By Linda Feher

I have friend in the church who told me that one year they kept track of each and every request for money that the church required of each and every one of it's famiies. This person told me that at the end of the year they added up all the required monetary fees they (and all UC families) had received. They told me that the total of a years worth of money demands made by the UC equaled more then they made in a year. That person was working at the Washington Times. They weren’t just some negative member.

I myself remember laughing with all the women in attendance at East Garden one morning when SMM asked us who we loved more, him or our own husbands. We all laughed and screamed “YOU FATHER!” Then he told us it was our job to bring our husbands money to him. He said we women were responsible to bring back to him “the True Adam" God’s money. He said we were like heavenly thieves for God because we had our hands firmly on our husbands wallets and that as Eve it was our responsibility to bring what belonged to God back to God….meaning HIMSELF.

The problem is that these kinds of things were said on a regular basis. But the sec gens know practically nothing about this stuff because those things were said mostly in the presence of the first gens, like your parents. Or perhaps you do know something about it just because it effected your own lives in a very real concrete way. For example. A dear UC friend of mine once told me that her young daughter was really angry about the ancestors liberation fees. She and her daughter were having an argument about money and the church when her daughter yelled at her, "I need new shoes because mine are falling apart but instead you and daddy give our money to the church to save dead people we don’t even know!” I wonder how many sec gens felt this way growing up? I wonder how many of you sec gens had to do without basic necessities because the of churches (on the orders of SMM) relentless demands for more and more and more money from your parents?

Not for nothing but isn’t it more of an Arch Angel type personality to want all the women to love you more then they love their own husbands and isn’t it more Arch Angelic to demand that the women who love you more then they love their own husbands bring their husbands money to you? Really, there’s so much history you sec gens are unaware of? You really only know what your parents, who believe in Moon, want you to know. They will never tell you the really ugly stuff about the UC or Moon or his kids because it would not help you to develop the same level of love and faith that they have. I write so that you have a fuller account of the history of SMM the UC and the Moon kids.

If you are a happy Moonie I am not writing to you. I am writing to those who are struggling and are looking for reasons why they might be so unhappy as first or sec gens of the UC.

And to the person who responded to what I said about leaving our families to make the Moon’s our true family….be careful. Perhaps you had a different experience because you were a sec gen or because for some reason your family was given special privileges. But the truth of the matter is that we first gens were not treated as you and your family were. We were taught that our families were on Satans side. We were taught to stay away from them so that satan couldn’t use them to get us to leave our True Parents. We fund raised on every single Christian holiday. We were not allowed to spend Christian holidays with our family because they were on Satans side. Instead we were told that we should use those holidays, Christmas, Easter, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, actually, all American holidays, including Thanksgiving, Mother’s day, Father’s day etc etc etc to fund raise and bring money from the fallen world back to our True Parents. Think about how family oriented that is….it’s actually anti family isn’t it? The only family that has any value in the UC is the Moon family. So think, pray and learn the real truth about what they mean when they preach the value of the family.