UNORTHODOX APPRAISAL OF "TRUE PARENTS"

Having for years studied their religious preaching and observed their unchristian behavior, I wish to share here my honest unorthodox evaluation of “True Parents”.

I joined their movement of accepted bondage because I had been seduced by the glorious but fallacious DP promises. In this Unificationist fascinating world of fantasy, I had undeniably the opportunity to serve others and feel God’s presence. I met wonderful, dedicated loving people (and others); I travelled to various countries and came to appreciate other cultures; I also met there my challenging wife whom I probably would never have met otherwise, and we raised together 4 nice children.

As I reflect today on my long experience within the Mooniverse, I do need to adjust my understanding of the weird situations I met there, under heavy psychological pressure, during such a big part of my life. I need also to adjust my emotional response toward the deceitfully idealized “True Parents” whom I had allowed to rule my life, within the peculiar and high demanding providential turmoil they had invented.

I will serenely focus with a heart of forgiveness on the essential positive aspects of that experience. It contributed to make who I am today. The UM’s example to the contrary contributes also now to the flowering of my original nature (which was in fact very seldom mentioned in the past).

So, seen from this unorthodox perspective, “True Parents” undeniably appear to me as:

• Absolutely genuine saints and perfect geniuses… in their own eyes.

• They are 100% dedicated, at whatever cost, to realize their weirdest dreams and follow their wildest inspirations which always prevail over any other objective reality.

• For them, who are infallible and above all laws (either human or Divine laws), the end justify the means, endlessly.

• They are convinced to detain the monopoly of God and of all His blessings. Therefore God has no other choice but to rely on them and on their cosmic decisions.

• Since they are the all-knowing saviors, any divergent view point or any opposition to their wildest whims are clearly satanic attacks and vicious persecutions. These confrontations comfort their status as God’s suffering champions. Sometimes, they forgive...

• Like other dictators, Sun Myung MOON had a powerful, fascinating and mysterious charisma of which Hak Ja HAN is unfortunately deprived (she only inherited her husband’s dictatorship).

• They have tendency to self-appropriate others’ accomplishments and merits (divine principle, ancestors’ deeds, positive changes in the world… and even the discovery of electrotherapy (which could have brought a Nobel Prize to SMM, would not Satan have interfered!)

• They need to control others (the whole universe and all its inhabitants) who solely exist to worship and glorify “True Parents”.

• They invented the “symbolic providence”. When their objectives end up in failures, they switch to an “as if” mode. This is how they became 100% victorious in all areas of life (religion, politics, economy, culture and sports) by using phony announcements, bribery, manipulation, lies, cheating, corruption, tax evasion…what was I talking about? Oh, yes, the True Parents’ cosmic victories…

• They have not one single real friend whom they could honestly share with, because nobody is or will ever be at their highest unreachable level. This place is definitely just for people who don’t suffer from vertigo. Actually I have no desire to live in their so special hellish “kingdom” which can only be named using untranslatable Korean words.

• They are absolutely not models to be followed nor imitated; Propaganda pictures may look very beautiful, but they hide a miserable reality.

• They only had the power I once consented to hand them over me. So today I can let go of this past. I can be free from any resentment which would hold me back and make me a victim of their megalomaniac predatory ambitions.

I came to realize that the main reason why my spiritual thirst was never quenched in the UM, is that God is much bigger that the Mooniverse and all the churches together. So, like Him, I came to feel squeezed and narrowed inside this choking and agonizing movement. That’s also why I had a narrow escape…

       Then a good friend of mine reminded me: “Life is too short to be small”.