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Article: Sun Myung Moon: (head of the Unification church).
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is boss of the Unification Church, more commonly known as the `Moonies'. Now into his eighties, the South Korean sage proclaims that the Virgin Mary was not a virgin and that he and his wife -- the `True Mother' -- are Christ's heirs, on earth to finish off the job and unite all Christian churches into his. He has also done time in a US penitentiary for tax evasion.
Moon's real name is Young Myung Mun, but the adaptation to `Sun' and `Moon' proved too tempting to resist when he Americanized it during the Korean War -- a formative experience in his youth.
The really strange thing about Moon, however, is how on earth his ...