Actually, it first appeared in Anthology of Rejected Adages. Although it was later adopted by the church.
You see, I didn’t get this memo. Until we get our feces together and organize we won’t have nice things. Like fancy clothes, spiffy hats and tax-free status.
I’m thinking the atheist player should give a hip thrusting fucking motion and declare, “and I thank my parents for giving me the genes leading to this unbelievable athletic ability”.
Well, I was going to say, “God given ability”, but that doesn’t quite work.
I think he just got a quarter back.
To be serious for a second, the general test of any situation should be what would happen if the tables were turned. Would it be OK for someone to stand up before a public school graduation and say how thankful we all are to be free of a belief in God, would you be comfortable joining hands before dinner at a Muslim family’s house and thanking Allah for the food, how about pledging allegiance to “one nation without God”?
Many religious people have no idea how rude it is to assume that everyone else has the same beliefs that they do.
You keep on insisting that, but the repeated insistence is the odd thing out.
Most of the rest of what I’ve seen you argue here and in other threads, reads exactly like the misdirected and flailing arguments of a cornered theist. I mean, you more or less came out with the “just a theory” thing on a previous page here.
I’m not going to accuse you of lying about this, but at the very least you probably shouldn’t be too surprised if you keep getting mistaken for a religious person.
I’ve never heard of that happening. I have heard of believers standing up at funerals and telling the assembled that the deceased is burning in hell because they were an atheist or homosexual. Often, the clergyman who’s supposed to preside.
Oh, I’d expect most of them to engage in shameless hypocrisy and condemn the Muslims while praising the Christian, and at the same time still trying to pretend that they are all tolerant and reasonable. They’ll claim to be condemning the Muslim for reasons that have nothing at all to do with any personal animus towards Islam.
Unless there’s something in the Koran similar to Matthew 6:6, the Muslim player would at least be less of a hypocrite.
You’re quite right about Tebow elevating it up to a statement of religious faith. Your seething hatred of religion is noted.
That seems more like “somewhat irritated” than “seething hatred”.
Uh-huh.
I love the smell of concern/tone troll in the morning.
Not if, in your fanatical world, any-and-everything short of total acceptance is seen as persecution.
Here, put on these victimhood goggles.
Can’t you just picture a young Muslim receiver making a touch down, spiking the ball and yelling “Allah Akbar!” The talking heads on Fox News would absolutely have a full bore freak out.
Please don’t make me giggle that hard. The thought of all those heads asploding sent me into a fit.
Seriously, though, if some person did this for any religion other than Christianity, I imagine that us Merkins would see a great rewrite in our football rules. For that matter, if a Catholic player started praising various saints, I’m sure that it would cause a kerfluffle. I’m barely old enough to remember people worrying that JFK would let the Pope dictate his actions and policies as president.
Most people in my life know that I’m an atheist, but they are so accustomed to being around other believers that they are flabbergasted that I don’t want to join them in prayer, or don’t want to make a donation to their church. Really, don’t want to do either one…atheists don’t pray, and I’m not likely to make a donation that is supposed to “spread the good news”, though I have donated to churches when it’s something like a food drive.
Not shocking enough, it’s already done in just about every dance floor in America from ages 14 and up for the past few decades.
Only a small sign of Christianity can raise the ire of some.
And only a smaller sign of ire regarding the small sign of Chrisitianity can raise the ire in smaller OPs.
Yes, that’s the only thing that annoys people these days: an oppressed Christian meekly expressing his faith in the privacy of a football stadium on national TV. Since you’re obviously new to the internet, I recommend you start a thread expounding your views on one of these fun topics: the stupidity of tipping, the laziness of overweight people, the irritating nature of cats, your feelings on children who identify as transgender, or your views on whether or not people who’ve been through sexual reassignment surgery are “really” their new gender. That should be fun.
I thought Christians enjoyed being oppressed. Well, maybe not really being oppressed because that would be be, like, annoying, but the feeling of being oppressed is good enough. So being the majority and having a near-lock on the political process in the U.S. plus having to suffer mild criticism… why, that’s just like being crucified like Jesus was!
SUVs. Dammit, Marley, you forgot the SUVs, and how they are a necessary vehicle for people who usually drive solo in urban settings.