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[whatisonthemoon]

Cardinal Sin, the Catholic Church, & the Unification Church: Partners in Organized Anti-Communist Violence

▲ Pictured: Cardinal Sin and Rev. Kwak

Background on Cardinal Sin

As soon as the CIA ushered the Unification Church’s forces into the Philippines in 1986, members, supporters, and leaders of the Moon networks met with both President Aquino, the newly installed president who was seen at the time as a champion of the people, and Cardinal Sin, the foremost leader of the largest religious tradition in the Philippines.

From Tyler Hendricks in the Unification News in 1996:

As President of the Unification Church of America, I greet Your Excellency as the leader of a country for which I have a great deal of affection. I spent a week in the Philippines in 1986 as a Director of the Religious Youth Service. The RYS brought young people representing many religions for a summer of interreligious education and social work. In the course of the orientation week we had two special audiences, one with President Aquino and the second with Cardinal Sin. Then the young people spent the summer doing service projects.

They built a bridge between Catholic and Muslim communities in Cavite, Dasmari, as. A second team dug sixteen wells in Aphalite, Pompanga, together with the Aphalite Christian Community. The third team built a university medical center on Iloilo, and planted 10,000 mahogany trees for financial support of the school on the nearby island of Guimenes (I hope the spelling is correct). Since then the RYS has carried on a follow-up project in Pompanga and three other projects, including one to foster religious harmony in Mindanao.

The RYS is an organization co-sponsored by the International Religious Foundation and the International Relief Friendship Foundation, both of which are United Nations NGO's, and both of which were established by Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

According to RYS leader John Gehring, "The participants, coming from such diverse traditions as Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Christianity, Unificationism, Confucianism, Taoism, and others, were warmly welcomed on their first day by Cardinal Sin, the head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, at his residence. He offered words of blessing and encouragement, stressing that RYS could help bind the religious communities of the Philippines together. Rev. Kwak addressed the Cardinal, describing the purpose and vision of RYS, and Ron Jordan, representing all the participants, thanked the Cardinal for his enthusiastic support."

Even prior to Marcos ousting through the People Power Revolution in February 1986, Cardinal Sin had made political connections to the Unification Church through the now defunct Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a Moon-linked organization. 

From Today's World, August 1985:

On May 28, 1985, the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy hosted a luncheon for Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila, Philippines. Cardinal Sin is the highest-ranking representative of the pope and the Catholic Church to the Philippines and the Filipino people. Rev. Chung Hwan Kwak, Mr. Neil Albert Salonen, and Dr. Richard Rubenstein enjoyed an extensive private meeting with His Eminence prior to his presentation at the luncheon of his paper entitled "The Changing Role of the Church in the Philippines Today." 

Cardinal Sin went into the need for the Church to support the people of the Philippines in their aspirations for self-determination, in being seen as an equal in the international community, and in being a third way between the leftist guerilla warfare of the New Peoples Army and the bureaucratic, corrupt system, insinuated to be the government under Marcos. Prior to 1985 and the ultimate ousting of Marcos, the Unification Church and its networks had a positive relationship with Marcos and his administration. As the CIA's thinking around the Marcos' rule began to change, as did the Moonies. 

Negative media and reports on Chun Doo-Hwan's violent rule in South Korea also pushed the UC to frame Marcos as the anti-communist right going too far. Some Moonies framed Marcos’ administration as the enforcement of righteousness (anti-communism) without humanity and principled love. Chun Doo-hwan was framed to be an anti-communist who ruled more democratically, was not brutal like Marcos, despite his vital role in arresting, torturing, and even massacring countless activists, students, workers, etc. The Moonies did what they could to use the Washington Times and its other media outlets and NGO connections to push these narratives.

As the People Power Revolution descended upon the Philippines, the Unification Church sought to frame the religious forces as those championing liberation, despite their decades of not just compliance with fascist power, but outright partnership and participation in Philippine fascism, feudalism, bureaucrat capitalism, and semi-colonialism.

John Gehring wrote in 2014 about the time, "While tensions rose and the fear of violence grew, the Roman Catholic Prelate, Cardinal Sin, worked hard to keep the movement and the government from openly fighting.” Though there were progressive elements in the Catholic Church who supported the ousting of Marcos, many of these figures joined the movement only after the broad and wide masses were in favor of it. 

Cardinal Sin’s legacy from this time, along with the Unification Church’s legacy, cannot be separated from his vocal support of vigilante violence.

From David Kowalewski in Cultism, Insurgency, and Vigilantism in the Philippines:

The Aquino administration encouraged the formation of "Civilian Volunteer Self Defense Organizations" of "vigilantes" as a form of "people power" to defeat the deviance. The Department of Local Government (DLG) and the military were charged with mobilizing, supporting, and controlling the groups. The program to civilianize counterinsurgency was strongly encouraged -- initiated according to some -- by the United States State Department and Central Intelligence Agency as well as private United States organizations (e.g., World Anti-Communist League) supporting the Reagan administration's "low-intensity conflict" strategy against Third World insurgencies. By the end of 1987 some 200 groups with 30,000 members had formed. 

The state was joined in its sponsorship of vigilantism by the church establishment. Cardinal Jaime Sin, head Philippine prelate, whose radio broadcasts were greatly influential in Aquino's victory over Marcos, strongly supported the new President. The Cardinal endorsed the vigilantes for their "concern with the welfare of the suffering poor". Joining the Cardinal's endorsement was the Rey. Sun Myong Moon's Unification Church. The "Moonies" were widely criticized by opposition parties, student groups, and other sectors for their intimate relations with the CIA and Reagan's counterinsurgency strategy through its political arm, CAUSA, headed by South Korean Lt. Col. Bo Hi Pak. The Unification Church endorsed vigilantism in the Philippines by means of several seminars and conferences and forged close links with vigilante leaders.

