The Words of the Sedehi Family

Exclusive Groups Within Unificationists

Shahram Sedehi
September 11, 2012

In some conversations in Unificationist circles, we complain about the exclusivity (versus inclusivity) of certain networks or groups within our community of believers. Certain Unificationists seem to isolate themselves from other Unificationists. Now we have seen this pattern in Christianity in the form of denominationalism.

How does such fragmentation come into existence in any community? Why people in general isolate themselves from another into exclusive versus inclusive groups?

The answer lies in lack of growth in self-trust and self-identity. When one cannot feel confident in one's own identity as an individual, one has to go in "self-denial" mode (not to be confused with Father's notion of "denial of Fallen self")!

When we lose our self-identity, we have to replace it with the identity of an exclusive group or network. That's how gangs were formed.

Loyalty and identifying with the gang, took the place of individual identity and responsibility. Denial of self leads to denial of one's own conscience, which leads gangs to become criminal, even though that was not the original intention.

So as our True Father has told us repeatedly, '...if you cannot dominate yourself, you cannot dominate the world..." Therefore, before identifying with the whole (world or group), one must first identify with oneself and follow one's own conscience. 

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