aHappySacka posted...
WastelandCowboy posted...
Agnostic. I will neither confirm nor deny the existence of a higher, lesser, or equal being.
This, reducing things to a black and white answer is a good way to mentally impair yourself and being yourself to the same line of thinking that extremists have.
Well, that's why I'm Unitarian =P
I was brought up Anglican to the age of eleven (my primary/elementary school had close ties with the village church), figured out by then I was at least agnostic, ran across Unitarian Universalism mentioned somewhere when I was 17, and realised the core beliefs of that faith were surprisingly close to mine.
I've been part of the British Unitarian community ever since - now I'm in my 30s I'm actually on the management committee of my congregation (elected - each congregation manages itself and its own building separately from the formal governing body, that only really steps in when anything big goes wrong), and I help out where I can. Got a choir concert tomorrow. But otherwise we don't really publicise ourselves - and, unlike a lot of religions, we do
not
go in for conversion. I can't
abide
people of faith who actually push for such a thing - how they could possibly believe someone who had been pressured into saying they believe something could truly be sure of that, well.
But to get back to the point, what I was trying to say is that all those grey areas are very important in Unitarianism. There's very little black-and-white about being Unitarian, and that's how I like it :)
