Errors in the Ways of the UUA
One must wonder about the efficacy of the UUA decision to invite more mainstream religion into the Unitarian church. At a time when non-believers are just beginning to carry the … Continue reading
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A Unitarian Crossroad
In the late 1970s, the American automotive industry was ill-prepared when the overthrow of the Shah of Iran resulted in gas prices doubling almost overnight. Many people today mistakenly believe … Continue reading
Unitarian Skeptics Feel Marginalized
Around 100,000 agnostic / atheist / skeptic / freethinker / godless Americans belong to the Unitarian Universalist Church, according to member surveys. In one poll, almost one-third of UUs called … Continue reading
Is UU Humanist Becoming an Oxymoron?
Matt Groening is the creator of “The Simpsons”. He is a Humanist who has been in and out of Unitarian Universalism.
I remember one of the earlier episodes in which rowdy pre-teen Bar4t Simpson is over at the home of the Flanders, Springfield’s resident Christian Fundamentalist family. Continue reading
Is UU at Cross Purposes?
UU social and political values are humanist values for improving people’s quality of life and standard of living. There is an observable, inverse correlation between UU humanist values and UU … Continue reading
Essential Humanism
It is confounding and frustrating when humanism gets labeled as a religion because doing so serves no good and constructive purpose. It only confuses. It has no intellectual basis. Those … Continue reading
The Unitarian Quandary
The largest identifiable body of agnostics in America is within the Unitarian Universalist Church, a traditional stronghold of freethinking. A 1987 survey found that only 3 percent of UUs believed … Continue reading