• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    Here’s another semi obscure tidbit.

    Do you know what happened to the puritan religion? As in, the actual church that was famous for burning witches and forcing women to wear letters.

    It morphed into the United Church of Christ and, I kid you not, the Unitarian Universalists. (Among other splinters)

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      the Unitarian Universalists

      What? No! How? Those poor bastards, I thought they were unscathed. Well, at least their heart’s in the right place these days.

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        honestly its the heavy emphasis on morality that caused the evolution and growth as well as the splintering. They actually thought about what was right and wrong and see where they had it wrong and allowed current knowledge to be used. Im by no means trying to praise a religion but this is why you get the evolution to unitarian universalist.