Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him “don’t understand” their religion.
“I’m going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,” Kinzinger said on X, formerly known as Twitter, responding to Trump’s Christmas post. “If you are a Christian who supports him you don’t understand your own religion.”
Kinzinger, one of Trump’s fiercest critics in the GOP, said in his post that “Trump is weak, meager, smelly, victim-ey, belly-achey, but he ain’t a Christian and he’s not ‘God’s man.’”
Unitarian Universalists don’t identify as Christians, and Christians specifically disavow any association to UU.
I’ve always been a bit confused there. Historically I understand it came out of Protestantism. But my friends that attended a Unitarian Universalist “Church” seemed to do Christian things. But Is it correct that not all Unitarian Universalist have a church? Or perhaps it could be that because I went to a Lutheran Church and took religion classes with Unitarians they just were able to be conversant about theology in an intelligent and respectful way, and able to see positive aspects of it. It’s also been a while since I thought about John Adams and that form of Deist Unitarianism that believed in some God as a ground for some things.
Thanks for the correction.
So full disclosure, I am not UU, but I have done extensive research on it during my search for meaning, and I talked with several members.
UU essentially holds the position that no one religion is “correct”. They try to draw wisdom and inspiration from many sources of text. In a single session, they might recite works from the Torah, The bible, The Vedas, the I Ching, etc. They have no shared creed. Some are ok with being called “church”, some are not. All are welcome, all view points are considered.
So that means they don’t call themselves “Christians”, but they don’t disavow your religion either. It does have some good teachings, and those things are worth following.
https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe