Friend is Unitarian Universalist:

[Aquila]

Here's a Unitarian Universalist's statement regarding what they believe...

I've come to believe that God can be seen in all religions. The same God that was manifest in the man Christ Jesus was present in the man known as Buddah. The same God spoke to the prophets of all faiths. However, this veil of human flesh often interprets the inner promptings of God's Spirit in the cultural lense that it knows and understands. Thus the Hebrew view of God is very Hebraic. The Christian view of God reflects the Grecian influences of early Christianity. The Muslim view of God reflects the cultural norms and values of the Arab tribes. The Hindu view of God reflects the concepts and cultural norms of the Hindi peoples. And given the flavor of Buddhism, even the Buddhist view of the divine reflects Eastern norms and culture. God can even be seen in the rationalist impulses of atheism, though again, interpreted through an atheistic lense.


If we get beyond the veil of flesh in every religion we see one divine light of truth reaching out to man to save mankind from evil, degradation, and abuse. When Jesus said that no man comes to the Father but by Him, the very same divine Spirit of Truth that has spoken in every other faith was speaking. We must not look at the vessel of the man Jesus Christ and think that it personally means that specific human being. It is the Spirit within that was speaking.

Therefore "religion" (meaning all religions) must be taken with a grain of salt. The truths and wisdom that they hold can be shared and honored, but the dogmas are inventions of men.

Thoughts?