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The term Moonies is a derogatory term for members of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement. Members prefer the terms Unificationist or Unification Church member. The term was coined by the New York tabloid newspapers The Daily News and The New York Post, in 1974 during the church's 'Madison Square Garden' campaign. The prevailing media-created term 'Moon-children' didn't easily fit a tabloid-size headline. Sun Myung Moon in 2005. ...
The Unification Movement is comprised of organizations and individuals associated with the church, that are dedicated to creating world peace through ideal families centered on God in accordance with the doctrines of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and is spearheaded by the Unification Church itself (renamed the Family Federation for World...
The Unification Church is a new religious movement started by Sun Myung Moon in Korea in the 1940s. ...
Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...
The Daily News is the name of several daily newspapers. ...
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Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ...
For some years Unificationists silently endured the media's use of the term. They even joked about it, referred to themselves as "proud Moonies" on buttons and mugs, and called each other "Moonies" (perhaps analogous to African-Americans adopting the word "nigger" among themselves in certain contexts). An African American (also Afro-American or Black American) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...
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In the mid-1980s, the Unificationists, following the lead of Rev. Michael Jenkins, changed their public stance, and asked major media organizations to stop referring to them as "Moonies", asserting that the term was intended as a demeaning and pejorative slur. The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ...
Michael Jenkins has been the president of the Unification Church of America since 2000. ...
In August 1994 the Unification News, the official monthly newspaper of the church, published an article saying in part:
| “ | One can only wonder how long Unificationists must bide their time before their sincere petitions regarding the offensive use of the term "Moonie" will finally be acknowledged. I consider twenty years to be enough. Any short-term anesthesia has long since worn off and it really hurts to be so persistently abused. Unification Church members have been derided as "Moonies," then mobbed and beaten. In New York City, a seven-months pregnant woman was beaten and sent to the hospital as a result of irrational hatred of "Moonies." Church missionaries have been murdered in the course of their public church duties because they were "Moonies." Members have been abducted, imprisoned, assaulted and abused. In many instances the perpetrators were not charged by the authorities or even admonished by society because their victims were only "Moonies." Hate-mongers are depicted as "experts" on this sub-species called "Moonies" and all too often they are provided free air-time to express their moonophobia with impunity." [1] | ” | A dysphemism treadmill effect has occurred, and the term is now used again, especially by the youth of the church, to refer to themselves. Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
A missionary is traditionally defined as a propagator of religion who works to convert those outside that community; someone who proselytizes. ...
In language, both dysphemism (from the Greek dys δυς= non and pheme φήμη = speech) and cacophemism (in Greek cacos κακός = bad) are rough opposites of euphemism, meaning the usage of an intentionally harsh word or expression instead of a polite one. ...
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The Unification Church is a new religious movement started by Sun Myung Moon in Korea in the 1940s. ...
The Unification Movement is comprised of organizations and individuals associated with the church, that are dedicated to creating world peace through ideal families centered on God in accordance with the doctrines of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and is spearheaded by the Unification Church itself (renamed the Family Federation for World...
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