(June 2, 2021 at 2:12 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:Ok cool I understand, well I am happy you can find a place to peacefully congregate with like-minded individuals, that's awesome!(June 2, 2021 at 3:08 am)johndoe122931 Wrote: Thank you for sharing your story with us I appreciate it very much! Question if I may. You say you are an atheist and are a part of a UU church? Can you please elaborate more on that so that I understand what you mean by UU church?
I mentioned in the post that UU is short for Unitarian Universalist. You can google it if you like.
It is a set of self-governing liberal congregations with no creed or required beliefs. Instead, we follow a set of 7 principles, of which most religions and humanists wouldn't find objectionable. The UU church does not give out answers -- it merely provides a framework for people to ask questions and find their own beliefs.
The church was created in the 1960s as a merger of the Universalist and Unitarian churches in the U.S. Both these churches had mostly grown beyond their (heretical) Christian roots, and were friendly to a variety of beliefs and non-beliefs.
Half of UU members identify as atheist or agnostic (though I dislike that word on its own -- as if someone can be half-way between believing and not believing). My minister is an atheist. Most other members are liberal versions of Buddhist, Christian, Deist, New Age or Pantheist. Almost none have a traditional belief in God.
So, as an atheist, do I want to congregate with others who might have some sort of supernatural belief? Sure. I don't share any god belief, but most UU people think a lot about philosophy, cosmology, ethics, and whether anything mystical exists. I can learn both tolerance and new ideas by having rational discussions with others.
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