tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post3623787425960734325..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: Missions of Nonbelief: The Atheist Megachurch MovementPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-47566935934239769362014-10-18T16:50:57.793-06:002014-10-18T16:50:57.793-06:00There's something improbable if not absurd for...There's something improbable if not absurd for "freethinkers" to be doing anything in unison.<br /><br />M. Hulseth is quite right about "unitarianism," which started by denying the Trinity and ended up not believing in even one God, necessarily.<br /><br />In the end, "liberal" theology became "humanism," which became mere politics, and liberal politics at that.<br /><br />This is a very good paper on Unitarianism, which was financially obliged to merge with the theologically noncomplementary Universalism in 1961, which today is UUism, which is pretty much as M. Hulseth notes<br /><br />http://www.meadville.edu/uploads/files/101.pdf<br /><br />We've seen this movie before. Atheist "churches" are just cutting to the chase.<br /><br />In the end, the only common ground is where there isn't any.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-37716856467012047042014-10-18T10:49:53.971-06:002014-10-18T10:49:53.971-06:00In what ways do we think that this is importantly ...In what ways do we think that this is importantly different from a large Unitarian church, albeit with more of an evangelical cultural flavor? <br /><br />That is, is the relation of this phenomenon to a small Unitarian (or perhaps even some mainline Protestant) congregations<br /><br />the same or different than the relation between a Baptist-flavored megachurch and small Baptist congregations?mhulsethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10811391279325863814noreply@blogger.com