Comments on: Gunman Kills 2, Wounds 7 During Youth Performance http://www.bloggernews.net/116940 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Phillip http://www.bloggernews.net/116940#comment-437682 Phillip Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:31:22 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/116940#comment-437682 I've been to many Unitarian Universalist churches in the last decade. I've never found them compelling enough to attend regularly but I bear them no animosity; live and let live. One thing I did notice in the few times I attended after 911 (and in reading their own pastors' sermons posted on websites--you can do the research and find them), was a thread that "the United States by its policies brought the violence of 911 upon itself." I hope this church and all other Unitarian Universalist churches analyzing this horrible tragedy in the days and weeks ahead will use the same philosophical underpinnings on themselves to inquire why they would engender and bring into their own house such vicious hatred and violence. From the consistency of their own preaching for the last 7 years, clearly they have themselves to blame. I would disagree. But then, I also disagreed with their misguided analysis when it was applied to 911. I’ve been to many Unitarian Universalist churches in the last decade. I’ve never found them compelling enough to attend regularly but I bear them no animosity; live and let live. One thing I did notice in the few times I attended after 911 (and in reading their own pastors’ sermons posted on websites–you can do the research and find them), was a thread that “the United States by its policies brought the violence of 911 upon itself.”

I hope this church and all other Unitarian Universalist churches analyzing this horrible tragedy in the days and weeks ahead will use the same philosophical underpinnings on themselves to inquire why they would engender and bring into their own house such vicious hatred and violence. From the consistency of their own preaching for the last 7 years, clearly they have themselves to blame.

I would disagree. But then, I also disagreed with their misguided analysis when it was applied to 911.

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