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Interview with Elgen Strait on the Unification Church and the assassination of Shinzo Abe

Decoding the Gurus

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Is There a Pattern for Donations in Japan?

A lot of this revolves around money and getting donations or front organ, and also potential involvement in businesses. Elgin: The church has this idea that effectively certain people sort of bear the sins of their ancestors  in moon's worldview the Japanese need to pay more for their sins as a result they are more is demanded from them financially. I think ultimately Moon was just an opportunist at the end of the day there was no real consistency with whoever he thought could further his aims but you can't go directly contradictory towards those ideas.

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