But those who love life, do not fear death. I hate to go. Suffering does not mean, it is. I have found that most Unitarian Universalists have counted it a blessing that they have not had the burden of needing to sustain lives of needless suffering out of some dogmatic belief that their lives are not theirs to let go of. The human task, and the task of religious community, is to create the social conditions, to create the world, and to create the kind of human relationships, through which that Creativity can transform us.
Transformation is a continuing, open-ended process .
Dogmatic beliefs, claims to have the only and the final truth, close the doors to process and discovery. No matter how comforting beliefs may be, when they are dogmatically held they bind us to one place and to one narrow view of existence. The transformation we seek in religious community is not mere personal salvation or personal assurance but the salvation, the transformation, the continuing re-creation of all humanity and all being. Ours is not a faith for another world. It is not a faith for other-worldliness.