<p>The UUA has only been around since 1961, but Unitarians have been around for much longer. The UUA is a consolidation of two other things, one of whichy, the American Unitarian Association, was founded in 1825. Unitarianism was quite popular in the time of the Founding Fathers but I don't know if any of them were Unitarians, though. Another example, Harvard Divinity School was Unitarian at it's foundation in 1816.</p>
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The UUA has only been around since 1961, but Unitarians have been around for much longer. The UUA is a consolidation of two other things, one of whichy, the American Unitarian Association, was founded in 1825. Unitarianism was quite popular in the time of the Founding Fathers but I don't know if any of them were Unitarians, though. Another example, Harvard Divinity School was Unitarian at it's foundation in 1816.
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Unitarianism simply refers to the belief that there is one God rather than a Trinity. You can be a Christian and a Unitarian, or a Deist and a Unitarian. I don't think it's an exclusive term.</p>
<p>There are also athiest UUs.</p>
<p>You can't have a cross hanging up in your public school classroom, period. It's not "anti-Christian," it's just another thing you can't do--like pray in school, for example.</p>
<p>Banning "Merry Christmas," though I haven't seen it personally, appears to me to be done for the same reason that a student wanting to start a "White Power" club would be rejected while a "Black" or "Asian Power" club would be accepted. Christians have historically persecuted Jews and are now fighting against Muslims, just as whites have descriminated and put down blacks and people of other races. To many Jews, though this should not be the case, the cross is not the sign of another religion but a symbol of their persecution.</p>
<p>southeasttitan if you want to talk about how christians persecuted jews and muslims, surely you could discuss how the jews threw the palestinians out of their land and/or how muslims over there series of conquests basically forced-converted everyone to islam??</p>
<p>let's be equal now.</p>
<p>While the Israeli handling of the Palestinian conflict is wrong and to be condemned, it simply cannot be compared to the slaughter of 6 million Jews at the hands of Christianity (a twisted form of it, but Christianity nonetheless).</p>
<p>To say Christianity in any way caused the Holocaust is ridiculous. Surely you've done you're research about how the Vatican alone saved thousands of Jews by hiding them in seminaries and convents??</p>
<p>I strongly denounce September 11th, Holocaust, and any other religious conflict/oppression.</p>
<p>I really think it's time to focus on Palestine and Lebanon. There's a Holocaust going on in Arab.
I mean, we (Muslims) didn't have anything to do with Holocaust. Why overtake our territory?</p>
<p>Wow I lost track of this thread for a while.
Jarn: I definitely am going to look more into that Founding Father thing. It looks really interesting.</p>
<p>The Holocaust excuse for Jews wanting Israel is completely bogus. They started off with references from the Bible to justify their claim and then came up with a Holocaust-related excuse. It really bothered me that they (and of course I don't mean all Jews) came up with a way to profit off of a tragedy and gain some land. It's just twisted.
But Israel did win the war. And now all the hostilities have gone way too far to ever even try to get to the root of it all in the first place.
Damn Britain and France.</p>