revsdd
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There are today "unitarian" as opposed to "Unitarian" Christians - ie, people who definitely define themselves as Christians but reject the concept of the trinity and are not part of the Unitarian Universalist Church. Whether they're considered "Christian" by other Christians is a different subject, and hard to do, since there's no universal body that gets to make the call on who is and who is not a Christian. One example of unitarian Christians would be the United Pentecostal Church. They call themselves a "Oneness" church rather than unitarian, possibly to avoid confusion with the UU Church. Some refer to the UPC as a "Jesus Only" church. Basically, while they don't shy away from "Father, Son and Holy Spirit," they believe that the Father and the Holy Spirit are just different titles for one God, and that the one God was manifested by Jesus in the flesh. So, for them, basically Jesus functions as Father, Son and Holy Spirit all in one, and there is no sense of one God existing in three persons, as in traditional Christianity. Rather than baptizing "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit," they baptize only "in the name of Jesus Christ." In most other ways they're pretty typical Pentecostals. Tongues, etc. They are very charismatic and very, very socially conservative.Some Unitarians identify as Christians but many do not.
Strangely enough I had a talk with someone from a United Pentecostal Church just a couple of weeks ago about their beliefs. This is just a very brief synopsis. It's much more complicated.