That was an interesting read, thank you for sharing it.
I love learning about people’s first UU experiences. It’s such a unique, personal thing. It’s always impactful, whether they loved it or hated it. And the courage on display just walking through those doors for the first time is both remarkable and admirable.
Sometimes when people are criticizing liberalism I'm not sure if I'm on their side or not. Like, do they mean "liberal" colloquially or poli-scially? Lol. I feel like I knew what this person meant by the end of their post though.
Neither - a "liberal religion" is one that emphases personal liberty. It's a rejection of dogma and orthodoxy and fundamentalism, instead focusing on individual experience, allowing science and rationality and diversity of thought.
Bahai is a strongly theistic belief system but it does have a some things in common with UU, like an emphasis on deeds over creeds, a justice orientation, and an embrace of both western and eastern belief systems.
I kinda think OP meant colloquial liberalism given some context clues like "Although I think liberalism/wokeism is damaging to cultures." And "everyone is liberal and doesn't like trump." At the very least OP is conflating the two concepts.
This doesn't sound anything like my UU experiences. Mainly that I rarely if ever hear people's politics during a service. I also wouldn't characterize a typical service as interactive, so I wonder what actually happened in the service this person saw.
It seems like this person's main interest was calling out people's politics. I have to wonder what they hoped to get out of this experience. It sounds like a very transactional approach, and if that's what you're doing, I wouldn't be surprised if you don't get anything spiritual out of it.
That was an interesting read, thank you for sharing it.
I love learning about people’s first UU experiences. It’s such a unique, personal thing. It’s always impactful, whether they loved it or hated it. And the courage on display just walking through those doors for the first time is both remarkable and admirable.
Sometimes when people are criticizing liberalism I'm not sure if I'm on their side or not. Like, do they mean "liberal" colloquially or poli-scially? Lol. I feel like I knew what this person meant by the end of their post though.
Considering they also mentioned "wokeism," I think they mean it colloquially.
Neither - a "liberal religion" is one that emphases personal liberty. It's a rejection of dogma and orthodoxy and fundamentalism, instead focusing on individual experience, allowing science and rationality and diversity of thought.
Bahai is a strongly theistic belief system but it does have a some things in common with UU, like an emphasis on deeds over creeds, a justice orientation, and an embrace of both western and eastern belief systems.
Really interesting post thanks OP.
I kinda think OP meant colloquial liberalism given some context clues like "Although I think liberalism/wokeism is damaging to cultures." And "everyone is liberal and doesn't like trump." At the very least OP is conflating the two concepts.
OK.
This doesn't sound anything like my UU experiences. Mainly that I rarely if ever hear people's politics during a service. I also wouldn't characterize a typical service as interactive, so I wonder what actually happened in the service this person saw.
It seems like this person's main interest was calling out people's politics. I have to wonder what they hoped to get out of this experience. It sounds like a very transactional approach, and if that's what you're doing, I wouldn't be surprised if you don't get anything spiritual out of it.