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September 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Over the past 10 days, more than 150,000 mourners had paid their last respects
at Moon’s portrait before his burial Saturday on a hillside overlooking the
sprawling Gapyeong complex.
Eulogies were led by the youngest of Moon’s seven sons and his spiritual
successor, Hyung Jin Moon, who vowed to continue the work of the “true
father, saviour and messiah” following his “transition into the
spirit world”.
Revered by his followers but denounced by critics as a cult-building charlatan
who brainwashed church members, Moon was a deeply divisive figure whose
shadowy business dealings saw him jailed in the United States.
The teachings of the Unification Church are based on the Bible but with new
interpretations, and Moon saw his role as completing the unfulfilled mission
of Jesus to restore humanity to a state of “sinless” purity.
While it claims a worldwide following of three million, experts suggest the
core membership is far smaller although it still carries a commercial clout
that allows the church to punch way above its doctrinal weight.
“I’m very sad. As I had been praying a lot for him, I thought he would
live longer. But he passed away so suddenly,” said Anja Brina, a
mourner from Germany.
“He was not a god. I think he was like a messiah, through whom you can
reach God,” Brina said.
“He was the reason for my existence as he coupled my father and mother,”
said Hur Yuna, 18, whose Japanese and Korean parents married after being
personally paired off by Moon.
He often matched couples from different nationalities with no common culture
or language, in the belief that it promoted the universality of mankind.
The sobbing in the stadium rose to a wail at one point as Moon’s close aide,
Bo Hi Pak, broke down while speaking of his desire to see Moon’s face “one
last time”.
The funeral was webcast live on the church website
(http://sunghwa.tongilgyo.org) and shown on giant screens around the
Gapyeong compound.
After the ceremony, Moon’s coffin was driven in a funeral cortege, headed by a
black sedan bearing another giant portrait, to the burial site along a road
lined with flag-waving mourners.
It was finally lowered into a marble-lined grave watched by Moon’s widow and
children.
Born to a farming family in 1920 in what is now North Korea, Moon said he had
a vision aged 15 in which Jesus asked him to complete his work on Earth.
Rejected by Korean Protestant churches, he founded the Unification Church in
1954 – a year after the Korean War.
As the church rose to prominence in the 1970s and 80s, spreading to the United
States, it spawned a business empire encompassing construction, food,
education, the media and even a professional football club.
Media holdings include the Washington Times newspaper and United Press
International news agency.
Throughout his life, Moon assiduously courted political leaders in what
critics said was a bid to lend legitimacy to his church which has been
condemned as heretical by some Christian organisations.
Without Moon’s unifying presence, some experts see potential for conflict
between his sons who control the church’s religious and business arms and
who do not command the same loyalty as their father from overseas chapters.
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