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Re: Has there ever been "ask an atheist" day?
Yeah. Don't recall it very much but I know I've seen at least one before. I don't imagine it'd get a lot of traction given how they simply believe in NOTHING!!!twentysevenforsomereason!!!afegee!!1
But I wouldn't be surprised if most of the questions were addressed by atheists, to atheists.
Paging Dobalina to my latest thread!! Tell me about the Jewish celebrations around Easter (obviously NOT Easter itself) - so basically, tell me about Passover. Any why does it fall around Easter? Coincidence or is there a relation?
TIA!
You should do one. Tomorrow. It's almost quittin time.
I'm also hoping BBQ indulges me in an Ask a Buddhist thread sometime.
as far as I know Passover was a festival related to the harvest in ancient Judea; and it wasn't a fixed kind of thing until the Christians came on the scene..
So the Pagans had their Spring Festivals with bunny babies, then the Christians came in with their spring stuff, then the Jews were like "hey, we've got this perfectly good holiday, we'll put in in the Spring near yours. Cool."
It all boils down to a seasonal thing, just like Christmas/Hannukah/etc.
But I'm not a true believer anymore, so my take is more cynical than most Jews.
Hey, I've asked questions before and am really curious about learning more about the community in which you came from. Please start a thread!!
I have a fantastic bacon-wrapped water chestnut recipe if you'd like
I would love an Ask a Buddhist thread.
Andplusalso, the recipe for bacon wrapped anything.
I was a vegetarian for ten years and the first piece of meat I ate once the docs told me I needed to start eating it again was bacon. That's a testimony of its deliciousness. Once you start eating it, you'll never turn back
This, and "ask an agnostic Unitarian." You have no idea how many people saw my wedding invites and 1) had no idea that it was a religion or 2) thought it meant my family is Amish.
Uh, no. There's a Mennonite branch of my family but this has nothing to do with that!
I'd be curious about an Ask a Unitarian thread. I know next to nothing about them, and the little I know boggles the mind as to what the appeal must be.
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I can totally start a thread for this sometime if anybody else is interested, but to sum it up in a way that would probably p*ss off a lot of people (especially coming from little old "almost never goes to church" me), it's basically the best kind of religious cherrypicking. By "best," I mean that it means you go to church knowing that you have the same basic religious ideas as all the people around you, but you might believe in a different God. There's also a big emphasis on social justice, or at least there is in the ones around here. It's sort of like Diet Methodist.
Basically, you accept the teachings of Christ, especially the socially progressive stuff, but you don't have to accept the divinity of Christ. Or anybody. You just have to agree that at some point, this guy existed who had these ideas that are good ideas for living life. Most of the Unitarians I know are Christians and do accept the divinity part, but there are also atheist, agnostic, Muslim, Buddhist, and other kinds of Unitarian that aren't Christian by the regular standard. I really like the whole "love thy neighbor/ don't be a d*ck to people who are different/ whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me" thing but am not really buying the "transubstantiation/original sin/virgin birth/miracle working" thing. At a Unitarian church, everyone else is cool with that, whether they agree with me or not. All they ask is that I pay them the same respect. I don't know many other houses of worship that are into people accepting religion on their own terms that way. I only ever liked going to church to be reminded that I'm part of something much bigger than me--to feel humbled, I guess--and most of the time, a hike in the woods accomplishes the same thing. Once in a while, though, I like to feel that way with other people, if that makes sense, so I go to Unitarian church.
What about an "Ask a Unitarian married to a Cultural Catholic" thread?
You mean Thursdays on this board?
thanks for this
H and I are thinking about going to Unitarian church, and this is very much what we were hoping the vibe would be.
andplusalso, having grown up genetically Catholic (but not Catholic) I saw where Church was an expression of community, a place to hang with people you have something in common with, and it feels like the Unitarians offer this to those who aren't buying any particular dogma.
I am the 99%.
The UU church also has a really awesome "sex ed" program, for people who have kids.
It's age-staggered and progressively comprehensive and doesn't just cover the science of babymaking and STDs and birth control, but also goes into a lot of depth about the sociological, psychological, and societal influences on sexuality, about healthy relationships, and so on. It's won a ton of awards for being that good.
Folks aren't always aware of this, but UU (Unitarian Universalist) is different than Unitarian. UU's have no religious creed whatsoever, so unlike in what Mama described, you don't have to accept anything about Christ. (I'm not UU, but my father is, and the close family friend who married DH and I is a UU minister).
Thanks for pointing that out! I am always hesitant to say "no religious creed" even though I know that's technically correct and on top of that, I often completely forget to make the distinction between the different Unitarianisms. It doesn't help that the UU church by me is almost exactly the same as the "just one U" church by me in how they practice and celebrate holidays. In my head they are practically the same, although I know for many people there are big differences that mean a lot to them.