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Old 09-01-2007, 12:49 PM   #7 (permalink)
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This is from their website

"Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion that encompasses many faith traditions. Unitarian Universalists include people who identify as Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans, Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, and others. As there is no official Unitarian Universalist creed, Unitarian Universalists are free to search for truth on many paths.

To quote the Rev. Marta Flanagan, "We uphold the free search for truth. We will not be bound by a statement of belief. We do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed. We say ours is a non-creedal religion. Ours is a free faith."
Although we uphold shared principles, individual Unitarian Universalists have varied beliefs about everything from scripture to rituals to God."

The New Age (for ant of a better word) actually bum me out more then a Fundamentalist. Simply because of all the faux 'but we are open minded everyones accepted' crap because everyone is (so long accepted if you believe what they believe)..at least the Fundamentalists are open about that simple thing. The concept you can take bits and pieces of religious thought and create your own and ignore anyting inconsistant with your belief isn't a new thing. In fact its the basis of all religious belief in some way or other but its the insistance of but we are open to all ideas thing in "New Age' religions that bums me out because they just flat out are not open to other ideas. They simply ignore or shrug off inconsistancies, ignore cultural significance found in religious belief..its Intellectual Imperialism IMO.

You cannot Unite without changing the meaning concepts from other religions by virture of you taking concepts from other religions and bind them together in some world view means they have changed into a version of belief that the believer follows.


All that paths rubbish just measn we are predestined along a path and are therefore the makers puppets. You know if you have to claimyourself a 'liberal religion then you got to ask are they??..Should the liberal be self evident without the need to advetise it???

And as if there is a searchable truth and they want you to search the path so you can know your own 'truth' isn't that a statement of belief??? A varied belief doesn't mean they also do not share a cingular world view. There are as many versions of 'God' as there are people who believe in 'God'...and all relgions believe this to be the case...well in particualr Catholics...its all about a personal journey and a personal reltionship with God who shows you a path to follow...just because they don't have a written Creed doesn't mean they don't have one..its on their website...

so in the end they are a New Age religion pretending like they all do to be open but in the end sound like a cult IMO

People in search of "god' should go to a park look at a tree and think that the tree is that way because thats the way it needs to be for the world to survive and then stand in awe of Nature and the Universe no need to whack God in there..its just amazing because it is