Why I Am Unitarian Universalist (Part 1)

Youth and young adults from the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore explain why they are Unitarian Universalists and what they believe. First of Two Parts. www.firstunitarian.net

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[indravideos]

Acceptance is all I get out of this. I am still looking for something that'll really draw me in. I am still not convinced on why I should go there.

[rudywaltz]

@indravideos As with any church, you would have to go to one and try it out a couple times to really get a sense if you belong there.

[rudywaltz]

And every church is a little different, especially where UUs are concerned.

[noca72]

I don't think there's anything wrong with learning about other religions or other people's beliefs and reevaluating your own. I do think there's something wrong with gallivanting around claiming they are all true. If my truth says yours is a lie, is it still true? What foundation can a religion have when it's based solely on inclusion and blatant contradictions?

[rudywaltz]

@noca72 UUs do not claim that all religion is true. Closer to the opposite: no religion contains the full truth, as they all claim.

[jayhawk88z]

a church for atheist

[rudywaltz]

@jayhawk88z Among others.

[rudywaltz]

@allinyourface777 The idea is to question anyone or any religion that pretends to have ALL of the truths, not to question truth itself.  Truth exists, it's just that nobody owns it all.

[MrRouXRenard]

@mathematicalbagpiper Me too! I was actually looking for a 'safe' church for my Christian wife, who had just got fleeced of £900 ($16,000) by an evangelical church. My local UU chapel in Bridgwater UK, built c.1600, made me feel SO grounded and comfortable, like I'd rediscovered some favorite old shoes. Imagine my surprise, they had NO dogma and everyone was interested in MY perspective! They were deep thinking, caring, warm-hearted liberal Christians, humanists, Buddhists and Atheists :-)

[xhemexx]

@Ijustwannabe20 you clearly don't understand what universalism is then.

[Ijustwannabe20]

i only wonder what kind of demons are in that place. this is a place people go so they don't have to live up to any expectations of living the way God wants you to live. the UU is a place where they can go and have their faith not be disturbed. faith is believeing in something more powerful than oneself. it seems to be a place to house people who don't want to be challenged in any real way. it has no substance. its teaching people to exhalt themselves and that they are a God unto themselves

[knowwaie]

You're a Unitarian Universalist because this is the devil's world, and that is how he thinks..

[standingontruth1]

Have u lied? Have u stolen? Jesus said if you look at a woman with lust you have committed adultery with her in your heart. have u done that?

If God judge’s u by the Ten Commandments will u be innocent or guilty? Heaven or Hell? Does this concern you?

Do u need a Savior from your sins?

Jesus (The Son of God)came, lived a sinless life, died on the cross (for our sins) and rose again on the third day.

needgod.com

if you are interested in abortion or thinking of having one watch 180 movie

[dutrizacd]

@indravideos a unitarian/universalist wouldn't convince you to go.

[TheHollerwood]

@ekkIesia386 So what is right? Catholic? Protestant? Baptist? Pentecostal?

[ALHAJ79]

@darkmagus64 And no one has "The Truth" in its entirely...as we are, each and every one of us, limited in our capacity to fully comprehend Godness.

[ALHAJ79]

@fuckmania07 Psalm 30:5 says "For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning." Doesn't sound like forever to me...and doesn't mention anything about belief in Jesus. Just sounds like "God loves you despite your mistakes" to me.

[ALHAJ79]

@ekkIesia386 I'm reading a book by Rob Bell called "Love Wins". Part of its purpose, as I see it, is to highlight how Christians have held (and continue to hold) many many many many different opinions/understandings about their core beliefs, and that there isn't just one way to be a Christian. Universalism was a widely held understanding of God's Love in the early Christian church and was only made heretical by the Council of Nicaea in the 4th century A.D. Universalism is all over the Bible.

[noca72]

Oh okay, thanks.