Claim. It is the natural path — and the Unification Church’s mainstream thought — to sacrifice the small for the larger: family for nation, nation for world, world for God.
Elaboration. “It is only normal to sacrifice the small for the large. It is only wise for people to use what they have for a purpose that has greater value” (5.1. The world where God’s will is fulfilled, 35-278, 1970.10.25). SMM extends the principle through the full restoration ladder: “We should be ready to leave our parents, if need be, to love our nation. Furthermore, we should be prepared to forsake our nation to love the world. Moreover, we should be willing to renounce the world in order to love God. Seeking the path of love that sacrifices what is small and near to us for what is large and far away is the mainstream thought of the Unification Church” (100-79, 1978.10.8). The eschatological ideology must be one “that advocates saving the world, even if it means sacrificing one’s own nation” (51-44, 1971.11.4). The implication: SMM’s ethics is hierarchical-sacrificial in scale — the smaller social unit is morally subordinated to the larger, and ultimately all are subordinated to God. This is the inverse logic of nationalism and tribalism.