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While this was preached for the UU church in Anaheim, California<\/a>, it speaks to a larger spirituality I believe can justly be claimed by many beyond the small circle that is the Unitarian Universalist world. This \u201cliberal religion\u201d that is more than any one denomination, genuinely is a contender to be the American religion, although it has up until this point lagged behind the two others, New Thought and Mormonism<\/a>. For those concerned about the splotches on my face, earlier this week I visited my dermatologist who is a bit trigger happy with her liquid nitrogen gun.<\/p>\n

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