What do Unitarian Universalists (UUs) Believe?

What do UUs believe?

Ours is a liberal religion that accepts people of many faiths. We are a "non-creedal" religion: we do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed. The hallmark of UU congregations is the mutual agreement among members to conduct their lives by certain principles that transcend all creeds. We call these the Seven Principles.

With historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism (UU or UUism) is a liberal religion -- that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason are the final authorities in religion, and that religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves.

(Excerpts from "We Are Unitarian Universalists", pamphlet #3047)
© Unitarian Universalist Association, 1995

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