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5/24/2004
Violence
The respected tell-all In the Shadow of the Moons, written by Moon's former daughter-in-law, tells the following story. (It's also solemnly acknowledged by Moon's followers). There was a period of inquisitions under Moon characterized by severe beatings; he and Dr. Kwak allowed a confessor to tie followers to radiators and thrash them within inches of their lives. From Hong's book:
Sun Myung Moon seemed to take pleasure in the reports that filtered back to East Garden of the beatings being administered by the Black Heung Jin. He would laugh raucously if someone out of favor had been dealt an especially hard blow. No one outside the True Family was immune from the beatings. Leaders around the world tried to use their influence to be exempted from the Black Heung Jin's confessional. My own father appealed in vain to the Reverend Kwak to avoid having to attend such a session.
And yet the future UPI chairman, Dr. Rev. Kwak, showed no mercy. For the Washington Times publisher had told him that the so-called "Black Heung Jin" was one of Moon's dead sons, reincarnated in the body of an unbalanced African gentleman. Reputedly, Moon's right-hand man Bo Hi Pak suffered brain damage in the attacks.
Even Unification Church webmaster Damian Anderson writes:
I was not willing to wait until I got to the spirit world to make a judgement on this issue [Black Heung Jin -- Cleophas]. With my own eyes, I saw this man in the Washington DC church knock people's heads together, hit them viciously with a baseball bat, smack them around the head, punch them, and handcuff them with golden handcuffs. I had seen enough. Todd Lindsay was the first to leave. His wife was due to have a baby any day. My wife was six months pregnant at the time, and we were next in line for "confession" to the heavy-handed inquisitor.
See also baseball bats.
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