I am a Unitarian Universalist and I think you Evangelicals are brainwashed into fear that the bible is 100% literally true. In Unitarian Universalism I believe that God loves all people uncondiotionally and won't send anybody to hell for eternity and the bible does have errors in it and I think the real Jesus isn't the Jesus of the New Testament but a Rabbi who taught love, Paul made up a lot of lies about Jesus and twisted his own version of Jesus and that's what I believe. I accept people of all religions with love and peace and as they are for God's sake if there is a God which I personally believe there is.-Nathan.

". . . until of course I needed a Saviour,a comforter ,a Father,a Restorer,a friend,a King,a healer,a provider,ect.."

until of course I needed???

Has it occurred to you that is your problem?;)

That ALL religion satisfies a NEED and nothing more. You believe because doing so makes you FELL good. Like your drugs did.

You have simply replaced one addiction with another. There is no truth in either one.

Its ALL in your head.:eek:

[QUOTE=PeaceLoveandUnderstanding;604881]I am a Unitarian Universalist and I think you Evangelicals are brainwashed into fear that the bible is 100% literally true. In Unitarian Universalism I believe that God loves all people uncondiotionally and won't send anybody to hell for eternity and the bible does have errors in it and I think the real Jesus isn't the Jesus of the New Testament but a Rabbi who taught love, Paul made up a lot of lies about Jesus and twisted his own version of Jesus and that's what I believe. I accept people of all religions with love and peace and as they are for God's sake if there is a God which I personally believe there is.-Nathan.[/QUOTE]

I do believe the Bible is 100% literally true.  Not out of fear but out of love and respect for It's author. I have done a lot of searching on my own, both inside and outside of the Bible, to seek out my own understandings.  No one is 'brainwashed.'

God does love all people undonditionally and isn't sending people to hell.  People are rejecting His truth and are choosing not to spend an eternity with Him.  God gives us all multiple chances to figure it out but we still choose to ignore the truth.  It is convenient to not believe that Jesus is the Jesus of the NT to make your beliefs work. 

If you really did accept people of all religions with love and peace, you'd accept me and my beliefs and not call me 'brainwashed.'

If you really did accept people of all religions with love and peace, you'd accept me and my beliefs and not call me 'brainwashed.'

I was going to post something along the same line. Even though I am not an Evangelical Christian and I used to hold some pretty awful views of what Evangelicals are like, I've come to realize that 95% don't fit the stereotype that others have of them. Most are just passionate about their beliefs. It doesn't serve any purpose to call someone 'brainwashed' and only becomes a negative reflection on yourself.

Perhaps the original post was just poorly phrased.

Looking, I agree with you.  And I've got to add that I've never yet met a UU who could make a post like the OP.  There's quite a large UU congregation that my BIL belongs to and we go to services with them off and on:  I haven't heard the likes of that OP from anyone there 'in private'....it's so OOC for a UU.

If you go to the Jewish Discussion board, there's a thread titled "I'm a 27 year old...."  Read that, then come back and read the OP again.  I think it will become clearer what I was telling everyone....