Finally, a crusade I can get behind.

[mrissa]

Do you have to be Unitarian to join the Unitarian Jihad? Because I want to. Lots. I would even bring a hotdish. I could be Sister Repeated Shin Kicking Of Love and Peace. It would be good.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I think there's a school of thought that says if you believe in one God you're a Unitarian by definition, as the name says. So you may already qualify, anyway. Besides, they need some more people to vote against the agressive hugging.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

The best part of being a Unitarian is that you don't have to be a Unitarian. :)

Of course, where I learned how to be UU, we weren't allowed to call it "church" or drop off "Universalist" from the designation. But not all congregations care so much about these things.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Can I be Brother Balisong of Calming Self-Reflection?

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Only if I can be Sister Dope-slap of Respectful Cooperation.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Why do I think there's an MMRPG in all of this?

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh, can I play?

Best part is, I actually *am* a Unitarian. Since it's more or less impossible to be a lapsed UU.

[loup_noir]

I so miss Jon Carrol's columns. I wish the Chron would RSS them, because I keep forgetting to go check them daily.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Greetings, Sister! I am Sister Cattle Prod of Compassion. It's your turn to bring the bars.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's always my turn to bring the bars, she said complacently.

[pameladean]

You don't have to be a Unitarian to be a Unitarian, as long as you don't tell anybody else what to think. Unless they ask you to, repeatedly, in a panicky way.

I am reminded of the title-claiming that went on in the wake of the publication of Good Omens, in which everybody was becoming all the minor horsemen of the apocalypse. "I'm Waitresses Who Ask You How Everything is When You Have Your Mouth Full!" I think I'm the Handgun of Thinking it Over.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I wish fewer people concealed that they were thinking it over. It would be comforting to know that they were and not just hope.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I always wondered what a fundamentalist Unitarian would be like. Now I know, and now I can't stop giggling.

My kind of jihad

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

"We are Unitarian Jihad. We are everywhere. We have not been born again, nor have we sworn a blood oath. We do not think that God cares what we read, what we eat or whom we sleep with.[...]Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice people will run the government again! There will be coffee and cookies in the Gandhi Room after the revolution. [...]Startling new underground group spreads lack of panic! Citizens declare themselves "relatively unafraid" of threats of undeclared rationality. People can still go to France, terrorist leader says."

Hah! I'll join!

[landofnowhere]

Awesome! Count me in as Sister Battering Ram of Inclusiveness. I think the coffee and cookies in the Gandhi room afterwards really makes it for me (I'm UU myself).

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the notice in my UU newletterthat there was a Jihad planned. Unitarian Jihad sounds good to me! Count me in.

[redbird]

Can I be Sister Meat Cleaver of Looking at All Sides of the Question?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heaven knows somebody needs to be.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- especially since Brother Vorpal Bunny of Conservation can't brew the fair-trade coffee worth beans.

(Sister Blowtorch of Pragmatism checking in. The green beans in the blue dishes were cooked with anchovies; the ones in the white dish are vegan-friendly.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Fabulous.

I think that's a habit I picked up in California, automatically pointing out what is and isn't vegan-friendly (and making sure something always was). It doesn't seem out of place in our social circles here, though. Sometimes I have the whole litany in my head: "And that one's vegan-friendly, and that one's not safe for people with nut allergies, and that one's got wheat products in it...."

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Yah, and I usually like figuring out alternatives (and I often volunteer for the veggie dish just to ensure there's one *I* like, since I'm fussier about them than desserts (too much sugar, I can deal. Too much vinegar or mayo, not so well).

Still haven't come up with a pasaidic bourbon ball, though.