The Reverend Moon was the Second Coming. With his wife, the Reverend Moon would sire the first sinless True Family of God. His children, the True Children, would build on that flawless foundation. Members of the Unification Church would be grafted onto the True Family's pure-blood lineage in wedding ceremonies arranged and blessed by the Reverend Moon, the mass nature of which has attracted so much attention around the world. Those beliefs, isolated from the theology in which they are embedded and the culture from which they sprang, admittedly sound bizarre.
All belief is a matter of faith.
If mine was different, it was perhaps so only in its intensity. But all faith is tested by experience. It is a myth that can be sustained only from a distance. Accepting the Reverend Moon for the fraud I now know him to be was a slow and painful process. It was only possible because that realization, in the end, did not shake my faith in God.