Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed by a man who allegedly held a grudge against an unspecified religious group, which has been revealed to be the “Unification Church,” a new religious movement founded by Korean messiah claimant Sun Myung Moon in 1954 that has faced many years of controversy and scrutiny due to their questionable practices.
The suspected assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, told the police that he blamed a religious group for putting his mother into bankruptcy after being pressured into donating a significant amount of funds. The fact was corroborated by Tomohiro Tanaka, who runs the Japanese branch of the church, and added that Yamagami’s mother joined in 1998, then left for some time before returning this year.
The religious group gained attention after Yamagami told investigators that he had tested his gun before the shooting, then reports from the media followed that bullet holes were found at a Unification Church building in Nara, just hundreds of yards from where Abe was shot.
According to historians who’ve studied the church, while it was established in Korea, Japan has always been the biggest donor and has provided as much as 70% of the global cult’s wealth. A former high-ranking member of the church revealed in a 1997 report that founder Sun Myung Moon brought $800 million from Japan into the United States from the mid-70s through the 80s:
“Moon sent bags of cash, big fat bags, stacks and stacks of hundreds, from Korea and Japan to Manhattan Center. Whenever we asked where the money was coming from, the answer was it just came ‘from Father’.”
Since its establishment, the Unification Church has paid extravagant sums of money to bring political leaders, celebrities, and prominent clergies of other religions as guest speakers as a means to win credibility. However, for Shinzo Abe, his connection to the organization went back to his grandfather, former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi, who was blamed for getting the religion into Japan in 1958.
Money-making practices by members of the church allegedly involve shady door-to-door sales tactics that target grieving elderly by telling them that they’ve been contacted by their loved ones who told them to send money to the Unification Church to “get into the spirit world.” The organization is said to have 3 million members worldwide.
Shooters are so stupid. Has there ever been a “good” shooter?
Like bullied kids shoot up innocent kids at school instead of shooting their bullies.
This Yamagami idiot could have directly taken out a high official of the Moonie church. Instead he took out some politician six degrees of seperation from the problem. He accomplished absolutely nothing.
What a waste.
The shooter’s as dumb as those people blaming ancestor’s crime to the current generation. Abe is a known shinto follower.
Makes me wonder if this guy actually inherited his mother’s idiocy. Mother getting scammed by cult, son wasted his chance to kill those who scammed his mother.
arguably the guy who got Archduke Franz Ferdinand…
I don’t think saying Abe is a shinto follower is enough prove to disprove that he’s not involved. Everyone can technically still be part of or support a cult whether they actually agree with the ideology or not.
Not saying he definitely is part of one, but that’s a flawed logic
yeah I agree with this, there seems to be no connection between the church and Abe, wtf.
Abe wife is the connection.
I guess most professional snipers qualify as good shooters (for some definitions of “good”).
> Shooters are so stupid. Has there ever been a “good” shooter?
Kyle Rittenhouse. He shot & killed a p♥♥o and another criminal.
Even if there was one you wouldn’t know. Can’t have those shooters portrayed in any kind of righteousness or even well deserved vindication in media or our poorly conceived society might crumble from the shaky trust of the next Joker wannabes.
He killed a shitty PM, what have you ever done with your life huh?
IF the high officials of the church are known, and that’s a huge if, I doubt they ever leave their premises heavily unguarded. Killing a politician in the streets is a lot easier than going past all the security you have to face if you want to even spit at the powerful people from these kind of cults.
You can always become the first good shooter instead of bashing bergormance of others.
“Has there ever been a “good” shooter?”
Stephen Paddock, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth and Aaron Burr.
Debt, jilted Muslim extremist, CIA asset, jilted washed-up actor turned political loon-case, and 1 ehhhhhh.
Try harder, edge-lord.
You forgot Mark David Chapman.
If that moonie guy was assassinated by a jap, we will keep hearing korean losers bring up jap racism against them. Knowing how gay most japs are, they’d accept it and pay more money to the gooks. Abe was the best target to highlight gook cults operating in Japan.
Fucking stop calling these fanatics churches.. they are cults!
Same thing.
There is little difference.
all religion is a cult
Name a single church that is not a cult then. It’s the same thing.
You’re not wrong. If a social group requires followers to believe, then it’s a cult. People just get upset because they don’t want their religions named that way.
That cult is cancer. To be true, who dfuck believe in religion in 2022 ?!?
civilization requires religion to function, without a unified moral code imparted by religion there can be no social contract and so trust and communication inevitably break down. we see that very thing happening in the world right now.
if you really believe that 2022 has anything to do with religion or the billions of people who practice it, i got bad news for you mate..
i know it’s fashionable to hate on religion these days but it’s worth mentioning the distinct difference between people who practice and mind their own..and then the extremists. there’s a distinction..all you gotta do is be willing to look.
Technically speaking these godless genetically inferior mutts do follow a religion, it’s called state
Fucking idiot, so the only reason because Abe’s grandad and not him. Rather than going after the church and their heads, he goes after a person who have no clear relation with the church. So the church still gets away with it, and his mother not actually avenged and the church still harasses other people. Win/win for the church and a big L to him and the Japanese.
This guy deserved to be publicly stoned to death, hanging is too easy for him.
The article said Japan is its biggest contributor, and seem to imply that Abe is still connected to them.
Yeah but why not target the heads of the cult responsible since he specifically blamed them for taking his mommy’s wealth, its Not like Abe personally knew them or anything, what a fucking dumbass.
To me, this is bad for Korea. According to a U.S. House Investigating subcommittee report, the Unification Church was established by director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Chong Pil as a political tool. Its members have founded, owned, and supported other related organizations, including business, educational, political, and other types of organizations. The Unification Church has been controversial, with some early critics calling it a dangerous cult.