The Quakers believed that righteousness would emerge from personal conscience; the Puritans believed that righteousness would be enforced (or “cultivated,” in the Unitarian version) by social institutions.
Month: September 2002
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Malevolent freedom.
Jay N. wrote: I know that malice is usually a second or, more dangerously, a third person perception. Still, I usually experience or see “sin” as having malice as an essential part. Chris Walton, is there a place for malice in your understanding of sin? What an interesting question! I think you are asking in […]
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An idea worth defending.
The Rev. David O. Rankin, in a ten-point statement of widely-held Unitarian Universalist beliefs, writes: We believe in the worth and dignity of each human being. All people on earth have an equal claim to life, liberty, and justice — and no idea, ideal, or philosophy is superior to a single human life. While I […]