Moonies

Moonies

• Cult
• Sun Myong Moon
• Unification Church
• Founded 1950s-1960s
• 7 million member
• Take strangers from different countries and marry them.
• Believed that the parents were Satan.

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• They had to consume their marriage in a three-day ritual with sexual positions stipulated by their leader.
• They introduce the idea that human history was culminating, the third World War was going to happen.
• Moon invested in guns and munitions.
• Moon was a multimillionaire 625 million pounds.

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Moonies

• They had to consume their marriage in a three-day ritual with sexual positions stipulated by their leader.
• They introduce the idea that human history was culminating, the third World War was going to happen.
• Moon invested in guns and munitions.
• Moon was a multimillionaire 625 million pounds.

Moonies

• Moons teaching is called the Divine Principal
• - Becoming perfect, which means to have God's character and be in a "Four Position Foundation" consisting of God, the perfected individual, and the individual's mind and body.

"Dark Side of the Moon: How Megalomaniac Moonie Leader Built a Billion-dollar Business Empire through Sinister Cult." Mirror. N.p., 03 Sept. 2012. Web. 20 Jan. 2016.

Mark Palmer for The Mail on Sunday. "I Got Married in a Moonie Mass Wedding: He Was a Public Schoolboy from a Wealthy Family. So What Made Mark Palmer Spend Seven Years as a Disciple of the Cult?" Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 06 Sept. 2012. Web. 20 Jan. 2016

Sener, Eminie. "I Was a Moonie Cult Leader." The Guardian. The Guardian, n.d. Web.