[SmithL]

To see the TV ads:

The Unitarians recruitment ads are online at http://swardlick.com/client_review/1056uua/

Information on Unitarians is at http://www.uua.org

[wideawake]

The denomination has its roots in the Christian Protestantism of Transylvania and Poland

No it doesn't.

There were non-Trinitarian relgious bodies in those areas in the Reformation period, but they did not found any churches in the New World.

The Unitarian Universalists of the USA come from a crew of radical Congregationalists from New England like Jonathan Mayhew and Roger Williams and from the radical Anglo-Huguenot Universalists of England and New England.

[ClearCase_guy]

"This represents a coming out effort."

That fits well with what I have observed about a great many Unitarians ...

[dfwgator]

The “Seinfeld” of religions, a religion about nothing.

[Alex Murphy]

I have a friend who was raised in the UU, and he told me a story about someone in his congregation questioning their UU minister about their lack of concrete beliefs. The story concluded with this person saying "why don't you just meet on Wednesdays, and call it 'bowling night'?"

The minister's answer back? "Because we find that most of our members have Sundays open on their calendars"

[Lee N. Field]

Its theme: "Imagine A Religion."

I don't have to imagine. The "faith once delivered to the saints" was passed on to me by a long chain of the faithful.

[fwdude]

...if you offend a Unitarian, you risk having a question mark burned in your front lawn.

LOL! Too funny!!!

[livius]

How do you advertise nothing?

[dangus]

>> The denomination has its roots in the Christian Protestantism of Transylvania and Poland <<

Well, that accounts for a couple nasty, mostly untrue stereotypes... of Transylvania and Poland.

>> The “Seinfeld” of religions, a religion about nothing. <<

I’m pretty sure that Festivus is the most holy day on many UU calendars, and I’M not joking!

>> Julia Ward Howe (”Battle Hymn of the Republic”) was a Unitarian, as were presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and William Howard Taft. Celebrated Unitarian legal scholars include Oliver Wendell Holmes, Daniel Webster and Clarence Darrow. <<

The UUA was founded in 1961. Saying there were no Unitarians before that is a little like saying there were no Lutherans before the ECLA was created in the 1980s, but the UUA is radically different than early Unitarian churches, which held to many truths as objective and universal, including many Christian doctrines. Saying the Adamses were Unitarian in the same sense that the UUA is would result in grave misunderstandings.

I would go no further than to say that the Unitarians and the Adamses were both non-Trinitarians. To quote Wikipedia:
“Strictly speaking, modern-day Unitarian Universalism is not Unitarian in theology. Despite its name, this denomination does not necessarily promote either belief in One God or universal salvation. It is merely the inheritor of the Unitarian and Universalist church system in America... Some Unitarians, because they felt that the mainstream UUA churches are not accepting of Christians, or that the larger Unitarian-Universalist organizations are becoming too political and liberal to be considered a religious movement or faith, have decided to affiliate with the American Unitarian Conference. The vast majority of Unitarians have sought out liberal Christian churches in other denominations and have made homes there.”

>> The “Seinfeld” of religions, a reli