(August 18, 2021 at 12:59 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(August 18, 2021 at 12:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
BTW, great quote, by a leading theologian, philosopher and abolitionist activist from the 1800s. He was Unitarian - and still considered an important part of my UU church's roots (though the UU is no longer Christian).
Emerson believed in something called "The Oversoul" - an idea that we are all mystically connected, and this connection is his concept of God. Complete nonsense, but far more progressive than the Christianity of his time.
Have you heard the one about Unitarian Universalist terrorists? The go round burning question marks on peoples’ lawns.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson