It’s complicated, but if I had to boil it down to a few crystals:
Religion makes a good person good and a bad person bad.
*All people have good and bad urges, and most people find themselves wrestling with whatever they view as “bad” sometimes.
*Most people see the “bad” in everyone but ourselves and favorite people.
Believing in a literal deity isn’t necessary to believe in the overarching message, good, bad, or indifference.
I can’t go to any church within a reasonable distance because I’m not into people being unable to abide abortion or political assassination of our own corrupt leaders for any reason, but have no problem with genocide/invasion and regime change for commodities and real estate.
There are two UU churches in two different directions over an hour away. 😕
Like any place of gathering, it depends on individual congregations. Most are just very liberal liberals or social Democrats, I imagine. But I really liked the ones I’ve visited, some more, some less.
I might dare to imagine some congregants in locations farther away may be actual socialist, maybe in other nation-states, but who knows?
They’re pretty accepting of any beliefs, from atheist to neo/pagan, including Buddhist, Taoist, satanism (I doubt Laveyan; I doubt anything involving blood sacrifice, but who knows). I don’t recall ever having a Eucharist, but it’s been a couple of decades.
It’s complicated, but if I had to boil it down to a few crystals:
Religion makes a good person good and a bad person bad.
*All people have good and bad urges, and most people find themselves wrestling with whatever they view as “bad” sometimes. *Most people see the “bad” in everyone but ourselves and favorite people.
Believing in a literal deity isn’t necessary to believe in the overarching message, good, bad, or indifference.
I can’t go to any church within a reasonable distance because I’m not into people being unable to abide abortion or political assassination of our own corrupt leaders for any reason, but have no problem with genocide/invasion and regime change for commodities and real estate.
There are two UU churches in two different directions over an hour away. 😕
Pill me on the politics of Unitarian Universalism. How bad/good are they?
Like any place of gathering, it depends on individual congregations. Most are just very liberal liberals or social Democrats, I imagine. But I really liked the ones I’ve visited, some more, some less.
https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles
I might dare to imagine some congregants in locations farther away may be actual socialist, maybe in other nation-states, but who knows?
They’re pretty accepting of any beliefs, from atheist to neo/pagan, including Buddhist, Taoist, satanism (I doubt Laveyan; I doubt anything involving blood sacrifice, but who knows). I don’t recall ever having a Eucharist, but it’s been a couple of decades.