There is some good information in your post. but Arminius = Unitarian Universalism is absolutely ridiculous. Id love to have a real conversation with you about this if you would like.
Yes, asserting Arminius - Unitarian Universalism would indeed be utterly ridiculous, if I had actually said as much, which I did not. If you reread my post, it should be evident I am lamenting the present condition of the Remonstrant Church that Arminius founded, which if I lived in the Netherlands in the 1700s I probably would have joined, by the way, but my point is that its few surviving parishes (it has about 30,000 remaining members in half a dozen or so congregations in the Netherlands and one in Germany), have unfortunately, tragically, moved away from the very admirable doctrine of Arminius and the early Remonstrants and instead embraced an extreme post-Modernist theology, which is so extreme that church members are encouraged to write their own creeds, making belief in the Trinity effectively optional and causing the present day Remonstrant Church to be extremely close to the Unitarian Universalists or the contemporary English Universalists, in that the Remonstrants have become nearly post-Christian.
Nothing I was saying had any applicability to Arminius himself, except to the extent I would imagine he would be greatly indignant if he saw the current state of his denomination, and I doubt they will last much longer given the rapid decline of similar churches such as the UCC, so I myself would love to see a new Confessional Remonstrant Church, as there is not much in terms of traditional confessional churches in the Netherlands at present anyway, outside of Orthodox churches which have attracted some Dutch members but are not as popular as they are in, for example, the UK or the US, nor is there anything like the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden or the Norwegian Catholic Church. Instead one would likely have to join an aliturgical non-denominational megachurch, which is unfortunate.
Indeed the departure from a pure Wesleyan orthodoxy among Methodist churches and other Wesleyan churches which you would expect from the name would want to worship using his Sunday Service Book and follow the Patristic practices he re-instituted, such as weekly communion and fasting on Wednesday and Friday, coupled with the decline of the Arminian Remonstrant Church in the Netherlands into such extreme post-Modernism as to be borderline post-Christian, is an extreme tragedy, since John Wesley, largely thanks to influence from Arminius and the Moravians, actually managed to restore something like the faith and practice of the Early Church in the 18th century Church of England.
Ironically, I feel that next to isolated High Church Methodist parishes, a few of which are in the UMC but most of which these days are independent, for instance, the Epworth Chapel on the Green in Boise, Idaho, and a project to set up an Anglican-Wesleyan church by some Nazarenes in Indiana, it is the High Church Anglicans who most closely approximate what Wesley was doing, in terms of their retention of the Book of Common Prayer, and their emphasis on weekly reception of the Eucharist.
