13:45

persisted confident that with time she bring

1:13:48

her father's church into the modern era. But

1:13:51

she was now facing some personal problems, reminiscent

1:13:54

of her father's. In

1:13:56

late 2009 Patricia Lorentzen, wife

1:13:58

of the musician who we've

1:14:00

sampled, Ben. Did I mention

1:14:02

her new boyfriend was married and had a family? She

1:14:05

traveled to New York with her two young sons to visit her

1:14:07

husband for Christmas. And while they were

1:14:09

standing at the moon owned New Yorker hotel, she borrowed Ben's

1:14:11

laptop, found his email

1:14:13

inbox brimming with fucking

1:14:15

pussy photos from Injin, not kidding. She

1:14:19

confronted Injin over email. After which she says, Lorenzin

1:14:21

and another man turned up at her room, delivered

1:14:23

an ultimatum. She and her kids had to be

1:14:25

out of the hotel by the next morning or

1:14:27

they would be tossed out by security. That's right,

1:14:29

Ben Lorenzin, fucking Mr. Beach boy.

1:14:32

The vocalist shows up to threaten his own wife and

1:14:34

kids with being tossed out onto the street on Christmas

1:14:37

no less. If she won't shut the fuck up about

1:14:39

his affair. It's harder to enjoy

1:14:41

songs now. A family

1:14:43

feud now erupts in open view. The siblings

1:14:45

now spar over billions of dollars in international

1:14:47

assets and courts. One of Injin's

1:14:49

deputies traveled the country delivering a PowerPoint

1:14:52

presentation. The caster brother Preston has fallen

1:14:54

Adam being controlled by Satan. Lovely

1:14:56

to do that on PowerPoint. Anyone

1:14:59

in her father's church who would listen. If

1:15:01

you'll just bear with me for a second and he's just showing slides and

1:15:03

you see here, this is a picture of the devil. This

1:15:06

next picture is of Adam. You

1:15:09

can see the resemblance. They look very similar. This

1:15:12

is Adam smoking a cigarette. Something very

1:15:14

satanic. Early 2012, Injin

1:15:17

gave an upbeat sermon about music, motherhood and

1:15:19

true love. This is an incredible year

1:15:21

and I feel so many wonderful things are going to unfold, she

1:15:23

said. This is about you and me. This is about America.

1:15:25

This is about our future. But after

1:15:28

the service was over, Injin disappeared from public

1:15:30

view. She stopped delivering weekly sermons. She

1:15:32

was broadcasting online. They weren't getting very many views.

1:15:35

Even quit showing up all together at the church's Manhattan

1:15:37

headquarters. Still focus on her

1:15:39

music now. After several months passed with no sign

1:15:41

of her, some parishioners began pressing for information about

1:15:44

her whereabouts. They were blocked at every turn. Even

1:15:46

the highest circles of church leadership couldn't or wouldn't

1:15:48

say what happened to Injin Moon. We'll

1:15:51

meet her again soon, find out why she disappeared. September

1:15:54

2nd, 2012, Sun Moon, true father, dies

1:15:58

of pneumonia. How the fuck? weak

1:16:00

little bitch at age 92. Ugh!

1:16:04

Two weeks later, some 15,000 people packed into

1:16:06

a moon-owned stadium outside Seoul for the memorial.

1:16:09

Mrs. Moon vowed to continue her husband's quest

1:16:11

to build a world where all people live

1:16:13

as one great family under God. Hmm.

1:16:17

She won't need to take that quest

1:16:19

alone, because at the service in front

1:16:21

of everyone present, Sun Moon reanimates! Come

1:16:23

back to life in the body of...

1:16:25

...Kundioni! Oh, fuck yeah, bro! The Zimbabwean

1:16:27

ass-whooper is back! Now Sun

1:16:29

Moon is taking over his body. He grabs

1:16:32

his chair, beats the shit out of all 15,000

1:16:34

people present, take days. Have to take

1:16:37

breaks to eat, drink, sleep, get some

1:16:39

massages. But he gets the job done

1:16:41

and restores order to the one true

1:16:43

choice! All aboard! Great song! He

1:16:50

did it! Congratulations!

1:16:58

Back to reality now. Back to the true father, being

1:17:00

truly dead in time. After the service,

1:17:02

True Mother and some of her kids knelt above his burial

1:17:04

vault, clasped hands and prayed. In

1:17:06

Jin remains conspicuously absent.

1:17:09

It's around the time that a birth certificate for a four-month-old

1:17:11

boy began circulating on the internet. To

1:17:13

the astonishment of Moon's followers, the child's parents

1:17:15

were none other than In Jin Moon, and

1:17:18

the married musician she was fucking and sending

1:17:20

pussy pics to abandoned the ransom! That's

1:17:23

why she disappeared from public view, because she was pregnant.

