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UBF’s New Religion

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UBF leaders like to claim they are just a normal mainline church. This is categorically false. UBF cut all ties with the Presbyterian Church and formed their own new religion. Here is my summary of this new religion.

UBFism is the new religion invented by Chang-Woo (Samuel) Lee and Sarah Barry in 1961. It is practiced exclusively by University Bible Fellowship. The religion has not been comprehensively documented or examined objectively except for here on this new Wiki. The religion has been passed on by oral tradition until now. This new religion is a sort of hyper evangelicalism mixed with Buddhist and Confucian values, and bound by an ideology of sacrifice. UBFism is a shepherding system, where each member, called a sheep, has an appointed lifelong moral supervisor, called a shepherd. I have identified nine components of this religious system.

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Never H.O.T always C.O.L.D

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I recall Ben talk about H.O.T in an article awhile ago. As a refresh “HOT: honest (criticism is welcomed), open (everything is discussed) and transparent (no walls).” However UBF has never been this way. Instead it has always been C.O.L.D. COLD: Crafty (manipulative and deceptive), Obstinate (stubbornly insisting their own way), Lustful (whether it is power, the opposite sex, murder, or forbidden knowledge), Daily (continuously.)

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Top 5 Regrets

RegretsA Facebook friend posted this article that caught my attention and got me thinking: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. My first question was, “Do I have any of these five regrets?” I don’t exactly know why but my very next question was, “Would UBF people have these regrets?” Before I answer these questions, here are the top five regrets of the dying:

  1. I wish I had followed my dreams and done what I truly wanted.
  2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
  3. I wish I had expressed my feelings more often.
  4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
  5. I wish I had made more time in my life for nonsense and laughter.

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Are Islam and Democracy Mutually Exclusive?

Are Islam and Democracy Mutually Exclusive?

“Have I made it clear enough that people, no matter where they come from, all like to be free? That freedom is not a Western idea? There was one more thing about that myth the myth of America that I wanted to mention. The way some people talk about so called Muslim societies as if they are sort of trapped by what they call culture and religion, and there is no way that they can change. But this is a double standard, because we should remember that in the West, in the mid-nineteenth century, women did not have the right to vote, that there were many people in the U.S. and Europe who were saying that a woman’s place was in her home, and that the Bible says so. America has a history of slavery until the late 1950’s and early 1960’s the buses and restaurants were segregated and a lot of blood was shed in order for African Americans to gain equality. And the arguments that were used against women and against abolition are the same kind of arguments that are now used against change in relation to women’s rights in Muslim majority countries. Because, if Sharia laws are Muslim culture, then slavery and burning witches in Salem are the culture of this country, not Emerson and Thoreau and Martin Luther King. And the Inquisition is the culture of Europe, not St. Thomas Aquinas or Dante or Cortes. People should understand that we have our Hafez and Rumi and great poets and great philosophers, and that we also have a set of traditions that are regressive and oppressive and need to be changed (Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, pg 368).”Read More

Parenting – you’re doing it wrong!

Recently I read an article titled “A Manifesto Against ‘Parenting’.” It starts by claiming:

“The idea that parents can learn special techniques that will make their children turn out better is ubiquitous in middle-class America—so ubiquitous that it might seem obvious. But this prescriptive picture is fundamentally misguided. It’s the wrong way to understand how parents and children actually think and act, and it’s equally wrong as a vision of how they should think and act.”

The article goes on to explain how we should just be parents and think about what being good parents mean, instead of trying to transform our children into what we believe they should look like in that process called “parenting”.

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