If a non-practising Jewish Agnostic starts going to Unitarian Church services, has he become a Christian?

Question

Can someone be a Jewish Unitarian?

I really don't need this to be other Christians bashing Unitarians. If you folks could please not do a doctrinal answer, I'd really appreciate it.

I guess I'm really looking for an answer from the Jewish perspective....not the Christian....

If a person who considers himself Jewish culturally starts going to a Unitarian Church....is he still jewish?

Does he then become like a Messianic hypocrite? Or is possible to be both?

Answer 1

It depends on if he believes in J*sus as messiah and a god and things. If he does, then yes, he is a Messianic apostate. If he doesn't, then no, he's not. A Jew who goes to Catholic mass without believing it is a Jew, of course. But the instant he starts saying J*sus is god and moshiach or whatever...Xtian. Unless he renounces and comes back to the family. But this doesn't have much to do with Unitarianism as they are representative of all faiths.

Answer 2

We have aboutt 10 people, out of 165, who consider themselves Jewish and go to our UU church. We are not a Christian church and haven't been since the mid-1800's.

Every time someone asks about UU, someone else calls us a cult. The next section is from
http://www.stanuu.org/newfaq.html

Is Unitarian Universalism a cult?

No. Cults have three hallmarks. They are relatively new, they have a single, charismatic leader, and they share a single mindset. We have been around for 200 years. President John Adams and his son, President John Quincy Adams, were Unitarians. Our leader, the president of the UUA, changes every ten years. Sometimes we elect a person with charisma, sometimes we don't. As to our mindset, some of us believe in God, some don't. We have other differences. We are not a mainline protestant denomination, but we are far from being a cult.

So much for cults.

Someone else will tell you we are "The church that doesn't believe in anything". Wrong again. There are Presbyterians who are Republicans and Presbyterians who are Democrats. No one calls the Presbyterians "The church that isn't interested in politics". There are Catholics who love sushi and Catholics who hate it. (There are Lutherans who consider it "bait".) No one says "Catholics don't eat anything".

Some UUs believe in a supreme being and some don't. Some are in favor of abortion and some are not. Almost all of us believe evolution is the best explanation for the variety of species. We believe in a lot of things. We just didn't have to swear to think in lockstep to join our church.

Answer 3

You do not stop being a Jew even if you become an apostate. You may cut yourself off from the community of Judaism, but you remain a Jew -- and if you wonder, consider what happened under Hitler. There were people whose great-grandparents had renounced their religion, but the socialists (Nazis) still thought of them as Jews.

There are only two kinds of Jews - those who are observant of Torah and those who are not observant yet.If you attend a unitarian church, you are clearly in the second group. Do not stop learning about your heritage. You will be welcomed back.

Answer 4

If you are talking about the unitarian universalist church, they accept members of all different paths. I sometimes attend a UU church and am a practicing wiccan. Ask yourself this: if a horse walks into a garage does that make him a car? How much does what you believe to be true in your heart really have to do with the building that you are in?

Answer 5

No, the Unitarian Church does not qualify as a Christian church. It does not adhere to the truth and teachings found in the Bible.

Answer 6

Jews will not consider him to be Jewish if he is Baptised or claims to believe in the trinity.

However, there are many Christians who believe that anyone born of a Jewish mother is always a Jew. And since Christians are in the majority, they impose their beliefs on all of us. It doesn't really matter what the Jewish community has to say.
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Answer 7

As far as I know, Unitarian accepts all religions. They have prayers from Native American faiths, preach from Jewish and Buddhist writings, and from the Bible, etc. The one in my area also has a group for pagans. So, yeah, you can be both.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

As far as halacha (Jewish law) goes if you are born of a Jewish mother then you are a Jew regardless if you convert. Jews who convert to Christianity are still considered Jews until they die. Historically, Inquisition and Hitler killed anyone whose grandpa or grandma were converts to Christianity for they still counted them as Jews.
God gave us free will what you do with it is up to you.

Answer 10

Going to a church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to Micky D's makes you a Big Mac.