The
Urantia Book Fellowship Section
(aka, The Urantia
Brotherhood, The Fifth Epochal Fellowship, etc.)
Has the Fellowship lost its direction?
Is the Fellowship simply The Urantia Brotherhood with a name change, or has it
morphed into something else?
The reasons why I finally resigned from The Fellowship
Did
the Fellowship roll over and play dead when it caved in to Urantia Foundation?
Here's $10,000 dollars.
Will you be my friend now? I promise to be good and obey you. I promise I won't
print God's Revelation ever again ("the first and only Uversa Press edition of The URANTIA Book"), cross my heart and hope to die. And thank you so much for giving us our
books. Oh, I do so hope we can be friends again. Can I come to Paris too? Please?
I'll do anything you want if you'll just be my friend again.
appease: 1. To bring peace, quiet, or calm to; soothe. 2. To satisfy or relieve: appease thirst. 3. To pacify or attempt to pacify (an enemy) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle. -American Heritage Dictionary.
Where are the real leaders of the Fellowship? Where are those who will stand up for the Fellowship and the Revelation and DEMAND that the truth be told, demand that the Urantia Foundation stop lying, and stop the lawsuits against believers?
An Assessment of the Foundation and Fellowship
"Agreement"
"The Fellowship shall
retain possession and control of the disposition of the unsold copies of
the Uversa Press edition of The URANTIA Book. These copies shall not be sold. ...
The Fellowship shall make a significant donation to the Foundation's
Translation fund."
Radical Critique of A New Framework
by Phil Geiger
"The Fellowship had
its brief fling with secular glory, finding a new reason d'etre in its role as
a competing publisher of the Urantia Papers. Judge Schroeder's ruling shredded
those sails rather quickly, and now, with no religious roots to fall back on,
the Fellowship is so lost that it can't even see straight. Unsure of its own
identity, it seems content to settle for whatever crumbs fall from the master's
table. ... In sum, this is a horribly flawed document, laced with
short-sighted, hypocritical, scapegoating, divisive, self-serving revisionism -
all in the name of unity!"
"Perpetual Printing Fund?"
What does
"perpetual" mean to the Fellowship? "On behalf of The Fellowship
I wish to thank you for your generous pledge of $XX.00 to the Perpetual
Printing Fund. This fund will be used solely for this and future printings of
the Urantia Book." -John Hales, March '96
perpetual: adj. 1. Lasting for eternity.
2. Continuing or lasting for
an indefinitely long time.
3. Instituted to be in
effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration: a treaty of perpetual
friendship.
4. Continuing without
interruption.
See Synonyms at continual. 1. (adj.)
Without end; forever:
- eternal
- nonstop - ceaseless - constant -
continuous - endless - enduring -
everlasting - infinite - never-ending - timeless
- imperishable - undying - unending -
American Heritage
Dictionary
The Fellowship's Pledge Drive.
Should you give, or just say NO?
"This letter is a
sincere appeal for your monetary contribution to help The Fellowship achieve
its mission of disseminating the teachings of The Urantia Book."
Norm's opinion: It's
the Revelation, the book itself, that needs to be disseminated, not necessarily
"the teachings." Let people decide for themselves what "the
teachings" are.
Changes Made to the
Text of the Revelation in the Fellowship's First Uversa Press Edition
102:8.4 Changed "the
eternal social" to "the external social" because someone thought
it sounded better.
Also see... Were the INSTRUCTIONS
CLEAR?
The Amicus Curiae Document
A brief high point for the Fellowship.
" ...many members of
the Fellowship are deeply concerned that certain interpretations of their religious
traditions about The Urantia Book have been improperly and incorrectly
presented as factual evidence in an effort to persuade the Court to validate
certain religious convictions over others."
Is this what the Fellowship aspires to be?
"IUA is not a religious organization,
is not associated with any religion..."