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On this day 9 years ago, a South Korean cult mourned the loss of their leader, Sun Myung Moon. The Unification Church, otherwise known as Moonies, may seem mostly harmless on the surface, but survivors and cult experts alike have spoken about the group's destructive beliefs and behaviour. Aurora and Angelina laid out what it means to be a Moonie, how the group got started, its detailed history, and what the Unification Church looks like today.

Writing and research by Aurora Cady.

Original music and audio production by Louis Levesque.
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LINKS + SOURCES:

Sun Myung Moon, The Early Years, 1920-53 By Michael Breen

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Myung-Moon

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/09/04/the-strange-life-of-reverend-sun-myung-moon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon

https://www.history.com/news/japan-colonization-korea

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Unification-Church

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6585&context=etd

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.religion.unification/c/1QZc2tVwemc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slFUtQQM1Ow

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/steven-hassan-former-moonie-trumpism-cult-theory.html

https://www.ozy.com/news-and-politics/meet-the-billionaire-holy-mother-of-the-unification-church/80841/

https://howwelldoyouknowyourmoon.tumblr.com/post/49693156642/moon-had-five-or-six-wives 

https://tragedyofthesixmarys.com/pikareum-with-36-wives/

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/19/nyregion/rev-moon-is-convicted-of-income-tax-fraud.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18624358

https://apnews.com/article/d5c3b223004247f8bf8a5f2467bd9a43

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/10/31/marriage-by-the-numbers/4534b478-402f-4de7-9226-3e70559f0e31/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/sun-myung-moon-dies-at-92-washington-times-owner-led-the-unification-church/2012/09/02/001b747a-f531-11e1-aab7-f199a16396cf_story.html

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