Coercion Is More Than a Gun to the Head

In 1974, I sat with my fellow Moonies at a rented NYC theatre, watching The Exorcist movie. Afterward, we all went to Tarrytown, where Sun Myung Moon, the man I was programmed to believe was the “Messiah” told us, “God made this movie. This movie is a prophecy of what will happen if you leave the Unification Church!” It was that evening that I experienc…