Paul Wilczynski's Observations

Peacebang: UUs are as fallen as anyone else

Peacebang comments on Unitarian Universalists' need for tolerance and acceptance, especially since we hold our self to such a high standard in those areas:

... We're just as fallen as any religious movement. We billed ourselves as the saviors, the reformers, the ones who would purify the church, and we failed. We just don't see it, because the ways we have tunnel vision are so in sync with so much of liberal, secular culture, we have no idea how deeply and regularly we violate our first principle. Watch the faces close at coffee hour when the hapless newcomer talks with warm enthusiasm about the War On Terror and you'll know what I mean. Hear the young mother get berated for bringing in bags of Wal-Mart goods to the Christmas cookie decorating party, and watch her quietly go away. Likewise the woman who asks the pastor to start a healing prayer group and is told "We don't do that sort of thing here," or the man who merely questions the placement of the rainbow flag on the front of the building. Watch them all quietly go away, or maybe not so quietly. They know first-hand that we're not really committed to tolerance and acceptance, but that we just think it's really cool to publicly question and dissect commonly held, traditional Christian beliefs. ...

Since we're probably not gonna lower our standards, we need to reflect on our need to raise our actions up to those standards.

posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 1:50 PM