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| Program Number | S0262 |
| Title | The Moon Movement |
| PBS Number | 628 |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Salonen, Neil Albert. - President of the Unification Church of America 2) Kaufman, Ben. - religion reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, officer of the Religion Newswriters Association and of the National Association of Writers in the Secular Media |
| Taped on | Jan 3, 1977 (New York City, NY) |
| Broadcast Date | - |
| Duration | 60 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
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| Summary | Questions had been asked about the Reverend Sun Myung Moon for a while (starting with his sexual practices, and the nature of the charge on which he was arrested in Korea in the Fifties), but it was only recently that his movement hit the front pages. Parents of some of the young people who had joined the Unification Church had made accusations of "brainwashing" and had kidnapped their children to bring them back home. Mr. Salonen is a true believer ("I found that [Moon] was not only a man who lived according to his teachings, but by following those teachings I myself experienced a kind of spiritual rebirth which I had only before read about"). Mr. Kaufman maintains that the Unification Church's official writings contain "redundant expressions of anti-Jewish feeling and anti-Christian feeling," and he is appalled by the church's doctrine against separation of church and state: "If the Reverend Mr. Moon and the Unification Church achieve their goal, this separation, possibly Satanic, will end in this country." A lively, though sometimes acrimonious, exchange. |
| Subject Heading(s) | Unification Church. Moon, Sun Myung. |
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| Transcript | Download transcript (80040_s0262_trans.pdf) |
