Mb I shouldn't make this observation, but I find that I will.

[sprinkleeninow]

Auburn/Penn State game. The stadium. Packed like sardines.

I get it that untold many are sick of the 'life' that coronavirus has imposed on our country. But it made me shudder to actually see this. I knew it was happening, but to actually view the attendees all crammed in.

I pray day and night, God have mercy and rescue us, please!

[NoRethugFriends]

1. Sorry, god is just in your imagination

[calguy]

2. Sorry, you don't see what many others do.

[Skittles]

3. that's what happens when you live in reality

yup

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I didn't vote to hide this when it came up in a jury, but I might suggest that this is...

one of those subjects where it's probably best not to make broad statements.

Less trouble that way.

[ShazzieB]

9. Interesting.

Personally, I would have voted to hide it.

I'm just so freaking tired of seeing snide comments like that one at DU from people who look down their noses at anyone who believes in a God or even thinks there just might possibly be something out there that is beyond human understanding. Atheists frequently complain about the intolerance they encounter due to their views, and I tend to synpathize... but I really don't understand why some of them are so quick to target others with their own brand of intolerance.

Seems a bit hypocritical to me. But what do I know? I'm just one of those stupid people who believe in an imaginary skydaddy. (Actually, I don't believe in THAT, but I'm no an atheist, either, so according to some atheists, I am stupid nonetheless.)

[TreasonousBastard]

11. I was tempted, but then it just leaves a hole with no explanation...

I agree that some atheists push too hard and just get nasty. I was a Quaker for years, and am now an elder in a UU congregation, so my personal theology is a bit mixed up. Einstein summed it up by saying that if the universe was created, then we may assume a creator. He never did claim to know who or what that creator is or was. That's pretty much where I am.

Einstein also spoke highly of the spirituality both in the Jewish community of his youth and the Catholic schools he went to. He had no use for the mythology, but the children's tales are only the smallest part of any religion.

Live and let live. I only get my hackles up when someone claims to have the one true answer and wants to fight about it.

[brer cat]

15. +++ nt

[phylny]

16. Perfectly stated. N/T

[Raine]

18. Agree. 👍 nt

[Dukuskutu]

22. Hi

I have a friend who says he is “ optimistically agnostic “

I kind of like that.

[Raine]

25. I like that too! 🙂 nt

[uponit7771]

26. +1,

[NoRethugFriends]

21. Saying there is a god that it helps to pray to is a broad statement.

Why does god exists get a pass, but god doesn't exist rile people up?

[TreasonousBastard]

23. It's not the belief or disbelief that riles me-- it's the disrespect and insults...

We are a species with the ability to wonder, and that ability takes us to strange places. If those places include, or exclude, a deity, those beliefs do not normally deserve ridicule.

Granted that some beliefs are ridiculous, but if sincere are just best walked away from... slowly. Where it gets troubling is when those beliefs become enforced.

Inquisitions, witch burnings, expulsion and killing of nonbelievers... these are the things that are intolerable.

[FakeNoose]

24. Yes I agree

We were all raised differently. Some grew up with a strict religious background, others not so strict. Some have almost no religious training. I have no right to judge you or anybody else, just because you don't believe the same things I do.

Some of us use God or Jesus or Angels as figures of speech. It's just a habit or something they grew up with, but why make a federal case out of it?

Some DUers are unnecessarily pedantic and bitchy. I just have to take a breath and walk it off. If I don't I might post something I'll regret later.

[Hekate]

13. My experience says otherwise, but I don't mock you for (dis)believing as you do

[kentuck]

19. Tell me what you think "god" is ...?

...and I will tell you whether or not I agree with you.

[yonder]

5. I watched most of that game and the whiteout highlighted

all of the potential exposure. All that white and every one of those waving flags just served to magnify the possibility of infection for maskless, clueless future victims.

[sprinkleeninow]

7. Did a double take. That can't be attendees. White out like a snowstorm.

But it were.

[ShazzieB]

10. What was all the white about?

Just curious. I've seen pics but didn’t watch the game and haven't heard the explanation (if there is one).

[sprinkleeninow]

12. Their clothing. I dunno. Must be a theme or statement. The whole stadium was a sea of white.

I don't watch any football. Used to glance at it when husband had games on.

This stage of the game, just with the stupid virus still wreaking havoc, many are saying the hell with it and are participating in activities that were curtailed. I don't know how to feel about all of this. Have ambivalence kinda. But it does bother me some.

Edit: the google sez they call for all Pitt fans to wear white to be intimidating. I guess any people wearing a color will stick out like a sore thumb. Huh.

[mopinko]

20. the year the white sox won the pennant they had a couple 'black out' games.

there was a string of, like, 5 games in a row at the end of the season that they had to win.
the last couple they played at home they asked the fans to wear their white sox black.
it was stunning. it was like they just sucked in all the light. like looking into a deep cave. amazing pics. think i still have a front page around here of that.

[pidge]

6. Maybe they are all vaccinated.

[sprinkleeninow]

8. I didn't research the conditions upon which they could enter the game.

[wishstar]

14. Penn State leadership said their goal was maximum capacity with no vaccination or masks required

Last I heard, of all the colleges, only Tulane and Oregon/Oregon State were requiring proof of vaccination or negative test for attendance at games

[smirkymonkey]

17. My nephew is at that game.

He's a Penn State student and is vaccinated. He has also had Covid (before vaccination, over a year ago).