Sun Myung Moon (Korean 문선명; born Mun Yong-myeong; 25 February 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader best known as the founder of the Unification Church, and for his claim that he was a messiah. He was also known as a media mogul and an anti-communist activist.
Since its inception, the Unification Church has expanded to most nations of the world, with an uncertain number of members. It often receives media attention for the blessing ceremony, a mass wedding or marriage rededication ceremony (usually presided over by Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han) which sometimes features thousands of participants. By the time of his death, the Unification Church's affiliated organizations had become a multi-billion-dollar empire.
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“If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,—if only that the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The moon is a sow
and grunts in my throat
Her great shining shines through me”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)