Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
Tuesday, 14 December 2004 
|
John Horgan critiques the new Universist movement. I think he's put his finger on the reason that I've never felt a strong need to join Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell's Brights.
... I have no plans to sign up with the Universists or any other areligious
group. First of all, I'm just not a joiner, more out of laziness than
anything else; I avoid commitments that might jeopardize my sports- or
sitcom-watching time. An organization for freethinkers—one of the
Universists' self-definitions—also strikes me as oxymoronic, like an
anarchist government. Isn't the point of being a freethinker eschewing
categories like Satanist, Scientologist or Universist?
Of course, according to Beliefnet's Belief-O-Matic, I'm not such of a godless, damned soul after all. My top scores (a higher percentage indicates a greater congruence of personal beliefs with those of the faith in question):
posted: 10:06:18 AM |
 D. Gorsline, Proprietor
   
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
