{"id":12864,"date":"2022-09-19T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2022-09-19T14:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:40:51","slug":"moonism-and-its-ilk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12864","title":{"rendered":"Moonism - and its Ilk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems to be an Asian thing for cult founders to consider themselves the divine Christ themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WMSCOG (World Mission Society Church of God) is very similar to Moonism - Unification Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has the \"Eastern Lightning\", etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiningthewmscog.com\/compare-and-contrast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COMPARE AND CONTRAST<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>WMSCOG<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Unification Church<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Founded in South Korea in 1964<\/td><td>Founded in South Korea in 1954<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Claims its Korean founder (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahn_Sahng-hong\">Ahn Sahng Hong<\/a>) was the messiah<\/td><td>Claims its Korean founder (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun_Myung_Moon\">Sun Myung Moon<\/a>) was the messiah<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Claims its founder\u2019s romantic interest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Mission_Society_Church_of_God\">Zahng Gil-Jah<\/a>&nbsp;is divine<\/td><td>Claims its founder\u2019s romantic interest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hak_Ja_Han\">Hak Ja Han<\/a>&nbsp;is divine<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Zhang Gil-Jah is head of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/eng.weloveu.or.kr\/intro\/welcome01.asp\">International We Love You Foundation<\/a>\u201c<\/td><td>Hak Ja Han established the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hak_Ja_Han\">Women\u2019s Federation for World Peace<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be an Asian thing for cult founders to consider themselves the divine Christ themselves. WMSCOG (World Mission Society Church of God) is very similar to Moonism - Unification Church. China has the \"Eastern Lightning\", etc. COMPARE AND &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12866,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions\/12866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}