Claim. The world’s twenty million annual starvation deaths persist because no one has taught poor villages to fish — a teachable basic skill — and SMM frames Unification missionary work as a fishing-and-hunting education program more than a doctrinal mission.
Elaboration. SMM makes the diagnosis blunt: “The people of Africa and those of Third World countries that suffer from starvation are dying because they do not know how to fish. If the mother can fish, then they will not starve to death. There are rivers and lakes everywhere. There is an unlimited number of fish” (1.3. The future leisure industry that will be spotlighted is fishing, 262-100, 1994.7.23). The remedy is artisanal: “There is no need to buy the fishing lines either … by hooking bait and using your hand as the fishing rod, you can catch any amount that you want” (263-45, 1994.8.16). And the missionary form is hands-on: “The members of the Unification Church should know how to do three things: how to farm, how to hunt, and how to fish. Therefore, even if you go alone to a village in Africa, it should only take you a week to establish the basis for you to live by feeding the village people” (262-256, 1994.8.1). Witness through livelihood.
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