Peacebang: Ideals vs lived reality
I always look forward to reading postings by the Rev. Peacebang, none so much as those which, more eloquently, speak to what I strongly feel. (But I learn from those which I may not totally agree with.) This posting falls into the former category ...... Oy vey. We constantly mistake our ideals of tolerance, compassion and open-heartedness for a lived reality of tolerance and love. As of yet, they are ideals. They are principles. They are not the reality in most of our churches. One of the greatest, most destructive sins of the current UU movement is that we actually think we are living out our professed ideals, and worse yet, we think we're actually doing a better job of living out our ideals than mainstream Christians are doing at living out theirs. What a tragic misconception. We are not. What we are doing is making sure that we attract and truly include only those people whose attitudes, proclivities and preferences are exactly like ours, and then collectively congratulating ourselves at how well we're doing as a vibrant religious faith. ...
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 7:14 AM
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