In-Person Services, Columbia, SC Sundays 11AM

Religious Humanism

40,000 years ago, our Cro-Magnon ancestors drove the Neanderthals to extinction. Working together in groups Cro-Magnon destroyed the bigger, stronger, and more solitary Neanderthals.

Having mastered groups, the individual moved closer to the center of things. There became an emphasis on direct experience and reason rather than hierarchal authority. The emphasis on direct experience and reason, humanism, spread to religion.  Thus, from the beginning, all the Protestant denominations grew directly or indirectly out of Humanism.

We will explore religious humanism a little more fully and look at how some of these insights can be of help today.

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Abundance? The Earth Is Asking.

Politicos on the Left and Right have used the buzz words abundance and scarcity for decades to justify their government policies and practices. But too few have ever paid enough attention to Earth’s all-encompassing ecology—and our UU Seventh Principle, “Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.”

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