The new radical rewriting of Article 2 is convincing evidence that UUA leadership remains dissociated from general — and shrinking — congregational membership. Many congregants consider Article 2, specifically the 7 Principles, to be foundational statements that drew them to Unitarian Universalism and continue to inspire them. Apparently UUA leadership…

God Is a Drunkard Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same…

I needed to write an essay about ducks and, therefore, I figured I’d go to the local library and check out some books. When I arrived at the building I saw, on a large sign, these words: “We have changed! For the better! Check out our New Progressive Catalogue!” Going…

Those who investigate the Inquisition, and most especially the witch trials, have come to understand that at the beginning of the era of torture, the confessions of the victims and their descriptions of Satan were quite varied. It was only over time that these confessions coalesced into a somewhat consistent…

A Review of “Widening the Circle of Concern” (Or, more accurately “Widening Covenential Coercion”) Many years ago, there were religious leaders so very fond of their enlightened ideology that they spent all their time congratulating themselves on their elevation. They did not trouble about their congregations. They did not care…

The Church of KendiAngeloism has just issued a new encyclical. Since it is the proclaimed duty of all liberals to follow these issuances in order to maintain their position in the church, I, of course, read it. Here’s my summation of the Words of Kendi: Guilt by association, Association Fallacy…

There is an objective Reality shared and agreed upon by all beings. The world inhabited by a coyote is the same world inhabited by humans, and amoebas. Life has a grand unified Truth that proves itself over and over again in the everyday existence of all beings. It is a…

The UU Inquisition: A Tragic Battle in the Culture Wars .. for punishment does not take place primarily and per se for the correction and good of the person punished, but for the public good in order that others may become terrified and weaned away from the evils they…

Metamorphosis Morowitz has presented the case, in thermodynamic terms, for the hypothesis that a steady flow of energy from the inexhaustible source of the sun to the unfillable sink of outer space, by way of the earth, is mathematically destined to cause the organization of matter into an increasingly ordered…