Posted on October 16, 2013 by Maria Greene
Here's to the goal of not taking ourselves too seriously!
Sung by J.T. Bakes & Max Gibson
Lyrics
You are theist I am humanist
I think that you're naive
You have no proof to offer as truth,
You simply say "I believe"
New age bubbles get you in trouble
Lost in a feel-good fluff
True understanding is quite demanding
Praying is not enough.
Totally unprepared are you
To make a case that's plain
Maybe the incense, chants, and drums
Have ruined your poor brain.
You need someone older and wiser
Telling you what to do,
You are theist, I am humanist
I--will think--for you!
I am theist, you are humanist
You're locked inside your head.
You're existential, self-referential
Claiming that God is dead,
Occam's razor, Pascal's wager
Soul-less tautology
Wisdom, traditions, not erudition
Make much more sense to me.
Totally unprepared are you
To let go of your mind.
How 'bout a leap of faith, my friend
You might like what you find.
When you find that you're out of answers
You won't know what to do
I am theist, you are humanist,
I -- will pray -- for you.
We cannot agree on anything
Each has a point of view,
I am theist --- I am humanist
That's why we're UU.
by Meg and Scott Bassinson of Albany, New York.
About Maria Greene
Maria Greene is the UU Humanist Association's former part-time Executive Director. (Maria has stepped down at the end of 2017 to attend to some extended family health issues.) Maria is also a professional web developer who lives in Massachusetts with her husband, their three busy kids and assorted pets. Maria's home congregation is the First Parish Church of Stow & Acton, she helps coordinate the Concord Area Humanists, a UUHA local group and chapter of the American Humanist Association that meets in Concord, MA, she is a volunteer with the Secular Coalition for Massachusetts, and with the Boston Coalition of Reason.