I’m an early 30s adult and I’ve been seeking an open minded group of people to explore my spirituality with. I was hoping that the UU church would be full of people wanting to discuss spiritual topics (our purpose, free will, concept of the divine, etc) without any doctrine. There is one UU church in my city and I planned on attending their virtual service on zoom just to get a feel for it. When I went to log in I saw that there was no service today, and instead it was being held by a national organization. I decided to check it out and I didn’t feel there was anything spiritual about it at all. The music was very cheesy and seemed like forced positivity that had no substance to it. They went on to discuss some “feel-good” multicultural stories, none of which had any real message of value. One was “community good, help others!” and another was “don’t impose what we think is best on other cultures”. Despite these messages the whole thing reeked of white saviour complex. There was no spirituality discussed, it honestly just felt like a circlejerk of virtue signalling. To top it all off, at the end a woman chimed in and told a story about some people from the Philippines (healthcare professionals) they had taken in and she felt the need to say “these people are actually very smart. We shouldn’t infantilize them, they’re not stupid” like it was a radical revelation. I was dumbfounded. Am I missing something here? Is this really what the services are?