I always considered unveralism to be
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As someone who was raised UU, I can tell you, you're way off base. Most of them are former Christians if that tells you anything.
She is actually a nice person.
Hey hey! Some of us are libertarian pricks! Thank you very much!
And for the record there Bwent, she could be Oprah freakin' Winfrey, but that doesn't mean her post is any less fundie, and doesn't make her any more informed.
Sorry, jppt1974, but that statement is utterly incorrect. I am a Unitarian Christian, and yet I believe in God and do my best to follow Jesus's teaching. I may not buy into a lot of the religious baggage that fundies like to try and push on me, but I'm still a Christian nonetheless.
Eh, her internet persona may be "nice," but she's still wholly misinformed - and it's awfully darn arrogant to broadcast opinions on things of which you are clearly ignorant. Maybe she could try to learn something about Unitarians before she decides they believe in "wierd" (sic) stuff. That would be nice.
Brent: very nice -- but that still doesn't mean her comment is very, very uninformed.
When you complain to Christian Forums (again), you might point that out -- should you decide not to pick and choose people's comments the way you pick and choose Scripture.
Hey jppt1974: Before you start spewing blather about something you have no idea about, read up, idiot. Then feel free to present an idea that makes some sort of sense (if that's possible). And learn to spell. Geez.
UberLutheran,
Hate to be the one to tell you this but if this country was founded on any religion, like you fundies insist, it would be the Unitarian faith. Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and Madison were all Deists (the 18th century equivalent to Unitarians).
Brent:
TM,
As another person raised UU, let me enlighten the rest of the world:
Unitarians believe in the Bible, Christ, etc, but they reject the trinity (they're not TRINITarians). So they're a rather different type of Christian than what people typically think of.
Universalism is simply the idea that every one is forgiven or whatever by god and goes to heaven.
While these two religious beliefs are not incompatible (as evident by, y'know, the Unitarian Universalist Church), they aren't exclusively bound. My parents actually identified as Unitarian but not Universalist (since when they were a part of the local church, the "universalist" faction was pressing for inclusion of more non-christian traditions, which my parents disagreed with).
Also, it's worth saying that UUs, while less prone to the type of fundamentalism that we talk about here, aren't necessarily nice people. After all, they did kick my family out of the church (and not for any real reason).
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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