- I agree with that one.


- I would have to say that has a lot to do with the developing of Universalists and Unitarians (separately) as bastard children of Christianity before they united as the UUA. From my understanding, Unitarians believed in Christianity minus the Trinity, and Universalists believed in universal salvation by Christ. Of course, over the years, things happened, changes were made, and they're not an official "religion." But I think it's the nature of people to hang on to certain ideas even when they put their concepts, beliefs, and life through the eyes of scrutiny and hard questioning. Likewise, when developing a new idea in the midst of old ones, there still remains hints of the old flavor in tradition, focus, practice, whatever. Ergo, you get things like the Bible that still hangs on to the Torah/Old Testament, certain flavors of Buddhism that puts ideas of Buddhas or Bodhisattvas in the form of gods and demigods, and stuff like that.


Anyhow, that's just the way I look at it. The UUA has congregations that still do congregational things in a society that would expect that kind of thing from a group meeting in a building on a Sunday morning that meet to share religious, non-religious, philosophical, and otherwise ontological ideas. I'm not necessarily for or against it, but I would think it freakin' awesome if there were groups of people that met weekly in a building that don't go by any traditions or conform to any names or words of official description that would have regular open discussions on such topics. Maybe I ought to start by building my own "Thinkers' Hall" - or something like that - open to the public and established as a 501.c3 NPO. ("Thinker's Hall" pending copyleft, DigitalShaman, 2007, )

Someone, yell at me if you don't like or agree with what I have said,
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