Beware the UU!
Speaking of Unitarians, Philocrites steps in to wash away any notion that Unitarian-Universalism is some sort of creeping menace driving mainline Protestant Churches towards liberalism.
“Since we Unitarian Universalists are perceived as having fallen off the left-most edge of American Protestantantism ? and because we have demonstrated a knack for indulging all sorts of peculiar and short-lived fads ? we serve the conservative imagination as a convenient warning against the liberalization of theology and practice. We occupy the spot on the map that says, “Here be dragons!” Of course, you can find theological modernists, political liberals, and biblical non-literalists all over the Christian landscape in the U.S. ? people who understand Christianity as a profound and rich religious tradition that can also evolve and grow in dynamic, forthright engagement with the democratic, scientific, pluralistic modern world ? and you can even find “relativists” and “pluralists” lurking in orthodox churches across this fair land. But when you point to the Unitarian Universalists, those tendencies intensify and turn into The Beast.”
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