[Religious]Tube

YouTube was one of those creations you thought, “I wish I’d thought of that”. And with good reason, its creators sold out to Google for a billion dollar sum last year. Soon after YouTube’s creation, smaller niche YouTube alternatives emerged, pornography being one of the largest and fastest growing distros of the video-sharing website’s format. And now, Religious groups, never to be outdone, have started up their own YouTube franchises. 

When I first heard this name, I thought it was a joke. But apparently JewTube is a unique video file sharing website that caters for the Jewish community, featuring acts such as Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G and Borat aswell as artists such as Matisyahu and Lenny Kravitz. Top tags include “anti-semetism”, “zionism” and “jewlicious“. Yeah, it’s jewlicious alright.

Check out JewTube here.

Though always outgunned but never outnumbered, the muslim response, YouTubeIslam, is sponsored by the highly successful preacher-man Yusuf Estes.  Howver, most of the videos currently on the site are Estes’ own. Top tags include “convert”, “Nasheed” and “Catholic”.

Actually, I was doing a bit of research on Estes, and it turns out that he had a sort of spiritual re-awakening and converting to Islam after a business associate did the same. Cool Runnings.

He’s got a bit of a fanclub now and can be seen regularly on The Islam Channel aswell as his own fansite.

The largest of all religious sites based on the YouTube format is GodTube, a site aimed at “helping people connect with Jesus Christ and experience the gift of eternal life”. Not doing much, then.

Check out GodTube here.