If a coach wants to pray in the middle of a football field, shouldn't that count as a time out ?

[eppur_se_muova]

No one was ever stopping this man from praying on the 50-yard line that way. They were just saying he couldn't do it on free time.

[lame54]

6. Careful - automatic download

[jimfields33]

2. Well since it happened at the end of the game after winning and the team was left,

Some went and prayed with the coach. No need for a time out.

[milestogo]

3. Shouldn't he be praying before the game?

Or better yet, if your coach needs to pray, shouldn't they be looking for a new coach?

[Kingofalldems]

4. What's the deal with these hick football coaches

and their inserting Jesus into the football scene?

[eppur_se_muova]

8. They don't realize that in the Holy Land, "football" has a different meaning ...

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[Pinback]

11. Proselytizing.

They believe you have to be a missionary in your daily life and browbeat others into adhering to your religious beliefs. It’s also a way of weeding out undesirables and giving special treatment to the ones who get with the program.

Notice it’s all about performative virtue, sanctimony. He’s not getting them to volunteer at a food bank or homeless shelter in off hours, just to convene the group to thank his God for blessing their team’s football efforts, apparently.

I never played school sports, but I knew several guys who did. In high school, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes was a huge deal, and all the top jocks were participants. A bunch of them got involved in DeMolay, too, which was a junior arm of the Masons.

The phenomenon always struck me as depressing and stifling, but then I was already an agnostic by that time and on my way to full-blown atheism. So I was glad I didn’t have to deal with that pressure. I pitied any kids playing school sports who didn’t conform to the dominant paradigm.

[roamer65]

5. It's really condescending to assume God gives a shit about a stupid HS football game.

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Typical christofascist behavior, though.

(IF God even exists, I will add.)

[lindysalsagal]

9. Its like the middle ages when the winning king declared "divine right" to the conquored land

and it's despicable that the school administration allows the other team to be subjected to such other-worldly judgement.

And imbecilic, I might add.

[Girard442]

7. Fundies love to mark territory. If he was a dog, he would have peed on the 50.

[TwilightZone]

10. It was after the game.

As suggested above, you might want to read more about the case.

[zanana1]

12. If he wants to pray alone in the middle of a football field...

Well OK.