WHICH GODS DO NOT EXIST?
No Gods Are Watching Our Behavior .
No Gods Are All-Powerful.WHICH GODS MIGHT EXIST?
God-Talk Might
Be a Way of Expressing Our Spiritual Dynamics .
The question of
the
existence or non-existence of gods
has not been hotly debated for many
years in UU circles.
This must be because most UU have
decided
that there are no gods.
At least, that the traditional ideas
of gods
do not correspond to anything in
reality.
But contrary to
the
expectations of many traditional religious people,
the abandonment of belief in the
traditional
gods
has not led to the abandonment of
concern
for matters relating to the human
spirit.
Most traditional religions simply fall
apart
if belief in their gods is abandoned.
This series of
World-Wide
Cyber-Sermons
will address the basic questions of
theology
in ways that can be understood by human
beings everywhere
and in all times of future human
history.
The disbeliefs
expressed
will probably be embraced by most UUs,
but since there is wide consensus among
UUs,
these questions would probably not
be addressed
in a typical UU sermon, delivered to
a local UU congregation.
But most of the
world
has never heard of UUism.
Almost all of the world's religions
have supernatural beings or forces
as central to their belief systems.
Thus, most of the people of the world
also believe that giving up belief
in various gods
will only lead to loss of all religious
faith.
Therefore, it is
very important to make explicit
what we Unitarian Universalists do
not believe.
We can show people who have known
traditional,
theistic religions
that the intelligent exploration of
human spirituality
does not depend on any forms of belief
in gods.
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