For Prayer!
The Tennessee Volunteers have now gone just too far. We get it…. college football is laden with tradition. It seems like nearly every game in the fall is for some sort of traditional trophy, be it a bucket, an ax, or who knows what else. And it isn’t just the Vols…. this is homecoming week for thousands of schools across America, and you’ll find thousands of traditions, rituals, and annual events nearly everywhere you look.
And lord knows (no pun intended… you’ll get it in a bit) that players are huge on pregame ritual. Some eat something in particular, some don their uniform a certain way…. hell, some even throw up.
But this is too much. The University is under attack, because, they take a moment, before each home game…. to pray.
You heard me right… 100,000 people stop screaming for a moment… to pray. Can you imagine it? The nerve of these people!
And such is the state of our world. Have we truly fallen so far? I get it. Separation of church and state and all. And on that, I agree. But for people to object to this is lunacy. So not everyone is a christian. Most people believe in God in some form or another. And for those at the game who don’t…. hell, go get a beer. Take a whiz. It isn’t as if they’re launching the crusades here. Although you’d think they were, based on a statement from The Freedom From Religion Foundation…. yes, you read that correctly…
“This is a public university, not a Christian club. It’s open to all comers and should be welcoming,” said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the foundation and author of the letter sent to Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, according to the News Sentinel. “When you’re not religious or are of another faith and you get prayed at during events, it’s really very grating. It’s a sock in the gut for you to go for a sporting event and then be told to conform to someone else’s religion.”
We’ve got genocides occuring in our world daily. While you read this, 3 kids died of starvation. Our own kids are still overseas dying. And these idiots are taking the time to raise a stink about this. I’m all for freedom of speech… I served my country to ensure that morons like this have the right to say what they do. But I also reserve the right to point out the fact that they are just that… morons.
Maybe if more people took the time to do what they do in Tennessee… take a moment to share something like this…. maybe the world wouldn’t be the disaster it is today. Just a thought.
http://socyberty.com/issues/tennesse...#ixzz271SeQ4ff
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