The 'I am Theist, You are Humanist Song' Courtesy Of Unitarian*Universalist U*UTube Video Guy JMan4723

The Emerson Avenger made yet another Unitarian*Universalist virtual friend this morning. It would seem that a young Unitarian*Universalist of as yet indeterminate aka ambigU*Uous theological stance going by the YouTube handle of jman4723 decided to stand on the side of love by sending me an R.S.V.P. invitation to become his friend on YouTube aka U*UTube. Apparently becoming friends on YouTube makes it easier to keep track of what your friends are favoriting, uploading, or rating, and makes it easier to share public or private videos. Needless to say becoming "friends" on YouTube makes it easier to keep track of what your enemies are favoriting, uploading, or rating, as well. . . ;-) Who knows? Perhaps jman4723 is familiar with the famous saying of that little known famous U*U the ancient Chinese general & military strategist Sun-Tzu:

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."

But seriously, I am confident that this gesture of jman4723 was made in bona fide good faith which is quite refreshing considering just how much bona fide bad faith I have encountered within the U*U religious community. I must say that it is truly galling for hypocritical UUA administrators, including UUA Presidents, and other U*U religious leaders to sign off their letters and/or "electronic communications" with the salutation "In Faith" when those letters and emails contain clear evidence of their bad faith. . .

But I digress. Before accepting jman4723's invitation to become friends on YouTube aka U*UTube I naturally clicked on the link to jman4723's YouTube channel to see just who he might be. The top level YouTube video being promoted was titled 'I am Theist, You are Humanist'. The still image of this YouTube video shows a couple of mainstream 97% White "Anglo Saxon" Unitarian*Universalist young men aka WASU*Us who are clean and nice-looking guys standing in front of what appears to be a rather large organ, of the kind that you often find in a fairly large church. In that JMan appears hail from Milwaukee Wisconsin I am guessing that the U*U "church" in question is most probably the Unitarian*Universalist congregation that is known as the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee. Nothing like a little truth in advertising eh U*Us?

On playing this YouTube video it quickly became evident that these clean and nice-looking guys (JMan would appear to be the fellow on the left) were not only articulate and bright (or even 'Bright' for that matter) but ALSO have nice-sounding voices and can actually sing quite well. Yes, it turned out that 'I am Theist, You are Humanist' is a song, performed by JMan and another clean and nice-looking guy, which they sung during a U*U sermon on humanism and agnosticism. This song does a pretty good job of dealing with the theist/humanist divide that is found in too many U*U "churches" in a light-hearted and good-natured humorous manner. It makes some very valid points about how *some* Humanists consider themselves to be quite superior to theists in an inoffensive manner. I gave it a five star 'Awesome!' rating even though it was also 'Pretty cool' and 'Worth Watching'. Unfortunately there is no way to give it a 12 star rating which would combine all of those descriptions.

Here are the comments that I left on this educational U*UTube video:

Thanks for inviting me to be a friend jman4723. I just viewed this amusing U*UTube video which deals with the theist/humanist divide in a lighthearted and good-natured way that none-the-less shows up some of the real problems that occur in U*U churches. I have added it to my favorites and given it a 5 star 'Awesome' rating. Keep up the good cop work! I expect however that I will be the "bad cop" known as The Emerson Avenger aka The Dark Knight of the U*U World for a while yet though. . . :-)

BTW jman4723 I am going to post this video to The Emerson Avenger blog so you may get a few more views as a result of this. I expect that a few other U*U bloggers will also post it to their blogs and will encourage some to do so. Can you save me the trouble of creating a transcript of the 'I am Theist, You are Humanist' song by sending me the lyrics? I will post the full lyrics of the song to the TEA blog as well if you do so. Give my regards to your U*U congregation.

The Emerson Avenger