God’s providential team work and Unificationist hubris

Spiritual pride can be a real stumbling block. All God's children are infinitely precious, but some of them seem to have the weird tendency to believe they are more special than others :

Unificationists mistakenly believe they detain the monopoly of God's ways ...

However through His universal Providential dynamic, God is clearly showing them that He welcomes and fully supports many non-unificationist concrete realizations and great projects which aren't linked in any way to the UM.

If in Genesis, the writers of the Old Testament obviously thought God had rejected Cain’s offering (Gen 4:5), Jesus however clearly exposed this totally wrong and self-righteous OT understanding: He shockingly explained to those who boastfully considered themselves as the "special chosen ones" that "God can make from these stones sons of Abraham"... 

I am not a theologian but one of my more recent discoveries is that God is definitely not nitpicking in term of theology but He definitely abohrs arrogance.

Besides, it seems to me that independent of the easily interchangeable “Abel” or “Cain” positions, one can’t truly advise anyone on how to succeed without having first himself/herself achieved visible substantial results that validate his/her theoretical or theological insight.

This is a sine qua non condition to both get an ounce of credibility and not get relegated to the mere secondary role of just commenting on others’ achievements. Could those who practice money laundering in tax havens possibly teach others how to be a good citizen? 

Furthermore, isn’t the “Cain” and “Abel” labeling an obsolete concept in this so-called time of proclaimed providential cosmic victory?

In fact, we might soon realize with relief and/or astonishment, that for God, Unificationism is definitely a too serious matter to be solely entrusted to Unificationists, however talented and dedicated they undeniably are.

Aren’t we then reaching the conclusion that for the betterment of humankind, Unificationism can only succeed through adopting realistic and pragmatic steps which will override its ideology?

We are now witnessing that some organizations and local level governance are obviously doing quite well all by themselves, without the UM intervention or its complex “headwing” rhetoric. It’s certainly must be both elating and comforting to associate with such people.

However, is there not here a risk for Unificationists to conveniently reassure themselves to be on the right track, by merely mixing with these efficient secular inspiring models?

Unificationists are obviously facing a disheartening lack of results after years of zealously preaching a puzzling religious recipe nobody wants to buy anymore. Mightn't this reality lead them to somehow believe they have probably been helpful or been possibly “spiritual contributors” in others' realizations just by having vividly dreamed about it?

This kind of subtle, unconfessed appropriation of others’ accomplishments might provide UM members with the astonishing feeling of legitimately deserving part of the credit for what others have already achieved. But isn’t it indeed a rather cheap way to “justify” at minimum a correlation between their particular dogmas and their high expectations for meaningful substantial results?

Isn’t this swallowing up attitude giving real ground to observers who in the past have qualified this predatory proceeding as being, from inception,  the specific UM hallmark?

The familiar intoxicating spiritual vertigo felt by those who mistakenly believe they hold the monopolistic privilege of unfolding God’s Providence might however lead them to face the greater complex reality and somehow one day wake up with a serious hangover.

Meanwhile, in dealing with their “Cain partners”, Unificationists should be very careful to genuinely turn their insolent ideological patronage into a substantial reality rather than just an ambiguous, opportunistic or bogus move. A lot of empty promises and unsubstantial lip service seem to have already abounded during past costly glamorous Unificationist-staged shows whose unspoken aim was mainly to have for a few minutes their UM leaders in the spotlight.

However, such a desperate search for recognition should not allow that once the glorious pictures have been taken and the show is over, nothing else will later happen after the victory cakes have been joyfully eaten and Unificationists have warmly congratulated one another.

This being said, I can but agree and support John Redmond’s wise and pragmatic recommendations on Applied Unificationism blog, “to use the science, economics, business, communications and politics available to us to shape the world the way we want it to be”.

At the dawn of the era of peace and reconciliation, may all infighting humans gratefully ponder the following genuine Unificationist inspired words from Abraham Lincoln, at the end of the Civil War.

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”