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Show Unitarianism in Utah belief system with the following thumbnail sketch of our wimpy theology: "God without wrath brought man without without judgment through the ministra tions of a Christ without a cross." (That sounds real good to me.) Obviously he meant it as a putdown of liberal religion. What really emerges so clearly here is the overriding to be religious assumption that you have to accept all that baggage of sin and judgment and guilt, and then follow certain prescriptions to receive the religious unction called redemption. So Unitarianism stands squarely outside of the convention al understanding of religion. Thus we become difficult to be comprehended, even by some of the great minds. Henry James, for example, proved hopelessly perplexed by Unitarians, referring to them as "feeble sentimentalists" who did not belong to a religion but to a kind of "cultural substitute for religion." Ann Douglas in her assessment of American culture wrote that Unitarians and Episcopalians were the most highly educated of the Protestant sects, and earned the highest incomes. Prestige, however, belonged to the Episcopalians. It seems we lack religion, we lack prestige, and we certainly lack numbers. Unitarian Universalists have opted for a religious approach radically different from sin into a kingdom - - Mainstream America. The very idea of a "free church" strikes people as a contradiction in theological dogma, no intellectual on religious expression, makes most understand what it is that makes group of sentimentalists who for religion. a A church with constraints, it no parameters difficult for many us a religious lot, might offer this no as a not to just substitute ambiguities of liberal religion are legitimately challenged by those who adhere more closely to religious creed. The 342 terms. |
