A. Humanism cannot be the ideal.

If God likes religion, Satan dislikes it. They are opposite each other. It must be true. Don't you think so? [Yes!] In the Last Days, God's side and Satan's side will be clearly distinguished. The world will be divided into two groups: the one which opposes religion and the other which supports religion. This is a natural conclusion. In that situation, what kind of problem will be raised? The problem of truth and falsehood will be raised. That is, which is right, humanism or Godism? From this viewpoint, humanism does not lead people to God's side, but it leads to Satan's side. God's side is the world of goodness. So, this world is necessarily divided into the two worlds of good and evil. Such phenomena are certainly manifested in today's world. What period are we in now? We are facing the time when we should attack the whole world that is dominated by humanism. Can this world have a hope for the future? Materialist civilization cannot but be frustrated and will fall into desperation. In the Oriental concept, desperation means that there is no hope for the future.

Why is the history of humanity confronted by despair? It is because humans denied God and received humanism. It is because materialist civilization centered on humanism is dominating this world. Humankind descended from fallen ancestors. By adoring such fallen humanism, this world cannot have hope. Then, what should we do in this fallen world? As fallen descendants, we have to adore what is not fallen. How can one adore what is not fallen? One has to return to God through religion. Therefore, the nation which adores God, the thought which adores Heaven, and the world which adores God can never perish. That must be so. It is because Satan's world and God's world are completely opposite. If one follows Satan, one must fail. On the other hand, if one follows God, one must get success. In these days, everything related to God and religion is denied because of humanism, and religious foundations are collapsing. If man lives centered on humanism, man cannot have hope for the future. Today's phenomena reveal such a negative conclusion. Accordingly, we have to analyze the traditional concept of God and the past religions, and then we have to establish a new concept of God and a new view of religion centered on God. By doing so, we have to overcome humanism. Otherwise, humankind cannot have hope. This is a final conclusion. Do you understand? [Yes]

If such a movement is not expanded rapidly to the whole of the world, there is no way to save humankind which lies in despair. (83-128)

Humanism cannot be the ideal thought of humankind. Humanism centered on fallen humans is not an ideal thought. Humanism tries to absorb everything centering on humans. However, when we look at the human himself carefully, everyone is selfish and self-centered. (64-322)

B. The historical development of Humanism.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, humanism centered on human experience began to develop. At the end of the 16th century, humanism arrived at the extreme stage of denying the existence of God. (42-313)

Humanism has developed from the Renaissance up to the present, and through that process, human history has fallen down. It is the history of expelling God. (30-301)

The Vatican threatened people with its authority in the name of God. In the name of God, they said, "If you do not do this, you will go to Hell." This is a kind of threat. However, when rational people think of this teaching rationally, they come to recognize that it must be wrong. From this point, people come to a point of disbelief, asking, "Is religion necessary for humans?" Because of such blind teaching of religion, humanism came to emerge and the history of materialism was expanded to all over the world. Moreover, the atheistic insistence that God does not exist became widespread. (165-64)

Owing to the appearance of humanism, theistic thought was damaged. However, because humanism does not fit the universal law, the destruction of humanism will necessarily come. ( 93-83)

Seen in context of the history of the trend of thought, theistic thought turned over its influential power to materialism, and humanism turned over its influential power to materialism, the thought which makes the world destroyed. [Laughing.] Disco dancing was derived from that thought, which destroys the world. Thus, human thought has changed throughout human history. (May 1, 1980)

Humankind came to depart from God and took a long journey of thought. Humankind went through materialism based on atheism, and went through secular humanism based on the thought of anti-God philosophers, and eventually fell into hedonism. Accordingly, humankind arrived at the final point of hope, facing the end of human history. Those thoughts came to be the fundamental cause of the drain of spirituality of today's generation and the decline of faith. That history is giving a great stimulation to religious people. (Nov. 12, 1985)

