On Unitarians

Here is an interesting piece on Unitarians, rather tongue in cheek.
Garrison Keillor, he of Lake Woebegone fame has a radio show which RTE broadcasts on Saturday night, he could be the author of something like this:

What is a Unitarian?
Note: Years ago, Unitarians merged with Universalists -- or vice versa unnoticed by the rest of the world then and now:
Three principles underlie this merger:
1. A Unitarian is not quite sure what a Universalist is;
2. A Universalist is not quite sure what a Unitarian is ;
3. No one else cares much, either way.

A Unitarian is a person who goes to a discussion group in order to be the first to say, 'What do we MEAN by Unitarianism?'' He then tells everyone what SHE/HE means by Unitarianism, eats two brownies, drinks a cup of coffee, and goes home. [Before going, home goes to pub with minister and others to continue discussion, concludes happily in the knowledge that he/she is not sure what he/she now believes. (my addition in bold)] On the day of the church fair, he/she helps set up the white elephant table. A Unitarian likes to tell people 'Why I am a Unitarian." This is as interesting to people as "How I strained my back." Because of the tremendous amount of time wasted by Unitarians on the matter of their identity -- time that could be better spent knitting mittens for the fair ---it seems that the Unitarian question should be settled once and for all. Here, then, is the definitive statement (and let's hope that we can now get on to more important matters):
1. Only God knows what Unitarians believe, and then only on one of His good days.
2. A real Unitarian is very strongly anti-Trinity. He will not allow his children to read “The Three Little Pigs”
3. It is not true that Unitarians reject Jesus Christ. They would welcome Him into the church and immediately put him on the supper committee.
4. Unitarians accept the ten commandments, with the provision that they can be amended at the next annual meeting.
5. Unitarians believe that God means well.
6. Unitarians do not worship Mary as the mother of God, but they are glad that things worked out well for her.
7. Unitarians are not at all clear about the concept of the Holy Ghost: they think it has something to do with a Catholic Halloween party.
8. Unitarians enjoy Christmas Pageants depicting the old, old story; even though they don't like the plot.
9. A Unitarian Sunday school is a place where a child learns all about Jesus or all about the home life of a newt -- depending on who's on the religious education committee.
10.Unitarians will not be invited to the Judgment Day, because God doesn't want to listen to all those arguments.
How about that then!!!

Joe Mc Dermott



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