USA should have done this to Scientology after they infiltrated the CIA or whatever it was.
At some point you have to be able to do so, despite religious protections. Otherwise “we are a religion” is a “get out of jail” card.
It was various offices but mainly the IRS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries.
imo if the religion itself violates the separation of church and state by meddling in affairs of the state, then in the name of separation of church and state they MUST react somehow, separation doesn’t just go one way. This especially counts the evangelicals who dabble in politics.
Lol they don’t dabble. They cleverly wield the corrupt political game to ensure they profit off the poor idiots who are members of the “church” and that money flows through politics, stopping in pocket after pocket until it finally reaches the bank, tax free.
Really? You want to hand Christians that kind of power?
Who said anything about christians???
Who do you think runs the US?
Rich people.
Rich that use Christianity as a cover.
Religion is a useful tool for mass manipulation.
It can also be a useful tool for self-development.
I can’t believe that a gunman shot a former Prime Minister in the middle of the street and when people read his manifesto the they went “Yeah, that’s fair” and started fixing things. It’s insane how shitty you must be for people to side with your murderer.
Reverend Moon’s church funded literal Nazi death squads in South America after WW2. So yeah, they’re pretty bad.
Assassinating Abe wasn’t right, but when I heard the killer’s side of the story I honestly felt a bit sorry for him. Glad to hear something is being done about the Moonies.
Helped that he didn’t blow up a building with innocent people in it.
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I wonder how that would affect the The Washington Times since it is owned by Moon.
I thought they sold it?
“The Washington Times was founded on May 17, 1982, by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon and owned until 2010 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate founded by Moon. It is currently owned by Operations Holdings, which is a part of the Unification Church movement.”
Lol nothing like shell companies to distance a corrupt entity. “It’s not corrupt shitty church. It’s Operations Holdings, Inc. That doesn’t sound bad, right? Right?”
Ok, fair enough.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The church, whose members are known colloquially as Moonies, could be subject to a court order to disband as early as next month, pending the completion of an inquiry into the group’s controversial fundraising activities, according to the Kyodo news agency, which cited an unnamed government source.
The government has been investigating the church – formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification – over its fundraising activities, while battling a scandal over the group’s ties to Japanese politicians, particularly members of the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP).
In the months after Abe’s death, the media uncovered evidence that LDP politicians – and a much smaller number of opposition MPs – had ties to the group, from giving speeches at church-sponsored events to enlisting followers to work on election campaigns.
The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, whose trial on murder and other charges is not expected to start until next year, has reportedly told police he targeted the politician, whom he shot at close range with a homemade weapon at an election rally, because of his family’s ties to the Moonies.
Testimony by former members, court rulings in civil lawsuits and church documents showed the group demanded huge financial donations through “spiritual sales” – in which followers are pressured into buying items, such as vases, at exorbitant prices.
Japan has around 180,000 registered religious organisations, but only two have received dissolution orders: the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult, whose members carried out a deadly sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, and the Myokakuji temple group, whose leaders were accused of defrauding followers.
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More Goonies less Moonies
HEY YOU GUUUUUUUYS!
I’ve listened to multiple podcasts that detail how this is a cult. Dunno why we can’t stomp out cults in the states. Helping people would help.
Like … in acid?
Nah, despite what TV has said, bases are much better at dissolving bodies than acid.
But All your base are belong to us!
Better use a strong base.
The base support must be strong
I had no idea that that they were the Moonies.
took long enough
