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Breaking: Sun Myung Moon dead (Unification Church, "Moonies", UPI-Washington Times)
Just came over AP wire.
Self-proclaimed messiah, dead at 92.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/unification-church-founder-rev-moon-dies-92-17138843#.UEOrsiIrlVc
Unification Church Founder Rev. Moon Dies at 92
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
GAPYEONG, South Korea September 2, 2012 (AP)
Officials say the religious leader who founded the Unification Church and built it into a multibillion-dollar business empire has died in South Korea at age 92.
Church officials said Monday that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon died at a hospital the church owns near his home in Gapyeong (GAHP' young) after being hospitalized with pneumonia last month.
The patriarch and founder of the controversial Unification Church gained fame in the 1970s and 1980s for pairing up and marrying off thousands of followers at elaborate mass weddings. Critics accused the church of demanding cult-like devotion from its followers.
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
GAPYEONG, South Korea September 2, 2012 (AP)
Officials say the religious leader who founded the Unification Church and built it into a multibillion-dollar business empire has died in South Korea at age 92.
Church officials said Monday that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon died at a hospital the church owns near his home in Gapyeong (GAHP' young) after being hospitalized with pneumonia last month.
The patriarch and founder of the controversial Unification Church gained fame in the 1970s and 1980s for pairing up and marrying off thousands of followers at elaborate mass weddings. Critics accused the church of demanding cult-like devotion from its followers.
All those years the RETHUGS genuflected to him.... now replaced with the Koch Brothers and similar ilk
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Either or Ither will do!
PB
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/8/14/51440/1632
That display of Moon's Washington connections pales in comparison to the now notorious 2004 incident in which Sun Myung Moon was "coronated" as "the messiah", in the Dirksen US federal office building, during a ceremony attended by as many as ( claims the Unification Church ) 81 members of the US Congress.
Let's be honest, it's not like they can just whip up another god. That would be crazy.
Oh, wait...nevermind. 
