Showing posts with label Moonies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moonies. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

Have you ever heard of Reverend Moon or the Moonies?  Here is my experience of almost being recruited by them:


A few years ago I was wandering around Penn's campus, when a nice looking pair of college age students approached me.  One male and one female.  As someone who had just finished AmeriCorps, I was still interested in doing volunteer work.  The pair wanted to talk to me about "CARP," a collegiate group who did charity and volunteer work.  Bored and wanting to find new volunteer work, I agreed to go with them into one of Penn's buildings to listen and hear more.  There were a few more people in the room, and a man began to explain what CARP is.  He went on to talk about Reverend Moon.  I suddenly became a little frightened and said I wasn't interested.  I asked, "Reverend Moon, like the Moonies?!"  He politely confirmed and said that they prefer the term "Unificationists."  

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