ANTI CHRISTIAN UNITARIAN Intolerance And Bigotry Raises It's Ugly Head Yet Again. . .

Not so long ago Universalist U*U minister Rev. Scott Wells lamented that Google AdWords statistics revealed that very few people run Google searches which associate Christianity with Unitarian*Universalism in a 'Boy In The Bands' blog post titled -

'CAN GOOGLE ADWORDS TELL US HOW MANY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS THERE ARE?'

Rev. Wells' exact words were -

"Variations of Unitarian, Universalist and Christian get very few hits — a scant couple of thousand a month. Little wonder it’s relatively easy to get to the top of the Google search, but there’s not many people looking, so no reason to buy ads for those names."

I posted a comment somewhat waggishly suggesting that Rev. Scott Wells might have better luck in terms of Google searches that associate variations of Unitarian * Universalist with the search term "anti-Christian" in light of the fact that The Emerson Avenger blog quite regularly receives visitors who have arrived here as a result of running Google searches for anti-Christian Unitarian*Universalists as it were. . . Needless to say Rev. Scott Wells promptly "memory holed" that comment which reminded him of the anti-Christian intolerance and bigotry that is all too common in the Uncommonly Anti-Christian Denomination aka Unitarian*Universalism.

I received yet another TEA blog visitor minutes ago hailing from Hickory, North Carolina, who had run the following Google search -

UNITARIAN ANTI CHRISTIAN

Besides finding my blog posts titled 'Why Is The Unitarian Church Anti-Christian?' (which BTW is a verbatim quote of a previous Google search that directly associated Unitarian * Universalism with the term "anti-Christian") and 'Anti-Christian Unitarian Universalists?!! What Anti-Christian U*Us?', that ALL CAPS Google search for -

ANTI-CHRISTIAN UNITARIANS

leads to some very recent posts on Democratic Underground website.

A post by kwassa titled 'Unitarians generally are both anti-Christian and anti-God. Speaking as a Unitarian...' says -

I was born into it. Grew up in it. Am no longer, though under some definitions anything I do is Unitarian. The "G" word almost never appears in a Unitarian service. While anti-Christian sentiment would not be expressed in the sermons, or talks, or whatever it is now called, it is very common prejudice among the members.

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So here we have someone who claims to be born into Unitarian Universalism, and raised as a Unitarian Universalist, asserting that "anti-Christian sentiment" is a "very common prejudice" amongst Unitarian Universalists aka U*Us.

A post by toddaa titled 'That's a bit of a stretch' says -

UU churches are all very different. The one I attend is pretty diverse and while I can't say there are many Christian UUs, I wouldn't say they are prejudiced against them. I think the problematic issue of the "G" word in UU is that the community is so diverse, that it gets lost in translation. As a militant fundamentalist atheist, I prefer the company of the pagan and pantheist members of our congregation, than the shrill, arrogant haters, such as myself. Our congregation also participates in a community interfaith group working for social justice with other churches, synagogues, and mosques in our city. We've had a number of Christian and Muslim guest speakers and musicians in our sermons as well, so I'd say your experience is not typical. That said, it does have a strong humanist history.

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I must say that it is more than a little bit refreshing to see a Unitarian Universalist atheist self-identifying as a "militant fundamentalist atheist" and even numbered amongst other "shrill, arrogant haters" in The Uncommonly Anti-Religious Denomination.

And so it goes U*Us. . .