Presenter: Joanne Green
Kurt Vonnegut was a writer first and Unitarian second.
Although his father and grandfather were Unitarians, he himself
participated infrequently in Unitarian congregations. Vonnegut is best
known for his novel Slaughterhouse Five, based on his experiences in
Dresden during WWII. According to one biographer, Vonnegut was a
genuinely religious man who believed that morality can exist without
traditional religion. Many of Vonnegut's beliefs and practices were
very much in tune with Unitarian Universalists and he spoke at many
Unitarian gatherings, including the General Assembly in 1986.
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