FROM MOONOLATRY TO HANOLATRY

It seems that Korean messiahs have sadly forgotten the most essential Divine requirement to worship God “in spirit and truth”.  Instead they consistently promote the idolatry of themselves whom their misled followers should unconditionally worship and serve to possibly reach God.

In subtle disguise, Unificationism solely aims at setting up such an idolatry to “save humankind”. Its countless seductive and ambiguous organizations supposedly promoting peace and religious unity might fool people for a while, but sooner or later the unconfessed central excessive hubris of its leaders can’t but surface.

So even though fascinated people might unknowingly make a few steps in guru land, they will ultimately run away. For at some point they will start to realize that each step within the Mooniverse is also a subtle regressive step toward obscurantism, infantilization and spiritual enslavement.

Until 2012 the UC highly speculative doctrine was rooted in the DP belief that Sun Myung Moon was the Lord of the Second Advent, born in 1920 and sent to play the pivotal role of the returned Jesus in the flesh. He was then supposed to be successful in his mission through educating and restoring a fallen Eve (born with original sin) with whom he would establish the first ideal human family on earth.

Unificationists were then worshipping and submitting to idealized “True Parents” and idealized “True Children” even though reality didn’t match at all their beliefs and expectations. Actually this religious schizophrenia became the 52 years period of blind Moonolatry when Sun Myung Moon was the absolute Divine leader and sole patriarchal decisional center.

However, right after Sun Myung Moon’s passing, the Unificationist core doctrine was radically changed. From then on, the meaning of the Second Coming became totally different. God’s central providence and prime concern had actually been to send Hak Ja Han as His sinless “Only Begotten Daughter” in 1943. Through this Cultural Revolution, the Divine principle official teaching and previous messianic speeches had to be “providentially edited” and “imperiously up dated”…

That new revised theology implied that Sun Myung Moon should never have married nor had any concubine, nor fathered children with other women before 1960. Clearly, God’s will was for Sun Myung Moon to remain a pure virgin for a 40 years period before luckily for him marrying Hak ja Han, his 23 years younger God appointed bride!

Accepting this essential doctrinal switch has been a huge challenge for long and differently indoctrinated first generation Unificationists. Many couldn’t deal with the idea that Sun Myung Moon could have had such a gross misunderstanding of God's providence and they drifted away. Meanwhile the long hidden cracks within the “True Family” appeared to the open and the Moon family split into rival "Unificationist" factions, while the larger group remained under Hak Ja Han’s unshared authoritarian leadership.

Without batting an eyelid, somehow distressed obedient followers had then to steadily switch from Moonolatry to Hanolatry of which the purest expression is undeniably Hak Ja Han’s 4.3m high statue in Cheong Pyeong.

The appearance of this “providential” backward Korean idolatry is ideologically taught as being the culminating point of human history and the beginning of a glorious era of peace. In spite of the fact that devastating wars are actually raging in Ukraine and in the middle-East, the Korean megalomania justifies that the costly pharaonic white marble complex of “Cheon Won Gung” should have been inaugurated in Cheong Pyeong in May 2023. (it had however to be postpone because of a sudden financial shortage from Japan where the movement is in deep trouble).

According to Hak Ja Han’s wild dream of cosmic grandeur this “Cheon Won Gung” will be “a place from where True Parents will preside over all nations and over all humankind”.

Unless, of course, the Northern lunatic Kim Jong Un - the other weird Korean trump card- sends a missile over Cheong Pyeong to preserve his own megalomaniac ambition to remain forever the one and only worthy master of the Korean peninsula…