1:17:26

Now on top of mourning the Messiah, Moon's American

1:17:28

disciples have to digest the news that their supposedly

1:17:31

sinless daughter was trampling

1:17:34

his most sacred teachings. Jin

1:17:37

Sun Park, son of Bohai Park, the second-in-command,

1:17:39

husband of In Jin, had actually

1:17:41

helped In Jin and Ben find a house on Cape Cod

1:17:43

where she could hide and write out her pregnancy. Mrs.

1:17:46

Moon was furious. Or maybe

1:17:48

she saw an opportunity. She demanded that In

1:17:50

Jin resign. In Jin issued an apology

1:17:52

to members of the church. It was never our intention to hurt

1:17:54

anyone. All we wanted was to love and to be loved. So,

1:17:57

once again, these arranged marriages are terrible. Next,

1:18:00

Mrs. Moon moves to claim the inheritance her husband has

1:18:02

promised her. She wrests control of the international

1:18:04

church from Shawn Moon to her shitty son, issued

1:18:07

a memo saying everything that is carried out in Korea

1:18:09

from this day onward will be centered on true mother.

1:18:11

It's fucking the bitches back in town. She

1:18:15

later ousted her son Justin who controlled most of

1:18:17

Moon's Korean enterprises. After five

1:18:19

decades spent in Moon's shadow, the kingdom was in her

1:18:21

hands. She wasn't gonna let her shitty kids fuck it

1:18:23

up. She was gonna banish her brood. I

1:18:26

actually kind of feel sorry for Mrs. Moon. She

1:18:28

was raised in cults, right? She didn't pick Sun

1:18:31

Moon. She was given to him. Yes,

1:18:33

she's lived in luxury for a long time, but also who

1:18:35

knows what kind of abuse she suffered privately at the hands

1:18:37

of Sun Moon. I found this video

1:18:39

of her from just a few years ago. She's sitting at

1:18:41

a small table in one of her South

1:18:43

Korean residences, and she's having dinner with

1:18:46

her dead husband. Not quite weekend

1:18:48

at Bernie's style. His corpse isn't there, which is a bummer,

1:18:50

but in her mind she is. As

1:18:52

in the staff has set out two servings of food and

1:18:55

drink, one for her, one for someone not

1:18:57

sitting in the empty chair next to her. She

1:19:00

eats her food, talks to the air as if

1:19:02

Sun Moon is having dinner with her and responding.

1:19:05

In all seriousness, she asks her dead husband, like dead husband,

1:19:07

what he thinks of the meal, how he's feeling about this

1:19:09

or that. Like she has been

1:19:11

in this super strange echo

1:19:13

chamber her whole life. I

1:19:16

think she has no concept of

1:19:18

what it is to live a sane, normal life. Interestingly

1:19:21

though, despite Moon's views on wifely subservience,

1:19:23

it soon becomes clear that Mrs. Moon

1:19:26

doesn't share all of her dead husband's

1:19:28

opinions. She began speaking out

1:19:30

in surprisingly critical terms about Moon's preoccupation with

1:19:32

America. During a trip to New York in

1:19:34

late 2012, she complained

1:19:37

that he squandered 40 years in the US for

1:19:39

such little return. Late

1:19:42

February 2013, the matriarch celebrates

1:19:44

the arrival of Chun-ul-guk, Moon's

1:19:47

global kingdom of peace and unity, before

1:19:49

some 15,000 devotees who packed this

1:19:52

Moon-owned stadium in Korea. Yeah, they have a

1:19:54

stadium all wearing identical wedding

1:19:56

garb. The crowd sang

1:19:58

the Chun-ul-guk national anthem. and then

1:20:00

Mrs. Moon swept into the stadium wearing a jeweled crown

1:20:02

and a purple robe, festooned with

1:20:05

golden embroidery. Right, this is the day where

1:20:07

everyone in the world is supposed to hold hands. Check

1:20:09

out an English and Korean hybrid rendition

1:20:11

of this very powerful, just moving inspirational

1:20:14

anthem. Good

1:20:18

morning, I hope you're all doing well.

1:20:20

You're in a wonderful, beautiful Sunday morning.

1:20:22

We're going to start off our Sunday

1:20:25

by singing the shuttle book anthem, the

1:20:27

musical. Here we go. In one, two,

1:20:29

three. The buddy

1:20:31

wrote a love of

1:20:34

blue with new tidings

1:20:36

of hope. May

1:20:38

the world live in

1:20:40

freedom first. Earth

1:20:43

in heaven rejoice. Holding

1:20:46

on, you came to

1:20:48

walk. Long you

1:20:51

have been known. All

1:20:53

my friends know. We

1:20:56

think that you're strong and true.

1:20:58

This is all good. Live

1:21:01

with me in heaven's

1:21:03

light. I've

1:21:05

been told there's a bow in

1:21:09

the goodness of

1:21:11

spirit. Your new

1:21:13

love I... Okay, I can't take any

1:21:15

more. This is a collage of lots of photos

1:21:17

of flowers and sun, moon, and stuff in the

1:21:19

background of the video. While this anthem

1:21:21

is sung, Mrs. Moon marches slowly up a

1:21:24

long stairway to a giant replica of the

1:21:26

Moon family palace. She takes a seat

1:21:28

on a white throne. Next to her

1:21:30

is an identical throne reserved for her dead husband who

1:21:32

sits there in spirit. She acts like he's there. An

1:21:35

attendant hands her a heavenly scepter. Oh, hell yeah, you got

1:21:37

to have a scepter. She climbs to

1:21:39

her feet and says, I proclaim the first

1:21:41

year of Tjung Ulguk. Trumpets

1:21:44

Blair Stadium fills with mist. Oh,

1:21:46

so much pageantry. Afterwards,

1:21:48

several of Moon's old friends give congratulatory... Oh, you

1:21:50

did it! You did

1:21:52

it. Literally nothing's changed, but you did

1:21:54

something. Former speaker of

1:21:57

the house, Dennis Hazzard, is there.

1:22:00

What the fuck? He lodged the festivities

1:22:02

as an affirmation of marriage and family. Fuck

1:22:05

another twat politician. Just

1:22:07

shameless. Botton paid for with

1:22:09

Moon money. Uh, on the occasion

1:22:11

of the third anniversary of Moon's death in 2015, having concluded

1:22:14

a traditional Korean three year period of mourning,

1:22:17

the now 72 year old Mrs. Moon

1:22:19

presides over the Sunhok Peace Prize Awards

1:22:21

ceremony. That's great. 2016,

1:22:23

she launches the International Association for Parliamentarians for

1:22:25

Peace. So much peace and

1:22:27

associations with these shitheads. Uh,

1:22:30

she does that at the National Assembly, uh, of the Republic

1:22:32

of Korea. No one has

1:22:34

loved to launch associations more than these fuckers

1:22:37

for the remainder of the year under

1:22:39

the auspices of the UPF, the FF

1:22:42

WPU inaugurated regional chapters in Nepal, uh,

1:22:45

Burkina Faso. Oh, how great England,

1:22:47

Costa Rica, Paraguay, Zambia, Japan.

1:22:50

All this was intended to further her goal of having a

1:22:52

global ministry, which she described as a cosmic March

1:22:55

to Canaan with a stated purpose

1:22:57

of consecrating seven nations as models of national

1:23:00

restoration. Shockingly, some countries do agree to

1:23:02

be part of this, but they don't have to actually do

1:23:04

anything. The first to do so, so to

1:23:06

me and Prince of pay. So to

1:23:08

me and Prince of pay it is, it's like, it's more

1:23:10

of a town than a nation. Technically it's a nation. I

1:23:13

could fucking take over this nation if I wanted to a

1:23:16

tiny equatorial island nation in the Gulf of Guinea

1:23:18

off the coast of central Africa, September of 2019,

1:23:20

Mrs. Moon

1:23:22

declared the nation had become heavenly. So

1:23:24

to me and Prince of pay by

1:23:27

the end of the year, she had

1:23:29

consecrated heavenly Albania, Cambodia, Taiwan, Niger, Palau,

1:23:32

and the Dominican Republic. Seven nations.

1:23:34

Oh, then amid the COVID-19

1:23:36

pandemic, Mrs. Moon convened rallies of hope

1:23:39

beam from a giant jumbotron from the

1:23:41

UCM's world peace center at Chong Pyeong

1:23:44

Lake, Korea. Now let's

1:23:46

fast forward to yet another final for this timeline. Crazy story

1:23:48

to come out of this group on

1:23:50

the morning of his, uh, on the last morning of

1:23:52

his life, July 8th, 2022. Shinzo

1:23:56

Abe, former prime minister

1:23:58

of Japan arrived. Japanese city

1:24:00

of Naurau, famous for its ancient

1:24:02

pagodas and these cute sacred little deer

1:24:04

they have growing there. He

1:24:06

would... growing, living, they

1:24:09

grow, they have deer farms.

