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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf a coach wants to pray in the middle of a football field, shouldn't that count as a time out ?
No one was ever stopping this man from praying on the 50-yard line that way. They were just saying he couldn't do it on free time.
Response to eppur_se_muova (Original post)
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lame54
(35,292 posts)jimfields33
(15,808 posts)Some went and prayed with the coach. No need for a time out.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Or better yet, if your coach needs to pray, shouldn't they be looking for a new coach?
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)and their inserting Jesus into the football scene?
eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)Pinback
(12,155 posts)They believe you have to be a missionary in your daily life and browbeat others into adhering to your religious beliefs. Its also a way of weeding out undesirables and giving special treatment to the ones who get with the program.
Notice its all about performative virtue, sanctimony. Hes not getting them to volunteer at a food bank or homeless shelter in off hours, just to convene the group to thank his God for blessing their teams football efforts, apparently.
I never played school sports, but I knew several guys who did. In high school, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes was a huge deal, and all the top jocks were participants. A bunch of them got involved in DeMolay, too, which was a junior arm of the Masons.
The phenomenon always struck me as depressing and stifling, but then I was already an agnostic by that time and on my way to full-blown atheism. So I was glad I didnt have to deal with that pressure. I pitied any kids playing school sports who didnt conform to the dominant paradigm.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 27, 2022, 02:49 PM - Edit history (1)
Typical christofascist behavior, though.
(IF God even exists, I will add.)
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)and it's despicable that the school administration allows the other team to be subjected to such other-worldly judgement.
And imbecilic, I might add.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)As suggested above, you might want to read more about the case.
zanana1
(6,121 posts)Well OK.