how badly does this Tebow/Christianity stuff tick you off?

Dalen · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:46 pm

man, of all the issues in life, how can something like Christianity and some fucking football player really rile you guys up so much? really?

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:02 pm

Dalen Wrote:

man, of all the issues in life, how can something like Christianity and some fucking football player really rile you guys up so much? really?

Come on dude. I know you don't follow football but he's currently one of the hottest topic in sports.

Not sure anyone's riled up as they are interested in the sociological phenomenon surrounding Tebow.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:42 pm

The whole "you can't explain it" argument is the worst. Last I looked, Rapist Roethlisberger is outpacing Good Christian Tebow in the rings department. You can't explain that! God must love rape more than hating abortion & circumcisions!

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:46 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

Not sure anyone's riled up as they are interested in the sociological phenomenon surrounding Tebow.

This.

Don't give two shits about the guy, almost never think about him, but hey someone asked. Or something.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:15 pm

Elvis Fu Wrote:

The whole "you can't explain it" argument is the worst. Last I looked, Rapist Roethlisberger is outpacing Good Christian Tebow in the rings department. You can't explain that! God must love rape more than hating abortion & circumcisions!

Perfect summation, though points subtracted for not going with "Rapelisberger."

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:48 pm

"I like rape."

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:58 pm

I think that hating on Christians is at an all-time high.....

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:46 pm

Really?

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:49 pm

Because I think Christians whipping themselves into a lather about being persecuted for their faith is at an all-time high. This includes this new bullshit argument that you have "freedom OF religion not freedom FROM religion", unless of course you want to build a mosque or belong to Mitt Romney's Cult.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:27 pm

I think making oneself or ones beliefs (or lack thereof) the victim is what's at an all time high, rating just above creating strawmen and just below making illogical conclusions based on other people's statements on the scale of shut the fuck up nobody cares.

Hegel · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:44 pm

I think using the phrase "at an all time high" is at an all time high.

OPA! · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:58 pm

#GodBless

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:07 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I think making oneself or ones beliefs (or lack thereof) the victim is what's at an all time high, rating just above creating strawmen and just below making illogical conclusions based on other people's statements on the scale of shut the fuck up nobody cares.

If that's directed at my statement, I'm certainly not a victim in any way and I don't think I've put anything in the shut the fuck up category. It was simply a generalization. Our country's in trouble and it's coming from the left and the right. Blind faith? All faith is blind, but it doesn't influence the outcome of a football game for sure.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

I think that hating on Christians is at an all-time high.....

great majority of people in this country ARE christians

cmon man

Hegel · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:37 pm

rogneeb Wrote:

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

I think that hating on Christians is at an all-time high.....

great majority of people in this country ARE christians

cmon man

And they're all cannibals, man.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:54 am

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I think making oneself or ones beliefs (or lack thereof) the victim is what's at an all time high, rating just above creating strawmen and just below making illogical conclusions based on other people's statements on the scale of shut the fuck up nobody cares.

If that's directed at my statement, I'm certainly not a victim in any way and I don't think I've put anything in the shut the fuck up category. It was simply a generalization. Our country's in trouble and it's coming from the left and the right. Blind faith? All faith is blind, but it doesn't influence the outcome of a football game for sure.

It wasn't directed at you at all.

I would love to hear more about "our country's in trouble" though.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:21 am

Seconded.

harry · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:34 am

Quote:

Obnerbow says:
Troubles coming from the right and the left.

Quote:

Acid Pappy says:
Hating on Christians? What Christians? ("Christian" is now an American-centric diversion from 2000 years of spritual inquiry). 1,000 groups in the US define members of their group as the ONLY the true Christians.

In my experience "faith" can sometimes be lucid, not blind.

Or to summarize, Rick Perry just compared himself to Tim Tebow at the Repub Debate tonight.

Hegel · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:01 am

harry Wrote:

Or to summarize, Rick Perry just compared himself to Tim Tebow at the Repub Debate tonight.

If that's true, it is further confirmation that I am happy to not be watching that garbage. I'd rather watch Jersey Shore. Just as many train wrecks.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:08 am

Oh it happened alright...

seafoam · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:24 am

WoWsers, life is so much stranger than fiction

Hegel · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:34 am

Ok. To be fair-ish. "I hope I am the..." is quit different, rhetorically speaking, than "I am...".

I am Joe Cicero and I do not endorse Perry's candidacy.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:37 am

It's embarrassing. He's the governor from TEXAS, and he can't even make a good football metaphor.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:33 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

I think that hating on Christians is at an all-time high.....

You truly have no idea how much easier it is to be a christian in this country than to not be one. I dont want to be harsh or an asshole, but seriously, that is complete and utter bullshit, with all respect. Try to empathize... if you lived in a country where 60%+ people claimed to believe in a magical house cat who's been slated to come back "any day now" and whisk (whisker?) away all his true believers, and people started making policy on it, trying to force your kids to pray to the cat, and nobody could get elected without swearing they believed in the cat / proving how many times they've been to kitty church / going to the right FLAVOR of kitty church because some are not as in-the-pocket as others, etc... It sounds silly because it's a cat but I'm not sure a magical jewish zombie sounds much less silly to me. All of this works perfectly as long as I don't have to have Magic Cat enforced on me. I'm not sure how I'm enforcing "do whatever the fuck you want" on you, nor how it's harming you in some way.

You have all the churches you could ever ask for. You have Magic Cat on the currency. Your right to do pretty much whatever your flavor of religion dictates is protected in the goddamned constitution. You have every liberty and then some that people in other places who are ACTUALLY oppressed for their beliefs would (and do) die for. But because not everyone believes in / makes policy according to Magic Cat, the country is in trouble and you are in some way oppressed.

I don't see it.

FT · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:50 pm

ceiling cat?

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