Yes, absolutely, because UUs fear a human authority that decides correct and incorrect belief far more than we fear error in beliefs. Our sovereignty to believe truth as we find it revealed trumps any authority to define truth.I'm open to corrections.... from the authorities.
Makes for some conundrums but we’re not an easy faith to practice.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Can Unitarian Universalists believe whatever?
And my answer is...
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Ummm. Maybe it's not about allowing anyone the authority to make that call for everyone else. Maybe something can be beyond the pale without depending on quantifiable rules to say so. Maybe.
Thanks Paul...I didn't realize CC had started this off. I think it's going to be a big question for many many UU's as Progressive Politics falls apart. It's going to cause a lot of re examination of "beliefs" because for a good many UUs who've tangled politics and relegion, the next year or two is going to be a big crisis.
That's an aside too...
What's missing for me here though in the other posts I've quickly read, is that UUism is a faith that's practiced it's not believed.
This isn't a particularly UU notion either as much of American Protestism is about experience yielded from practice, and not a faith that gives much of a hoot about belief. (Holfield's Theology in America talks about how hard it is to write of a Theology in a land that doesn't believe in it I think..Americans not keen on Systems of Thought.. we'll leave that to the Germans).
The Evengelical asks me to accept Christ, not to believe in Christ, or worse, believe in Christ as Trinity or what not... Our American and UU tradition is much more concrete and we shun the abstract. If you practice Church, you'll get to the belief eventually. But ya gotta do it.. not believe it.
It's a huge distinction I think many UU's have lost since the 60's fasination with the "isms" of one stripe or another.
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