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[hendrikboom]

Unitarians are often accused of having no definable faith, or of worshiping God, except for leaving God out of the service, and so they can't really be said to be worshiping either.

But really, belief in God, or disbelief is not what we are about.

As a group, we believe in religious freedom, not in a particular version of religion. It would seem that this is a motherhood issue these days, but it is not so.

My heart goes out the members of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian-Universalist congregation. Recent events there make it plain that supporting religious freedom still costs lives.

Blog links:

http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/339577.html

http://velvetpage.livejournal.com/1056217.html

Comments

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

I am shocked and stunned. More shocked than I would have expected, since the minister of the Unitarian church in which I was raised had his house bombed in the early '60s. It was believed that it was for his participation in the Civil Rights Movement.

I am also shocked that I can find nothing about this tragedy at CBC or CTV.

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

Gwen told me she had heard about it on the CBC radio news. I hadn't found any mention of it on my usual news sources except for liz-marcs' excellent live journal. Besides being a fairly competent journalist, her fanfiction is good, too.

[rehenazelreyhan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this.

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome.

Upon hearing the news, a few of my correspondents with Unitarian sympathies have announced that they plan to start attending regularly or sign up for formal membership. It's the martyrdom effect, I suppose. But this is not the church's preferred way to gain members (or lose them).