1:24:11

He'd be given a speech to endorse a

1:24:13

lawmaker running for reelection to the national diet, which

1:24:15

is Japan's parliament. Abe had retired

1:24:17

two years earlier, but because he was Japan's longest

1:24:20

serving prime minister, his name still

1:24:22

carried enormous political weight. And

1:24:24

photos taken from the crowd, Abe instantly recognizable

1:24:26

by his wavy, swept-back hair, charcoal eyebrows,

1:24:28

and folksy grin. He can be

1:24:30

seen stepping onto a makeshift podium at about 11 30 a.m. one hand touching

1:24:33

a microphone, a gaggle of supporters surrounds

1:24:35

him, knowing the photos, uh,

1:24:38

or the video, uh, seems to notice a

1:24:40

youngish looking man about 20 feet behind Abe,

1:24:43

dressed in a gray polo shirt. Yeah, you can watch this

1:24:45

video on YouTube, uh, dressed in a gray

1:24:47

polo shirt and cargo pants with a black strap across his shoulder.

1:24:50

Unlike everyone else, this dude not clapping.

1:24:53

Abe starts to speak and moments later his remarks

1:24:55

are interrupted by two loud sounds followed

1:24:57

by a burst of white smoke. Abe

1:24:59

collapses to the ground. His

1:25:01

security guards now run towards the man in the gray

1:25:04

polo shirt who holds a homemade gun, two

1:25:06

16-inch metal pipes strapped together with black duct

1:25:08

tape. The assassin makes no effort

1:25:10

to flee. The guards tackle him, sending his

1:25:12

guns scattered across the pavement. Abe's been

1:25:14

shot in the neck and he'll be dead within hours. Later

1:25:17

at the local police station, the suspect, a

1:25:20

41-year-old Zimbabwe man, the bahweh man,

1:25:23

Kondioni, aka Black Young Jin, teleports

1:25:26

out of the interrogation room after loudly proclaiming,

1:25:28

I have a power. I

1:25:40

love that sound so much. Now the suspect

1:25:42

is a 41-year-old man named Tetsuya Yamagami and

1:25:45

he fully confessed to the shooting barely 30 minutes after

1:25:47

pulling the trigger. So why did

1:25:49

he do it? Because he saw Abe as an

1:25:52

ally of the unification church. Yamagami

1:25:54

said his life was ruined when

1:25:56

his mom gave the church all of his family's

1:25:58

money leaving him and his siblings so

1:26:01

poor they often didn't have enough to eat. His

1:26:03

brother had already committed suicide over this ruining

1:26:05

and he had tried to. He

1:26:08

said, my prime target was Unification Church's top

1:26:10

official, Haq Jahann, true

1:26:13

mother, not Abe. But

1:26:15

he couldn't get to Mrs. Moon, so he decided to shoot Abe

1:26:17

instead. Investigators looked into Yamagami's wild

1:26:19

sounding claims and found that their alarm, they

1:26:22

were true. Abagabe was associated with

1:26:24

the church and this dude's

1:26:26

mom had been swindled, but they would not

1:26:28

publicly admit to any of this right away. At

1:26:31

a press conference on the night of the assassination,

1:26:33

a police official would say only that Yamagami had

1:26:35

carried out the attack because he harbored a grudge

1:26:37

against a specific group and he assumed Abe was

1:26:39

linked to it. When reporters clamored

1:26:41

for details, the official said nothing. But

1:26:44

only a few days later, the Unification Church confirmed

1:26:46

press reports that Yamagami's mother was indeed a member

1:26:49

and the association now becomes big news. In

1:26:52

the ensuing press, it was revealed that the

1:26:54

Moonies had a volunteer army of campaign workers

1:26:56

who had long been a secret weapon, not

1:26:59

just for Abe, but for many other

1:27:02

politicians in his conservative liberal democratic party,

1:27:04

which remains in power under Prime

1:27:06

Minister Fumio Kushida right now. Later

1:27:10

that month, the Japanese tabloid, Nican Kande,

1:27:13

published a list of 111 of the total 713 members of parliament

1:27:16

who had connections to this church. Then

1:27:19

in early September of 2022, the LDP announced that

1:27:22

almost half of its 379

1:27:24

parliament members admitted to some

1:27:26

kind of contact with the UC, whether

1:27:29

that meant accepting campaign assistance or

1:27:31

paying membership fees or actually attending church

1:27:33

events. They still hold

1:27:36

sway in Japan. 290 members of

1:27:38

prefectural assemblies, as well as 7

1:27:40

prefectural governors, also tied to the

1:27:42

church. These numbers exposed

1:27:44

a scandal hiding in plain sight. An insane

1:27:46

Korean cult was still powerfully connected to the

1:27:49

political party that had governed Japan for most

1:27:51

of the past 70 years. Many

1:27:54

in the Japanese general public were outraged. Abe

1:27:56

was a fervent nationalist eager to rebuild

