Don’t leave out circumcision!
And the vital question of whether Tebow takes off his shoes at the door when he goes home after the game.
This week in Internet Debate Monthly, Tu quoques, if we try it enough maybe no one will notice.
Czarcasm asked me this too and I told him his question, as well as any response I give, would be irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
But ok, you want me to write something both factually true AND offensive?
You are ugly.
It certainly has raised some ire on SD, hasn’t it?
All sorts of thing raise peoples’ ire. I wouldn’t even put that subject in the top 500.
I guess we can characterize Fran Tarkenton (former NFL star quarterback) as intolerant.
Tarkenton was the son of a Pentacostalist minister who was active in religion and needed special church dispensation to play in the NFL on Sundays. While he likes the idea of a player who appears to be a role model, he seems to be questioning whether that player needs to drag his religiosity into public displays on the football field:
“As a player, though, I never understood why God would care who won a game between my team and another. It seemed like there were many far more important things going on in the world. There were religious guys on both teams. If God gets credit for the win, does he also take blame for defeat?”
Tarkenton must be some kinda atheist! 
Have you heard George Carlin’s take on penalties being dished out in the NFL for taunting?
(major paraphrasing):
mmm
Can’t the winning team just earn the right to fuck the losing team’s wives and girlfriends afterward? I mean, the games are long enough already.
Also, if Tebow gets to do it, so does everyone else. That means next season we can have lots of different competing religious displays on both sides. Whoever wins, it means their religion is the one true religion (at least until the next game).
I want Zoroastians, Hindus, Muslims, Mormons and Snake Handlers all battling it out on the gridiron for God’s love.
Believe it or not, that’s how India’s first major cricket tournament was organized. The teams were the Muslims, the Parsees, the Hindus, and the Europeans (one assumes as mostly Christian), and The Rest (Buddhists, Jews, and Indian Christians…I am not fucking making this up). This tournament was held from 1892-93 to 1944-45.
Again, I am not fucking making this up. The biggest sports tournament in India was held on completely religious lines for over 50 years. Personally, I preferred the old Australian annual Smokers vs. Non-Smokers match, but there you go.
I think you’re fucking making this all up.
It looks like from your list the Parsees and the Christians dominated early on, but then the thousand-armed Hindu deities were able to take control, ending with Allah bodyslamming the competition and establishing dominance near the end of it. I guess Islam is the one true religion
I wonder if any Christian here wants to make a bet, if they’re so in awe of Tebow and thinks his lucky wins prove anything beyond the chaotic nature of sports: If the Broncos with Tebow as the active starting quarterback wins the Superbowl this year, then I’ll admit Christianity is the real faith. If he doesn’t, then you guys renounce Christianity and become atheists. Deal?
Maybe you should learn to spell atheists before you criticize us capiche? 
I’m betting on the snake handlers. Nobody is going to tackle a guy with an armload of snakes.
Oh, good. You’ve returned to the thread. May I trouble you for a response to my post #142?
CBS and various sports news reports must be new to the internet? That’s where these complaints against the guy kneeling are being espoused. I frankly wouldnt have known anyone cared either way if he squats, dances, or kneels, except for it being made a huge deal by the media every week or so. People apparently don’t like it enough to complain vocally.
Maybe it’s the media cherry picking drama queens who are bitching about it, maybe there are enough atheists out there who just can’t deal with someone else believing something they hate. Maybe it’s a little of both.
I posted about it here.
Bad rhetorical questions are new to the internet?
Yes, Tim Tebow’s excessive enthusiasm for all things Jesus Christ bugs some people, and he would do no one any harm by turning it down by a factor of 10 or so. I find the people who think he wins football games by magic more annoying than Tebow himself, but that’s me. In the meantime, yeah, people sometimes use the internet to express annoyance about things. Tim Tebow is just one entry on a very long list, although I do think that he’s already on par with topics like tipping in that he’s been talked to death, everybody has their opinion, and there’s almost nothing left to say about him.
I’ve read that thread, and I don’t consider that it provides an adequate response to my question.
May I trouble you for a response to it in this thread? I’ll be happy to reiterate it:
If you insist that they are expansion, dark matter, and dark energy, would you please explain within this thread, if it’s not too much trouble, why it is legitimate to characterize those three things as beliefs?