The Bold Banner of the Unitarian Universalist

Sign outside of Unitarian Church: "Black Lives Matter: We Stand by Love." It is so ethically encouraging to see people willing to stand by love. I am quite disconcerted with so many other more straight-laced churches that still resist announcing their righteousness. The loudness of their virtue overrides all the Catholic and Protestant puritans which are, sad to say, quite behind these new trumpeted theological times. They woefully lag behind the more progressive niceness of their Unitarian Universalist brethren and sistern (I'm quite getting the hang of this inclusive language)... The praying Pharisee in the Gospel story doesn't have anything on these BLM trumpeteers. Think what the praying Pharisee would've been able to do if he had access to such banners in announcing his righteousness!

Anyhow the UC show they are quite evangelistic in bellowing this belief of a very appropriate Savior of niceness. What puzzles me is why there are still a few backward incorrigible churches that unfortunately still resist the universal mandate for diversity of compassion? One now sees with embarrassment and shame the great silence of previous centuries. We are being continually reminded that COEXIST is really the goal of humankind. I am continually taught by the  bumper banners when I am behind a compassionate car in traffic or just out for a walk and come across a lawn banner admonishing me to not hate and not be bigoted and not be intolerant  So I guess what I'm saying is I'm quite grateful for all the trumpets out there making sure I am aware of how such trumpets are so tolerant and simply wish me to be as they, to be a very nice compassionate tolerant coexist type of person. Of course one can't help notice the absence of such banners until only recently in the history of Crusader Christianity known for its bullying and not for its kind banners that stand by love. Such a notable absence is really unconscionable. How could any real religion not announce with a banner-trumpet their great progressive virtue? How could they not help shouting out for the victims that have no voice (womb dwellers excepted)? 

I must conclude that it is really a blessing that we are being so catechized today by the ubiquitous banner. Even the Bible must take a back seat to this new Scripture adorning the walls of these avant garde churches. Perhaps we can make the Bible over, just a few revisions that will make it more applicable and appropriate for the twenty first century man or woman or undecided. Maybe we can insert some passages in the Bible which cover the need for the fashionable identity politics. Hopefully it won't be long before all of Christianity will get in line for the promised land of platitudes, that humanitarian heaven so many of us are striving for. Yes, a place so much more comfortable and compassionate and equal than the stale out-of-date primitive hierarchical heaven that only the fundamentalist Bible reader seems to yearn for.