tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4933657345140990360.post4218440828034879335..comments2010-04-19T10:44:20.912-04:00Comments on Generation Yes: News & Spirituality for Unitarian Universalists Under 40: Tuesday Links: Young Adults Are...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4933657345140990360.post-50301706727996455752010-02-13T10:31:06.543-05:002010-02-13T10:31:06.543-05:00I don't know about anyone else but I LOVE comm...I don't know about anyone else but I LOVE commitment and rootedness. I believe that having a stable support network will get me through anything and I'm looking forward to passing on many family traditions onto my new and growing family as well as creating new ones for us. I think that my religious community (Unitarian Universalism) is supporting me in my own path instead of scaring me into commitment and tradition like so many other religions do. Maybe the reason why some people view commitment and rootedness with suspicion is because they haven't seen the good that can come of it when it is created organically and not forced upon. There is freedom in being rooted and there is space to grow even if you are committed. I think we may need to have more supports out there in the world than directors. I think we need more peace than hurtful war. I think we need more understanding and listening than shouting and correcting.<br />That's the way I see it, anyway.Dawnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4933657345140990360.post-75114514771546691372010-02-09T17:43:11.239-05:002010-02-09T17:43:11.239-05:00Wow. Thanks for this link. It just goes to show yo...Wow. Thanks for this link. It just goes to show you that it's all in your frame of reference. The same things that Mr. Dreher finds depressing (that the "emerging adults" didn't latch onto the concept of objective moral truth, and that some of the people polled were "selective adherents" to a religion who "pick and choose" what they want to believe, some without even feeling guilty about it!) sound, on the contrary, hopeful to me. I celebrate that some people are not buying any one world view as the solution to all their problems or questions, but instead evaluate each aspect of their lives and their beliefs for themselves (gasp!). The study described seems to assume that everyone not deriving meaning and direction from a dogmatic religion must fill the remaining void with consumerism. Perhaps for a large segment of the population, that's true, but there are plenty of us who both reject absolutism and challenge consumerism.Benjamin Hallhttp://www.livebyheart.comnoreply@blogger.com