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Old 09-01-2007, 10:09 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Gadgetory View Post
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.

Well that certainly is an interesting reply; or at least one staunch with bias that I can smell through the monitor! I'd say it may even be so to the point of prejudice.

Are you saying all the people who attend, or have ever attended a UU congregation are New-Age-specific Intellectual Imperialists? It sure sounds like it when you, what, say it directly in the first paragraph? Not only that, but you defend "Fundamentalists" as being open-minded, while categorize the supposed open-minded ones as the definition of being fundamentalist.

I mean, I don't categorize myself as a Unitarian Universalist, and have only attended a UU congregation three times. But the feeling I got out of the mere diversity of beliefs there is that most all the attendants were at least somewhat open-minded. There were people who subscribed to beliefs ranging anywhere from Buddhist, Atheist, and undecided Agnostic, to Protestant Christian, and even Wiccan.

Maybe you had a bad experience at a UU event, but that's no reason to categorize all under one umbrella. I would suggest before posting that you use some critical thinking. And for the love of whatever deity or lack thereof you so believe in, use a spell checker!
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