Point taken, and thanks for the interesting link. Googling around a bit more, it seems like there are a few groups like these, but they are small and extreme outliers without influence and status. Before writing my above comments, I checked out the links on the first few search pages that come up when you google “Unitarian Universalist,” and I definitely encountered perfectly predictable and uniform positions advocated on those.
Yes, I have rummaged around his website already. There is some interesting stuff there.
Interestingly, in the “Market for Sanctimony” article, he confirms my impressions about Unitarian Universalism, contrary to the claims of User:handoflixue:
Officially, UU does not have a creed. A consequence of this is that any psychological needs that depend on getting together with co-believers are likely to be frustrated at a UU church. This in turn leads people to promote hard left-wing politics as an unofficial creed. [...] Thus a church that prides itself on not asking people to check their minds at the door ends up doing it anyway, just in a different fashion.
he confirms my impressions about Unitarian Universalism, contrary to the claims of User:handoflixue:
My claim was about unquestionable dogma, and the UUs as a whole. I’m not sure how we can still be having this debate after someone else provided you links to UUs who question the dogma...
There are some conservative Universal Unitarians, which seems to indicate that there isn’t complete ideological uniformity.
Point taken, and thanks for the interesting link. Googling around a bit more, it seems like there are a few groups like these, but they are small and extreme outliers without influence and status. Before writing my above comments, I checked out the links on the first few search pages that come up when you google “Unitarian Universalist,” and I definitely encountered perfectly predictable and uniform positions advocated on those.
In case you haven’t encountered him before, Peter A Taylor, the author of that FAQ has some interesting articles on religion and politics: Rational Religion, The Market for Sanctimony, or Yet Another Space Alien Cult, What Does “Morality” Mean?, etc. - he apparently is a reader of LessWrong.
Yes, I have rummaged around his website already. There is some interesting stuff there.
Interestingly, in the “Market for Sanctimony” article, he confirms my impressions about Unitarian Universalism, contrary to the claims of User:handoflixue:
My claim was about unquestionable dogma, and the UUs as a whole. I’m not sure how we can still be having this debate after someone else provided you links to UUs who question the dogma...