Reply #56: I'm a Unitarian [View All]

[JustAnotherGen]

We generally aren't Christians per se - since we don't generally follow the Christian Theology and demand for a Trinity and generally - the rising/ascension/PDR are of low importance to many of us. And most certainly not the idea that he was a 'super natural being'. Just a regular rabbi trying to get by in Jerusalem. ;-)

But we are the folks who brought you the Christmas Tree, A Christmas Carol, and spit in the eye of the Government that said it could not be celebrated (hold over from the begging in England on Christmas day - they/the poor were considered distasteful.

So while Christians the world over have as their holiest day - Easter. . . for UU's of the Judeo Christian tradition - this is our holy day. The birth, the words, the actions. I'll leave the macabre of the death and resurrection to the Christians.


So -

Yes - I celebrate Christmas with a tree, a wreath, christmas carols, a reading of A Christmas Carol (kind of nails the UU theology as Dickens was one of us), the giving of gifts, the extra care and feeding of the last, the least and the lost (following HIS words/actions only - not anything else in the New Testament) . . .

But I also celebrate it as my high holy day in the Judeo/Christian tradition as a Unitarian.

The commercialized Christmas brought to you by the UU's - :rotfl: - Please whether a follower of that rabbi's' words or not - keep his words in your heart.


Sorry - couldn't answer your poll. To me - this is the Unorthodox holiday - the Christian indentification should be used in a poll like this at Easter time. :pals:

Are written above was written with positive intent. ;-) I just get frustrated that the holiday which is really an unorthodox one, where we integrate our earth religions/faiths practices into it - always gets assumed as a 'Christian thing'. Theirs is Easter. Ours is Christmas.