StinkyMeat
Platinum Member
And don't scream "GOOGLE" everyone. I want ATOT's opinions on this question, not cold hard facts. I love biased responses.
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What's a unitarian?
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StinkyMeat
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Well....I care....I overheard someone on my florr saying that they were, and was curious as to what this meant. It's one religion I haven't had much exposure to.
brtspears2
Diamond Member
Isnt that the one chruch where you goto their website and you can become an ordained minister?
Nice thought, but you are wrong. Stinkymeat just wants to get some information on a certain religion. You come in and post worthless bandwidth wasting responses that hardly even address the question. Your post has no meaning and contributes nothing to the thread(your usual practice). Your signiture really is quite fitting.
Uh... I think you're wrong. Unitarianism is derived from Christianity and they certainly do believe in god, just not the "old man" facade that Christians typically put on it. They do not believe that Jesus Christ was god however (just a mystic with an intense connection to it) so maybe that's what you were referring to.
As for Jefferson and Adams IIRC they were deists, not unitarians.
A good summary here. Everyone should have that site bookmarked.
l2c
P.S. Though I am not unitarian, their interpretation comes very close to my own ideas on the subject.
Stinkymeat.... I pulled this up(I was curious what it was as well)
"With its historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion -- that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves. We are a "non-creedal" religion: we do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed.
Our congregations are self-governing. Authority and responsibility are vested in the membership of the congregation. Each Unitarian Universalist congregation is involved in many kinds of programs. Worship is held regularly, the insights of the past and the present are shared with those who will create the future, service to the community is undertaken, and friendships are made. A visitor to a UU congregation will very likely find events and activities such as church school, day-care centers, lectures and forums, support groups, poetry festivals, family events, adult education classes and study groups."
"With its historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion -- that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves. We are a "non-creedal" religion: we do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed.
Our congregations are self-governing. Authority and responsibility are vested in the membership of the congregation. Each Unitarian Universalist congregation is involved in many kinds of programs. Worship is held regularly, the insights of the past and the present are shared with those who will create the future, service to the community is undertaken, and friendships are made. A visitor to a UU congregation will very likely find events and activities such as church school, day-care centers, lectures and forums, support groups, poetry festivals, family events, adult education classes and study groups."
I'm more or less a Unitarian, it's more about the relationships between humans than it is a religion and pretty much people of any religion or non-religion are welcome.
Faq about Unitarians
Faq about Unitarians
Brutuskend
Lifer
They really do'nt have a set in stone Dogma like most sects. IMO there are more of a social group....
Humm... No, to the first, Yes to the second.
As the name implies UNITARIANs believe (if they choose) in a single god, vs the 3 worshiped by Christians. (Father, son, Holy spirit).
Generally the Unitiarians have a philosopy of a personal religion, that is, each individual is incouraged to develop their own set of beliefs. One that is pretty universal is that Christ was an man and not a god. The Unitarian beliefs are quite old and date back to the very roots Christianity, they became heretics when Constintine ruled against them and declared Christ a god. Prior to that they were christians, after that they became the faviorate target of the inquisitors and the various methods the church used to eliminate oppositon.
Currrently they are a very active group who are completely willing to let you believe as you wish as long as you let them have their beliefs. And as stated are the basic reason we have seperation of church and state in the US.