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The Unitarian Church and Obama's Religious Upbringing
American Thinker ^ | December 27, 2008 | Andrew Walden

Posted on 06/14/2009 12:20:08 PM PDT by greyfoxx39

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A companion article by Walden to

Obama's Other Contoversial Church

1 posted on 06/14/2009 12:20:09 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
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To: greyfoxx39
What kind of religion does Obama need to act as a President?


2 posted on 06/14/2009 12:28:30 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: greyfoxx39
Unitarianism is more of a philosophy than a religion. It is an anti-religion religion and an extremely liberal cult. As with all liberal denominations, the only way that it can legitimize its existence is through political activism. Think of the Unitarians as a liberal book club that is in search of a purpose for existence.
3 posted on 06/14/2009 12:32:29 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: greyfoxx39
"There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death." - Proverbs 14:12 and Proverbs 16:25
4 posted on 06/14/2009 12:37:47 PM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly. 2 Cor. 10:3-5)
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To: greyfoxx39
"The man has been a Christian for 20 years."

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." - Matt 7:21

5 posted on 06/14/2009 12:47:39 PM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly. 2 Cor. 10:3-5)
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To: Nosterrex

Somewhere I saw this quote: “Unitarianism is a religion that believes in, at most, one god.”


6 posted on 06/14/2009 12:50:37 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: Nosterrex
"Think of the Unitarians as a liberal book club...."

...with a 501C3!

I sound pretty "intolerant" today, don't I?

7 posted on 06/14/2009 12:51:01 PM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly. 2 Cor. 10:3-5)
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To: reg45

I had heard “Unitarianism is a religion that believes in zero or more gods.”


8 posted on 06/14/2009 12:59:01 PM PDT by gitmo (History books will read that Lincoln freed the slaves and Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: greyfoxx39

So, it would appear that Obama was hiding his Unitarian beliefs by attending Rev. Wright’s church.

That is really clever.


9 posted on 06/14/2009 12:59:06 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Nosterrex
Unitarian ice cream.
10 posted on 06/14/2009 1:03:04 PM PDT by Rodebrecht (Secretary, United States Department of Free Swag)
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Unitarianism is also an anti-humanist belief system. They find no value in any individual, not even themselves. Not too long ago there was a shooting at Unitarian church in Nashville TN. 2 was killed and 6 others shot. The prosecutor arranged for a plea bargain for the killer.

Several of the victims appeared to not want to bother to testify against the guy in any court hearing to say nothing of a trial.

Several of their members had to wrestle this guy to the ground to stop the shooting because, it seems, no one had bothered to arm himself to repel such an attacker.

11 posted on 06/14/2009 1:05:28 PM PDT by muawiyah
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A related article by the same author is posted

Here

Obama's Other Controversial Church

12 posted on 06/14/2009 1:13:51 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (All the boxes are gone: soapbox, ballot box, jury box, bullet box. History of the future with Obama.)
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To: dr_who
What kind of religion does Obama need to act as a President?

Good point/question.

We have a lot of would-be Mullahs around here.

13 posted on 06/14/2009 1:27:05 PM PDT by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: Rum Tum Tugger

I was quoting the article. The answer is this: a cult of Obama.


14 posted on 06/14/2009 1:31:34 PM PDT by dr_who
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Herman Mellville began attending a unitarian church in Brooklyn after he finished Moby Dick.

In fact the Aryan heresy—to which the unitarians subscribed — was all the rage on both sides of the atlantic. It was the underlying subtext that informed much of the philosophical and theological talk of the 19th century. It made Christianity pretty much defenseless against the atheists because it substituted a mystery at the heart of the Christianity with mere human sacrifice.


15 posted on 06/14/2009 2:26:38 PM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: muawiyah
The Unitarian “meetings” that I have attended were mainly composed of non-religious Jews and a few former Baptists. I do not recall a single time that God was ever mentioned, but they did talk about the spirit of religion in you of their “prayers.” While I was at the University of Chicago, I dropped in on one of their classes at their Unitarian seminary. It reminded me of my English literature class. They discussed some novel that they were assigned. It is nothing but an AA meeting for recovering theists.

I am not surprised that they were reluctant to get involved. Its membership seems self-absorbed. They prefer feel good activities as long as such activities do not interrupt their lives.

16 posted on 06/14/2009 3:24:04 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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This story doesn’t mention one thing, which is that First Unitarian Church in Honolulu has gone beyond advocating the homosexual lifestyle to now also actively supporting “polyamory” (regular sex with multiple “accepting” partners—people who consider themselves “respectable” swingers).

E.g.:

http://palipaths.org/documents/E9F5AB1758BF8BA6717E7DFF4CB77691741B7829.html

http://palipaths.org/documents/EE580EFACF102BF94A14EDE5CE22F6AE888989E9.html

“Something else that seems clear is this. A sizeable number of polys also identify ourselves as Unitarian Universalists. We keep running into each other at poly conferences and in cyberspace. There’s an e-mail list for poly UUs which has over 300 subscribers. A national organization called Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness meets annually at the UUA General Assembly. There appears to be a kind of natural affinity between religious liberalism and lifestyle pioneering.

“In Honolulu, the First Unitarian Church has had a polyamory discussion group meeting weekly at the church since 1994. The group’s meetings are listed in the church calendar and the church directory of programs. A number of long-time church members have been frequent participants in the poly group, and a number of people from outside have become members and friends of the church through attending the poly discussions.”

http://www.uupa.org/Literature/AreWeReady.htm

http://www.polyamorysociety.org/spiritual.html

They have a swingers’ group, excuse me “polyamorists,” that meet there and hook-up with other attenders regularly.

http://www.erosong.net/GA_Speech_2003.htm


17 posted on 06/14/2009 3:39:09 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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I’ve always thought of Unitarians as pagans who can’t kick the church-going habit. My personal observation is that 90% are non-observant Jews and lapsed Catholics. They think of themselves as “rationalists” but having been invited to speak at one Unitarian “fellowship” some years ago (on the morality of liberty) I was struck by the puerile anti-thought being expressed in the discussion session. Their only doctrinal fundamental, as near as I can tell, is “niceness.” Well, maybe the virtue of unbleached linen too. That makes them excellent neighbors and lousy decision makers.

Look at who have been Unitarian politicians.


18 posted on 06/14/2009 4:31:13 PM PDT by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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To: greyfoxx39

Next you’ll be telling us he’s a Democrat. /sarc


19 posted on 06/14/2009 4:55:12 PM PDT by Salman
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Unitarian/Universalists are atheists who have an occasional free Sunday morning.I once went to one of their services with a gal I was dating,who was a member of the "congregation".I knew *nothing* about them at the time.I was stunned and sickened by many of the things I saw and heard at this service...including the fact that the "reading" was from the works of the Berrigan Brothers of 1960's anti war,"Nixon is a war criminal",fame.

I stopped seeing that woman very shortly after this experience.

20 posted on 06/14/2009 5:21:40 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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