I was talking about people who don't have a positive vision of Unitarian-Universalism or a positive understanding of their own spiritual path. People who know and declaim about what they don't believe and don't want from church, without giving much thought to what they do believe and do want from church
Agreed - this is very similar to how I feel about the term Atheist. My beliefs are much more than a negation of someone else's belief system. In fact, the negation gives too much power to the belief it is negating...
However, part of the problem is that many UU members are afraid to talk about what they DO believe. The one thing many feel they have in common with others is that negation -that shared baggage they need to shed. But until we feel strong to talk about what we do believe, and feel that we have the security, the right, and the protection to state it out loud, it is very hard to build that positive community.
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Agreed - this is very similar to how I feel about the term Atheist. My beliefs are much more than a negation of someone else's belief system. In fact, the negation gives too much power to the belief it is negating...
However, part of the problem is that many UU members are afraid to talk about what they DO believe. The one thing many feel they have in common with others is that negation -that shared baggage they need to shed. But until we feel strong to talk about what we do believe, and feel that we have the security, the right, and the protection to state it out loud, it is very hard to build that positive community.