1:27:59

Japan's global standing. and proudly unapologetic for

1:28:01

its imperial past, but now he

1:28:03

and his party have been caught in a secretive

1:28:07

electoral alliance with a

1:28:09

cult that has soon emerged, have been accused

1:28:11

of preying on Japanese war guilt and,

1:28:13

you know, guilt over the occupation of Korea

1:28:15

to squeeze billions and billions of dollars from

1:28:17

its Japanese followers. Apparently one

1:28:19

of the things that made Japan such a cash cow

1:28:22

for this church was charging members over $5,000 each to liberate their

1:28:24

ancestors in order

1:28:26

to get them into heaven. No other nation's

1:28:28

members were ever charged this. The

1:28:31

Japanese were charged more to atone for their sins

1:28:33

against Korea. In just a

1:28:35

few months the entire narrative of the assassination inverted.

1:28:37

Well-wishers now began sending

1:28:40

Yamagami, the assassin gifts.

1:28:43

He was now seen by many as the real victim in all this.

1:28:46

Thousands of people protested the decision to grant

1:28:48

Abe a state funeral, and a hastily made

1:28:50

feature film portrayed Yamagami as a tragic hero,

1:28:52

and it was shown all over the country.

1:28:55

The liberal democratic party's poll numbers, already

1:28:57

falling, continued to drop and a cabinet

1:28:59

minister was forced to resign after he

1:29:01

failed to adequately explain his ties to

1:29:04

the controversial cult. And now

1:29:06

story after story starts to emerge about all sorts of

1:29:08

people in Japan who've been fucked over by the UC.

1:29:11

People spoke of being sold useless trinkets and

1:29:13

insane markups to quote, save their dead family

1:29:15

members from an afterlife in hell. We talked

1:29:18

about that in the previous episode. People

1:29:20

were told that Japan was considered an eve

1:29:22

nation, that it had to be brutalized because

1:29:24

of its government colonialism in the early 20th

1:29:27

century for the brutal occupation of Korea. UC

1:29:30

victims spoke of having been probed for personal

1:29:32

information and then having that personal information used

1:29:34

against them, blackmailing them for loads of money.

1:29:37

People shared stories of family members who had committed

1:29:40

suicide out of despair when they went broke. People

1:29:42

who left their families destitute. In

1:29:44

one instance, a 26-year-old woman who had grown

1:29:46

up in the unification church gave an emotional

1:29:48

press conference in which she described the fear

1:29:50

of damnation to hell that the church had

1:29:52

instilled in her as a child and

1:29:55

the people she knew being pressured into marrying strangers

1:29:57

during the cult's group weddings with many of the

1:29:59

couples. quote, now living a life of regret.

1:30:02

As she spoke, a hand delivered

1:30:04

message arrived unexpectedly from the unification

1:30:06

church. The message read aloud

1:30:09

in front of the cameras by her husband, declared

1:30:11

that she suffered from psychiatric issues, which

1:30:13

she didn't, that she had a tendency to lie, and

1:30:16

that the press conference needed to stop immediately. It

1:30:18

didn't. The note was signed by

1:30:20

her parents who were still church members. Also,

1:30:23

thanks to the stories surrounding this assassination, news of

1:30:25

years of litigation against the church became public

1:30:28

knowledge. One law firm alone, not

1:30:30

a cocking butt sadly, had brought 35,000 claims against

1:30:32

the church since

1:30:34

1987. That firm

1:30:36

claims that the church illegally

1:30:39

solicited about a billion dollars from

1:30:41

those 35,000 people. November

1:30:43

of 2022, the Koshida

1:30:45

government, the current government, eager to

1:30:47

clear its name, opened an inquiry that could now

1:30:49

threaten the unification church's legal status in Japan as

1:30:52

a religion. A Reuters article

1:30:54

from that month states that Japan still has about

1:30:56

a hundred thousand active followers and

1:30:58

that 600,000 are still affiliated with the church in

1:31:00

some way. And that 10 million

1:31:02

worldwide were still somehow connected to this

1:31:05

church. As he awaits trial and

1:31:07

the solitude of his prison cell, the

1:31:09

assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, can console

1:31:11

himself that he may be among the most

1:31:13

successful assassins in history. Now,

1:31:15

almost two years after Abe's murder, his assassination has come

1:31:18

to be seen as less

1:31:20

a random act of some unhinged loner and

1:31:23

more of a righteous vengeance following

1:31:25

a tragedy that unfolded slowly over decades.

