John and Marilyn Morris -- feminist propaganda in UC

One elder bother and sister in the UC wrote against the traditional family saying it is not enough for women to care for her husband and children and let the husband be public. In the August 1994 Unification News John and Marilyn Morris wrote against patriarchy in an article titled, "Beyond Patriarchy and Feminism: 'Parentarchal' and 'Familarchal' Models of Human Relationship." This makes as much sense as saying "Beyond Abstinence and Pre-marital sex" -- "Beyond Health and Cancer." The Morrris's are intellectually bankrupt because they teach the communist/feminist ideology that denounces the traditional patriarchal family that served the families very well of the men enshrined on Mt. Rushmore.

WORDS ARE POWERFUL

This movement's newspaper goes to tens of thousands of Unificationists and non-members. Their words will last forever. What they write in their diabolical article has tremendous impact on thousands of lives. Their attack on patriarchy is an attack at the root solution to the problem of the crisis in the family the world and the UC is experiencing in the Last Days. The damage they have done is incredible. I have no words to express how sad I am that they have been an instrument for the highest realms of Satanic leadership. Their words hurt me deeply. Their words hurt God and True Parents. Their words must be confronted. The truth is that they are for the deadliest ideology mankind has ever seen -- feminism. They are deluded in thinking they have something new and higher to give than that the men must restore their position of Adam and stop being space out. Let's look at some of the ridiculous arguments the Morris's make. They wrote that it is not right for anyone to see "feminist authors as 'Cain' type and conservative Christian writers as 'Abel' type. At first glance it may appear to be a straightforward assessment. However, we ought to be wary of relegating people into 'Cain' or 'Abel' areas of thought."

Nonsense

This is pure nonsense. They fail to see that the issue is black and white. When it comes to core values, there are absolutes that cannot be turned into gray. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You can't have a little bit feminism. They mistakenly think there is some creative, third way to organize marriages that no one has ever seen before: "The Divine Principle opens up new realms of human spirituality. To derive advice for the most intimate aspects of our relationships from those who have not yet dealt with these realms may truncate our ability to enact the restoration process." This is arrogance. God has given many truths that are the wisdom of the ages, such as those found in the Bible and in the Andelin's. The Morris's sound a little like the communist propaganda that came out of the old Soviet Union and we still see in North Korea. Lenin, Stalin, Kim Il Sung, etc. are great and glorious leaders and the new communist man and woman are a brand new breed of sacrificial workers all united on the brand new -- never before seen -- vision of the new man and woman.

We are not saying that the Emperor Has No Clothes On. The emperor, Father, sometimes is missing a piece of clothing and some of his sycophant followers are practically nude, but they are not naked like Hassan who stalks the church. Hassan has thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Father makes a few philosophical and tactical errors. He made a major one on January 3, 2000 by saying there has to be balance in Congress and America needs a woman president. This kind of talk encourages the Morris's to think that women should leave home and be "public." The leadership thinks they are such deep thinkers and constantly say that we have to "sacrifice" the family for the nation. This great "sacrifice", they say, will be appreciated by everyone from God to their husband and children. The truth is that True Mother left the home and her family fell apart. Who cares if she speaks at the United Nations or at some hotel in Kansas City if it means some of her children are going to tell millions on 60 Minutes that she is a phony. Hassan has a field day with this. The UC has been a salvation army and whether it was right or not in the past we need to never act like that again.

The UC probably had 30,000 members in the 70s when Father first came, but 9 out of 10 left and now there are only a few basically burned out members left. The few hard core communist types cannot see the massive failure and still tell each other how wonderful the MFT days were. The UC has absolutely no clothes on. Father tried to tell American sisters to stop being masculine, but they just wouldn't. And brothers like John Morris have basically acted like weak Adams and went along with the socialist/feminist agenda of sisters like Marilyn Morris. Marilyn's motivation is good. But the road she has paved goes straight to hell.

Male Bashing

Like all dedicated feminists she can't help but do a little male bashing and in her article when says she has counseled poor sisters who have spiritually low husbands who could not see that their wives wanted to go out and do big things for God. There are also plenty of brothers who are dedicated and have wives who not. And why were the brothers depressed? Many men are depressed because they live in a male bashing culture. They are seen as just dumb, hairy monsters who are not as spiritual as sensitive women. Men are in a crisis in America because women like Marilyn Morris are on a campaign to devalue the division of labor God has for men and women. Many men go along with the feminists, but their conscience rebels against it. They will in one breath be all for their wives working and being with other men, and then will go out and get drunk. Then the wives will accuse them of being weak and then proceed to work overtime. It is a vicious cycle downward in this battle of the sexes.

