I have met many friends who are Unitarians. Unitarians are smart people.
However, if you "add" them all up you end up with zero. It is just like
adding a bunch of non-zero vectors whose vector sum is zero. Am I
simplifying things? Moorad
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From: bivalve <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
To: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:59 AM
Subject: Unitarian, reincarnation, etc.
>I believe that the modern unitarians generally have their roots in
non-trinitarian Reformation-era splinter groups. A friend from Hungary
mentioned that there was even one group there that essentially reverted to
Judaism, to the extent that it was exterminated by the Nazis. Today,
Unitarians are not necessarily strong on the existence of any god, much less
a trinity. I would guess, but do not know, that this reflects a strong
Enlightenment deistic influence rather than simple linear descent from the
Reformation heretics.
>
>There may be some connection to more science-related threads in that some
theistic Unitarians actually take an ID-like approach, at least on the
individual level, i.e. the nice fellow upstairs does nice things with
creation.
>
>On reincarnation, the topic seems strangely familiar...
>
>Seriously, there is a minor thread of reincarnation within the
Judeo-Christian tradition, with the suggestion that Elijah's return was to
be by reincarnation or that John the Baptist was Elijah reincarnated.
Calvin cites this in his commentary in order to criticize it. Scientific
evidence, especially archaeology, can disprove a lot of reincarnation
claims, along the lines already noted-actual memories of a previous
existence ought to be accurate; statistically most people ought to be
reincarnations of ordinary people, etc.
>
>
>
>Dr. David Campbell
> "Old Seashells"
>
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> "He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe,
The Gold Bug
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