Lady Checkmate's headline: "Atheist Lies: "Public Prayer is Offensive"
...and yet they NEVER speak against Muslims praying, several times a day, all over the place (work, school, public squares, etc.). Have you noticed that it is only Christians praying that offends them?
This one is more of a double standard that shows the hypocrisy of the alt-left. Many on the alt-left defend Muslims, the same Muslims who call for them to be beheaded, thrown from rooftops and stoned after falling to the ground, basically, defending those who want to murder them. And these same individuals persecute, hate and accuse Christians of hating them for disagreeing with them and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Where is the logic in that scenario?
Surely it can be simplified into one verse (several actually). They actually defend that which is ungodly and persecute that that is of God. That have chosen darkness over light.
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Since I've never seen prayers to Allah at a football game (have you?), I don't think the two are comparable. Do you?
True story: I was at the park this morning, and a large group of Nepalese Buddhists gathered at the river to pray and give offerings. We didn't mind them, they didn't mind us, and we both learned a little bit about each other. Nobody pressured anybody to a different belief. That works just fine.
Oh, think of sports people who are genuinely devout and the best in their discipline. Moeen Ali, Mo Farah, Allyson Felix?
They differ from Tebow in not being second-raters who want to improve their image by being ostentatiously devout. Which, is of course,deprecated in the Christianity he pretends to follow. Matthew 6:5
No, I didn`t, cause it isn`t, dipshit. You created that fucking straw man yourself, on your very own, pray to your deity you`ll never meet me or I`ll make you eat it on your own as well.
In your own Bible, Jesus tells His followers not to pray in public. Most people that object to prayers at sports events do so because even the devout don't think God cares about the outcome of the game. Or does God bet the spread? If a player thanks God for a successful play, does he curse God for an unsuccessful one?
Guess who's just won the Gold medal in the 10,000 Metres at the World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in London yesterday:
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Again .
Yet, why is it - unlike Peyton Manning, who has two of them - Timmy Teabowl doesn't have a single Superbowl Ring? [/Andy Schaftafly]
One is a devoutly religious person, whose faith-based achievements have brought him success, and great personal recognition & fame. The other is Timmy Teabowl.
Checkmate, Lady.
I have a neat idea, thanks in part to Kanna: People can pray in public regardless of religion, as long as they're not blocking traffic or some other irritating thing, and everyone else can go about their own business as well. If I had kids, that's part of the kind of world I'd want to leave them.
@creativerealms
That makes sense, that's what the law about not having public prayer in schools was about. Not forcing it on them.
Gingham has less and less of a clue, while staring at the left (alt) key on my computer.
You know damn well it's after a play on the field he was criticized for. You intentionally found a unobtrusive sideline occurrence proving in fact you know full well why he was criticized.
We realize attention whores like Tebow are your idols but Jesus and the football league said not to do that.
Short answer: public prayer is acceptable so long as no one is forcing others to comply with it. You want to have a prayer session with other people who want to have a prayer session on your time? All acceptable. In the case of the football player, I personally see nothing wrong with his praying before a game. I also see nothing wrong with Muslim prayer, or Buddhist meditation, or...I dunno. Do Zoroastrians do something in public?
As an atheist, I do have a bigger objection to the right picture than the left, but I do not think either should be made illegal. My objection is nothing to do with the flavor of religion on display, but simply down to the fact that the right picture is someone ostentatiously and publicly praying in a manner that is proscribed in the holy text of the religion he purportedly follows in an attempt to make himself look good, whereas the left picture is simply an example of people praying in the manner dictated by their religion. However, to me, both are attempts to telepathically communicate to non-existant Sky Daddies.
Are the people on the left holding up the big game? Are thirty of their friends and thirty friends of their friends each clogging social media in an ever expanding chain letter of petulance demanding everyone stop whatever they are doing, pause ongoing media broadcasts, stop talking about literally anything else going on in the world and pay attention to how important it is that they're praying? No? Then it's not a problem.
Praying for the kick to fly true isn't a problem either, it's the circus being made of it and the demand that people who don't think it's a big deal make it into a big deal that is the problem.
Perhaps because Muhammad didn't tell his followers TO PRAY IN PRIVATE, that only hypocrites pray in public. It was Tebow's guy who did that.
I've never seen any Muslims pray at work or in public squares. Don't they get together on Fridays to pray in mosques, like Christians do on Sundays in churches?
We defend equal rights for everyone. I was at a Blessing Ceremony yesterday, for my niece. She had Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Zen Buddhist blessings read/sung for her, and I as an atheist told her to question everything. (I did it after the ceremony, not publicly.)
None of the Muslims I know have ever called for me to be beheaded, to my knowledge.
Daesh is as representative of the average Muslim as the KKK is of the average Christian.
How do we persecute Christians? Don't you hate atheists for disagreeing with you and questioning the gospel of Jesus? Where is YOUR logic? You project the very thing you're doing right now, onto us.
Muslims worship the same god as you do, so they are just as godly or ungodly as you are.
THIS is OK.
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