> On 4/16/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Well, the church gets you a building, tax exempt status, tithing, etc.
> >
> > Joanna
> >
> > Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > > Dennis Perrin wrote:
> > >
> > >> "A born again christian once tole me a unitarian joke:
> > >>
> > >> "'A unitarian is some one who believes in at most one god.'"
> > >>
> > >> Joanna
> > >>
> > >> I have a soft spot for Unitarians.
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't get why they need a "church" as a container for such squishy
> > > doctrines. Why not just be humanists, or liberals, or social
> > > democrats, or hippies?
> > >
> > > Doug
>
>
> Because in spite of the jokes most of them do believe in God;
> Unitarianism provides a place for non-secular humanists. My Mom, who
> babysat the Rosenberg kids briefly, tells me that there were many
> more Unitarians than Jews in the fight to save the Rosenbergs. In
> Los Angeles, when people gathered to pray as they were executed, those
> prayers were led by Unitarian minister Steve Fritchman , not by a
> Rabbi; I don't think a Rabbi could be found in the Los Angeles area to
> pray openly for the Rosenbergs.
The Unitarian Church not far from my house is filled with xtians. You couldn't tell their Sunday service from any other low church tradition protestant service. King James rather than NIV bibles in the pews too. I'm not sure why the congregation didn't just go to a Baptist church. I was disappointed in the dullness of their service.
The Unitarian service I attended in Olympia WA was very different from the one in MO. Still a fairly dull service however. It was no latin High Mass.
John Thornton