Religion is for dummies?

After reading many self-gratifying posts below, I suggest the 'faith' professed by some would not be nearly as fulfilling to them if it did not include frequent opportunity to disparage others who do not share that same faith, or disparage others who subscribe to a spiritual practice they loathe.

So many of the posts below are variations on a theme: "I'm OK, you're not an ['authentic Christian']."

Blah.

"Relevant joke: "What's the definition of a Unitarian?" "An atheist with children." Hmmm...looking for any evidence the poster of this self-gratifying Coulter-Christian venom is infused with the Holy Spirit...nope, not seeing it..."

Hmm...good point. Unitarian-Universalists are not all Atheists and Agnostics, many come from many different religious backgrounds and practice their different religions while at the same time coming together in unity for a shared belief in the seven principles and wanting to work towards social justice. Atleast this has been my experience when attending many of the UU fellowships and churches around my own State. It's interesting to see how open they are to different interpretations of spirituality and how they enjoy discussing how one's spirituality and religion moves people to act towards social justice for all. The Hindu satsang that I am a part of meets at a local UU along with several other diverse religious groups (Buddhist, Pagan, Baha'i, Eckankar, etc). The UU opens their doors so that people of all faiths can come and share with one another and occasionally even I have been asked to speak about Hinduism at the UU just as they invite Muslims, Christians, Jews, and so many others to come and speak about different aspects of their religion (such as on social justice issues and how their faith asks them to respond or disasters or on issues of peace or the enviroment or so many other things). That there are Atheists among the congregates at a UU is well known, but they are not the only ones there in attendance at a UU.

"Interesting that a man who changed his religion more than once uses this in defense of religious faith. After all, if the pope can be infallible and then not (when you're no longer Catholic), doesn't that kind of undermine the belivability of religion in general?

Actually, it shows that Rod put some thought into the matter. Although I disagree his religious choices (I feel his next step is some compound in Oregon) I must respect his choices as opposed to a cradle-Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Buddhist etc who never examined his beliefs.

Kim M