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ity william adam sincerely believed that christianity was the one true faith and that the lives of the people of india would be improved if they adopted it rammohun roy succeeded in converting him to the doctrine of the unity of god rather than the trinity and thereafter adam was an enthusiastic advocate of the unitarian christianity of his day rammohun roy on the other hand never relinquished his hindu faith despite being a hindu unitarian when he came to england he brought his brahmin cook and continued to wear the red cord of his brahmin status and was eventually buried in a vedic tomb constructed by hindu stonemasons roy wished to reform hinduism by purging it of superstitious practices especially widow burning both adam and roy wrote to american unitarians to enlist support for missionary efforts in bengal however roy never expressed support for conversion of the people to christianity he emphasized the importance of education adam on the other hand wanted to convert hindus and muslims to christianity and thought that unitarian doctrines were more rational than trinitarian ones and therefore had more chance of succeeding so roy in continuing to be a hindu effectively supported the particular tradition of hinduism which was embedded in indian culture and philosophy in a letter to henry ware an american unitarian roy wrote adam on the other hand wanted to convert people of other religions to christianity taking the view that it was universally true for everyone regardless of their cultural context he did not get much support for his efforts at evangelism from unitarians in britain and america however either because they were disorganized and preoccupied with their own affairs or perhaps because they shared rammohun roy s view that every nation had its own form of worship and all those forms were acceptable to god eventually adam gave up trying to spread christianity in india and turned his efforts to the abolition of slavery instead here i find myself much more in sympathy with his efforts especially as he insisted that women should be allowed to fully participate in the meetings of the world anti slavery convention in june 1840 in london he had first got involved in the anti slavery cause in 1838 and subsequently joined the abolitionist cause in america too he became a unitarian minister in america and then canada where he was toronto s first unitarian minister but financial difficulties made his position there untenable as he fell out with the congregation he then moved to chicago and became a minister there he returned to england without his family around 1855 and by 1861 had renounced unitarianism and ceased his involvement with it instead he was writing a book criticizing auguste comte who had attempted to create his own universal religion a sort of precursor of alain de botton s religion for atheists william adam died in 1881 and left his money to dumfermline grammar school for university scholarships stipulating that the funds should be distributed irrespective of sex or creed or no creed parentage colour or caste nationality or political allegiance he was clearly a complex man fairly typical of the victorian period believing in the superiority of christianity but also embracing equality for women the abolition of slavery and the importance of education he is also noteworthy for having been converted to unitarianism by rammohun roy a hindu who persuaded him that the unitarian interpretation of the gospels was the correct one andrew hill writes roy convinced adam that the meaning of the greek preposition dia required that john 1 3 a verse of the prologue to john s gospel be translated as the bengali equivalent of the english words all things were made through the word not by the word translators of new testament greek in later generations would come to agree but in 1821 the view of nature of christ supported by this translation and espoused by adam and rammohun was rejected by orthodox christians as the arian heresy named for the 4th century ce dissident arius for this reason colleagues nicknamed him the second fallen adam unitarians have been chortling at this joke ever since but poor william adam brought his evangelical zeal across intact from his baptist faith and was met with lukewarm enthusiasm by his new unitarian colleagues ultimately he was disappointed in unitarianism and turned his considerable energies towards other causes mainly education and the abolition of slavery by all accounts he was a bit of a difficult man to get along with but he was clearly intelligent and enthusiastic having learnt sanskrit and bengali in preparation for his time in india and having committed himself to his chosen causes with dedication and zeal even being prepared to stick his neck out on behalf of the women excluded from the anti slavery convention of 1840 it is also likely that without his efforts the fledgling brahmo samaj would not have gained such widespread support as it did william adam was an interesting character and an illustration of the many conflicting currents of victorian activism moving as he did from evangelical circles to abolitionism a minor character in the drama of rammohun roy but worthy of study nevertheless yvonne aburrow sources abidullah al ansari ghazi 2010 raja rammohun roy encounter with islam and christianity and the articulation of hindu self consciousness google ebook andrew m hill william adam in dictionary of unitarian universalist biography http www25 uua org uuhs duub articles williamadam html posted by yewtree at 8 49 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels brahmo samaj interfaith particularity unitarian universalising tendency wednesday february 20 2013 fat is a social issue there was an excellent article in the guardian yesterday on obesity by rae earl obesity epidemic as a lifelong comfort eater i understand the emotional pull of food some of the comments on it were idiotic people said things like losing weight is just a matter of willpower and all you have to do is to eat less and exercise more if that were the case there wouldn t be an obesity epidemic my weight loss at the beginning of 2009 i was 18 stone and lost four stone on slimming world which focuses on eating healthy and filling food and still losing weight it worked well for me until i became a vegetarian i then maintained more or less the same weight for two years but wanted to lose more i have recently lost another four stone on lighter life which is a very low calorie diet this works by switching the body into ketosis which means that after the first 3 days you are just not hungry and weight loss is rapid the programme includes counselling and techniques to help overcome the issues which caused you to overeat it also switches you to food packs which provide the right nutrition and are different to normal food and on the total programme you abstain from normal food altogether and just eat packs i found this really helpful for breaking the cycle of food addiction i find it almost impossible to lose weight without being on some kind of programme where there is an expectation that you will turn up every week and have lost some weight paying for the group sessions is also a big motivator also lighter life and slimming world were developed by former fat people who actually understand what it s like to be overweight or obese many weight loss programmes don t offer support or techniques for maintaining your weight when