I used to think Unitarians became “post-Christian” because they found Christian theology simplistic. After the discussion at PeaceBang’s blog, I’m beginning to wonder if the answer is simpler: when Unitarians tried to study the Bible without preconceptions, did they notice that Jesus says scathing things about the rich and decide the most comfortable way to [...]
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Posted in seeker, tagged unitarian universalism on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, it’s not. But it should be. From The Dawn of Freedom of Religion in the West:
Today is the anniversary of King John Sigismund’s Edict of Torda in 1579. It established the right of ministers to preach the gospel as they best understood it, and, as well, for congregants to reserve their own opinions in [...]
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I don’t know if I have a religion, other than Thomas Paine’s, “My religion is to do good.” I don’t know if I’m still a Unitarian Universalist, because you are not what you do not do, and I am not an active member of a UU Church now—though I might well be one again, and [...]
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I just read REDISCOVERING OUR INNER UNIVERSALIST, a nice little history of Universalism for Unitarian Universalists. It’s inspired me to say that if I ever said (as I think I did) that UUs should identify themselves as Unitarians for practical reasons, I’m now switching sides.
Here’s why: If you tell people you’re a universalist, a quick [...]
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I continue to think we should define ourselves as a moral rather than a spiritual community: We gather to do good and to celebrate good deeds.
There’s a nice piece by Doug Rogers of the Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation that’s posted here. It expresses many of my concerns about Unitarian Universalists. It boils down to: [...]
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