Unification Church & Scientology

Unification Church (UC) & Scientology

The careful examination of UC and Scientology provides me with the impression that religious issues are behind the real nature of their organizations. In terms of the Unification Church, the schism between the two brothers was a foreseeable end.  It is evident that the unity of the UC was wholly maintained by the founder. The death of Sun Myung Moon, resulted in the inevitable divisions of Unification Church Empire since he was the sole unifier. Similarly, the defectors from the Scientology seem to have decided when they acknowledged something intolerable in the second generation of leadership. Both of these situations reminded me of the story-shaped metaphor that once the king of jungle, a lion, becomes weak, other hunters such as a wolf, a hyena and a wild cat start fighting in order each to acquire the hegemony. This type of power struggle is something that can be easily observed during certain chaotic moment in transitional phase of leadership in either political and business organizations or circles. The problem is that these two groups are religious organizations in which differentiated agendas are being pursued. Where does the religious issue stand among the schisms of brothers and persistent surveillance of former followers of the inner circle? In this context, the religion works as the advocate of fallen human to establish and solidify human empire. I think that there is no any sector where the religious issues can stand. Simply put, both the UC and Scientology are religious organizations but there internal power struggle seems to reveal that there is no real distinction that clearly differentiates it from a political or business organization. In other words, these two religious groups are nothing but either political or business organizations; what the religious organizations of both are doing and experiencing is same as other secular organizations. Religious agendas serve fallen nature of human beings. In particular, spying on people in the Scientology documentary reminded me of certain terror attack which happened in South Korea so that the expert of cults may be killed. Sometimes, atheist people have more morality and ethical standard than other religious people who are pious but have zero tolerance for opposing arguments or views. In this context, the religion seems to be such a good excuse through which the greed and fallen nature of humans are skilfully hidden.