1:31:29

Finally, in October of last year, Japan's government

1:31:31

asked the court to order the complete dissolution

1:31:33

of the unification church in Japan

1:31:35

following a government probe. Japan's education

1:31:37

minister, Mashido Moriyama, said the probe had

1:31:39

found that the Japanese branch of the

1:31:41

church has long restricted many of its

1:31:43

members' ability to freely make decisions and

1:31:46

forced them to make donations and purchase goods while

1:31:48

they were not in a condition to make sound decisions. A

1:31:51

dissolution ruling against it would strip the church of

1:31:53

legal status and tax breaks, but

1:31:55

allow it to continue to operate business-wise in Japan.

1:32:00

Unification Church in Japan has repeatedly denied any

1:32:02

wrongdoing, pledging reform, and labeling the news coverage

1:32:04

against it as biased and fake. Fake

1:32:07

news! Of course, yeah. There

1:32:09

has been no word since October about when the

1:32:11

government may make its ruling. The

1:32:13

church is still active in America as the Family Federation

1:32:15

for World Peace and Unification, as I mentioned. They

1:32:18

make no attempt to hide their past, still selling Moon's

1:32:20

divine principle as their core text on

1:32:23

an FAQ list in the About Us section of their website.

1:32:26

One of the questions is, is the Unification

1:32:28

Church a cult? And here's their

1:32:30

answer. No, the Unification

1:32:32

Church is not a cult. FFWPU

1:32:34

is a duly registered religious

1:32:37

nonprofit organization. We began

1:32:39

as a new religious movement that expanded rapidly

1:32:41

and called for radical change, and

1:32:43

whose members lived their beliefs. The

1:32:45

establishment felt threatened and

1:32:47

responded by labeling it a cult. Our

1:32:50

organization strives to promote world peace, always the

1:32:52

peace, and unity as one

1:32:55

family under God. The

1:32:57

establishment felt threatened. Yeah,

1:33:00

they did, for good reason, you filthy fucks. Large

1:33:03

part of their website is dedicated to donations. The

1:33:06

minimum donation is $40 US, defaulted

1:33:08

to be a weekly donation. They

1:33:11

have a new podcast. If you

1:33:13

need a new podcast, the UC has one. They've

1:33:16

promoted it on their website. It's called Why I Joined. Just

1:33:20

stories from members about how great it is. On

1:33:22

the podcast page, the first sentence is,

1:33:24

here are the, all caps, real stories

1:33:27

of the Unification Church. Following that,

1:33:29

they write, you've probably heard us call it a cult. Some

1:33:31

people say we're brainwashed. Is that even a legit

1:33:33

thing? But despite that, this

1:33:36

movement has grown all over the world, attracting

1:33:38

people from across cultures, nationalities, and races. Was

1:33:41

it just people falling for a charismatic leader, or

1:33:44

is there something more? Listen in with

1:33:46

us as we hear from people from all walks of

1:33:48

life share their spiritual journeys and tell us why I

1:33:50

joined. The tone of their entire website

1:33:52

is very defensive. A

1:33:55

lot of effort trying to persuade readers that they're not a cult. Stop

1:33:57

it! Which is exactly

1:33:59

what we're talking about. Caught with you. ah

1:34:01

yeah bring was in Israel thing that know that. I

1:34:04

look report as up on Apple podcasts and people

1:34:06

can write me on of reviews. They're only

1:34:08

one person is left to review so far. One

1:34:11

star. As. A sub. It's kind

1:34:13

of feels like adults. And

1:34:15

then estates They don't go into labor trafficking

1:34:18

or poverty faced by their members. Was

1:34:20

left January sixteen two this year. Forty

1:34:23

the most recent articles I can find her ex

1:34:25

members are currently worried that the church facing more

1:34:27

more bad press and accusations been a cold been

1:34:29

targeted by the government japan the country that has

1:34:31

long been as Castile. Might

1:34:34

force defaulted are pushed the got into

1:34:36

doing something drastic. You know the my

1:34:38

get Real Doomsday One X member reference

1:34:40

to People's Temple. Mass Murder Suicide Jonestown.

1:34:43

And now the we are caught up to the present with these

1:34:45

your bags. Let's. Bounce on out.

1:34:48

Of. This time my. First

1:34:52

job soldier made a

1:34:54

sacks man. So.

1:35:02

The movies. Different. I your

1:35:04

average called Story Rights. Because so many

1:35:06

colds hear that meal by now, the seem

1:35:08

to follow us. Pacific pattern

1:35:11

with few variations, especially of course

1:35:13

of the conservative christian variety. Of

1:35:16

the heavy focus on I quickly approaching doomsday

1:35:18

events. Or yeah, we're a compound

1:35:20

some sort with a leader lives with the

1:35:23

majority his followers. Once the prophesied doomsday begins

1:35:25

to draw near, with a small cadre of

1:35:27

core followers have a long cut off all

1:35:29

their social ties and sort of their belongings.

