{"id":2609,"date":"2004-06-21T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/21\/more-on-moons-coronation\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:01:24","slug":"more-on-moons-coronation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/21\/more-on-moons-coronation\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Moon&#8217;s coronation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10738,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/salon.com\\\/news\\\/feature\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/21\\\/moon\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110903132237\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com:80\\\/news\\\/feature\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/21\\\/moon\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 08:17:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 08:17:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Kirsten <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/mustve_been_a_s.html#c1490728\" title=\"hey, here's a followup...\">pointed<\/a> me to a Salon article following up on <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/news\/feature\/2004\/06\/21\/moon\/index.html\" title=\"Hail to the Moon King\">the bizarre coronation of Rev.\u00a0Moon<\/a>. I&#8217;m so flabbergasted by this event.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev.\u00a0Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep.\u00a0Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin &#8212; the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him &#8220;none other than humanity&#8217;s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  To many observers, this bizarre scene would have looked like the apocalypse as depicted in &#8220;Left Behind&#8221; novels. Moon, 84, the benefactor of conservative foundations like the American Family Coalition &#8212; who served time in the 1980s for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice &#8212; has views somewhere to the right of the Taliban&#8217;s Mullah Omar. Moon preaches that gays are &#8220;dung-eating dogs,&#8221; Jews brought on the Holocaust by betraying Jesus, and the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a system he calls &#8220;Godism&#8221; &#8212; with him in charge. The man crowned &#8220;King of Peace&#8221; by congressmen once said, according to sermons reprinted in his church&#8217;s Unification News: &#8220;Suppose I were to hit you with the baseball bat to stop you, bloodying your ear and breaking a bone or two, yet still you insisted on doing more work for Father.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The more I read about this, the more bizarre it gets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Good Person Inside&#8221; by Sobule, Jill from the album <em>Sobule, Jill<\/em> (1994, 3:12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten pointed me to a Salon article following up on the bizarre coronation of Rev. Moon. I&#8217;m so flabbergasted by this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[14,103],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-politics","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}