They affirm justice, equity, and compassion in human relations, the rights of conscience, and the recognition and affirmation of the interdependent web of all being. Those Principles were not formed to fit the market. We do not offer spiritual assurances. We do not offer absolute truths. We believe that truth is eternally unfolding, that we must commit ourselves to truth as we understand it in these moments, while knowing that new truths may call for new ways of being and doing.
Time makes ancient good uncouth.
We do not demand submission to religious authority, obedience to pope or bishops or priests. Authority does not require intimacy, relation, or connection. Free religion depends upon it. We are looking for the self, the person, who can affirm the community. The Unitarian Universalist theologian, James Luther Adams, said that religious community is a place where you go to practice what it means to be human.