1:35:31

As. Leader begins to emasculate. the mail followers

1:35:33

manipulate as female followers the some of them

1:35:36

a disservice in him sexually while you forces

1:35:38

the other members to work from day in

1:35:40

day out, body him with a life of

1:35:42

comparative luxury while the rest suffer. The.

1:35:45

Moody's certainly exhibited some elements of this, but

1:35:47

on a scale it's almost unimaginable. The.

1:35:50

Compound and would would actually be

1:35:52

many, many palatial A States beautiful

1:35:54

mansions and New York South Korea

1:35:56

high rise Manhattan buildings. Or

1:35:59

the preacher prophesied the end of world well

1:36:01

doesn't and is got actually. Sun.

1:36:03

Moon Not a doomsday, false prophet,

1:36:06

He. Was smarter than that? He. Was both profit,

1:36:08

but he didn't make the mistake of adding a

1:36:10

ticking clock to a celestial plants. He did make

1:36:12

it a secret they wanted to take over and

1:36:14

rule the world, but he also didn't give himself

1:36:16

a time limit to do that. Not really. He

1:36:18

saved. Do it. Then he'll.

1:36:21

Guidance. But he didn't do it. But.

1:36:23

What does he care? that point? And. With all sorts

1:36:25

of the sun, be able to bounce back and forth into

1:36:27

physical and spiritual world's pays a pass for his family to

1:36:29

be able to say the same about him. Negative.

1:36:32

A fighting chance of keeping his grip going after he died.

1:36:35

Also, since his cults focuses on remaking the

1:36:37

world according to Moons vision and not needing

1:36:39

to wait for Jesus as returned to Earth

1:36:42

to have Jesus fix things and sun belt

1:36:44

moons a claim to be Jesus already returned

1:36:46

to Earth. More. Powerful he's even mood

1:36:48

open the door for is called to get

1:36:50

real industrious. Make. A ton of money,

1:36:52

didn't have to sell their shit, just can't wait somewhere.

1:36:55

Is Unification Church was going to change the entire

1:36:57

world's avert followers and every single nation, every corner

1:36:59

the earth. They would need a lot of money

1:37:01

than he billions. They. Did not just

1:37:04

rely on donations, but instead to get entrepreneurial. Funnel.

1:37:06

Donations into lots of profitable business ventures

1:37:08

into politics make powerful friends. Great profitable

1:37:11

enterprise all around the world. Make enough

1:37:13

money to be able to reason of

1:37:15

palms to push the righteous agenda on

1:37:17

every citizen of every nation of the

1:37:19

world. Moon. By making no

1:37:21

secret of his colts in a lofty plans for

1:37:23

world domination. Well, he made it okay for

1:37:25

him and his family to openly live in opulence. That.

1:37:28

Was good for his costs. Differs brandt,

1:37:30

he was pretending to be some pious

1:37:32

profits who needed to live humbly and

1:37:34

await the return of us Angry God

1:37:36

Not use of fucking king. Who.

1:37:38

Was already got. Heat an army to

1:37:41

build a writer. Simple. And. Armies are. And

1:37:44

Edison Sun Myung Moon ran a much better

1:37:46

Gris. The just about any cult leader I

1:37:48

can think of. I mean, not even L

1:37:50

Ron Hubbard. a Scientology. It's that to enjoy

1:37:52

the type of well son wounded when L.

1:37:54

Ron died in Ninety six. He was worth

1:37:56

around twenty six million dollars. And as a

1:37:58

lot. The Sun Myung Moon. Oh.

1:38:01

My. God. According to media speculation at

1:38:03

the time of death and twelve were

1:38:05

somewhere between nine hundred million in a

1:38:07

billion dollars. For. A guy

1:38:09

who started with nothing dude living in a

1:38:11

fucking sex with a cardboard roof. We.

1:38:14

Kicked off his colts. I mean he

1:38:16

became Samuel's The Wealthy. How.

1:38:18

He did that. Yeah, disgusting does I could always as

1:38:20

these as holes. In. The first

1:38:23

preyed on fellow greens already suffering are

1:38:25

under ya Japanese imperialism than later preyed

1:38:27

on Japanese guilds than wrote a wave

1:38:29

of the counterculture the nineteen seventies. That American

1:38:31

try again followers. Declared himself

1:38:33

is why is the True Parents He argued for

1:38:35

an interpretation of the Bible the place to him

1:38:37

and the Messiah roll. Call me to Earth

1:38:39

to establish the first Senlis lineage since Eve Eight

1:38:42

That Apple Or as he put it, fuck the

1:38:44

Devil. As. Whole: You Have

1:38:46

to get married, Go to heaven and I Have

1:38:48

to Marry You may want a genius controlling Coli

1:38:51

remove? What a great way to control your congregation.

