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This is a story of denial on the spiritual side.
The reverend had plans for America — big and strange. “History will make the position of Reverend Moon clear,” Moon promised, in his 1987 New Year’s sermon. Like many oversize personalities, the reverend experienced his own journey in the third person. “And his enemies, the American population and government, will bow down to him. That is father’s tactic,” Reverend Moon explained. “The natural subjugation of the American government and population.
Why join? The seventies were touched by the fresh wind of disorganization: the field trip with the substitute teacher, the moment before taking seats in the school auditorium, extended ten years. New arrangements seemed possible because they felt necessary.TimesThere was Scientology, Hare Krishna , EST . Jim Jones, the UFO cult, the Children of God. In a spiritual energy crisis, people turn over every rock. “I’ve seen kids take years to recover,” a former Unification Church leader said.
The church purchased the New Yorker Hotel, where Nikola Tesla had aged away his life on the thirty-third floor. They later acquired United Press International, one of the wire services made possible by the luckless Samuel Morse, via the machine that was the source of all Thomas Edison’s luck. They bought the waterfall mansion from the owners of the Maidenform bra company.
It caught the eye of the cigarette folk. Opinion maintenance is a daily grind: facts stay fact, but opinion comes unglued overnight. Philip Morris noted the reverend’s sweet advance in a planning document: “Consider acquiring a major media vehicle,” they wrote, like the “Moonies [and] the .” Never again, having to bargain or cringe with some East Coast jerk reporter. Conservative activists would relearn this lesson decades later, with fake news items planted on Facebook.
Moon, new to America, grasped this as a nutritionist does a deficiency in the shopping cart. “More than anything else we need scholars in the scientific fields,” the reverend said, in a 1973 sermon with the boot-marching title Our Future Path of Advancement. He envisioned conference halls packed with academic guests. Then, “back in their home countries,” Moon said, “these scholars will influence their own national policies in a joint effort.
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