its comprehensive belief system and the absence of meaningful alterna- tives. "To argue that the Moonist solution is inane, preposterous, or unrealistic is hardly a substitute for our not having any specific vision of the future," says Sandon.
The Moonies have rejected contemporary permissiveness for a rigor- ous morality, a spirituality characterized a "robust prayer life and a liturgical orderliness seldom found in conventional American religious life," and a communal lifestyle...