Re: [UUPoly-L] Location - Chicago area

[wabaldwin@aol.com]

 I've toyed with the thought that UUs should rename their buildings "temples" (I'm a Pagan after all, and many Jewish worship sites are called "temples") -- and do their services in the evening (me being a "night person").
 
 ;^)
 Bill
    
 -----Original Message-----
 From: polymike.rtfm@gmail.com
 To: uupoly-l@uupa.org
 Sent: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 5:42 AM
 Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] Location - Chicago area
 
  Thanks all for the encouragement... I've been aware for some time that UU is 
open to atheists. That's what led me to membership on this and another UU 
mailing list (UUfreethinkers). It's probably been mostly a matter of being 
awake, showered and dressed in time on a Sunday morning and then actually 
remembering that there's something I've been wanting to do. The other thing 
is that as an atheist, one has a natural tendency to shy away from 
"churches"... it's still a tad difficult to grasp that one could be openly 
atheist and still be welcomed in a congregation.

I have, over the last several years, lost the fear of "outing" myself as an 
atheist and I'm working on determining how "out" I want to be as poly. As if 
that isn't enough, I'm also a smoker and tend to vote republican... makes me 
a pariah on multiple counts <grin>.

Mike
please_rtfm on yahoo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon B" <circles705@yahoo.com>
To: <uupoly-l@uupa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] Location - Chicago area

> 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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