UUism has got to be one of the most democratic religious institutions on the planet. Yet, it is hardly democratic at all.
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“Die Early and Often”: Being Attis in the Anthropocene
“We are not going to be saved.”
The Original Heresy: Homesickness, Civilization, and Transcendental Religion (part 1)
The original heresy is the belief that the earth is not our home, that our real life is somewhere else—whether in heaven or a future technotopia. We embrace this heresy to make sense of that nagging feeling that something is wrong with the world itself. But the real reason we feel this way is because civilization alienates us from everything that makes us human.