070306-1 Church going atheist!?

How can that be? Does it make any sense? Well, I give it a shot here. I haven't heard of any "faith" community where the ministers quote Sam Harris

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[furybones]

The church is a word that Should only be used for the followers of Jesus Christ AKA God. Romans 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

[yamahaeleven]

It is a word in our language, and I'll use it as I see fit, and will not take instruction from a dogmatist. So there.

[daarong3]

I'm an atheist, and I also attend a UU church... of course calling these places "churches" is a rather liberal use of the term.

UU's are humanists... they believe in helping others out, learning about others, experiencing life, improving the state of humanity, and having a caring community.

Those (like the poster "gbvegeta" before me) that criticize this sort of environment probably have not come to the point in their life when they start asking the question: "what is truly important?"

[romperstompist]

Haha I go to church every now and then. Just to laugh.

[NixonisLord]

UUs-NPR at prayer. Unitarian-Universalism: Making New Hampshire look integrated for over 50 years. Unitarianism-for when the Episcopalians are just not flaky enough.

[ElCubanoConguero]

Every member of the UUC cult is a LEFT-WING tree-hugging abortion-demanding porno-free-speech-promoting-AC­­LU-clinging perv. They are all whiter than a snowflake and middle to upper class.

[NixonisLord]

If offered the choice of root canal or ritual, I would choose root canal every time.

Religion is so boring. Mainline church services are about as vibrantly colorful as cream cheese. For a group that claims to "Celebrate diversity!", you've managed to stay over 95% White and middle/upper middle class and overwhelmingly from one side of the political spectrum. Quite the feat!

[bigshawn419]

@gbvegeta Unitarian Universalism is about the 'free and responsible search for truth and meaning' so for some God is in the church for others they may not feel that way so to say it is a church without God isn't true in fact it is in my opinion that it is the Quest for truth that unites us all.

[YOUnitygosp3l]

my concern is 'dualism'. how do we mitigate 'dogmatism' on the part of those whose 'practice' either embraces tradition or as in UU, should not? anotherwords, would "god as defined by tradition" encounter its "fundy" twin in this UU paradigm?

[wolfgar50]

oppose the decievers .there is but one god and the way to him is through his son jesus.yeshua.you dont sound fulfilled to me .you are sadly lacking something and your not convincing.when in doubt call on him he will show you way and the light .dont deny yourself true happiness

[joyville2]

Dogma is liked by some, disliked by others. There's nothing wrong with having different beliefs. Why let someone else's beliefs take away from your own? Our minds and hearts are different, obviously, just go with your own heart and respect that others do this too. We all don't have to sign up for the same club to be valued by others, do we?

[joyville2]

we can sing to each other, sing to our earth, to our universe, we can sing to every sentient being , we can sing to every molecule? What's the problem????? Those things hold an awesome value!