{"id":7215,"date":"2023-07-21T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:58:45","slug":"on-religious-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/news\/blog\/on-religious-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"On Religious Truth [#63]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unitarian Universalism differs\u00a0<\/span>from\u00a0<\/span>mainline faiths primarily by recognizing that truth\u00a0<\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>multi-faceted\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>elusive.\u00a0 UUs affirm that we all learn\u00a0<\/span>many\u00a0<\/span>different partial truths in our life, but believe that \u201cthe whole truth\u201d is inaccessible to human grasp.<\/span><\/p>\n

They accept that we earthlings are saddled with imperfect vision and incomplete knowledge.\u00a0 They offer no\u00a0required\u00a0<\/span>pathway to God\u00a0or enlightenment.\u00a0<\/span>Instead, they affirm the numerous worthy routes followed by Unitarians and others throughout history.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, Unitarian Joseph Priestley came to his truths via the scientific method. Margaret Fuller was a transcendentalist who used her intuition to explore divine mysteries. UU acknowledges the value of scientific, feminist, rational, spiritual, and activistic routes to truth, or any blend thereof, that one might choose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, UUs advocate coming to religious truths experientially. Their beliefs\u00a0<\/span>are not so much revealed to them as\u00a0 experienced\u00a0<\/span>by\u00a0them<\/span>. They encourage their children to develop\u00a0 their own working wisdoms, instead of taking their truths primarily from their parents or tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n

All who participate in the UU cradle-to-grave religious adventure have the opportunity to develop a faith that is personally meaningful, intellectually sound, socially relevant, and spiritually\u00a0 expansive.<\/span><\/p>\n

UUs\u00a0<\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>not\u00a0<\/span>ashamed\u00a0<\/span>to confess that “truth comes in small installments.” They find that modest and well-lived insights can be ample for sustaining a fulfilling existence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They also believe that facing this real and known world with integrity is preferable to yearning for an imagined\u00a0<\/span>and unknown one\u00a0<\/span>later on.\u00a0 As Unitarian Henry\u00a0<\/span>David Thoreau stated, “One world at a time, my friend, one world at a time!”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unitarian Universalism differs\u00a0from\u00a0mainline faiths primarily by recognizing that truth\u00a0is\u00a0multi-faceted\u00a0and\u00a0elusive.\u00a0 UUs affirm that we all learn\u00a0many\u00a0different partial truths in our life, but believe that \u201cthe whole truth\u201d is inaccessible to human grasp. They accept that we earthlings are saddled with imperfect vision and incomplete knowledge.\u00a0 They offer no\u00a0required\u00a0pathway to God\u00a0or enlightenment.\u00a0Instead, they affirm the numerous worthy … Continue reading On Religious Truth [#63]<\/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-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","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=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8851,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/8851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}