I have been a member since early 1972, in an early mission field, in Europe and in the US. This is the way I see it. I think the problem is that members of my rank were not allowed, or not allowed the space to, accumulate anything of a private nature, for a very very long and crucial time period of their lives.

I joined with a sincere will to serve. I now think that my good will was certainly taken advantage of by leaders who had not sacrificed themselves to the bone as was required from me, but allowed themselves and were allowed to accumulate Private property. This has been the tendency starting all the way at the Top. Somewhere along the timeline of his moving life story as the Messiah, who wipes away God's tears in the shoes of the Servant, Rev. Moon had found, or acquired, a penny. And this penny was at a certain point invested in a venture that blossomed in the long run into a Private fortune.

It is not only that God was smiling at His humble son, allowing him to prosper, it is also that the son was shrewd and had put at least one penny into a venture of a Private nature. It is my observation that UC leaders, specifically those of non western extraction, had done the same thing, thus generally insuring a lined nest for their offspring. But the money that was raised by myself and those around me over a period of many years, was accounted for to the penny, and very, very strictly, none of it was allowed to go into a less than a Public cause. Not only that, my husband, who had brought a viable business into the UC, was not allowed to keep even one fragment of a personal share in it. Thus we were not allowed, for a very long and crucial period of our lives, to have anything of a Private nature.

While, I remember well, in Korea for the Blessing in 1975, encountering for the first time and with some amazement, Korean members of the UC who were, for example, selling souvenir pins around the stadium, as their own private family business venture, the money acquired used for their own Personal lives. Some Korean members had grocery shops or other small businesses around the area where we stayed. They seemed to me like normal people you could find anywhere, doing for their family's needs. It is my experience that no private property or business was allowed during those years in the West, specifically not in Europe.

The point?

Since the UC had seemed, at the time of my joining, to be attempting at not only eradicating Original sin and all Sin, but also establishing One Family under a loving God, centered around a True family, the fact that some were allowed the opportunity to invest at least something in their own families, this effort being recognized as a valid effort in line with the general cause and direction, while others were deprived of the same opportunity, created in the long run stress and discomfort that brought a serious disintegration in the fabric of the supposed One Family. Those of you who read this are but a meager minority of loyal members, who, presently either with or without personal fortune are still willing to see the UC as a viable and unique tool in the hands of the loving God. But the amount of good hearted and good willed members and families who were hurt and deceived by discrepancies and injustices, secrets and lies, is very great indeed. The existence of these people may prove in the long run to be the main obstacle to the formation of a big and happy One family, even if Satan himself had bowed down his head in defeat.

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