1:38:53

You choose all of your followers romantic partners, And

1:38:56

now the very core of their existence

1:38:58

has been guided by you. As they

1:39:00

renounce you, they also have to pronounce

1:39:02

a perhaps renounce their own merits, a

1:39:04

marriage license. But as many children there

1:39:06

to admit that even their families ally.

1:39:09

That's. Your announcer whole life. I

1:39:11

give them a lot of incentive psychologically to

1:39:13

stay in his coat to keep believing that

1:39:15

letting him control their lives so deeply was

1:39:17

the right call. And the more

1:39:19

marriages he creates, right, the more kids his

1:39:22

followers have, the more moonies it will be

1:39:24

to grow up, pay him ties, do missionary

1:39:26

work, start new businesses, solicit donations et cetera

1:39:28

et cetera et cetera. Brilliant. And.

1:39:30

Will all this was going on. He was also according

1:39:33

to the rumors a former followers. But in

1:39:35

the sit out of a lot of followers my lot of

1:39:37

young female members. You. Had to get

1:39:39

rich live a long time. Have decades cult

1:39:41

sex. As far as the cold

1:39:43

game goes, he kind of one. I

1:39:45

mean he spent time in jail here and there. but overall A

1:39:47

he did it. He. Pulled a

1:39:50

shit off. Darkly impressive, Disgusting. deplorable,

1:39:52

Disturbing. but. Barf. Press. Of. The

1:39:55

that so much control over is called even put

1:39:57

up with him setting the lunatics. From.

1:39:59

The. We have one of my favorite things so far.

1:40:01

the we've ever talked about. Senate. It

1:40:04

around the world on m chicken shit out of

1:40:06

his. most of us to for sulfurous. Miss it

1:40:08

for years since. So. What now

1:40:10

with the money's. Well. I

1:40:13

imagine they're on their last legs. None of the

1:40:15

children splinter organizations other than one. I'll talk about

1:40:17

the take away seen be growing, believe that when

1:40:20

I saw his can have limited growth and of

1:40:22

what I can tell online reading them using the

1:40:24

former members and critics is our moon. The new

1:40:26

Unification Church led by his widow. The Family Federation

1:40:28

for Will pcs the case. It's it's time. Financing

1:40:31

for asthma. Most members are

1:40:33

elderly. Ah, the majority of the younger

1:40:35

members of Left Without Mozart leadership. The

1:40:37

current shirt seems pretty loss. Paranoid.

1:40:40

Defenses. And or at

1:40:42

least in Japan or main source of income are under attack.

1:40:44

They may be on the hook for. Hundreds of

1:40:46

millions and legal says he's over there. The.

1:40:49

Governor wants to strip them of the religious status

1:40:51

right? All the lawsuits. Ah,

1:40:54

Yes, even have hundreds muzzles anymore. who knows. Some

1:40:56

sources say the Thera gun broke the no longer

1:40:58

own the New Yorker hotel. They sold other place

1:41:01

or states in Tarrytown, New York. They've sold most

1:41:03

a real estate and businesses in the Washington D

1:41:05

C area. That active member

1:41:07

active member tidings of apparently dwindled down the

1:41:09

Us to are now be coming from less

1:41:11

than a thousand people. Will.

1:41:13

We witnessed the end of the moon is our lifetime. Or.

1:41:16

Will they just be driven further underground into smaller

1:41:18

and smaller splinter groups to take on new lies?

1:41:20

Hang on the shadows and perpetuate more

1:41:22

cold abuse and more spiritual seekers. And.

1:41:25

Most importantly, What? The fuck is black?

1:41:27

I'm Jim right now. And. What the hell is

1:41:29

he up? You. Know

1:41:37

one. Summer. Was born January six,

1:41:39

nineteen twenty in remote village and for real.

1:41:42

One. What? Your blood bloodline determined

1:41:44

Everything. In. Spite of that, he would

1:41:46

rise to enormous height surviving been imprisoned both

1:41:48

Japan in North Korea before he began his

1:41:50

ministry. Out of a sad little dirt, Hutton

1:41:52

saw. Number. two sun

1:41:54

moon advocated for an elaborate maybe

1:41:56

say completely baseless reinterpretation of the

1:41:58

by In his interpretation, he

1:42:00

was the true father, come to earth with the

1:42:03

express purpose of wedding the true mother and producing

1:42:05

the first sinless people. He would

1:42:07

then continue to produce so-called sinless people by

1:42:09