No Third Way

The Morris's have no third or unique or special or new way. The Completion Stage is where patriarchy is fulfilled, not where it is destroyed. They are simply bashing patriarchy and the traditional family for alternative lifestyles. They write, "let's consider more closely what we mean by a model family. For ten years, John's mission took the front line for us. Marilyn's mission was, well, to have a child or two or three. Since the children were physically attached to "Omma" for quite some time after their birth, she naturally took the home front." What about having and adopting so they could have more than ten? It never occurs to members to have more than ten children.

SANITY IS LIVING BY THE RULES

What is Marilyn saying that is new here? Marilyn says she stays home with the kids while her man goes out to slay dragons. They are simply doing what a traditional family does. There is nothing new here. But then they mix feminism and put down the man as the head of the house: "Sanity in a marriage does not come from wives obeying their husbands, but from both obeying God." Wrong. Sanity comes from women obeying husbands and God. God often speaks through husbands as their leader. Chaos is living without boundaries. There are rules in every organization on earth. And God has rules for the organization of the family. The UC has not written a constitution for the family. When they do, they should study the constitutions of those religions that are growing -- such as the Mormons and Southern Baptists that are challenging feminists like the Morris's.

Anti Homemaker

They spout the usual anti-homemaker line of feminists: "A woman could spend all of her life taking care of her home and children and not much else. Big visions and small details do not belong to men and women respectively." This is the kind of intellectual bankrupt Marxist garbage that inspired Mrs. Graglia to write her book. Men and women are to both honor the "big vision" of the ideal world and the "small detail" of family, but there is a division of labor God has created for those goals to be achieved. Women teach the young about the exciting "big vision" Father has given, but they do not leave their home and speak at the United Nations or become congresswomen to teach men. They have a full-time job of doing as Brenda Hunter says to be "architects of intimacy." Women have a responsibility to be mentors to other women. They are not supposed to be at the Naval Academy and then command command pilots on board an aircraft carrier.

Small Details

As we will see shortly, Mrs. Graglia eloquently speaks about the value of "small details." Human history and literature have taught to value small details. Out of all the men in the world there is just one Messiah. He was small and insignificant and they killed him 2000 years ago. They expected a grand and glorious leader. Father had to go through three wives before a woman could see him as important. Children are small details. The UC has this insane idea that children appreciate it that their parents leave them so they can go somewhere else to tell people that the most important thing in the universe is the family because it is the school of love. 60 Minutes proved that even the Messiah can't fool Mother Nature. In English literature many consider the greatest poem ever written to be the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I used to teach it when I was a school teacher. The poem is a moving story of how a man suffers for not seeing the value of something small and many people are hurt because of it. Another story about details is Abraham who failed to cut the little birds.

Rita Kramer in her book In Defense of the Family: Raising Children in America Today says that feminists are "foolish" and anyone who follows "their directions would [have] more sexual confusion than sexual enlightenment." She ends her book telling people who are not religious they should "think twice before abandoning the idea of a form of religious training for children." Children have deep needs. She ends with a very wise statement about the Morris's "small details": "Dostoevsky may seem an odd source from whom to draw maxims about domestic life, but I have always been struck by Alyosha's words to the boys at the end of The Brothers Karamazov: "My dear children, perhaps you will understand what I am going to say to you, but you will remember it all the same, and will agree with my words someday. You must know that there is nothing more important to late life than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good memory preserved from childhood is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days; if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may be the means of saving us."

The Morris's write, "Father's instruction in this little lesson is clear. While women are the nurturing aspect of parental responsibility, they should not confine themselves to their homes and families, but reach out to their community, nation and world. Likewise, men have the same responsibility in a naturing way to take care of their family, community, nation and world." This is very vague. The result of this fuzzy thinking is women becoming cops and combat fighter pilots. The Morris' do not agree that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." Women have to leave the home. They must leave their children and go out somewhere and do something.

Leadership is vertical

They say, "Patriarchy is a vertical straight-line model while feminism might be considered as a horizontal straight-line model. Neither work very well in the long run." Wrong again. God's way is for vertical leadership. They quote Father as saying he does not want a leader-centered movement. It has been many years since he said that and there are still leaders. He meant that he does not want a bloated bureaucracy. He wants power and vertical leaders, but he wants it decentralized to families, not some headquarters in Washington D.C. This is a typical conservative statement.

