Like so many post-GOP presidencies, high-priced lectures paying for its luminaries have been organized by the Unification Church since the Nixon era. It remains on schedule with Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo getting some walking around money along with Newt Gingrich and Mike Esper.
The grift has always been ecumenical with funds loaned to Liberty University and then there’s all those related commercial entities tithing like the Washington Times, the UPI, numerous bakeries, fishmongers, and computer accessory companies. Because hegemonic world domination isn’t cheap.
After Sun Myung Moon died in 2012, Hyung Jin Moon and his mother began expressing open differences. He was removed by his mother from various positions from 2013 and eventually[21][2] taken down as International President of the Family Federation for World Peace and replaced by Sung Jin Moon.[22][23]
Hyung Jin Moon and members of his church have publicly criticized his mother, Hak Ja Han, for changing the theological foundations of his father's teachings and elevating her own status.[24][25][26] This led him and his wife to separate from the movement to establish a local offshoot sect named '[World Peace and Unification] Sanctuary Church' at around time in spring 2013 to officially in January 2015.[27]
In 2015, Hyung Jin Moon began renouncing his mother as the 'Whore of Babylon', saying she was no longer True Mother. He also began teaching that Hyun Shil Kang, one of Sun Myung Moon's first disciples, was now True Mother instead as his spirit had married her.[28] He and his wife Yeon Ah Lee also began assuming the titles 'Second King' and 'Second Queen' respectively.[29]
Hyung Jin Moon is backed by his elder brother Kook Jin Justin Moon, who effectively serves as assistant pastor of the church and owns small arms manufacturer Kahr Arms.
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The event—called the “Rally of Hope”—was hosted by Hak Ja Han Moon, the head of the Unification Church (whose members consider her and her late husband, Sun Myung Moon, the messiahs), and sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation, a group co-founded by the Moons in 2005 and affiliated with the Unification Church (which now refers to itself as the Unification movement). According to the UPF, the gathering, put on before a socially distanced audience and supposedly streamed to 1 million people in 194 nations, was held to launch a project called Think Tank 2022, which aims to reunify the Korean Peninsula.
(There were) ...speeches from Pence, Pompeo, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, past UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, former Republic of Korea Prime Minister Chung Sye-Kyun, and Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi. Also among the speakers were Jonathan Falwell, a pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Virginia and a son of Jerry Falwell, the founder of the Moral Majority.
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…. During his videotaped speech, Pence claimed that Think Tank 2022 is “bringing the wisdom of leaders in government, business, religion, civil society” and that thanks to this new endeavor, “the dream of peaceful cooperation and unity will be closer to reality than ever before.” (Pence spoke at a previous and similar Rally of Hope in March.) Pompeo, who was introduced as a “devout Christian,” hailed former President Donald Trump’s assorted engagements with Kim Jong Un, the tyrannical and murderous leader of North Korea. “We tried something different,” Pompeo said. (Foreign policy specialists have tended to note Trump’s overly palsy overtures to Kim yielded no true progress.) Gingrich praised the Moons, the Universal Peace Federation, Think Tank 2022, and the Washington Times, the conservative paper Sun Myung Moon founded. Esper noted that Hak Ja Han Moon has been “working to help strengthen America’s role in the world.” He didn’t elaborate on what he meant by that.
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