Pacific Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

A Definition of Liberal Religion

From the web page of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, our sister denomination in Great Britain.

"They believe that:

• everyone has the right to seek truth and meaning for themselves.
• the fundamental tools for doing this are your own life experience, your reflection upon it, your intuitive understanding and the promptings of your own conscience.
• the best setting for this is a community that welcomes you for who you are, complete with your beliefs, doubts and questions.

They can be called religious 'liberals'

• 'religious' because they unite to celebrate and affirm values that embrace and reflect a greater reality than self.
• 'liberal' because they claim no exclusive revelation or status for themselves; because they afford respect and toleration to those who follow different paths of faith.

They are called 'Unitarians'

• because of their traditional insistence on divine unity, the oneness of God.
• because they affirm the essential unity of humankind and of creation. "

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