Unitarian Universalist Church

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The Unitarian Universalist Church is an organization that is probably the least dogmatic religion to come out of Western Christianity. It was formed as a merger of the Unitarians and the Universalists.

They are sometimes referred to by stricter dogmatists as "atheists".[1] This is due to their very open-ended mission to provide a community for pursuit of faith and spirituality, and their remarked-upon debates a few years ago about whether to use the word "god" in their services.

There is a Unitarian Universalist house of fellowship in Portsmouth, NH, which ironically has a very large display of the Ten Commandments arrayed on each side of the pulpit ("stage") area set up by a previous sect which occupied the building. They have left it in place due to its historical importance[2] rather than for its religious significance.

Those Unitarian Universalists who are Christians believe that all people will get to heaven eventually. They don’t believe in hell, or see hell as a kind of purgatory where souls stay for a time till they are reconciled with God. References to eternal hell in the Bible are explained as mistranslations. [3][4]

[edit] External links

  • See the Wikipedia article on Unitarian Universalism.
  • See the Wikipedia article on Christian Universalism.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ↑ Lame cite: personal experience
  2. ↑ The historical importance is as a display or work of art, and how it fits into the decor of the building, rather than as a set of laws
  3. ↑ http://forum.greaterreality.com/messages/9.html
  4. ↑ http://gospelthemes.com/hell.htm
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