What "can" you believe as a Unitarian Universalist?
The Transient and Permanent blog has a good discussion called The Impossibilty of Believing Whatever You Want.There's a mighty big myth about Unitarian-Universalism that has been circulating for years. It's the idea that in UUism "you can believe whatever you want." That's not how I understand it at all. Truthfully, in UUism "you have to believe what you really do believe, whether you want to or not." Followed authentically (dare I say "religiously"?), this is potentially a far harder, more spiritually refining course than creedal religion. UUism isn't for slackers. ...
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 8:07 AM
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: There's a mighty big myth about Unitarian-Universalism that has been circulating for years. It's the idea that in UUism "you can believe whatever you want." That's not how I understand it at all.
Unfortunately you and I seem to be outnumbered by a great many UUs who actually seem to belueve that they "can" in fact believe pretty much whatever they want a Unitarian Universalist. . .
: Truthfully, in UUism "you have to believe what you really do believe, whether you want to or not." Followed authentically (dare I say "religiously"?), this is potentially a far harder, more spiritually refining course than creedal religion. UUism isn't for slackers. . .
Regrettably there are in fact rather too many moral and intellectual slackers within UUism who obstinately refuse to believe certain things that they would much prefer not to believe. . .
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