The "messiah" visits the US senate - no joke

[Roger]

Moonie leader crown in Senate

The US Senate was used for a bizarre ritual in which the Rev Sun Myung Moon, the head of the Unification church, was "crowned" and declared himself the messiah in the presence of more than a dozen Republican and Democratic members of Congress, it was reported yesterday.

"Emperors, kings and presidents ... have declared to all heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's saviour, messiah, returning Lord and true parent," the 85-year-old Korean "Moonie" cult leader told several hundred guests at the meeting in one of the Senate's office buildings on March 23, according to the Washington Post.

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According to a transcript of the event, Mr Moon declared: "I am God's ambassador, sent to Earth with his full authority. I am sent to accomplish his command to save the world's six billion people, restoring them to Heaven with the original goodness in which they were created."

The glittering event in the Senate's Dirksen building reflected Mr Moon's extraordinary influence in US politics. He owns the conservative newspaper the Washington Times and the US news agency United Press International.

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His fiercely conservative attitudes towards homosexuality and pre-marital sex have won him the endorsement of leading Republicans, including the president's father, George Bush, and John Ashhahahahaha, the attorney general, who participated in one of Mr Moon's "prayer luncheons" days before the president's inauguration in January 2001.

Bizarre, but true

[Rich]

I saw that on TV, what a fucking nutcase. FYI this is the guy who owns the Washington Times and a lot of other favorite news sources of the far right.

[ytcracker]

stranger things have happened

[VegasSEGirl]

WTF? That kind of stuff shouldn't be going on in a government building.


He told his audience: "The five great saints and other leaders in the spirit world, including communist leaders such as Marx and Lenin, who committed all manner of barbarity, and dictators such as Hitler and Stalin, have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons."

[Roger]

At first I thought it was an article from The Onion or something. But this whole thing actually happened

[afx]

Is this article real???

[ZanyCash Larry]

Everybody is trying to distance themselves from it now.

[Rich]

Originally posted by afx
Is this article real???

Yes. The things that go on that they don't show us on CNN are fucking amazing.

[TheLegacy]

but what of juicy?? what of juicy?

[Roger]

Originally posted by afx
Is this article real???

Yep. It's on FoxNews to.