What Unitarian Universalist Believe by Seeker Roy

This is a great essay by Roy on his blog "Mythopoetic Seeking".

Here's an excerpt:

"I’ve recently come full circle through the discovery of an anecdote shared by Sophia Lyon Fahs as a preliminary remark to a talk she gave about the natural religious impulses of humans. She related that she had given a talk to a group of Quakers, and that after the talk one of the Quaker gentlemen had said to her “I don’t believe a word thee said this evening, but I believe in thee.” Reverend Fahs said that through this affirmation she “discovered in an unforgettable way what it means to be a true Quaker.” When I read the anecdote I immediately thought “You can’t beat that, you just can’t.” For me, if there is a religion that is Unitarian Universalism this is it. “I believe in thee.” “We believe in one another.” And if a day ever comes when every human being on the planet, in their heart of hearts, looks into the face of every other and says “I believe in thee”, then the Messiah really HAS come, and that sweet sound you hear in the rustling of the branches nearby really is the angels singing “Hallelujah”."

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I googled around and found that mythopoetic means:

1. Of or relating to the making of a myth or myths.
2. Relating to or denoting a movement for men that uses activities such as storytelling and poetry reading as a means of self-understanding.

It is a word created by J. R. Tolkien. WOW...

Roy is our esteemed Storyteller...