Unitarian/Universalist Clarification

I made these diagrams to help with any confusion.


[EDIT - How to tell that you've communicated poorly: someone chastises you for being for advocating a viewpoint that you've been working against for years. (see comment below)

Being a Universalist, I'm constantly being attacked by orthodox Christians for be a Unitarian. I'm not trying to be disrespectful here. Just pointing out that there is a fundamental difference between the two. Christ being the focal point is the difference. Christian Universalism denies any other "path" to God save for Jesus. Unitarians either don't believe in salvation or define it quite differently than Christianity does. Orthodox Christianity puts everyone who believes incorrectly in an eternal hell. Christian Universalism defines hell as God's purifying work/wrath/love that pretty much everyone is going to go through. Unitarians typically find the whole notion of hell distasteful.

Oh, and I chose to represent God with the FSM since there isn't a more or less accurate way to represent God with graphics in my opinion. Hope this clears up any additional confusion. Be sure to write me an angry note that slanders my character if I'm not clear enough this time. ;)




Comments

Anonymous said…
love the diagrams scrybe... sexy
Anonymous said…
Well, THANK GOD Unitarians aren't looking for salvation anyway!

Something is SERIOUSLY wrong with you. Do you really feel the need to define everybody into religious filing cabinets? Does it make it easier for you to get through life?

Where did this come from? Did you just get a creative urge to be rude and disrespectful? Unitarians Universalists are no threat to you or your beliefs. They believe in love and peace, and -yes- are typically religiously curious people. That's not ok with you? I guess it's better to just accept *your* truth. You're probably right. Of all people...

- Appalled
Josh Foreman said…
Haha! I'm a Universalist... just to be clear.
Anonymous said…
Yep. I know what you mean: Christian Universalism is not Unitarianism.

timotheus wood of remedialist.blogspot

P.S. Josh, I was looking for a way to be a "follower" of your blog but do not see an icon for that sort of thing.

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