Claim. SMM teaches that once the Kingdom of Heaven on earth is realized through inheritance from True Parents — with no Satan to separate from and life lived under the ideal of creation — there will be no need for religion, and earthly and heavenly Kingdoms will exist together for the sake of true love.
Elaboration. In Section 7. Enjoy Eternal Glory in True Parents’ Name SMM lays out a four-step eschatological sequence: (1) an age of redistribution within an eternal heavenly nation with no Satan to separate from; (2) life according to the ideal of creation with no accusation from Satan, no struggle, no breakdown; (3) Kingdom of Heaven on earth and Kingdom of Heaven in heaven existing together for true love; (4) conclusion — eternal glory in God’s name, True Parents’ name, and the members’ names.
The striking dogmatic claim: ‘After having lived here we will go straight to the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven. There will be no need for religion… There will not even be any religion. That is it.’
This is a sharp ecclesiological position. Religion exists because of the fall — it is the providential mechanism for restoring fallen humanity to God. Once restoration is complete, religion is functionally obsolete, much as a scaffolding is removed once the building stands. UC theology therefore has a built-in self-supersession clause: the Unification Church itself, qua religious institution, is not the telos. Compare Revelation 21:22 (‘I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb’) — same logic, different mechanism.
The implication is consequential for how members should regard the institutional church: it is not eternal, it is providential. This sits awkwardly alongside maximalist claims elsewhere in CSG about the church’s permanent role, and may be one source of tension in UC’s later organizational evolution into para-church forms (UPF, FFWPU peace federations).
The triple repetition — ‘May you receive eternal glory in God’s name, in True Parents’ name, and in all of our names!’ — adds the believers’ own names to the eschatological invocation. This is the doctrine of inheritance enacted: the children’s names share in the parental glory. Worth a thread on how this maps to or differs from Christian theosis traditions.