Claim. When Home Church is perfected, “religion” and even the term “Unification Church” become unnecessary — the perfected family-altar replaces the need for institutional religion as the providence’s settlement point.
Elaboration. SMM stakes a strong eschatological claim: “If Home Church is perfected, will there be the term Unification Church or not? Will there be God’s providence, or not? Maybe these terms will exist in a Home Church that is not yet perfected, somewhere far away. Yet in the Home Church I created, there is no religion and no providence of God. It is the place where the people of Heaven live” (CSG 13.2 §1, 108-334, 1980.10.19). The same point recurs as a transition between ages: “When we say Holy Spirit Association for Unification what is holy? We are referring to the original, unfallen world … Today, we cross over into a new world where there will be no Christianity. Even religion will disappear. What will they call us? They will call us Home Church. Only Home Church will remain, as a family centering on the True Parents” (ibid, 145-150, 1986.5.1). Religion in SMM’s frame is a remedial institution for the fallen age; its completion in Home Church coincides with the Completed Testament Age, in which family-as-altar replaces the church-as-institution.
See also. home-church, completed-testament-age