{"id":6675,"date":"2023-03-10T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T23:16:23","slug":"unitarian-test-of-a-healthy-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/news\/blog\/unitarian-test-of-a-healthy-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Test of a Healthy Religion [#44]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great blessings and great harms may emerge from religious teachings.\u00a0 How might one assess a religion\u2019s value?\u00a0 Methodist minister Howard Clinebell suggested posing several questions.\u00a0 He asked whether the particular religious thought and practice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Builds bridges or barriers between people?<\/li>\n<li>Strengthens or weakens basic trust in the universe?<\/li>\n<li>Stimulates or hampers inner freedom and personal responsibility?<\/li>\n<li>Encourages a mature or immature dependency relationship with authority?<\/li>\n<li>Advocates well-defined, significant ethical guidelines or ethical trivia?<\/li>\n<li>Increases or lessens enjoyment of life?<\/li>\n<li>Values or deprecates people\u2019s feelings?<\/li>\n<li>Helps people move from a sense of guilt to forgiveness?<\/li>\n<li>Inspires the acceptance or denial of reality?<\/li>\n<li>Encourages intellectual honesty with respect to doubts?<\/li>\n<li>Oversimplifies the human situation or faces its tangled complexity?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great blessings and great harms may emerge from religious teachings.\u00a0 How might one assess a religion\u2019s value?\u00a0 Methodist minister Howard Clinebell suggested posing several questions.\u00a0 He asked whether the particular religious thought and practice: Builds bridges or barriers between people? Strengthens or weakens basic trust in the universe? Stimulates or hampers inner freedom and personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/news\/blog\/unitarian-test-of-a-healthy-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Test of a Healthy Religion [#44]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}