My ex-wife (emphasis on "EX"......I turned gray-haired early in life thanks to her.....Daddio-on-patio wrote:Universalist Church. Bastion of liberalism and, in my experience with family as members, anti-Christian. The location appears appropriate.
) and I were married in a Unitarian church in El Paso in January of 1973. We chose it because neither of us had any particular religious convictions at the time, and that church seemed to be OK with our lack of conviction. But we did have to meet with the pastor a couple of times before he would marry us, and I remember being very surprised at the the time when HE said that, while he was open to the possibility of God's existence, he didn't believe in God. When I asked him how that could be consistent with being a pastor, and the way he explained it to me was that, in the Unitarian viewpoint, it wasn't the knowing of God that was important, it was the seeking after God that was important - and that one could seek after God, without yet knowing if He was real or not, and that would fulfill the church's expectation of its adherents.41 years later and as a saved Bible-believing evangelical Christian, while I naturally believe that the seeking to find God is important, I don't believe that salvation is in the seeking; rather it's in the relationship one has with Jesus, and that it isn't possible to know the things of God without that relationship. So I cannot agree on a spiritual level with that Unitarian philosophy, IF my understanding of it is consistent with their doctrine.
I don't know if what you say about unitarians being anti-Christian is true or not (I am uninformed about it), but I have noticed that the Unitarian church does seem to be a bastion of leftist thought.