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Unification Church honour guards carry the coffin containing late Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon during his funeral ceremony at the Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong. Tens of thousands of mourners were expected to turn out for the elaborate funeral in South Korea of their "messiah" and controversial Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon.
Ahn Young-Joon / AP
Bereaved family members carry a coffin containing a body of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unification Church, during his funeral service at the CheongShim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea on Saturday.
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Han Hak-ja, widow of Evangelist Reverend Sun-Myung Moon, sits beside the coffin containing Moon's body during a funeral service for the late, founder of the Unification Church, at the CheongShim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, about 37 miles northeast of Seoul. Sun-Myung Moon, 92, a self-declared messiah who founded the church which has millions of followers around the world, died at a retreat in Gapyeong on September 3.
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Hyung-Jin Moon (3rd L), Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon's youngest son and successor and followers gesture for the late Moon during his funeral ceremony. More than 30,000 mourners, many weeping openly, attended the elaborate, flower-strewn funeral in South Korea on September 15 of their "messiah" and Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon.
Jung Yeon-Je / AFP - Getty Images
Unification Church followers take pictures in front of a large hillside museum (top), where the body of the late Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon is placed, in the church's estate in Gapyeong, about 60 km east of Seoul, on Friday, a day before his funeral. The funeral ceremony is expected to draw 35,000 mourners including 15,000 from abroad.
Unification Church patriarch Sun Myung Moon was 92 when he died on Sept. 3. Famous for conducting mass weddings, he said:
"International and intercultural marriages are the quickest way to bring about an ideal world of peace," Moon said in a 2009 autobiography titled "As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen."
"People should marry across national and cultural boundaries with people from countries they consider to be their enemies so that the world of peace can come that much more quickly."
Related story: Feuds a concern as children inherit Moon's empire
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May this disgusting and pathetic, dirty brain-washing Korean clown burn in Hell for all the damage that he's done to thousands of American families.
Which member of Congress are you talking about?
And he didn't do what any of the other power religious brokers in this country did, and he had just as much evidence for his beliefs as any other religious group. So while you're attacking this guy, there's a lot more who continue to do stuff just like he did.
Ranman87, or George Costanza?, I agree. The billionaire Koch brothers own the Republican party. I watched two documentaries on those freakish Koch brothers last night. Romney has a Koch problem. The Kochs basically own the Republican party, and they basically started the Tea Party through the AFP--Americans for Prosperity. They need to burn in Hell, also. So, basically, we agree, Georgie boy.
i didn't read the article...but noticed there wasn't any brown spots...on backs of the white suits...not a skid mark one...
I second that!!!
May he burn in Hell.
As God, he lived. As non-God, he died. Has there any fact(s) not been revealed?
Roosterboy, do u also apply that to the pulpit pounders in this country who push christianity (the biggest cult) on their followers for their 10%?
Whoa, talk about a funeral.
Yup! When your super rich, at the expense of your followers, you can splurge even after death!
One has to drink a LOT of koolaid to arrange millions of cut flowers to look like photoshop images.
ginseng up
The flowers looked cool.
I am 100% with Ranman87's comment :)
And why is this front-page headline newsworthy!? Corporate media and $$$ connections? Let's hope the family fortune is scattered to the four winds and we never hear of this inane lunacy again.
I will never be scattered to four winds because there's no family fortune.
What is most interesting about Sun Myung-moon's funeral is how it resembles the funerals for Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il north of the Demilitarized Zone. It seems that some people in both Koreas can't live without a charismatic, God-like leader. It reminds me of the World War II-era Japanese veneration for Emperor Hirohito.
Because you live in a western world that's why you talk like that. People in other cultures find it strange that many Westerners and others in Christian dominated cultures worship Jesus as a god.
Don, I had the misfortune of working for a Korean company for a few years. Never again. They only elevate other Koreans to higher positions. The pay is scandalously low, no matter how hard you work. I won't say that I hate them, but I have absolutely no trust or use for them. And, I will never work for a Korean company again, even if it is the last job available. I would work for the very worst rednecks any day, in comparison.
The Lord of the 3rd Chakra has gone away. Never let go of his ego, and it inflated like a helium balloon with ego attached. Thought he was the blueprint for the perfect man....let it go. Dust and ashes. He marketed a worldwide brand of spiritual Amway...just bring more people and money and you go higher on the pyramid. The kindest, most sacrificial act he did for this world was to pass on, ridding us all of the overbearing shadow, compelling all to be like him. Would that he could have learned...the greatest treasure is to be" No One doing Nothing Special." Emptiness wins, and this overbearing, 1950s Syngman Rhee marble vision from the 50s is no more. There is a lighter way to go, and Moon never understood that. He clung to his ego with gila monster grip for 92 years, and those that fed the collective vision, fed the candle flame for every moth. Let it go, let him go...a Moon comes and a moon goes, but the earth remains forever. So long man in the moon.
Roosterboy''' So it's the Koch brothers against the George Soros puppet Barack Obama. Barack's record as president speaks for itself. The american people cannot afford another four years of incompetence.
As for Sun Moon,,, good ridance. Sun Moon was nothing more than a scam artist and a pretty capable one. If there is a hell, I hope he is in it.
