Joining in on postgame prayers?

[Barsuk]

You are entitled to what you want to believe. And Kaylee, no, I am not a minister or trying to preach here. So, I guess a high school kid using the F word is appropiate at a sporting event? NOT in my book. Even a referee at the same game took note of the language, so there you go. The F word has NO place at sporting events, period. Zummo, can you tell me a major shooting incident at a high school before prayer was forbidden in schools? I challenge you to find them and post them here. It's not all the school's fault, though. It starts at home, but if it's not at home, where do these kids turn for positive influence? Just my opinion.

You're not trying to preach? Yammering on with some unsupportable rabble about how there were no school shootings back when we all prayed to Jeh-sus sounds like a sermon to me. Mainly because it lacks the facts and support structure to qualify for intellectual discourse.

And if kids dropping "fork" offends you, then I recommend you hie off to the wilds of Norway and build yourself an igloo upon some solitary ice drift. Kids have been using profanity for time immemorial, even (believe it or not) during whatever Norman Rockwell heyday you seem to have playing in your noggin.

I love you folks who believe the only way to "save" the youth of America is to outfit them with a Bible. Because, for you people, human beings can never be good enough as they are. Only when they start to think how you wish them to think, worship how you wish them to worship and - most importantly - exclude whom you exclude do they earn the right for you to declare them safe from moral harm.

How forking uneducated yet pretentious.

And how, I wonder, can America's young people be going down the toilet when just about every town I've ever lived in has big, opulent churches on every corner yet maybe only one or two underfunded youth centers?

Could kids possibly be losing their minds at an alarming rate because people like yourself continue to try to wedge your beliefs into everyone's lives, thus leaving every insecure and confused kid scared of what some book of old Jewish folklore has to say about them?

Know what would help our kids? Love. And, no, love does not come from Jesus. Love came well before Jesus, and it will be around long after Jesus is finally dead. Love doesn't judge people because they say "fork" at a sports event, love doesn't judge people just because they don't believe in a god and love sure as fork could care less whether or not someone says a prayer after some stupid prep football game.

Amen.

 

[Tom Petty]

I'm just pissed that my perfectly good Jeebus Loves Me joke got buried.

That's A material, cats and kittens.

if you would have said a forking prayer, this never would have happened.

 

[write then drink]

don't worship the One true God[/s] worship a different god

what an asshole thing to write

ok, so the 1.2 billion who believe in Islam, the 900 million Hindus, the 380 million Buddhists, etc. -- they all know now that they're praying to a false God, thanks to somebody named Handsome Harley on a sports journalism message board, who has cleared things up

 

[Some Guy]

The only temptation I have ever had regarding these post-game heaven huddles is to question how prayer on public school property suddenly became okay.

It's been OK sense the beginning of time. The constitution doesn't say you can't pray on public property (I'm pretty sure that would violate the Bill of Rights). It just says the school can't lead the prayer.

I have no problem with these things, so long as they are voluntary.

But, as a reporter, stay the heck away. You need to be invisible in these situations.

 

[lono]

The only temptation I have ever had regarding these post-game heaven huddles is to question how prayer on public school property suddenly became okay.

It's been OK sense the beginning of time. The constitution doesn't say you can't pray on public property (I'm pretty sure that would violate the Bill of Rights). It just says the school can't lead the prayer.

I have no problem with these things, so long as they are volunatry.

But, as a reporter, stay the heck away. You need to be invisible in these situations.

Staying the heck away is good. So is knowing how to spell.

 

[Tom Petty]

The only temptation I have ever had regarding these post-game heaven huddles is to question how prayer on public school property suddenly became okay.

It's been OK sense the beginning of time. The constitution doesn't say you can't pray on public property (I'm pretty sure that would violate the Bill of Rights). It just says the school can't lead the prayer.

I have no problem with these things, so long as they are volunatry.

But, as a reporter, stay the heck away. You need to be invisible in these situations.

Staying the heck away is good. So is knowing how to spell.

that makes sense.

 

[Some Guy]

The only temptation I have ever had regarding these post-game heaven huddles is to question how prayer on public school property suddenly became okay.

It's been OK sense the beginning of time. The constitution doesn't say you can't pray on public property (I'm pretty sure that would violate the Bill of Rights). It just says the school can't lead the prayer.

I have no problem with these things, so long as they are volunatry.

But, as a reporter, stay the heck away. You need to be invisible in these situations.

Staying the heck away is good. So is knowing how to spell.

here's one I know how to spell:

C-I-V-I-L-I-T-Y

You should look into it.

 

[Appgrad05]

Like a guy who says he is cool, you cannot trust a man who names himself Handsome.

This thread reminds me, though, of the idea that you have to take out the 20 percent on either side of the discussion, because they've long ago lost any sense of rationality.

 

[Stitch]

Can't anyone keep on point? I thought the post was a question about joining in on a team prayer, not the legal, ethical, emotional, spiritual, financial, or religious ramifications of school prayer.

Hijacking the thread and replying to said posts are just bad form. And keep the language clean. No need for someone to have a stroke.

 

[Kaylee]

Yes, because threads on here never morph into sub-discussions, and profanity is never used.

It's a fact of life on here. Doesn't mean you still can't speak to the original point.

 

[Tom Petty]

Yes, because threads on here never morph into sub-discussions, and profanity is never used.

It's a fact of life on here. Doesn't mean you still can't speak to the original point.

come on kaylee, the god damned boss has spoken.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

Now, I do not consider religion as something I should respect. An irrational belief in the supernatural irks me and a public display of this behavior disturbs me more.

And you'd probably be the first person to throw a fit if you felt disrespected by somebody else.