Cheon Il Guk Constitution (https://www.unification.net/cig/Cheon_Il_Guk_Constitution.pdf)
First scrolling through this, it was the section of the forfeiture of the rights of citizens that stood out for me.
QuoteArticle 20: Rights
1. Citizens of Cheon Il Guk are equal before the law, and there shall be no discrimination on account of gender, age, social status, property ownership, or race.
2. Citizens of Cheon Il Guk have the right to hold elections and to be elected under the terms prescribed by law.
3. Citizens of Cheon Il Guk have the right to submit petitions to any agency related with Cheon Il Guk under the conditions prescribed by law.
4. Citizens of Cheon Il Guk have the right to court hearings in accordance with the law, under judges qualified under the Constitution and the law.
5. Citizens of Cheon Il Guk have the right to education for perfecting the Three Great Blessings.
6. Citizens of Cheon Il Guk have the right to become public officials.
7. Citizens of Cheon Il Guk have the right to become Hoondok Home Church Leaders and Tribal Messiahs.
8. The basic freedom and rights of citizens of Cheon I1 Guk are not to be neglected simply on
the grounds that they are not enumerated in the Constitution.
9. In cases where it is required, the rights of Cheon Il Guk citizens may be constrained by law for the sake of the firm establishment and completion of Cheon Il Guk.
And this part:
QuoteArticle 23: Forfeiture and Recovery of Rights
1. Some or all of the rights of a Cheon Il Guk citizen shall be forfeited in the event that he or she is found to have committed any of the following:
(1) An act disavowing God and True Parents.
(2) An act disavowing the identity and ideology of Cheon Il Guk.
(3) An act disavowing the Cheon Il Guk Constitution.
(4) An act that hinders the substantial establishment and completion of Cheon Il Guk.
2. Matters related to the forfeiture and recovery of a Cheon Il Guk citizen's rights shall be prescribed by law.
Part of the CESNUR conference I attended included an afternoon at the the home of Han Hak-ja/Moonie HQ. We didn't meet her, but we were treated to a dance performance of her body guards that was quite funny in a good sense. And then we had a chance to ask the senior members there some questions. So I asked them about the above sections of the constitution something like: What happens to citizens who lose their rights, especially if the kingdom is the whole world. As you know many people have left your church, including some of Mrs Moon's children. What then is the place in a world ruled by Mrs. Moon for such people?
I imagined it would be something like the role of Winston Smith in George Orwell's 1984. The answer I received was one of "Well, we need to think through that some more". I couldn't disagree!
Why then have such an impossible and unobtainable goal? Well, simply put: cult's need their members to have a sense of purpose and a goal to strive for. All the better of that goal is forever unobtainable. The point isn't to accomplish such a goal, it is to keep people working towards it, people who are instilled with the idea they are serving God's will and those opposed to them are under the influence of Satan.
Related: Sean Moon, the youngest surviving son of the Moon's has his own constitution (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j2hm5SmXrR8HKXTQg_Yy653onhSOcx-J/view) for his splinter group describing the concept of Cheon Il Guk. Sean's version is described in two in-depth articles about the Moons and Sean's splinter group from The Washington Post and Rolling Stone Magazine.
May 21, 2018: Locked and Loaded for The Lord (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/05/21/feature/two-sons-of-rev-moon-have-split-from-his-church-and-their-followers-are-armed/) (The Washington Post)
QuoteMeanwhile, their mother, Hak Ja Han, claims the Rev. Moon, her husband of 52 years, passed the baton to her. The church they were fighting over has roots in both Korea and America. The Rev. Moon — born in 1920 in what is now North Korea but was then part of Japan — said Jesus appeared to him when he was 15 and asked him to take on the "special mission" of completing God's Kingdom on earth, Cheon Il Guk in his native Korean. ...
Sean Moon's Constitution of the United States of Cheon Il Guk is a powerful document. It throws the country in reverse and then steps on the gas. Consider just these few provisions: The House of Representatives will elect the president. The king will pick Supreme Court justices. Congress cannot levy income taxes or property taxes; nor can it fund health care, education, Social Security or Medicare. The constitution specifically states there will be no Central Bank, Environmental Protection Agency or national police force.
Aug. 18, 2022: Inside the Bizarre & Dangerous Rod of Iron Ministries (https://web.archive.org/web/20220821071417/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rod-of-iron-ministry-jan-6-sean-moon-moonie-1398447/) Rolling Stone Magazine/Internet Archive)
QuotePreaching a last-days theology, Moon prophesies that a heavenly kingdom will soon be established on Earth — and that his heavily armed followers will help rule this land. "The citizens of the Kingdom of God, who will share in Christ's sovereignty, bear the responsibility to defend their family, neighbors, and nation with their own rod of iron," Moon writes in his book, Rod of Iron Kingdom.
