Unitarian Universalists don't love god
• Religious Intolerance
We know Texas is a state filled with backward ignorant people (so is North Carolina where I live and Georgia where I was born). With magisterial theological chutzpah the Lone Star State has decided to toss aside a couple of centuries of legal custom and tell us what a religion really is (hotbed of ignorance and superstition?). It might be an exercise in Fundagelical agenda or just greedy politicians going after a church that doesn't have enough members to defend itself. All the tax cutbacks must leave the office seekers and their minions hot for another source of political lard, i.e., money.
The Red River Unitarian Universalist Church, the 50-member congregation whose tax application was rejected by [Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton] Strayhorn's office, has held services in Denison for seven years. Althoff said his group includes "hard-core atheists" as well as "New Agey-type people."
But the lack of a single creed is a hallmark of Unitarianism, Althoff said. Instead, Unitarian Universalists have seven guiding principles, including "respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part," according to the Unitarian Universalist Web site.
The group also draws from various religious and philosophical traditions, including Jewish, Christian, humanist and Earth-centered teachings, but promotes individual freedom of belief, according to the Web site. It notes that Unitarians and Universalists have operated in the United States for at least 200 years, although the two groups did not merge until 1961.
I think all churches should be taxed. And the UU are mostly just a bunch of nice silly folk. But very nice silly folk. I'd rather see the Southern Baptists forking over their share.