I think it really all comes down to the fact that UUs are not so different from anyone else. If you take ten Christians and ten UUs, it's pretty likely that each of them will be "open minded" (such a prized thing for us!) about some things and "closed minded" about some others. In my life I have met radically accepting Christians (and Jews, and Muslims) and incredibly intolerant UUs, and vice versa. (I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it literally.)
I think the problem for UUs is that many of us constantly define ourselves against a Christian example (I fall into this too.) "more tolerant than" "less strict than," etc. But in order to do that, we have to limit Christianity to just one very narrow thing. I think we see again and again that that's no good for anyone and can actually be radically unfair. And it--obviously--puts the UU Christian in a frustrating place.
Regardless of what church we go to, I think we all have to work at being the people we want to be.
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I think the problem for UUs is that many of us constantly define ourselves against a Christian example (I fall into this too.) "more tolerant than" "less strict than," etc. But in order to do that, we have to limit Christianity to just one very narrow thing. I think we see again and again that that's no good for anyone and can actually be radically unfair. And it--obviously--puts the UU Christian in a frustrating place.
Regardless of what church we go to, I think we all have to work at being the people we want to be.