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Is Unitarianism the true religion of the coming civilization?
Jefferson didn't quite get the dates right, but I offer the provocation that he was right in spirit about Unitarianism. Unitarianism takes the best of the Christian tradition and broader European philosophical tradition, and unifies and purifies it of supe... posted 3w ago with 27 replies philosophy gnon theology

Is Unitarianism the

To respond to a good criticism: yes unitarianism today is the most obnoxiously liberal of the vaguely Christian religions. The historical reason for this though I think starts to undermine your point: when a society starts to break, one of the things the p... 2w ago

To respond to a good

You sound like Jordon Peterson. I gladly tip my fedora to you, sir, and take on the burden of being "fedora coded" if it means having precise beliefs. Yes it's worth getting caught up in the particulars of metaphysics. If you're going to build social and i... 2w ago

You sound like Jordo

This is another interesting criticism. You are saying we need a grand irrational missionary faith of some kind to coordinate society around, and unitarianism doesn't do it (at least directly). I actually agree with both of these things. But we presumably a... 2w ago

This is another inte

With respect to darwinism, obviously the early unitarians weren't darwinist. What I mean to imply is that there is actually a larger thread of coherent metaphysical development of post-christianity with fairly dense interconnection, running through things ... 2w ago

With respect to darw

Christianity makes narrative sense if you are operating in the prescientific hebrew frame of reference where the universe is dualistically divided into ontologically sacred and profane parts, the world is full of djinn, history is punctuated by unique meta... 2w ago

Christianity makes n

ok let's put the name aside. My "unitarianism" provocation is about content and history more than a branding proposal. Let's turn to the matter of Christian love and social-political interpretation of the sermon on the mount.... 2w ago

ok let's put the nam

your view is overall fairly coherent but I don't see the miracles, including your magical claims about consciousness. They aren't particularly necessary and as you admit the evidence is uncompelling by definition. You claim God wants to intervene here and ... 2w ago

your view is overall

I'll have to do another thread with the same content but different words. "Unitarianism" is a joke, but there's something here in the content that I think is very powerful. The anon who mentioned teilhard is on the right track. 5d ago

I'll have to do anot

You are right about these things. I will attempt what you have specified. But i'm still lacking two things: a good hook, and "what's the point". We can be as right as we like about philosophy and so on but if there isn't some actual operational program tha... 3d ago

You are right about