TORONTO JULY 5, 1993- The leader of a world wide religion preaches that he is greater than Jesus Christ and prescribes sex rituals to his followers, according to a professor at a Toronto theological seminary.
The reverend Sun Myung Moon, head of the World Unification Church, popularly known as "Moonies", says "Before I came, all the world was in darkness, all the prophets who came before me were failures" as quoted by professor James Beverley, a professor at Ontario Theological Seminary in Toronto
Professor Beverley, who is writing his doctoral thesis at the Toronto School of Theology on the doctrines of the Unification Church, has read over 6,000 pages of Moon's sermons during his studies. He exposed some little-known feature before a meeting of the Ontario Skeptics this evening.
The Korean-born Moon claims to be an original thinker, but Professor Beverly quotes sources to show that he derives his ideas from five Christian group popular in Korea.
The Unification Church, known for its mass wedding ceremonies involving thousands of members being married in huge rituals lead by reverand Moon requires its newlyweds live apart for up to three years and then consumate their marriages over a three day ceremony in sexual positions that Moon teaches his followers to use. The also strike each other with sticks on the buttocks,"'It's supposed to hurt', the Unificationists tell me, to remind them of the fall of Adam and Eve." Moon believes he and he wife form a perfect couple which redeems mankind's sins.
Moon also preaches that his followers should not use two sheets of toilet paper at a sitting and should not grow beards or mustaches because he doesn't do either, and that women should be inferior to men. "A woman can never be stable by herself" noting that woman are easily distracted. "A country where women dominate will not prosper and will eventually perish.
Moon also has been accused of anti-semitism. In one of the sermons quoted by professor Beverly, Moon says during the Second World War, "Six million perished to cleans the sins of the Jewish people from the time of Jesus Christ. Jews have good minds, but little common sense...if they stuck together they could easily take over this situation." (Society in the USA)
"The main thing that sticks out from his sermons is his unbridled ego - I don't think he realizes how scandalous and crude he sounds." said Beverly, who is writing a book about the Unification Church.
The Unification Church has about 100,000 members worldwide.
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