Claim. Godism is another name for the Way of True Love — giving and giving and forgetting that one has given, for the sake of others rather than oneself.
Elaboration. “What is Godism? Another term for it is the Way of True Love. What is the Way of True Love all about? It is about giving and giving, and forgetting that you have given” (3.2. The way of the parent is the way of true love, 201-54, 1990.2.28). Godism is positioned against humanism and individualism: “Godism is not about living for the sake of oneself. It teaches giving for the sake of others. In short, it is a path whereby one puts others before oneself … In the communist world, the more one gives, the more one loses … In God’s world, on the other hand, this is not the case” (209-292, 1990.11.30). The cosmic scope is named: “It is an ideology centered on the cosmos” (112-211, 1981.4.12). The implication: Godism is not an abstract theism but a relational law of give-and-forget that supplies the completed-testament-age with its operative ethics — sustainable altruism rather than transactional reciprocity.