Passing back through quickly tonight… (with crappy eyes from the exam, argh)
Yeah I think he must be aiming against some kind of religious relativism, not really against us except by a radical misunderstanding.
Similarly, to be fair to unitarians, the UU church isn’t really unitarian either anymore. Doctrinal unitarian Christians, of whatever particular flavor, are quite religiously different.
He doesn’t sound like someone who’s going to give enough of a real poot about fairness and the truth to distinguish, though, even if he thinks we’re still wrong.
Speaking of being fair, I’m worried that I still haven’t gotten a good handle on his soteriological category, whether broadly Arm or Calv. It doesn’t help that I’ll sometimes find Arms going practically Calv, and Calvs going practically Arm, temporarily of course, in order to try to defend some flavor of final unrighteousness – but I can’t really tell for sure yet, despite my (probably over-hasty) reply earlier today, whether he’s being consistently one or the other, or whether he’s usually one but bringing in the other where he thinks that works better for the moment. Anyway, I should be less critical about his own beliefs because I don’t feel confident I’ve got them fairly right yet.