Friday, January 21, 2011

Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Unitarianism

"I think many forms of pantheistic atheism more agreeable to an imaginative mind than Unitarianism... Unitarianism is, in effect, the worst of one kind of atheism, joined to the worst of one kind of Calvinism, like two asses tied tail to tail. It has no covenant with God; and looks upon prayer as a sort of self-magnetizing—a getting of the body and temper into a certain status, desirable per se, but having no covenanted reference to the Being to whom the prayer is addressed." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (in his later life after he had once been Unitarian)

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