[Soixante-Retard]

Sun Myung Moon (92) is no more. He is an ex-Moonie.

Edit: Link dead.

[Rei Murasame]

He was an annoying man and he believed all sorts of completely crazy things which ought to be opposed by everyone.

RIP.

[Wolfman]

For those of us who have never heard of him, he founded the Unification Church, a weirdo cult that is strangely favored by the UN.

[Soixante-Retard]

The original Moon the Loon, and his batty wife.

[ness31]

aww, from what I've read briefly his heart seemed to be in the right place. unification seems like a worthy goal to aspire to.

rip mr moon

[Soixante-Retard]

His heart may have been in the right place but so too was his bank account! It was a business. A bloody big business. But, hey, his followers seem happy and they're not exactly a threat to me. Live and let live.

[J Oswald]

Moon was a strange figure. Most Americans probably remember him for the mass wedding in Madison Square Garden and, in general, for the cult allegations.

RIP.

[Gletkin]

Maybe the only decent legacy of his is The Washington Times.
Center-right counter to the center-left Washington Post.

[Verv]

HE was anti-communist. This was good.

However, in all other measures he was a meglomaniac.

He conducted mass weddings and married people together who couldn't even speak the same languages. He believed that Christ, Buddha and Mohammed directed him towards this end, and that he was specifically chosen to fulfill the final will and testament of these people (and others). He was blunt about how he wanted to control the minds of his followers.

Everything here was absurd...

Apparently, he also got off a lot through the manipulation of the media...

[Political Interest]

I have heard that he offered the government of South Korea a large sum of money if they would make his religion the state religion.

[Orestes]

RIP crazy boy.

Just to take a pot shot at Rei, I'll add that the Unification Church was supported from Japan by two wealthy Far-Righters, Ryoichi Sasakawa and Yoshio Kodama, the latter of whom was also a gangster.

[Rei Murasame]

I can imagine, Kodama got his way into everything.

But I assume his reason for doing that was entirely because Moon was rabidly anti-communist and so was he. I doubt that Kodama actually liked any of the dogma, particularly not the 'ethnic mix marriage' or the 'don't be a violent international terrorist' part of the dogma.

[Orestes]

or the 'don't be a violent international terrorist' part of the dogma.

And yeah, I suppose his reasons might have been more along those lines.

Also, that Sasakawa guy I've found to be an interesting figure actually, kind of a Fascist Renaissance Man. They don't make them like this anymore.

[The One.]

RIP man.