They give several book they like such as The Wounded Heart of God: The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin, by Dr. Andrew Sung Park saying, "He clarifies why black, feminist and liberation theologies arose. The Christian doctrine of sin offers salvation to sinners, but leaves little or no resolution for their victims. His explanation of Han is extremely useful for Unificationists who want a deeper understanding of this term which Father has used in many speeches. Reading this book helped me to clarify 'Cain-Abel' patterns of restoration in my own life of faith even though he has not studied this aspect of the Principle." Dead wrong again. This is a diabolical socialist/feminist propaganda book. There is not one word in the book that has anything to do with God.

They praise The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey saying, "I know he has been read by many Unificationists already, but if you have not picked it up, find a friend who has a copy and borrow it. He offers some good models for building personal integrity, working with others and creating win-win situations in all areas of life. His models are fairly good stuff for married couples and parents dealing with familial relationships." What the Morris's are not aware of is that Covey has books that say patriarchy is God's way. This is why he has the power to write such a great book they like, but it is also why his church is growing and the UC is not. Like the Morris's, Covey is a leader in his church. The reason the Mormon Church is growing is because of the clearly written code of behavior and "habits" including patriarchy. The reason the UC is not growing is because of the diabolical and sick words of the Morris's polluting UC publications.

DIATRIBE OR HEARTISTIC?

Unificationists like to say that heart is more important than knowledge or intellect. Motivation is important. I have been highly critical of the leaders and thinkers in the UC for being blandished by feminism. I personally know some the people I criticize. I (and my wife) have been able to spend time with many of the top leaders and early followers of Father. After almost 30 years of being involved with this movement from its earliest days in America, I have seen a lot. I have done my homework and done my prayers in writing my books. What about my heart? Am I writing a diatribe? I do not think so. I write strongly, but I also appreciate the idealistic motivation of everyone from Father to the Morris'. I have the same motivation. I respect the efforts my brothers and sisters have made. But motivation and action is not enough. We need the truth to guide us. Being "heartistic" is great, but Satan rules and we need to be wise as well. It is the truth that sets us free, not being heartistic -- whatever that means. We need to know the laws of the universe so we don't end up doing busy work and beating our heads against a wall.

MOTIVATION

Satan has a field day with Unificationists. Evil spirit world has been able to infiltrate the UC and keep it from getting off the ground. This saddens me. My motivation is to help this movement get moving. I see my books as a tow truck pulling the car of the UC out of the mud it has been mired in for decades. It is stuck, immobilized and hurt. I hope I can bring healing with the truths I have discovered.

ARROGANCE?

Am I arrogant? Should I get off my soapbox? Am I being unprincipled? Do I have the right to be critical? I have reflected for years on these kinds of questions. World salvation is serious business. I feel that what I say is right and that my heart is right. The Left often criticizes the Right for being insensitive and harsh. Feminists can't see that their wide gate of women finding "liberation" from the confines of the home brings incredible unhappiness and suffering. UC members who think I am not too narrow and boring should realize that this is the very arguments of feminists and socialists that attack the Washington Times. They are wrong and any member who thinks I am a right-wing ultraconservative nut is wrong. I love women like Phyllis Schlafly who have fought the good fight. She is often far more clear, precise and correct in her stand on issues than the fuzzy WFWP that sometimes comes out with feminist statements. Schlafly was used by God to fight the Equal Rights Amendment. UC women should take specific stands on issues like she does and even join her on some fights she has with the feminists. I go further than Mrs. Schlafly and say that she was wrong in running for Congress and spending too much time away from her home. I understand that some champions of God have to sacrifice their family and travel, but we cannot see them as role models. I believe that one of Phyllis' sons became gay because she was gone so much.

DEFINITION OF LOVE

First Corinthians 13 says many things about having the right heart. I feel at peace that my tone is strong but caring. I pray that those I criticize will not take it personally and will have the brains and maturity to see I am right and change and not get defensive or smug in their long held beliefs. I feel that some leaders in the UC should examine their hearts because some of them are the noisy gongs we read about in First Corinthians. I have seen my share of stupidity and arrogance. In ignorance I have made mistakes, too. I am not asking for endless apologies, but for change. I do think that some apologies are necessary. Those like Nancy Hanna, Jennifer Tanabe, and others who have written that women should compete with men in the marketplace and become their subjects -- even the ultimate subject as the President -- should publish an apology in the UNews and other church publications. God only knows how much suffering they have caused by their evil words. Ultimately Father should apologize for giving the confusing message about women being both bones and flesh. Because I may revise my books and reprint them, I hope you will share your thoughts on what I write and give suggestions. My email is at my website www.DivinePrinciple.com.

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