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In reply to the discussion: You know for those who celebrate Christmas, [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,825 posts)Or non stance.
It's the only philosophy that lets me say "What would Moses do?", Good Friday and Easter are macabre, and believe a human being got married, started to be referred to as Rabbi, died a horrific macabre death, and naturally for his time and stature had a wife and kids. It's okay to believe in his words, reject every single other thing in the "New Testament" and believe not in a ghost - but in the words and example handed down with his birth anytime on earth . . . Regardless of when his birth to two Human beings took place.
And I'm of the mindset he was most likely born in March.
Politics aside you will be hard pressed to find two UUs that believe in the exact same thing outside of no one really knows until we die. . But - when you take the words (including the Gnostics and how they appear there) our "politics" as members are very much in alignment with his words.
I rarely jump into spiritual conversations at DU - but to me Christmas on speed is kind of thumbing our nose at stopping the world for the PDR "celebration". One human being - not a supernatural being with several ancient religions attached to it to make it more palatable for the people of the time.
So we (UUs) brought our European solstice based traditions of lit trees, merriment, food and celebration to America and stong armed America (much as Adams snuck in our philosophy of One God in a sucker punch - deism) into taking a day to be joyful at life and kindness and light - since we are all wonky and weird over the macabre PDR (Easter).
Arius would be quite proud of us - the Syrian Rabbi was murdered as a result of trying to stop the trinitarian imposition of pagan traditions being pegged on an extremely devout Jewish Rabbi - but alas - the Coptics prevailed.
That said as a UU - I will ask the universe to surround and protect Coptics Christians and Muslims in Egypt once again- at Christmas. It's where the split happened and where I'm of the mindset Unitarian's had our first declaration of defiance.
ETA - we made up for it (Christmas - reminding Christians that THEIR founders put all the Pagan/Earth Based Trappings on Christmas) by giving America non Sect Public Education. Look up Horace Mann. A man of his time who had to work within the framework of ignorance in the 1800's but his Unitarian personal cause was Public Education. Mine is feeding the hungry. And I LIVE it.