Spirit Seeker

I do not pretent to speak for all Unitarian Universalists (UU's).  I want to learn what UU's have in common and see where I fit in to that picture. My ispiration for this post is a sermon that I heard a few weeks back by a former member of our congregation (she has since moved to a different UU congregation). It's easy to talk about what I don't believe.  There are a number of miracles in the Bible and other religious texts that may have metaphoric meanings.  For example, Jesus may have resurrected Lazarus from a spiritual death, but not a biological death.  As much as I like zombie's, I'm not buying it.  I also have a problem with blindly accepting what other authorities claim to be the truth.  Just because you have a white collar around your kneck, it doesn't mean that you're insights into spiritual truths are any more or less valid than my own. I appreciate the education that priests and ministers go through.  I can seek my own education to, thank y

While listening to a sermon at the Unitarian Universalist (UU) church that I attend, I heard that one of the core UU beliefs is that people are inherently good.  This is the opposite of what some Christians and others believe that people are inherently evil or tarnished with original sin.  A third possibility is that people are capable of both good and evil, which is true even if it sounds too random. The questions is, with all things equal, will people choose to do go or bad? I believe that people are inherently good and that they choose to do good things most of the time.  I have held this belief for most of my life.  If anything, I believed that everyone else was pretty good, while doubting my own goodness.  (There's that low self-esteem popping up).  Through a series of circumstances, I began to doubt humanities propensity to be good after watching people in my life do some really horrific stuff.  Does this throw my belief out the window?  It certainly makes me question the i