The End of Universism

[matt_arnold]

I may write a book someday about my experiences with experiments with Un-churches. One of the chapters would concern Universism. For those who don't know, Universism is a "religion" like Unitarian Universalism except that instead of embracing all religious heritages, it rejects all of them in favor of "faith in reason, inspiration in nature, and

Comments

[netmouse]

*sigh* what a useless and naive philosophy (meaning Vox's new 3-line one). especially point #3 - Do what you want as long as it allows everyone else to do what they want.

Conflict is inevitable. Eventually I will want the same strawberry as you, and we can't both do what we want, which is eat it. And that's aside from letting people walk all over you who actually want to do bad things! How does this principle guide you in any way?

[rachelann1977]

So, the title of your post is not completely accurate. I consider myself somewhat of a universist, too, these days, after just over a year of asking lots of questions to myself, and I don't know if this means the movement has permanently lost its steam, but I doubt it. It will reappear under a different name. There is just so much baggage atteched to the word atheist, many rational thinkers find themselves constantly searching for some alternative, some way to gather and talk about real-world issues without requiring any sort of "faith" in something we can never know or understand. Regardless, it's just a leader lost, as you said, in a community that, by all rights, should not require any particular leader. It is sad, though, when a person chooses to cast the results of his own mistake out onto the multitude, so to speak.

[rachelann1977]

I ammend that. I should've clicked the link eh? That's arrogance. He's literally changed the meaning of the word universist single-handedly. I only hope somebody with some skills and personality starts a new web site to cantradict it. Oh well.