A local television station, during the news, on in another room from where I was, and in the room where X was, was discussing a mass wedding in South Korea.
DrRNM: That is the Unification Church, also known as the Moonies.
X: Never heard of them.
DrRNM: Their late founder, Sun Myung Moon claimed to be a second coming of Jesus Christ. He is dead now, of course.
(Not resurrected, I was thinking)
Wikipedia: Sun Myung Moon
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Moon has said that when he was fifteen years old Jesus anointed him to carry out his unfinished work by becoming parent to all of humanity.
Wikipedia: Unification movement
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Moon being a self-declared messiah; in effect, the Second Coming of Jesus. Moon's followers regard him as a separate person from Jesus but with a mission to basically continue and complete Jesus's work in a new way, according to the Principle.
X: How come that didn't happen to you?
DrRNM: God by grace through faith, has helped me to see the truth, and have more common sense than those described.
X: So he wasn't crucified?
DrRNM: No, he was a wealthy businessman.
X; Figures.
DrRNM: Yes.
Wikipedia:Jesus
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), believed by members of the Unification Church to be the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ, fulfilling Jesus' unfinished mission. Church members ("Unificationists") consider Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, to be the True Parents of humankind as the restored Adam and Eve.