Dan, the Republicans are basically traitors. They have supported individuals who have wrecked our economy, like the Kochs, in the hopes of scaring people away from Obama. It isn't working. Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, the Kochs, and Dick Cheney are the worst enemies that America has ever known. The Tea Party was founded and born from AFP, Americans For Prosperity, a think tank, born and funded by the Kochs. It is sad that these so-called Tea Party "patriots" don't seem to realize that their "grass-roots" movement was birthed by Billionaire oil brothers who don't want the EPA on their butt for all their polluting, and who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes of either. I don't hate you, brother. But, I sure pity you for following these traitors. Check out some of the documentaries on the Kochs on Netflix that have just come out in the last month. It may change your mind, hopefully.
Whatever the answer is Roosterboy,, it's NOT Obama. That man is a complete buffoon and a fraud. Obama is simply George Soros's errand boy. This Obama madness has to be stopped. You or I could do a better job of running the country than Barack Obama. Look at the people he surrounded himself with, black panthers, tax cheats and other known criminals from ACORN. Actual criminals. Romney is not the perfect candidate but he is much better qualified than Mr. Community Organiser.
Let me give you a few words about Obama. He studied, and he adores, Classical American Philosophy, also known as American Pragmatism. I also studied this particular type of philosophy in college. It is what some of the best judges in the land love. It is a philosophy that reveres the Scientific Method. If you are going into court, do you want a judge to judge you on all the facts that are currently available, or anything other than that? I prefer the former. This man is walking on a beautiful philosophy that was founded here, in America by Charles Pierce, its founder. It is a uniquely American Philsophy that takes into account everything (all facts) currently available. I am blown away by this Philosophy. This man, our President, has been drastically underestimated. If you want to know the true extent of how he has been underestimated, take a course in this Philosophy. You may learn to love the man after you do.
I could never respect a man, even a little, who governs this country by proclamation and ignores the constitution the way Obama does. Obama has issued over 1000 executive orders since he was elected. Obama appoints Czars for all kinds of offices without consulting anyone. He behaves like a King and ignores congress at every turn. He is not a president, he is a dictator. This is understandable from the standpoint that he spent so much time in Indonesia. Indonesia is a police state and that type of government seems normal to Obama, but it is completely wrong for the USA. Obamas writings hint at a great hate for America and Michelle Obama has simply come out and voiced that opinion on her own. This is probably why we hear so little from her.
Dan...how much time did Obama spend in Indonesia?? Try using fact check and be specific. Obama and Michelle hate America?? Did you listen to their convention speeches??? You positions are fueled by nothing more than your hatred for Obama. Stop listening to talk show pundits...perhaps that will diminish your hatred and anger.
Kleher-- Obama's actions speak much louder than his words. His speeches are modeled very carefully, like all presidents. Obama's campaign speeches are designed to get him re-elected, they don't actually reflect his true views. Those views are revealed in how he governs by ignoring the will of the people and the constitution. Obama's ONLY job is to do the will of the people. There have been other presidents in the past that I disagreed with but in the end I always thought that they wanted the best for the USA and the American people. Obama clearly has another agenda, most likely designed by Soros and the like. In the end it's always about the power and the money. Nice talking to you.
As for checking facts, who checks up on Snopes? Aren't they also people with political views and agendas?
What's does any of this have to do with the death of a Korean bull@!$%# artist 10 time zones away??
tee hee hee
Another false prophet bites the dust.
They're a dime a dozen though.
To each his own.
May he rest in Hell. Evil man and he did so much damage.
The "messiah" wasn't resurrected? The creep was a master charlatan. Many Republican and 'bagger folk in the USA read his Washington Times newspaper as if it were the "Word".
Religion cracks me up. Thank goodness we have seperation of church/state in this great Country.
Exactly how big did this guy get in his later years. Look at the size of that coffin! There is enough room in there for five bodies. Maybe he took a few of his crazy followers with him to the grave.
When I first saw the pic of this outlandish over the top trashy crowd and their religion the first thing was a beatles song but now I think this is the correct song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWdGIbZKtmg
May he rot in peace.
The charlatan Moon, like so many before him (Jim Jones, Joseph Smith, Charles Taze Russell, William Miller, Mary Baker Eddy, and a list going back to the dawn of time) has died.
Most of these so-called prophets are more associated with prophets synonym "profit". Moon who making millions off of his followers to start businesses making him billions to Joseph Smith using the weakness of people to amass wealth and women for sex.
It just shows us how weak the human spirit is that they are able to attract followers. But then again it happens in politics. We do have the Tea Party don't we?
The very moment I heard he died I said "Burn in Hell" This guy was a total sham.
May he Burn in Hell. One more comment. Reading the other posts here, you are bringing tears to my eyes and shivers up my back. I am sooo Very happy I am not alone in knowing the truth about this charleton. I have know for years this guy was a total sham.
2 Peter 2:1
King James Version (KJV)
2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction
I live in S. Korea....love the place. But this Moon was one I did not like. Began with his own people.....lied to them. Then, had his "disciples" money, to make his religion world-wide. A complete 100% hoax, charlatan, and an embarrassment to most Koreans. And now, one of his sons will make it a family dynasty, just like up north. I can't understand how so many could have been taken in. Good ridance, Mr. Liar.
everybody is happy that their mirror is gone hehehehe, that no one will stop them, think again.
If there were a place -- and there isn't as far as I know -- for scum bags like this cultish "moonie" to go and suffer, he'd be right up there near the top for admission . . . STEALING, DECEIT, LIES, MANUPULATION, BRAINWASHING?!? . . . that pretty much sums up this dirty bag! . . . the world is a more sane place without the likes of that scum.
Cult.