Cult Watch!

    This is an unusual alliance for psychic investigators and students of comparative religion to ponder. Moon manages to sell his mass marriage ritual to a cult leader who's on record for slamming Asians, among others. Moon and Farrakhan have hates in common: both condemn homosexuals, and both would consign women to servility. Neither likes Jews very much.

    And both preach strange cosmologies: Farrakhan focuses on UFOs and a mad scientist named Dr. Yacub who created whites in an evil genetic experiment. Moon preaches that all languages except Korean will vanish from the earth. Moon, who teaches that he paved the way for Jesus to ascend heaven by marrying him to a Korean woman, will then have total power.

    Interested Investigators can visit the church's Web site and read of his most recent address to U.S. followers: "American women have thinner lips. Women's lips are thinner than men's lips. It is because you have to talk ten times more than the father to educate your children. Thick lipped women cannot have as many children. Having thin lips, big breasts and hips guarantees many children. Thick lips cannot speak fast and with clarity, so such women cannot deal with ten children."

    On December 27th, 2005, writing in the Chicago Tribune, Page A3, Howard Witt's article was headlined "Plot reveals racial allegations."

    The sober headline suggests a plot to blow up levees and "transform this majority-black city into a hiter, richer place."

    In a speech in Charlotte, NC on Sept. 14, 2005, Louis Farrakhan proclaimed that "very reliable sources" had told him that a crater was found under the breached levees.

    He later revealed that his reliable source was New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

    Cult leaders like Farrakhan use theories such as this to plant the seeds of paranoia in their followers. Such conspiracy theories can't be proved. They're the result of inductive, rather than deductive, reasoning (working backwards to a convenient theoretical cause of an event).