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 Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: Love This! |
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-- It's not always easy to put the "spirit of UU" into words, but these folks at the Northwest UU Church did an excellent job of it on their home page;
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"Welcome to the Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church. We are a part of a liberal religious denomination where each person is encouraged to pursue his/her own spiritual journey.
The uniqueness, the thing that differentiates one religion from another, is its source of authority, that upon which it grounds its perception of truth. For some it may be a sacred book or the revelation of a great leader. For Unitarian Universalists the source of authority is individual experience refined through reason and spirit and tested in the community.
Therefore we believe not what we are told to believe, nor what we wish to believe, but what we are compelled by conscience to believe."
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-- "Individual experience refined through reason and spirit and tested in the community...", man, that gets right to the "nuts and bolts" of what makes our "stubbornly protestant" approach to religion different...even unique...doesn't it? I also like the "compelled by conscience" part, which suggests that freedom-oriented religious faith is indeed a discipline (...and, of course, also counters that silly "we can believe anything we want to" misconception). Good job, folks!
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