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cbayer

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Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:25 PM Apr 2013

A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION TO LIBERAL RELIGION

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2013/04/a-very-short-introduction-to-liberal-religion.html



Unitarian Universalism in a Thousand Words

James Ishmael Ford

Back in the mid nineteen seventies, after I left the Zen monastery that had been my home for several years, I stumbled upon an early nineteenth century pamphlet titled “Unitarian Christianity.” After reading it I immediately looked for where the local Unitarian church was, now called, I saw Unitarian Universalism. I fell asleep during the service. But, later, at the coffee hour I met with people who intrigued me, fascinated me, and eventually opened a new spiritual way for me.

Over the years that have followed I’ve reflected on this tradition, a lot, where it comes from, what it is, and where it is heading.

Personally, at the beginning, I blame the Enlightenment.

In the eighteenth century when Europeans and North Americans noticed they could take the same skills that were revealing the secrets of the natural world to the workings of the mind and heart and even to their religions, something wondrous birthed into the world. It would variously be called rational religion and liberal religion.

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A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION TO LIBERAL RELIGION (Original Post) cbayer Apr 2013 OP
Great post goldent Apr 2013 #1
I think the UU's are ripe to attract the rising group of "nones" in the US. cbayer Apr 2013 #2
Good read. pinto Apr 2013 #3

cbayer

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2. I think the UU's are ripe to attract the rising group of "nones" in the US.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 01:14 PM
Apr 2013

Their focus on social justice and equal rights over dogma or creed is very attractive to a lot of people.

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