What Do Unitarian*Universalists Believe? Nothing — And They Are "A Tiny, Declining, Fringe Religion". . .

Just saying, as they say. . .

Unitarian*Universalists aka U*Us can thank the Rev. Dr. Eric Theodore Cartman III for plagU*Urizing the following questionable words of UUA Presidential candidate Rev. Peter Morales, as stated during The Candidates’ Forum which was held on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at the Prairie Star District meeting in Duluth, Minnesota, and posted on the 'Morales Addresses “Humanist/Theist” Question' blog post of his Peter Morales For UUA President news blog -

"What do Buddhists believe?

Nothing—and they are a great religious tradition."

So Buddhists believe capital 'N' Nothing, just like stereotypical Unitarian*Universalists as depicted on The Simpsons etc. I am still scratching my head trying to figure out how Buddhists can be "a great religious tradition". Isn't that like saying that Christians, Jews, or Muslims are "a great religious tradition"? Or proclaiming that Unitarian*Universalists are "a tiny declining fringe religion"?

What gives anyway? Isn't Buddhism ever so inclusively included amongst of those "obsolete religions, created for another time" that Rev. Peter Morales trashed in his 'A Religion For Our Time' sermon cum "stump speech" which publicly announced Rev. Morales' candidacy for President of the UUA? U*Us know, those "old religions" that are only good for contributing to "the darkness" of "tribalism,
violence, suspicion, hatred, and oppression" to say nothing of "hatred, injustice, prejudice, ignorance." I am rather confU*Used. . . How can Buddhism be "a great religious tradition" and an "obsolete religion" at one and the same time? If Rev. Peter Morales does not in fact include Buddhism amongst those other obsolete "old religions" what is his rationale for doing so? Perhaps Rev. Peter Morales needs to clarify matters by letting U*Us know just which "old religions" he considers to be "obsolete religions" and which of the "old religions" he considers to be great religious traditions. Come to think of it. . . don't some U*U religious leaders try to present Unitarian*Universalism, or at least Unitarianism (if not Universalism), as being included amongst those "old religions" when it suits their purposes to do so?

In case anyone is wondering what Unitarian*Universalists aka U*Us actually believe, assuming of course that they don't really believe capital 'N' Nothing like Buddhists. . . I would recommend reading the CUC produced religious tract, aka U*U religious propaganda, titled 'What Unitarians And Universalists Believe'* written decades ago by the minister emeritus of the Unitarian Church of Montreal Rev. Charles Eddis. I would also recommend taking that U*U marketing with a gigantic bag of salt since Rev. Charles Eddis himself, most if not all other Montreal Unitarians, and a whole lot of other individual Unitarian*Universalist U*Us, including other U*U clergy and UUA officials, have made a total mockery of practically every U*U ideal that Rev. Charles Eddis claims in it, and the information it contains is "obsolete" in various other ways. You might want to read what the UU World has to say about 'What do Unitarian Universalists believe' but it is no more reliable than Rev. Charles Eddis' obsolete and effectively fraudulent CUC tract. I always liked Rev. David O. Rankin's little red tract about what Unitarian*Universalists believe and preserved it for U*U posteriority here. I take note of the fact that Rev. Kenneth Gordon Hurto has also seen fit to preserve Rev. David O. Rankin's words for posterity by posting them to the UUA's Florida District web site. I could point people to other web pages claiming to state what Unitarian*Universalists believe but would prefer to stick to these "official" U*U tracts as a would not want to confU*Use people more than may already be the case. . .

In light of the fact that so many Unitarian*Universalists, including a good number of U*U clergy, top level UUA officials, and indeed some UUA Presidents. . . have repeatedly, and at times quite flagrantly, made a total mockery of pretty much every religious principle and ideal that Unitarian*Universalists claim to believe in in their fraudulent religious propaganda, I and a good number of other people can be forgiven for suggesting that maybe just maybe Unitarian*Universalists really do believe capital 'N' Nothing, since they apparently do not *really* believe in their own claimed religious principles and ideals.

What was it that Alex Trebek said?

Oh ya. . .

"Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination."

This sounds a lot like what Abbie Hoffman once said -

"Don't tell me what you believe in. Tell me what you do, and I'll tell what you what you believe in."

On the whole, regardless of who plagiarized who, and it looks a lot like quiz show host Alex Trebek *probably* plagU*Urized American political activist Abbie Hoffman. . . I think that Alex Trebek's take on things makes considerably more sense than Abbie Hoffman's famous saying. After all, all kinds of people tell all kinds of lies about what they do all the time. . . N'est-ce pas U*Us? It's not like U*Us, including Unitarian*Universalist religious leaders, and even including UUA Presidential candidates to say nothing of "elected" UUA Presidents, never tell lies about what they do is it? So I will continue to follow both the letter and the spirit of Alex Trebek's version of this famous saying by continuing to observe how Unitarian*Universalists aka U*Us behave and, after rationally and realistically assessing the actual observed "less than excellent" behavior of U*Us, I will make my own determination about what U*Us *really* believe which, most regrettably, is all too often the exact opposite of what U*Us tell me and other people what U*Us believe in, and even the exact opposite of what U*Us tell me and other people what U*Us do. . .



* Warning: Big fat U*U PDF file.