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   AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈 (andthisismrspeacock@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 11:51:54 JST AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈

   I just had another person, in my family no less, be SHOCKED that I belong to a church and follow a faith tradition.

   So I'm going to write this as a "don't make me tap the sign" thread I can link people to later.

   And this is kind of fraught, because one of the things about my religion is we think it's unethical to try to influence someone else's journey toward truth. So we don't really go out there buying billboards and shit.

   #UCC #UUA #Religion

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     AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈 (andthisismrspeacock@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 11:51:53 JST AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈

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     So once upon a time there were the Pilgrims, and I could write about that for hours, but the tl;dr is the Pilgrims had a special sauce about religion. The Pilgrims violently distrusted any kind of central authority: no pope, no king, no bishops or cardinals or presbyters or elder council.

     For the Pilgrims all doctrine is made by democratic vote of the church members. And ministers are hired and fired by the voters, not any central authority.

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈 (andthisismrspeacock@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 11:51:53 JST AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈

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     And since the Pilgrim religion was based on the church goers voting, conscience became a huge thing. People were expected to vote their conscience, and their votes became church doctrine.

     What this did was create a religion that could evolve based on the values of its members. And it did.

     While the 1620 Pilgrims were... not awesome on issues like slavery and sexism, they made a religion that could evolve along with the beliefs of the people.