Still another great ad for the Unitarian Universalists. Man, these guys just get it.
Is this any way to talk about religion? Maybe you yearn for an open-minded, spiritual community where people respect each other’s beliefs and worship together as one faith. Where no one’s idea of God is better than another’s. Welcome to Unitarian Universalism.“
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Actually U*Us are pretty clueless. For starters that ad reeks of false and fraudulent advertising and outrageous hypocrisy in that plenty of U*Us, including no shortage of U*U clergy, are absolutely convinced that their beliefs about God, or lack thereof. . . are considerably better than those of other people. Fundamentalist atheist U*U ministers preach from their wayward pulpits that God is a “non-exiostent being”, that belief in God “seems primitive”, and that most religious rituals (except their own U*U rituals of course. . .) are “meaningless.” Oh so superior Humanist U*Us quite regularly make it ever so clear to God believing people that their devout belief in the non-existence of God is infinitely better than any and all belief in God. One of the two candidates for the next President of the UUA, Revc. Peter Morales, has even publicly pronounced most other religions to be “obsolete religions” in the official announcement of his candidacy. Is this any way to talk about religion? It sure is for a good number of utterly shameless U*Us, including arrogant U*U ministers. . .
If you yearn for an open-minded, spiritual community where people respect each other’s beliefs and worship together as one faith you might want to look further afield than Unitarian*Universalism because there are no shortage of stunningly small-minded, narrow-minded, close-minded, and outright suspicious-minded U*Us who quite regularly express deep disrespect and outright contempt for other people’s religious beliefs and practices.
I appreciate you taking the time to respond here.
I am not under the impression that the UUs have a corner on truth, or that their beliefs are any more accurate than my own. What I do appreciate is that their seven principles are intentionally ambiguous, rather than being definitive and exclusive.
This is a stark contrast to the churches I grew up in, who published lengthy “statements of faith” outlining all their core beliefs. Any disagreement with, or even questioning of, the core beliefs resulted in being asked to leave. What I like about the UU principles is that they claim to be open to differing beliefs.
For what it’s worth, I do not believe God is a “being”. On that issue, I agree with the UUs. I believe God transcends our ideas of “being” and as such, cannot be anthropomorphized using human characteristics.
The UUs do not have a corner on truth. Neither do you. And neither do I.
What we ALL need is an open dialog about our EXPERIENCES with — not just our concepts or beliefs about — God. And if we can share those varying experiences with one another in love, grace and humility, then we will begin to put together a more complete picture of the nature of God, and ourselves.
I welcome your continued thoughts.