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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:20 PM
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Please for the love of Christ stop playing God
Bless America during the 7th inning stretch at baseball games.

Just play Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Why does this continue almost six years after 9/11?

What's next, communion!?!?

The national anthem IS ENOUGH.

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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:25 PM
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1. Empty peoply can never be too religious.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:33 PM
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5. Apparently, we aren't pushing enough lethal bad food in this country.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:46 PM
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8. heh.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:27 PM
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2. Yeah, it drives me absolutely crazy!!
When did the uber-religious nuts decide that they can take control of our sporting events?
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:30 PM
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3. Heh heh...none of that during WWE events
Also, the last time I attended/watched, the XGames had none of it either.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:32 PM
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4. I don't want God in the ballpark. I wanna be able to cuss if I need to.
"Why 'God bless America'? Why not, God bless everyone?" -- Howard Zinn

:)
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:40 PM
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6. What's next? The Lord's Supper...
I'll bring tater-tot hotdish:




:rofl:

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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:43 PM
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7. tatertots, yum.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 12:25 AM
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14. This actually happened at my ex-father-in-laws church once
Before Easter, they were having 'the Lord's Supper', and somebody brought pot luck...
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 10:59 PM
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9. noodle casserole
got to have "hot dish"... but please no "God" at the baseball game, he/she/it doesn't go well with the garlic fries and beer.
---
And now a joke that a friend sent me:

A (obviously private) kindergarten teacher gave her class a "show and tell" assignment. Each student was instructed to bring in an object to share with the class that represented their religion.

The first student got up in front of the class and said, "My name is Benjamin and I am Jewish and this is a Star of David."

The second student got up in front of the class and said, "My name is
Mary. I'm a Catholic and this is a Rosary."

The third student got in up front of the class and said, "My name is
Tommy. I am Methodist, and this is a casserole."


(And yes, Methodists do have casseroles at church potlucks; on every 4th Sunday at the one I work at.)
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 11:35 PM
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11. LOL...From my own exoerience I would add...
"My name is Ras. I'm a Lutheran, this is a picture of me not having fun"...:D
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 12:42 AM
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15. Huh
Edited on Mon Jun-04-07 12:42 AM by TlalocW
I've always heard it as, "My name is Susie, and I'm a Baptist, and this is our family's casserole dish." But now that I think about it, there were a lot of potluck dinners at the Methodist Church when I was growing up. :)

Maybe I just like Baptist jokes.

Why don't Baptists have sex standing up?
They believe it will lead to dancing.

TlalocW
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 11:34 PM
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10. Fortunately they don't play it at our MLB park
Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 11:40 PM
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12. If *HE's* blessing us, we better pray he stops because he's wrecking the country.
Edited on Sun Jun-03-07 11:40 PM by Tierra_y_Libertad
Either that, or all the pleas for his blessing are being put on the "Fuggedaboudit" shelf.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 12:25 AM
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13. I hate that song! . . . and so did Woody Guthrie, who wrote "This Land . . ." in response . . . n/t
.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 12:44 AM
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16. It sickens me, it really does. The less people believe in something, the more public they are about
supporting it.

Most people don't *actually* believe in God or America (as in, the Constitution, rights, all that stuff)
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