Claim. Heaven was designed to be entered by couples leading their children, grandchildren, and kindred — not by individuals — and Christianity’s individualism is therefore a defect.
Elaboration. SMM dismisses individual salvation as un-original: “In the Unification Church, we never think that you can receive salvation as an individual. We do not go to heaven as individuals. Nobody can go alone. That’s the rule. From the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were to go to heaven together… We must go to heaven as couples, families, clans, and entire nations” (3.3.1. Families enter heaven, 50-61, 1971.10.30). “Originally, heaven was not supposed to be entered alone. If Adam and Eve had remained in the realm of God’s love without falling, do you think they would have gone to heaven? If they had, hell could not have existed. Heaven is the place to which husbands and wives go, leading their children” (ibid, 41-299, 1971.2.17). The asymmetric standard of older religions — “celibacy is purer” — inverts the original design: the family is the unit of restoration, not the individual.
See also. csg-blessing-is-gateway-to-heaven