All posts tagged unitarianism

Friday Link Roundup #26

Tea Party Republicans in Texas are clamoring for a “true Christian” to replace Joe Straus as Speaker of the state’s House of Representatives because Christians “are the people that do the best jobs.” Via John Loftus, here’s an insightful video by TheraminTrees applying transactional analysis to religion. Cartoonist and Christian blogger Wes Molebash asked some [...]

The UU identity crisis

This is the last post I had planned on the general topic of Unitarianism. If you have questions on the subject or other related issues you’d like to see discussed here, please suggest them in the comments! I’ve said before that there are a lot of things I appreciate about Unitarian Universalism. However, it’s still [...]

Taking tolerance too far

Last time we talked about Unitarian Universalism, I was explaining how — in my experience — UUs tend to refrain from criticizing the beliefs of others, no matter how implausible or even disproven they are, in the name of respecting each person’s search for truth. The reason usually offered for this attitude (and the occasionally-explicit [...]

Building your own theology

I’m writing a bunch of posts on Unitarian Universalism. You can always find old ones using the unitarianism tag. As I’ve said before, one of the aspects of Unitarian Universalism that I have a whole lot of respect for is the emphasis on figuring out one’s religious beliefs for oneself. There is no authority structure [...]

What I like about Unitarianism

I’m writing a bunch of posts on Unitarian Universalism. You can always find old ones using the unitarianism tag. Before I get too far into explaining some of my criticisms of Unitarian Universalism, I thought it would be helpful to lay out a handful of the things I really did enjoy and appreciate. After all, [...]

Growing up UU

I’m going to be doing a series of posts here about my experiences growing up in a Unitarian Universalist congregation as well as my thoughts (based on those experiences) regarding liberal religion and how it relates to atheism and atheists. This is the first post in that series, in which I intend to explain basically [...]