In the development of the history of humankind, vague theological thought influenced the world for a while. When that declined, humanism emerged. Although today's world is still under the influence of humanism, humanism cannot be the thought which would bring a hope to humankind. Today, Communism, which betrayed humanism, has emerged and has influence all over the world. These phenomena are showing the gloomy prospects for humans' future. (77-282)

This world where we are living is the confused world. Throughout history, human society has passed through vague theistic thought and various other thoughts, and now we are standing in the uncertain time of humanism. Moreover, today's society is under the influence of materialism. In such an uncertain historical situation, because humanism and materialism do not present certain contents in the process of history, humankind today is confronted by the time of post-ideology. Humankind comes to think that the current thought can no longer manage this world. Therefore, what presents a problem to us is neither human nor material. The problem is that a certain view of God does not emerge. If a certain view of God is established at this present time, through the new view of God, a new outlook on life and new view of history can be established. Without doing that, humankind cannot have hope for the future. If we know God certainly, every problem such as the vague view of God in the Medieval Age, humanism, and materialism, will be solved. (77-257)

C. The Origin of Humanity must be Understood

How do we describe this world? Existentially, humans are still struggling between mind and body. So, the world can be said to be the place where 3.6 billion people are struggling between mind and body. Because of this, there is always conflict and fighting in this world. Isn't that right? In other words, the form and results of this world were caused by the struggle between mind and body. This struggle between mind and body made humankind pay a great price of sacrifice throughout history. That history of struggle is the very history of the world and the reality of this world. The worldwide struggle cannot be solved just by a sovereign nation. What should be done to solve that problem? First of all, unity between mind and body has to be accomplished, and on the worldwide level the world representing mind has win over the world representing body. In order to do so, true motivation and true result have be raised. If such contents are presented, because people can be united centering on that motivation and result, all problems of the world will be resolved. Then, who can make the worldwide fighting stop? That fighting cannot be stopped by any thought or theory of today. It cannot be stopped by humanism centered on humans. Why is that so? Did the human mind begin from itself? If one's mind had been derived from oneself through self-motivation, fighting between mind and body could be stopped, so that the world would be unified into one centering on humanism.

At the beginning of this world, were human's progenitors born through self-motivation and self-will? Human beings are a relative existence. No matter how much one strongly insists that the human is subjective, the human is an absolutely relative existence. However, since humanism insists on human subjectivity, humanism cannot but generate negative results. Therefore, you should deny what you like. You have to deny totally what the advanced countries are advocating. Such a negative stand against humanism has to occur. As an example of the negative phenomena caused by humanism, hippies are now causing social problems in America. That is the historical gift. That is a punishment for the evil that violates moral laws. In these days, with the negative results of humanism manifesting themselves, what shall we do? Humanism cannot manage the negative results of the history of the world. Materialism also cannot do that. The human mind cannot be a fundamental motivating force of human existence. Matter also cannot be that. Therefore, the origin of humankind must be correctly identified. However, the thought in the 13th century Renaissance had a great influence on the current of thought of that time, and resulted depriving humanity of God's name in human history. Eventually, the thought of the Renaissance was developed to the conclusion that God is dead. Then, are human beings alive?

Before God could be dead, humanity would die first. However, people, like groups of corpses, are making a disturbance that God is dead. Such a society cannot have hope for the future. Humanism, materialism, and Communism cannot make a foundation for human happiness. No matter how the human reached his ideal and fulfilled his responsibility in his social life, those things would by necessity pass away. Your achievement in this fallen world has to be denied totally. Why is that so? Because the body has to be always denied before the mind, all works which are achieved centered on one's body, have to be denied. Today's Communist countries are denying God and human consciousness as well as human personality. Communism tries to push people into its theoretical realm, which is centered on materialism. Humanism as a subject was originally created to manage logic or theory, not to be bound by any logic or theory. Theory cannot dominate the world of love. What is the love of father? What is the love of mother? Can those questions be explained by theory? If the ideal love can be absorbed into theory, such love is not needed by humans. Actually, such theory cannot be made. (22-224)

D. Every Thought Centered on God

Why do problems such as post-ideology and the destruction of the view of value occur? They developed through trying to manage every problem centering on humans. Therefore, in pursuing the new world of future, there must be a method which can manage such problems. The method would be able to explain clearly if God is there or not, and if absolute God exists or not. In other words, if some thought and theory, which are explained from God's viewpoint, not from the human viewpoint, are not found, the world we desire can never come in the future.

