"Reeve: It gives me a moral compass. I often refer to Abe Lincoln, who said, "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion." I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do. The Unitarian believes that God is good, and believes that God believes that man is good. Inherently. The Unitarian God is not a God of vengeance. And that is something I can appreciate."
Reeve's quote on God from Shani's link..... (THANK YOU SHANI)
I post this for one reason, Christopher describes the Unitarian Church as it believes in a single type of God. I appreciate his views and he is partially correct. I AM A UNITARIAN, and what we have learned through the teachings of the Church is that ALL RELIGIONS (Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam/Muslim, Hindi, Pagan, Wiccan, New Age, etc) AND ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL, hence the name Unitarian. It is a very spiritual and peaceful church, that teaches the wisdom of all the religions and philosophies and allows one to decide which they want to follow and that will lead them to a spiritual oneness and peace.
I suppose what he may have done is generalize the whole Church as a group. Which many people do. Anyway it is quite nice that he did find some spiritual peace in a form he appreciated (that's what the Church is about in a nutshell). It sounds the way he talked that Unitarianism is what he needed.
I'll step off my soapbox now.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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