In the twentieth century, humankind suffered two devastating world wars and experienced confrontation and conflict for seventy years under the oppression of the atheist communist ideology and the Cold War era.
True Parents made clear that the central being in whom each religion believes is one divinity, God. By this, True Parents founded a movement for religious dialogue and alliance based on God.
Ecumenical Initiatives - True Parents LegacyHuman beings live in deep ignorance of matters regarding spiritual reality because our
connection of heart with God was severed due to the Fall of our first ancestors.True Parents LegacyAuthors
Inter-Religious Federation for World
Amid division, the time has come to enter a new era, transcending peoples and uniting societies and nations as siblings, according to the viewpoint of Heaven.
Humanity, flying on the winds of heavenly fortune, has now entered a providential time in which we are to establish a world of eternal peace in a new heaven and new earth.
The world wars were naturally very formidable, but the war within an individual is more problematic than any world war. The individual war is far more serious.
Religious ideals, together with the wisdom and values that accompany them, must permeate the education, scholarship, art, physical education, media, politics, and economics of the world and serve as their standard.
If we human beings are not able to fulfill such a purpose by our effort, then we can depend only on the eternal, true, Absolute Being beyond ourselves.
Theology, philosophy, art, and all culture revolve around this religious essence; their substantial reality in the life of all people is their material base.
Lotte Hotel, Seoul, Korea
Invitational seminar for prominent members of society
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen of Korea:
I feel deeply honored that we could convene this meeting of intellectuals today. We are meeting on the theme, “Today’s Intellectuals
The mind and body of man are in the relationship of subject and object. The most serious question for us is whether our mind and body become one, thus equipping us with a starting point.
The world has become the way it is by receiving a tradition that deviates from God as a result of the Fall. Thus, True Parents must come and establish a new ideology.