Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Absolute Decoding

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week we return one more time to the disturbing world of Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, also known as the 'Moonies', this time with a historical decoding episode.

We are joined again this week by Elgen Strait, from Falling Out podcast, who helps us with a historical decoding of Reverend Moon's speeches and Moonie promotional material.

Due to the subject matter we cannot promise a barrel of laughs but we hope this episode offers some useful insights into the approach of a genuine cult leader. It's also a useful comparison episode to see where there are parallels with the modern secular gurus we usually examine and where they diverge.

So join us as we return to an imagined glory era of America in the 1950s (or was it 70s) when Absolute Sex & a God centred ideology was all anyone needed for a perfect society... at least according to Moon.

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0:00.0	And the Hello? Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guoos, the
0:26.7	Baudcasts for an anthropologist and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the
0:30.2	world has to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about. I'm Professor
0:33.7	of Psychology, since Chris wants me specific, and with me is Associate Professor Chris
0:39.9	Kavinar of anthropology or something like that. He's the man who puts the white into
0:45.2	whiteness my beloved co-host. Welcome Chris. I don't know which comment to take
0:50.7	issue with but I just realized it's redundant for you to mention which discipline
0:55.9	were involved with because it's in the very first sentence of the introduction. So you don't
1:01.2	need to do that, man. ever told you to do that?
1:03.0	Just ignore them. They're an idiot.
1:05.0	Exactly.
1:07.0	So yeah.
1:08.0	I knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:10.0	Yeah, who would do that? But you don't have any issue with me, you you're very very white I mean and I don't
1:15.4	mean like culturally or sociologically I just mean physically it's not your fault you
1:20.3	just are like the widest person I know yeah well it's good that you made that distinction because we all know
1:26.6	that the Irish people are the only non white white people.
1:31.3	This is true. We are oppressed, Matt. People have referred to us as the
1:35.8	benided population of Western Europe. We're the occupied six counties. So...
1:41.2	Yeah, you're not a settler colonist yeah although we are we've like a long
1:47.3	history of being involved in that so unfortunately no but those are the expatriates once they leave that Emerald Isle.
1:55.5	That's right, once you go out of Ireland, whatever you do, that's on you.
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