I am of a primarily UU background. I attended from 1985 to 1998. So, basically age 9 to age 22 or so. I LOVED the YRUU (the youth arm of the UU's). I felt accepted....by people I actually thought were cool (in their own quirky way).
But by 1998, I was kind of getting sick of the idea of just accepting everybody, and campaigning for reparations of everybody who has ever been wronged. I just became way too pragmatic for the UUs. Plus, I am not one who cares for hymns. I don't like singing, and the lyrics to those hymns are, at best, meaningless to me nowadays as a very firm atheist.
The UUs do do some great things, and I love seeing them at the Pride Parade in my city. Their activist spirit is important, but it needs to be tempered by other beliefs.
But by 1998, I was kind of getting sick of the idea of just accepting everybody, and campaigning for reparations of everybody who has ever been wronged. I just became way too pragmatic for the UUs. Plus, I am not one who cares for hymns. I don't like singing, and the lyrics to those hymns are, at best, meaningless to me nowadays as a very firm atheist.
The UUs do do some great things, and I love seeing them at the Pride Parade in my city. Their activist spirit is important, but it needs to be tempered by other beliefs.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
