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I'm reading a book by Michael Werner, "Regaining Balance", published by Religious Humanists press. In it, he makes the case that "Humanism was deliberately and purposely pushed out of the Unitarian-Universalist Association", and that its traditional focus on reason in religion has been replaced with a fuzzy, feel-good irrationality that is tolerant of everything...except those who dare to challenge anyone's theological views.
By shunting HUUmanists to the side, Werner says, UUs have lost their unique, skeptical position. By trying to be all things to all people, by making an "idolatry of tolerance", the UUA has steered what used to be an intellectually disciplined, largely humanist organization towards the broad middle, and is "guilty of supporting irrational beliefs that inevitably lead to the religious right's excesses."
My question is: has anyone here who used to hang out at UU fellowships/societies/churches felt that they're not welcome for expressing humanist ideas there? Did the slide back towards theism in Unitarianism make you feel unwelcome?
By shunting HUUmanists to the side, Werner says, UUs have lost their unique, skeptical position. By trying to be all things to all people, by making an "idolatry of tolerance", the UUA has steered what used to be an intellectually disciplined, largely humanist organization towards the broad middle, and is "guilty of supporting irrational beliefs that inevitably lead to the religious right's excesses."
My question is: has anyone here who used to hang out at UU fellowships/societies/churches felt that they're not welcome for expressing humanist ideas there? Did the slide back towards theism in Unitarianism make you feel unwelcome?