[thesunsethour]

AFFC is so funny jaime and cersei spend all of about two months together before immediately beginning scheming and plotting to get rid of the other. oh house lannister never change

cersei v AFFC

jaime vii AFFC

[death-of-cats]

Jaime III, AFFC

The Prince of Winterfell, ADWD

Jaime + Theon & the impossibility of social redemption

[francy-sketches]

[gofloresgo]

[bidonica]

Getting a bit fed up with the take “I don’t ship Jaime with Brienne because she’s too good for him”, sometimes paired with “romance would ruin Brienne’s arc” because. Have you considered that Brienne WANTS those things (Jaime and romance), craves them even

Bibliography

MARTIN, George R.R., A Feast for Crows, Bantam Spectra 2005

[myoldsox]

Sin City (2005) - IMDb

[zsvpersticion]

No voy a llorar

[biomic]

"blue beetle: no way home" is gonna go crazy

[ilynpilled]

what do u think is jaime’s biggest flaw

oh he has a bunch

Biggest one: his fear of truly confronting things. his cowardice (the brave knight is deconstructed)

Arrogance is a given. His obsession with perception and his ego. His destructive dissociative tendencies and forced detachment. His self delusion and cynicism he uses to enable acts that his conscience knows are wrong. He also often falls into the trap of cynicism when he expects quick results and does not get them. When he makes choices to become better and people keep dehumanizing him and expect the worst from him he gets super frustrated and petty (less so atp, just compare his behavior to Brienne’s reaction when he gives her Oathkeeper and she misreads his intensions vs the gate not being opened for him in ADwD) His misogynistic and classist blindspots. Him weighing his values wrong even when his conscience is screaming at him (multiple examples of this, e.g Jeyne Poole: “her eyes were sad and wary”, “then why do you sound so frightened?”: vows from so many vows speech in conflict: obey your father vs protect the innocent. He obviously chooses wrong. George was telling us the way he changed by the end of ASoS is not enough he is not where he needs to be yet) His desperate want to make his “so many vows” compromise instead of making the correct choice and drawing the hard line he already did at 17. His desire to become Goldenhand the Just (just a mess frankly, gold tends to have negative symbolism in his story, his goldenhand also is associated with violence and is his desperate attempt to recreate his old self, his phantom fingers — again, has to be addressed in a dream.) While we are here also his need for his subconscious to literally repeatedly slap sense into him (his dreams addressing things he refuses to consciously address because it would hurt to do so). His tendency to repeat his father’s dogma when he is viscerally aware that that man is the worst man oat (Lannister sibling parallels! uwu!), unwittingly contradicting it in every way, then trying again. His desire to pursue glory as well as honor (and whatever they mean in the subtext) when the symbolism is very clearly established that the two cannot be achieved simultaneously for him, he cannot ride two horses at once. It might be that both get turn down at the end in some form. The honor related to the KG, and the glory related to duty to house Lannister. I think that conflict is getting picked apart right now with the choice he makes in ADwD to abandon his position/hunting down the brotherhood any kind of glory tying to house lannister pursuit etc to follow an injured and suspicious Brienne alone (mind you he was also riding Honor in that chapter, ntm the half moon). I think both honor and glory are very abstract and are rooted in some form in his desire for love as well (honor and glory paid their parts but in the end it was for cersei is something he reflects on) but “the things we do for love” has to be something not destructive and prejudiced. He is disillusioned by both honor and glory, especially after aerys. “What is honor?” A horse. Like deep down he knows. His arc in AFfC-ADwD was about about taking apart and looking at all of these flaws imo, put him in a spot to make his choice in adwd. and all that matters are choices. He is also an asshole.

[shipping-receiving]

Rating: Mature | Word Count: 3,360 | Chapters: 1/1

Fandoms: Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire Relationship: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Allusions to Organized Crime, Moral Ambiguity

Summary:

At this point in time, what the Family is doing with this house is nothing. That must be the case, or Brienne wouldn’t be here now. She doesn’t want to think about what they did with this house before her first visit here a couple of months ago. It smelled too clean then, she remembers; looked too spotless. It’s always spotless when they come back, no matter what state they leave it in.

Jaime says someone takes care of it. He says that about a lot of things.

[sosoribro]

sin city wasnt made for you

you guys should do this too or else ur a coward /JOKING

[outlawssweetheart]

Bitches will see a character murder (often times, brutally murder) innocent people and ignore it or excuse it or even support it (fine, I do that too, they aren’t real). Meanwhile, that same character will do something else that is almost as bad, bad but not even nearly as bad as murdering innocents, or something that isn’t even bad at all, and they will FLIP THEIR SHIT! And suddenly, that character is a demon for that, but not for the homicide, and anyone who likes them is “Excusing this kind of behavior!!”

Like, honey, you just saw them mutilate an innocent bystander. 😒

Unless a character is on some fucking Freddy Kr*ger shit, I have to say the murders are at least slightly worse.

[gofloresgo]

[margooriginal]

Invasor Zim: Dib y Gaz

Jaime y sus tentaculos: Erwin y Pralene

Pumpkin Reports: Max

Kid vs Kat: Coop

Historia de aliens sin titulo (GL): Chris