you have finished your diet lighter life offers maintenance help continued access to packs when you need them and continued counselling sessions food addiction fattening food is addictive but unlike other addictive substances you can t just stop eating we need food to keep us alive you don t need alcohol drugs or nicotine though of course they can be really hard to give up too eating food with a high glycaemic index which means that the calories in it are released rapidly and used rapidly produces a spike in the level of blood sugar followed by a trough most people respond to the drop in blood sugar by eating again probably something else that is high gi this is addictive behaviour this diagram from st john s ambulance advice page on optimal nutrition for runners explains why if you are going for a run then a high gi spike may be good to give you the energy to get going but it is not good if you are sitting at your desk the aim of someone with a sedentary lifestyle should be to keep their blood sugar levels within the dotted lines on the graph so as not to experience a trough which leads to eating high gi food if you are addicted to tobacco alcohol drugs etc it is easier to remove yourself from environments where those things are available and they are not necessary to life unlike eating yes one can switch to healthier eating but that will probably only allow you to maintain weight it is hard to lose weight by healthy eating alone the weight loss resources site has a list of low gi foods emotional stress most overeating is in response to emotional stress i made a chart of my weight gains and losses over the years and all of my overeating and subsequent weight gains were due to some trauma in my life it is only by dealing with the underlying issues that i think i may have cracked it this time only time will tell but i am determined not to get so overweight again also it can be a vicious circle high weight leads to low self esteem so people self medicate by eating more to make themselves feel better that is not logical but human emotions rarely are this comment by rickylicious on the guardian article describes the vicious cycle of overeating and low self esteem really well here s an excerpt please do read the whole comment i hate being fat i can t stop eating i can t pull myself up by my bootstraps i keep trying i m sick of being told by everyone i meet that i need to diet or exercise more that much is self evident even to a stupid ignorant fatty like me i just get through each day as it comes as best i can then at the end of it all i eat and eat again then i feel disgusted with myself worthless the lighter life programme includes techniques from transactional analysis and cognitive behavioural therapy to help people to understand why they overeat and develop other coping mechanisms for emotional trauma feelings of emptiness and unhappiness even so i still struggle with the temptation to respond to any little feeling of stress with a binge i am still learning to manage my new lower weight as i have only recently finished lighter life social pressure just about every social occasion involves some pressure to eat fattening foods or drink highly calorific alcoholic drinks oh go on have another one it can t hurt we call these people feeders often they are people who have never had an issue with weight themselves and so just don t understand which foods are fattening and which are not the pressure to eat fattening foods is immense especially at weddings and family gatherings christmas work outings coffee with colleagues and so on and it s hard to go to the pub and have soda water especially if there are people who insist on offering you alcohol and think you are some kind of puritan if you decline fortunately my friends don t do this car culture i now live in oxford one of the most cycling friendly cities in the uk and even then it s sometimes scary which also has excellent public transport and is small enough to walk from one place to another however if you live in london which is downright dangerous to cycle in then that s just not going to be a good place to get exercise or if you live somewhere hilly it s difficult to cycle up those hills when you first start trying to get fit the culture of driving everywhere and constructing roads and other infrastructure so you have to drive to out of town shopping centres is surely a major contributor to the rise in obesity unhealthy food healthy food is harder to obtain and more expensive so many foods are packed full of processed starch sugar and fat vegetables are more expensive when i was doing the candida diet which cuts out sugar and yeast completely i had to visit three different supermarkets to get the products i needed most products are full of sugar loads of things are labelled low fat but hardly any are sugar free unhealthy food is widely available restaurants have now started offering calorie counted meals which is helpful but it is hard not to indulge in fattening things when everyone around you is doing so other health issues many people are overweight or obese due to other conditions such as diabetes thyroid conditions and so on it is not well understood how some people stay thin despite eating all sorts of fattening foods whereas others only have to look at a biscuit to put on several pounds i am not diabetic or anything but being obese caused me considerable joint pain and my legs are still not straight as a result of this walking long distances is really painful when you are obese cycling and swimming are good because they do not put stress on the joints but they are not available to everyone exercise why are there more food shops than swimming pools why are gyms so expensive to join why do they play awful pounding music what overweight or obese person would want to go to a gym full of skinny athletic people when we are convinced they are looking down on us for being fat and the sheer awfulness of physical education in this country must be a major contributor to the lack of exercise of many overweight people i hated pe at school i have no hand eye co ordination so could not play ball games i hated the picking of teams because i was always left till last how humiliating i was not very fit and already slightly podgy according to some though i now know that i actually had a healthy bmi i hated the competitive atmosphere and the gendering of sport and the way the bullies picked on me and my friends for being crap at sport and were allowed to get away with it nowadays i am told there is the ritual humiliation of the bleep test which is inflicted on pupils of pe and sounds like a cruel and unusual punishment i can honestly say that my experience of pe put me off all sport for decades nowadays i do yoga cycling and swimming but i do not see any of these as sport unhelpful comments the self righteous unsympathetic and generally unhelpful comments from others such as should you be eating that or every time i see you you are eating yes because it s lunchtime or suggestions on how to lose weight or comments that obese people die earlier and have heart conditions and diabetes and stressed joints or that losing weight is just a matter of will power or eating less and exercising more are really really unhelpful do the people making these comments not think that the obese person spends a considerable portion of their day mentally beating themselves up for being obese they do not need you to add 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