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[Charles Doyle]

That definitely IS opposite THEOLOGICALLY! A Quaker (an "orthodox" one, at least) believes firmly in an omnipotent Biblical God and a historical (as well as in-dwelling) Savior, whereas a Unitarian (as the quip goes) is someone who believes there is at most one god--to be addressed as "May We." (Actually, that's TWO quips.)

Well, I suppose a Unitarian CAN believe in Quaker theology, is he wants to!

My point was that the two groups are NOT "opposite" ethically or practically.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:27:55 -0400
>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: intentional

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>At 1:17 PM -0400 7/16/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>>It's interesting how Quakers and Unitarians--so opposite theologically
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>Opposite theologically?  How so?  From which theory of antonymy does this follow?  If it's just that Quakers are necessarily theists while Unitarians aren't, that doesn't yield oppositeness.  Unless, of course, Nixon is taken to be the prototypic Quaker...
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>--LH, intentional Unitarian

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>>--can still turn out to be the same "sort of people": that is,
>>"ethically-focussed, politically progressive, humanist" (in one
>>sense of "humanist," at least).
>>
>>--Charlie
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>>---- Original message ----
>>>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:05:25 -0400
>>>From: sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
>>>Subject: Re: intentional
>>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>>You are quite right about the intentional community.  I should have
>>>enlarged on that.  Instead, I got to thinking about "intentional"
>>>as it functions in the larger community of  the ethically-focussed,
>>>politically progressive, humanist, unitarian, quakerish  sort of
>>>people among whom a
>>lot of my life has been spent.
>>
>>>AM
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