Fun fact: The Washington Times newspaper, which in the DC market is the conservative competitor to the Washington Post, was founded by (and I think is still run by) the Moonies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times
2 (at least, I haven’t really gone too deep down this rabbit hole) of the founders sons broke away and formed their own church, it got a decent amount of attention a few years back for doing some mass wedding thing with ar15s, as well as rifle blessing ceremonies. A few of the members of that church including the son who founded it were involved in 1/6, and the other one is the owner of Kahr firearms.
Again, they’re a breakaway sect, not the main Moonie church, so there’s surely some important ideological differences, but there are 2 guys who were raised by their founder, and the one was considered to be in line to take the whole thing over before having a falling out with his mom and deciding to make their own crazy cult instead, so you kind of have to wonder if these 2 nuts actually fell all that far from the tree.
Fun fact: The Washington Times newspaper, which in the DC market is the conservative competitor to the Washington Post, was founded by (and I think is still run by) the Moonies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times
And they apparently sell the majority of fish to Sushi restaurants in the US:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/08/20/the-church-that-put-its-faith-in-fish-span-classbankheadthe-rev-moons-unification-church-foresaw-sushi-revolution-and-cashed-inspan/e90deef3-c094-419b-b9f8-2e05741653c0/
2 (at least, I haven’t really gone too deep down this rabbit hole) of the founders sons broke away and formed their own church, it got a decent amount of attention a few years back for doing some mass wedding thing with ar15s, as well as rifle blessing ceremonies. A few of the members of that church including the son who founded it were involved in 1/6, and the other one is the owner of Kahr firearms.
Again, they’re a breakaway sect, not the main Moonie church, so there’s surely some important ideological differences, but there are 2 guys who were raised by their founder, and the one was considered to be in line to take the whole thing over before having a falling out with his mom and deciding to make their own crazy cult instead, so you kind of have to wonder if these 2 nuts actually fell all that far from the tree.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/24/usa.religion
It’s weird…
Some democrats say they were duped. Regardless the whole thing is fucked up.