Quotations on government
edit"Human history is the history of the providence of restoration. Its goal is the realization of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth when, at the end of history, the tree of life which was lost in the Garden of Eden will be regained."
- Christology, Unification Church Divine Principle
"How can democracy accomplish its purpose? With the flow of history, humankind's spirituality has become enlightened due to the merit of the age in the providence of restoration. People's original minds respond to the providence and seek religion, often without their knowing why. Eventually, people will come to receive Christianity, which God is raising to be the highest religion. In this way, the world today is converging to form a single civilization based on Christian ideals. As history nears its consummation, the will of the people inclines toward Christian values. Democratic governments which abide by the will of the people also gradually become more Christian. Thus, when the Messiah returns to societies under the rule of democratic governments well-matured by the Christian spirit, he will be able to establish God's sovereignty upon the earth with the wholehearted support of the people. This will be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We need to understand that democracy was born to undermine satanic monopolies of power for the purpose of God's final providence to restore, by the will of the people, a heavenly sovereignty under the leadership of the returning Christ."
- Principle of Restoration, Unification Church Divine Principle
"For any being to exist, energy is required, and energy can be produced only through give and take action. However, nothing can reciprocate without a partner. To generate the forces necessary for existence, a being must contain dual characteristics, a subject partner and an object partner, which can engage in give and take action."
- Principle of Creation, Unification Church Divine Principle (see Conservation of energy)
The value of the discipline of a spiritual path (and many followers see Unification Church life as very positive and valuable [1]) does not necessarily lie in empirical and historical facts and a religion does not need to be believed literally in order to be valuable and taken seriously[2]. However, Unificationists tend to think of their doctrines (mythology) as being new, unique, exclusive, scientific, absolute, and literally true rather than pre-existing, metaphorical, allegorical, symbolic and open to interpretation and comparative analysis (see fundamentalism.)
"We live in the physical world, but we know that this is not the only world that exists. There is also the spirit world. The spirit world is a definite reality." - Rev. Sun Myung Moon [3]
The conclusion of the Divine Principle titled "The Second Advent" is an attempt to persuade the reader that the "Second Coming of Christ", as foretold in the New Testament Bible, will be an actual event in the country of Korea and is used by Rev. Moon and his followers to justify his authority as the "Christ of the Second Advent" and rightful spiritual and political monarch, "True Love King", of a literal and external, rather than just a metaphorical or internal, "Kingdom of Heaven on Earth." The Unification Church utopian vision of a world theocracy, with Rev. and Mrs. Moon and their many children, as the monarchy, runs contrary to Western world values of freedom, democracy, the separation of church and state and religious pluralism. ("...theocracy is commonly used to describe a form of government in which a religion or faith plays the dominant role. Properly speaking, it refers to a form of government in which the organs of the religious sphere replace or dominate the organs of the political sphere." -- Wikipedia) Unificationists generally believe that all other religions will recognize the superiority of Unificationism and accept Rev. Moon as their rightful leader. (see "Cloud of Witnesses")
"The universe, as we have seen, is patterned after the structure of a perfect human being. By the same token, the ideal world to be built by fully mature people is also to resemble the structure and functions of a perfect individual.10(cf. Creation 1.1; 1.2; 3.2) By analogy with the human body, whose organs function in accordance with the subtle commands of the brain, all the institutions of the ideal global society are to abide by the desires of God. Just as the commands of the brain are transmitted to every part of the body through the peripheral nervous system branching out from the spinal cord, in the ideal world God's guidance is conveyed to the entire society through Christ, who corresponds to the spinal cord, and God-loving leaders, who correspond to the peripheral nervous system. The peripheral nervous system branching out from the spinal cord corresponds to a nation's political parties. Thus, in the ideal world, people of God led by Christ will form organizations analogous to today's political parties...
Therefore, Christ at the Second Advent will remedy the illness of the present political system that it may reflect God's design by restoring people's vertical relationship with God. This will unleash society's true potential."
- Divine Principle, Unification Church
"If we are to realize the ideal world of one global family which can honor Christ at the Second Advent as our True Parent, surely our languages must be unified. As expressed in the account of the building of the Tower of Babel, chaos was brought to our languages when we exalted the will of Satan. The principle of restoration through indemnity requires that we participate in the construction of God's tower and the glorification of God's Will as the way to unify all languages. Based upon which language will all languages be unified? The answer to this question is obvious. Children should learn the language of their parents. If Christ does indeed return to the land of Korea, then he will certainly use the Korean language, which will then become the mother tongue for all humanity."
- Divine Principle, Unification Church
"What, then, is fascism? Fascism denies the fundamental values of modern democracy, including respect for the individual and his basic rights, freedoms of speech, the press and association, and the parliamentary system. Race or nationality is the ultimate value, to be upheld by a strong nation-state. Individuals and institutions exist only for the benefit of the state. Under fascism, individuals cannot claim freedom as their inviolable right; they are to sacrifice their freedom in their duty to serve the state. The guiding political principle of fascism holds that all power and authority should be entrusted in one supreme leader rather than distributed among people. The personal will of the leader dictates the governing ideology for the entire nation. Mussolini in Italy, Hitler in Germany, and the leaders of Japan's militaristic government were dictators of the fascist type."
- Divine Principle, Unification Church