Sean Moon's "Rod Of Iron" cult is reminiscent of 1830s-40s Mormonism -- except the AR-15s of course.

https://youtu.be/XEA0Re7f7YQ?si=9TVk6TXAeo2mZ6Dj

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rod-of-iron-ministry-jan-6-sean-moon-moonie-1398447/

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/national/company-associated-with-rod-of-iron-ministries-purchased-grainger-county-land-in-early-august/51-a4d10cc8-49b4-4370-9102-d1caa1d0fd1c

A property company associated with a controversial group that involves rifles in their spiritual life has purchased land in Grainger County.

The company, CIG Properties Inc., shares the same address as the Rod of Iron Ministries. The group regularly involves guns in their religious ceremonies. Its official name is World Peace and Unification Sanctuary and centers much of its spiritual tenants around a supposed coming apocalypse.

Much of the group's religious message is also based on the biblical Book of Revelations, specifically chapter 19, verse 15.

"Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God," the verse says in the New King James Bible.

The group also claims that no sovereign nation truly exists in the world, until the 'Kingdom of God' arrives at the end of time, as shown in the group's constitution. The group calls this kingdom, 'Cheon Il Guk.'

The pastor of the group, Rev. Hyung Jin Sean Moon, is also the youngest son of Sun Myung Moon. The elder Moon founded the Unification Church and claimed to be a messiah. However, there was a falling out among his family after he died as his sons disputed who should inherit the church's mantle.

Hyung Jin Sean Moon claims that he is "The Crowned Successor and Representative Bod of the Cosmic True Parents of Heaven and Earth and the full Inheritor of the Kingship of God," in the group's constitution.

In the constitution, the group also claims all people are sovereign and later calls for the overthrow of all "artificial structures of power, representation Satan." It also identifies members of the Rod of Iron Ministries as the "United States of Cheon Il Guk."


Church Of The AR-15 (VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArfGyo6HQ_E



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Wonderful. There's another group of armed religious nutters. Tennessee can have them.

It does sound very much like what JS and then BY were saying from at least the Nauvoo period onward.

Sigh... I live in Tennessee. We have enough crazy religious people here who love their guns.

Yeah, you get more than your fair share, Eric.

Not enough people bought their flowers?

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> In the constitution, the group also claims all
> people are sovereign and later calls for the
> overthrow of all "artificial structures of power,

Clearly they believe Satan is a social construct too. Down with those power structures!

As for people being sovereign, at leaat they ģot that right.