From the certain view of God, the problem of life and matter has to be solved. Those problems would not be solved separately, but from a synthetic viewpoint. The problem of materialism and humanism has to be solved in God's nation with God as the absolute center. Otherwise, it cannot be resolved absolutely. That is a natural conclusion. (78-99)

Today, both left wing and right wing are established centered on human will. "If I only can live a happy life, everything will be fine:" This selfish thinking was also established centered on humanism. Such thinking is false humanism. Do you think that the appearance of humanism is not the result of the human Fall? Although humanism centered on God can be permitted, the humanism which denies God, is evidently the fruit of the fall. Therefore, in order to overcome such false humanism, the present humanism has first to be denied totally, and then Godism has to be established anew. Based on that Godism, humanism has to be pursued again. In this sense, the starting point of thought and life has to be God. If a human does not live a life centering on God, there can be no way for that human to return to God. (59-89)

Communism cannot explain neither resultant things nor causal things. Democracy also cannot exactly explain about cause and effect. Then, who can explain that? What should emerge here is a religion. Some religion must emerge and teach with certainty, "You were begun from this motivating force and are going forward in that resultant world." Moreover, that teaching has to be established as the standard which most people can accept. That standard must be centered on God, not humanism. (10-159)

Now, we have arrived at the stage that we would consider the world which has synthesized all thoughts and theories. That is, if there is a certain and true God, there will be Godism which goes beyond every ideology and thought, and there will be humanism which true God can authorize, and there will be materialism which true God can admit, and there will be the unified one world in which all those cannot be separated absolutely and can be authorized by God. (77-282)

God's purpose of creation is to establish a humanism based on God. If humanity goes towards God, democracy, which was created in the process to go to God, also can be regarded as the process of establishing Godism. (10-118)

Advanced nations, which developed the world culture of the 20th Century, are saying proudly that they do not need to receive another philosophy or thought. If so, they cannot have the opportunity to be revolutionized by God's truth. Communism is also not a thought about which God can feel joy. (20-107)

Materialism must fail. Then, does democracy have a historical and victorious condition? It does not. Without some victorious condition, there cannot be a victory in the future. Then, what would religion, which does not have such a victorious condition, have to do? Every Christian in the world has to be united into one. Now what goes forward into the future of hope has to emerge. Although some religions insist on going back to the past, today's situation is not the same as the situation of the past. Could today's problem be managed by the contents of the past? We should not go back to the past. Only when we achieve historical and actual results can we establish a foundation for the future. Therefore, the thought, which can synthesize the past, present, and future, has to emerge. (11-253)

Communism is the thought centered on the human and matter. However, humanity will be changed and matter also will be changed. Communism was made centering on the changeable human and matter. Human opinion is changeable. Don't you think so? However, what God insists on will never be changed. Then, what is the goodness and righteousness on which God insists? It is to live for the sake of heaven and earth. This has never changed. (87-261)

We created the CAUSA movement to resolve the problem created by secular humanism. (May 6, 1986)

E. The Inadequacy of Medieval Theism

The reason why materialism cannot manage the human problem is that it excludes God and the value of humans. Materialism denies the value of the human. Therefore, materialists can massacre people mercilessly. That is the very problem.

