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There's been no shortage of blogging on the Bizarro World in which elected representatives literally crowned a media baron and cult leader the King of Peace.

• Metafilter: Congratulations to the new American Messiah!
• Crooked Timber: WTF?
• Mark Perkel Rantz: Syung Mung Moon Crowned King in US Senate Building
• Jon Sullivan: Sun Myung Moon Crowned Messiah By Congressmen
• WorkingForChange: The Rev. Moon's last stand?

and of course Jon Gorenfeld's blog is ground zero:

• Where in Washington, DC is Sun Myung Moon?

In case you're just joining us, this is all in reference to an event in the United States Senate Office Building in which a man, addressing a credulous audience that included Illinois 4th district Representative Danny Davis, actually said this:

The time has come for you as well to open your hearts and receive the secrets that Heaven is disclosing in this age through me. In one sense, I am a human being living with a physical body like each of you. But in the context of Heaven's providence, I am God's ambassador, sent to earth with His full authority. I am sent to accomplish His command to save the world's six billion people, restoring them to Heaven with the original goodness in which they were created.

The five great saints and many other leaders in the spirit world, including even Communist leaders such as Marx and Lenin, who committed all manner of barbarity and murders on earth, and dictators such as Hitler and Stalin, have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons. Emperors, kings and presidents who enjoyed opulence and power on earth, and even journalists who had worldwide fame, have now placed themselves at the forefront of the column of the true love revolution. Together they have sent to earth a resolution expressing their determination in the light of my teaching of the true family ideal. They have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent. This resolution has been announced on every corner of the globe.