Re: [UUPoly-L] Location - Chicago area

[Gordon B <circles705@yahoo.com>]

Mike and Bill, by all means give it a try.  Atheist are very welcome in UU churchs.  Our Minister Emeritus who passed away about 2 years ago included a letter in her service in which she proclaimed that she believed when you die, that's it, it's just over.  If our retired senior minister was comfortable as an atheist I can asure you that you would be welcomed !
   
  Gordon

WABaldwin@aol.com wrote:
  
In a message dated 4/24/2007 7:38:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
polymike.rtfm@gmail.com writes:

Not exactly UU though 
since I'm an atheist looking for community but haven't worked up the courage 
to actually darken the door of the local UU congregation (half because of 
being leery of "churches"

Well you know (maybe not?) that quite a few UUs are atheists. I'm pretty 
much a pagan agnostic, my wife is an pagan atheist, both long-standing UUs. Our 
first church, in Richmond VA...in the 1970s -- both the minister and his wife 
were atheists.

I understand that in the 1950s and 1960s, humanist atheists were quite strong 
amongst Unitarians...

(This being one of the things that is difficult to explain to my 2, more 
conventional, sisters...)

;^)
Bill 



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