How about humanism representing the democratic world? Humanists not only exclude God, but also take seriously the view of materialism. That is a pernicious evil. In this sense, they have nothing to do with God. They are rather close to Communists. Then, between the materialist and humanist, who is stronger? Materialists can be stronger than humanists. That is why humanists are likely to be subjugated by materialists. Materialists not only deny human personality, but also forget God. In the world of materialism, there cannot be an ideal.

Accordingly, True Father advocates Godism. Godism can fundamentally include humanism and materialism. Why? It is because God values human personality as the object of love. Moreover, because God created humans as the subject of the symbolic world centered on matter, God sees human value even in the world related to matter. Thus, Godism itself has a foundation to contain humanism and materialism. Godism is very inclusive, and contains various meanings.

Thus, Godism or Unificationism seems to be very good. On the other hand, even though there was thought centered on God in the Medieval Age, the thought could not establish the unified ideal world centering on God, humanity, and matter, because it was a vague and imperfect thought. In order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, one has to certainly know a God of personality, and has to know the value of objective humanity before God, and has to know certainly the value of matter which is an object of humanity. God, man, and matter have to be combined by subjective content. What is the subjective content? That is love. God, man, and all things are combined through love. That united world is the very ideal world.

However, in the Medieval Age, such unified world could not be established by medieval thought centered on God. God, who was supposed to practice love, could not be found. Although people had thought of God and talked about God, nobody practiced God's Will. Because that thought was abstract and uncertain, it came to be changed into an autocratic thought; since it could not give certain answers to people at that time, it came to ask for blind faith.

Accordingly, as medieval Christian thought came to be far from the essence of God, and as people developed a secularized Christianity, it came to deny human personality, and became exclusive: it regarded its own standard as absolute and denied relative value of others. Accordingly, that thought centered on God could not but be destroyed by another thought. Even though the medieval thought was centered on God, it did not know with certainty about the God of personality. It had such a deficiency. (167-66)

F. The Necessity of Rediscovering God

What is Communism? It is based on materialism as well as atheism. Then, what kind of thought does Christianity and Western society have? They have theism and idealism. Which will get a victory between materialism and idealism and between atheism and theism? What is the problem here? The way which Christianity can revive again is through the rediscovery of God. Because Communism denies God, if the existence of God is proved with certainty, Communism cannot but collapse.

God started with humans at the beginning of human history, has been working with humans throughout history, and is still working with humans at this present time. However, the most important thing is knowing how to rediscover God who is in the process of history and in the midst of human life. To rediscover God is the very key in establishing the ideal world. First of all, people have to know clearly what kind of transient period they are living in now. When people come to know clearly about the coming age, Communism will also be able to receive God because the coming age will be the world of love as the certain view of God is established. Then, do you think God is with American Christians? If God is with them, that God would be the one who is working not for the salvation at the individual level, but for the salvation at the worldwide level. In other words, the new view of God would be that God is working for the sake of the salvation of the world.

Why have Christianity and other religions separated from one another? It is because Christianity and other religions do not have a goal. On the other hand, Communism has a clear goal which is the destruction of capitalism. If God is working through Christianity providentially, Christianity should have a providential goal. That goal should be much better than that of the Communists. Because Christianity has no clear goal, Christians do not go in any definite direction, and lie in an uncertain and vague situation for the future. When Christians were confronted by strong persecution or difficulties, their direction often changed easily. Then, what kind of faith do Christians have? They believe that at the time of the Lord of the Second Advent, the world will be destroyed. This is a big and horrible cancer in Christianity.

While Communists try to dominate the world because of their belief, Christians try to escape from the world and are arguing that their own denomination is the best. The goals of their denominations are vague. If we describe the situation of Christianity, it is like fingers that do not move together, but move separately and individually. In the Last Days, if God does not judge the world as Christians expect, what will happen? How would God manage the difficult situation which will be raised if the world is not judged by fire, but remains as it is? Therefore, the age of Christian culture, which does not fit God's providence, cannot but pass away. In this sense, we have to prepare how to manage the phenomena which will be raised by the Christian view of the end of the world. (June 1, 1983)