Claim. Members must follow True Parents even if it costs them their friends, their teachers, and their natural parents — because True Parents are ‘more precious’ than all of these, and the path leads to a ‘new historic beginning of heaven and earth.’
Elaboration. Section 6 includes a stark loyalty hierarchy: ‘You must follow True Parents even if you may have to abandon your friends or your teachers. You must walk this path even if your friends say, Alas, that’s it between you and me or even if your teacher says, I am no longer your teacher because you go to the Unification Church. Furthermore, you must go this path even if your mother and father disown you’ (Section 6. The True Parents are What do the Unification Church members call me? They call me the True Parent. The words “True Parent” are fearsome words. It is also a great thing).
The rhetorical pattern mirrors Jesus’s hard sayings in Luke 14:26 and Matthew 10:37 — the disciple must love Christ more than father, mother, brother, sister. SMM’s version applies the same logic to himself: True Parents constitute the new center around which all other loyalties must reorder. This is presented as the precondition for participating in ‘a new historic beginning of heaven and earth.’
The section also addresses the social reality this caused. Earlier in Section 2: ‘There is a great commotion as your natural parents try to kidnap you from Rev. Moon… Whereas your parents are stirring up trouble and screaming, Rev. Moon is Satan, a heretic! True Parents are unperturbed.’ Section 3 references ‘incidents where parents kidnap their children who are trying to be true sons and daughters’ — a direct allusion to the well-documented deprogramming controversies of the 1970s-80s.
This claim is doctrinally consistent with the Section 2 framing of natural parents as fallen-lineage transmitters — if natural parents bind one to the satanic world, then choosing True Parents over them is not betrayal but rescue. But it is also among the most socially costly claims in UC theology, and one of the chief flashpoints in ex-member testimony and evangelical critique. Critics typically engage on the cost-to-family-relationships question. Worth a thread once a counter atomic on the deprogramming era is in the vault.