Saturday, February 19, 2005
Thoughts from Rev. Jack Donovan, Minister of the UU Fellowship in Gainesville, FL
Unitarian Universalists celebrate human life. We embrace the good Earth and the awesome Universe. We believe in the potential goodness of each human being, and the evolving worth of human culture. We have reverence for a spiritual higher power which we believe is reflected in reality and is characterized by love and justice. We respect Jesus as a human teacher who personified the relationship we all have with the divine and who modeled the life of individual self-respect and responsibility and the practice of love and justice with other people which are the practical bases for worthy religion and ethics.
We believe that all people can find satisfaction, and fulfillment in life and will find peace in death. We do not believe in hell or the devil, and we do not accept the perversions of original sin, inherited guilt, a single social norm, the desirability of perfection, or an equating of feelings or thoughts with deeds. We believe that each religion or ideology has part of the truth, and that no system of ideas and practice has all the truth.
We are humanists, affirming human beings and human civilization, and we embrace good science as a great ally of worthy religion. We are children of the Earth, and we learn from and wish to be respectful and sustaining of Mother Nature. The truth we discover, the justice we do, the love we share, the responsibility we take are the real tests of our faith.
In a word, Unitarian Universalist is a religion based on love.
Excerpt from the UUFMC Newsletter, December 2000.
Unitarian Universalists celebrate human life. We embrace the good Earth and the awesome Universe. We believe in the potential goodness of each human being, and the evolving worth of human culture. We have reverence for a spiritual higher power which we believe is reflected in reality and is characterized by love and justice. We respect Jesus as a human teacher who personified the relationship we all have with the divine and who modeled the life of individual self-respect and responsibility and the practice of love and justice with other people which are the practical bases for worthy religion and ethics.
We believe that all people can find satisfaction, and fulfillment in life and will find peace in death. We do not believe in hell or the devil, and we do not accept the perversions of original sin, inherited guilt, a single social norm, the desirability of perfection, or an equating of feelings or thoughts with deeds. We believe that each religion or ideology has part of the truth, and that no system of ideas and practice has all the truth.
We are humanists, affirming human beings and human civilization, and we embrace good science as a great ally of worthy religion. We are children of the Earth, and we learn from and wish to be respectful and sustaining of Mother Nature. The truth we discover, the justice we do, the love we share, the responsibility we take are the real tests of our faith.
In a word, Unitarian Universalist is a religion based on love.
Excerpt from the UUFMC Newsletter, December 2000.
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