Claim. Because all religions, cultures, and peoples originate from one causal being, an absolute standard for value judgment can be established in God’s absolute love (manifested as the three object-partners’ loves) and God’s absolute truth (the law that all beings exist for the sake of others).
Elaboration. Lee argues that human values cannot be unified on the basis of relative standards (which apply only within a single religion or culture), because conflicts between value systems would never end (Absolute Standard). True peace requires an absolute standard that applies across religion, culture, thought, and nationality.
The argument’s premise: there is one causal being behind all religions — variously named Jehovah (Judaism), Allah (Islam), Brahman (Hinduism), Tathatā (Buddhism), Heaven (Confucianism), God (Christianity). The reason none of the historic religions have clearly grasped this being is that each grasps only certain aspects, leaving the causal being “as if hidden by a veil.” A correct UT-style understanding of God’s attributes, purpose of creation, and Logos clarifies that all peoples are brothers and sisters from one God — and reveals the commonalities that can serve as the absolute standard.
Those commonalities are two: (1) God’s love — expressed variously as agape (Christianity), mercy (Buddhism), jen (Confucianism), compassion (Islam), and manifested concretely among humans as the three object-partners’ loves: parents’ love, conjugal love, children’s love (or four if children’s love is split into love-for-parents and sibling love). (2) God’s truth — the fundamental law of the universe, that all beings exist not for themselves but for the sake of others, the whole, and God. From this Lee derives the universal good/evil criterion: whether one lives for others or for oneself.
This is one of UT’s most ambitious moves and where evangelical Christian critics push back hardest — they read it as theological reductionism that flattens genuine differences between, say, Trinitarian agape and Buddhist sunyata-rooted compassion. The Buddhist objection would be that Tathatā is precisely not a personal causal being. Worth a thread once a counter-atomic exists. The structural payoff for UT is that it grounds true-parents universalism: if every religion’s love-teaching is a refracted glimpse of one God’s love, then the True Parents who fully manifest that love stand at the convergence point of all traditions.
See also. absolute-value-preserves-individuality, love-is-the-source-of-truth-goodness-beauty, modern-axiology-failed-greek-and-christian-decline