Moon casts himself (and his progeny) as the monarchs of this future divine realm, which he calls the United States of Cheon Il Guk, shorthanded as CIG. He has even written its constitution, describing CIG as "a sovereign and actual nation [that] does not yet exist in this world, but is the long awaited culmination of the End of Time." The CIG constitution vaguely resembles the American one, but prominently bans abortion and gay marriage, and installs Moon as king.
By definition, establishing the United States of Cheon Il Guk will require an overthrow of the current United States of America. Moon denies that force will be required, rather that "people through self-determination and being led by the Spirit of God will organically institute that in their countries."
Related:
July 31, 2001: What is Cheon Il Guk? (Sun-myung Moon)
QuoteAs we read the "Way of Unification" we should create our own historical thesis based on Father's fundamental teaching. The books used for the 50 day training are the fundamental books that are the core of Father's teaching ...
Way of Unification is our Hoon Dok for this morning. You must follow and understand the spirit world.
Now there is new terminology introduced -- ChunJoo Pumo (Parents of heaven: God), ChunJi Pumo (Parents of heaven and earth: True Parents.) This way we can usher in the Kingdom of Heaven. Family pledge number 8 teaches us Absolute Faith, Absolute Love, Absolute Obedience. On top of this goes God's absolute mind which is perfectly united as one mind and body through TP. Then the 8 stages can expand from there. God's side is totally harmonious.
Sept. 3, 2012: Unification Church Founder Moon Sun-myung Dies at 92 (https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2012/09/03/FQGUQFK3LOVKCOKZWSJTZJTHZE/)(The Chosun Daily)
QuoteProfessor Tark Ji-il, who teaches religion at Busan Presbyterian University, contends that in the Unification Church's theology the ultimate goal was to establish a heavenly kingdom on the Korean Peninsula with Moon as king. Tark said this did not deviate since the church was established and its vast business activities were focused on this goal.
The Cheon Il Guk is sung at 37:05...
Jan. 20, 2013: The Joint Sunday Service for Members of the Family Federation for World Peace & Unification (https://vimeo.com/57834029)(Vimeo)
And from the previously mentioned conference I attended and presented at:
July, 2016: CESNUR 2016 Conference in Korea: An Overview (https://www.cesnur.org/2016/daejin_overview.htm) (Massimo Introvigne)
QuoteAnd we had a meal and a musical introduction to Unificationist hymnology in the famous Church-operated Heaven G. Burger (G. standing not for "God" but for "Guk" in "Cheon Il Guk", the forthcoming new civilisation announced by Reverend Moon).
Sept. 22, 2025: Han Hak-ja: Who The UC Leader Is & Why She Might Soon be Jailed (https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1220070.html) (Hankyoreh)
QuoteHan has preached an ideology that collapses the separation of church and state, arguing that followers must build a "nation of cosmic peace and unity" (known in the church as "Cheon Il Guk") where the will of the true parents is realized.
I'm not the only person to notice that there is no clear vision for this UC controlled country/world. I looked up the member who told a victim to stop talking to the media in the following article:
Oct. 19: UC Tries But Fails to Silence Farmer in Kochi (https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14746513) (Asahi Shimbun)
QuoteA farmer in Kochi Prefecture who blames the Unification Church for the breakup of his family said a church leader made an unwelcomed visit to tell him to stop talking to the media. Tatsuo Hashida, 64, said the senior official, Hideyuki Teshigawara, would not leave the home even after a phone call to the police was made. "I don't want you to be on the mass media anymore," Hashida quoted Teshigawara as telling him.
Hideyuki Teshigawara wrote the following piece about the country the UC hopes to control one day:
Dec. 30, 2013: The Economic System in Cheon Il Guk (https://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks4/Teshigawara/Teshigawara-131230.pdf) (Hideyuki Teshigawara/True Parents)
QuoteAs far as I know, there is no one who can explain the concrete system of Cheon Il Guk. But then is it possible to realize something without any clear vision and goal? Even if we have a clear vision and goal, it may be difficult to realize Cheon Il Guk. Obviously, Cheon Il Guk is not the nation that can automatically be built by God's miraculous power. ...
Jesus said, "You cannot serve both God and money" (Luke 16:13). In my view, there will be no monetary system in Cheon Il Guk. In the present economic system, money is the main medium of exchange. It is used as "something in return," a kind of reward in the transaction. Here is a major contradiction between money and Rev. Moon's thought of giving and forgetting what one has given. For example, Rev. Moon said, "In the heavenly world of the future, the time for living off a monthly salary will pass away," and also stated, "There is no concept of equalization in the world of money.... People do not want to share these things, so they will never stand equal and there will be no peace."
Related:Circa 1975: A World Without Money: Communism (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-friends-of-4-million-young-workers-a-world-without-money-communism) (The Anarchist Library)