Reverend Sun Myung Moon Research Paper

The Dark Side of the Moon “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” This quote by the great British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is meant to say that a task should be continued until its ultimate goal is achieved, no matter how bleak times may seem currently. The Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (oftentimes simply called the Unification Church), was a man who continued to face persecution, imprisonment, and even torture with an unwavering resolve to attempt to achieve his many goals. In the end, this may have been the work of a religious visionary, or it may have been the work of a dishonest businessman, politician, and cult leader. In order to determine whether his actions were

To begin, the Unification Church was developed with a variety of cult-like aspects, such as “purification rituals,” the belief that Reverend Moon was the new Messiah, and mass arranged marriage ceremonies. These “purification rituals” that occur within the Unification Church are called P’ikareun, Korean for “cleansing of the womb.” A brief description of the ritual is that the priests of any given parish within the church would have intercourse with select married women, in order to cleanse their wombs. The women then proceed to have intercourse with their husbands, using sexual rites in order to purify their husbands, so that they would bear “children free from sin” (Gordon para.1). In short, these rituals are similar to the kind of obscene rites that happen often within other cults, such as the Manson Family and the Branch Davidians. These ceremonies, no matter what cult they occur in, are always simply ways in which the leaders attempt to maintain total control of their followers. Of course, another way in which most cults coerce their followers into submission and belief was through the