{"id":8680,"date":"2024-10-11T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=8680"},"modified":"2025-06-12T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:43:23","slug":"what-uus-believe-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/news\/blog\/what-uus-believe-116\/","title":{"rendered":"What UUs Believe (#116)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because UUs respect a wide range of beliefs, some think they hold none themselves.\u00a0 Untrue.\u00a0 Here are some UU beliefs:<\/p>\n

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  1. Respect for religious traditions.\u00a0 All religions, in every age and culture, have potential value for those who learn about them.<\/li>\n
  2. Freedom of religious expression.\u00a0 Individuals are encouraged to gather ideas and develop their own personal theology\u2014then to share it without fear of censure or reprisal.<\/li>\n
  3. The role of reason and conscience.\u00a0 The ultimate arbiter of religious beliefs is not dogma, scripture, or clergy, but each individual\u2019s deeply thoughtful, heartfelt decision-making.<\/li>\n
  4. The search for truth is never-ending. Keep an open mind and heart and, as you live and learn more, your beliefs will grow wiser and deeper.<\/li>\n
  5. The unity of experience.\u00a0 Faith and knowledge, religion and science, the sacred and the secular can align, if all are grounded in the same experienced reality.<\/li>\n
  6. The worth and dignity of each human being.\u00a0 Everyone has an equal claim to life, liberty, and justice\u2014no idea, ideal, or philosophy is superior to human life.<\/li>\n
  7. Religion should lead to ethical living. Good works emerge from a genuine faith\u2013one’s growing inner maturity is expressed in constructive community involvement.<\/li>\n
  8. The motive force of love.\u00a0 Human life flourishes when love inspires contributing to others\u2019 wellbeing, not to hurt or destruction.<\/li>\n
  9. The value of democracy. Records open to scrutiny, elections open to members, and ideas open to criticism enable people to govern themselves wisely.<\/li>\n
  10. The importance of religious community.\u00a0 \u00a0Peers are invaluable who care about, confirm, and support our lifelong learning experiences, as well as provide constructive critical insights.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Because UUs respect a wide range of beliefs, some think they hold none themselves.\u00a0 Untrue.\u00a0 Here are some UU beliefs: Respect for religious traditions.\u00a0 All religions, in every age and culture, have potential value for those who learn about them. Freedom of religious expression.\u00a0 Individuals are encouraged to gather ideas and develop their own personal … Continue reading What UUs Believe (#116)<\/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-8680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680","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=8680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8921,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}