How to convert a Unitarian, and good luck
For your reading amusement: Unpacking Unitarian Universalism.
Warning: If you’re a UU, you may want to make sure you’ve taken your blood-pressure medication before you read this. It’s a page telling Christians — Southern Baptists in particular — how to bring Unitarian Universalists to Jesus.
They do admit, though, that “By any standard, Unitarian-Universalists are a hard people to win to Jesus. You might even say that they are impossible to win, but with God all things are indeed possible.”
Indeed. All things are possible. Including the rejection of any religion that believes it’s got a monopoly on truth.
April 22nd, 2005 at 6:32 am
> If you’re a UU, you may want to make sure you’ve taken your blood-pressure medication before you read this.
Interesting. Other than the comments on witchcraft, which probably should have been expected, what did you find objectionable?
It all seemed like a pretty fair assessment to me. So I’m wondering what I missed.
Or is it the idea of needing to be converted at all, so you were offended before even reading the content?
That doesn’t seem like you, either.
I’m still stumped.
May 2nd, 2005 at 7:12 pm
The latter, yeah. Evangelism assumes that everybody else in the world is a complete idiot, incapable of making intelligent choices, as evidenced by the fact that they had the *nerve* to choose a different belief than your own.
This page did at least make an attempt to understand others’ beliefs, which is a few steps ahead of most evangelism, but it maintained the firm attitude that These People Are Obviously Wrong, Because They Don’t Believe The Things We Do.
May 12th, 2005 at 7:15 am
OK, I can go with that.
Just curious, do you see it as ironic that
Those People Are Obviously Wrong, Because They Don’t See Things The Way You Do,
and that upsets you.
May 12th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
On evangelism
October 30th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Interesting comment in the article:
"Some noteworthy self-described humanists include John Dewey, …Isaac Asimov, …Joseph Fletcher, …Betty Friedan, …and B. F. Skinner"
Did anyone notice that all these people mentioned are deceased? Just noting that they are unable to rebut. All those great, brilliant people, burning in hell. Just a crying shame.
BTW, Isaac Asimov was once quoted, "When Pagan Rome persecuted the early Christians, the Christians pleaded for tolerance.When Christianity took over, was there tolerance? Not on your life. The persecution began at once in the other direction".
I’m not Unitarian, but I understand their position. I’m not Baptist, but I understood them once, too.
Rejecting someone’s opinion, especially in the realm of religion, can generate a strong perspective on either side. Baptists, as well as many other Christians, have the irresistible urge to witness and then convert anyone not on The Gameplan. It’s part and parcel to ‘being’ a Christian. From outside of that, it can come across as pushy and pieous.
Unitarian, on the other hand, has a viewpoint similar to my own, in my opinion. If you don’t believe the same thing I do, that’s fine. If you don’t like what I believe, that is also fine. But rebutting with the statement that I am wrong and God-less is adherring to the intolerance that Christianity has become renown for.
Just my $1.25. Keep the change.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:02 am
I don’t see how this could offend a UU.
I personally was flattered. It stated that we UU’s are complex, have strong sense of social racial and sexual equality, respect the environment, search for meaning and value in life, are diverse, use reason, and are well educated or at least well read.
LOL Maybe baptists who read the information might wish they were a UU.