On July 1, 1982, 2,000 couples were married in a mass wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York staged by the Unification Church, the cult founded and led by South Korean pseudo-Messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Those who are still together gathered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the event. The marriages were not exactly made in heaven, as this article by Let Us Reason Ministries points out.
Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Epiphany 3 - "Furthermore the example of love
is presented here in the love of Christ to the leper. For you see here, how
love makes a servant of Christ, so that he helps the poor man freely
without any reward, and seeks neither advantage, favor nor honor thereby,
but only the good of the poor man and the honor of God the Father."
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*As quoted in Justification and Rome, edited by the Preus Brothers but
repudiated or ignored or denied.*
*Third Sunday after Epiphany. Matthew 8:1-1...
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I wrote an article about the Moonies for my blog, which gives some of the bizarre history and doctrines of that false belief system. You might find it interesting.
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Thanks, Glenn; there's lots of good background information there.
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