Andre Iguodala & Stephen Curry's fundamentaiist victory rant wins high marks at the Christian Post

[betterdemsonly]

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Andre Iguodala, the Golden State Warriors forward who won this season's NBA championship with his team Tuesday night along with the Most Valuable Player award, thanked God for the win and said the team is "full of believers."

&quot We've) got a team full of believers. We all say God has a way for you and a purpose for you," Iguodala, 31, said after receiving the MVP honor. "I want to be just like Steph (Curry)when I grow up — just a God fearing man."........................

"Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't," Curry said after accepting his MVP trophy earlier this year. "It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to............."


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Am I the only one that notices sports have become another form of right wing indoctrinition. The Pacquio vs Mayweather, hyped up fight, was a fight between a fundamentalist and a ayn randy. Both believe they are successful because they of moral superiority. Both are right wing republicans.

I know people like to associate the black faithful with liberation theologists like MLK, but modern Black religion is dominated by right wingers like TD Jakes, and the prosperity gospel.

I am not an atheist myself but the religious right is a perversion of faith in my view.

[JEB]

1. Athletes and everybody else

with the gratuitous public god talk are a real bore. Not interested in hearing what should remain personal. Why not bring up what their morning BM looked like?

[betterdemsonly]

3. It not just the god talk, it is about philosophies designed to enshrine the successful

as morally superior. Ayn Randies are similarly disgusting, though they are officially atheist. Both religions and sports are now being used to indoctrinate people with right wing memes that the rich are superior to the rest of us.

[JEB]

7. Yeah, the commercials they play during sports games are

more propaganda than actually trying sell something. I'll go watch the local High Schoolers play sports. Much more honest and important in my book.

[BeyondGeography]

2. I wish God would tell Steph to get that mouthguard under control

[shanti]

13. i know

everytime i saw his face i wanted to snatch that thing and throw it in the stands! reminded me of a pacifier!

[a kennedy]

4. God does have his own twitter account......see these.....

https://twitter.com/thetweetofgod Here's a good one....

God ?@TheTweetOfGod 19h19 hours ago
Donald Trump is the kind of asshole other assholes look at and say "Now THERE'S an asshole."

and another one:

God ?@TheTweetOfGod Jun 3
"Jim Bob Duggar: 'God Has Forgiven Josh'." No I haven't. He's going to hell, just like you.

[ellisonz]

12. Blasphemy!

There is no God but God: https://twitter.com/TheGoodGodAbove



He's on Facebook too: https://www.facebook.com/TheGoodLordAbove?fref=ts

[a kennedy]

21. Hey..... How do the two Gods duel it out???

I think my God is tougher then your God. (did you notice they capitalized God when I didn't?). I know you didn't see it before I posted it...but "they" capolitized it. 😳😳😳😳😳

[ellisonz]

22. Like a God cage wrestling match?

My God will pulverize your God into a bloody mess of deity.

Fire and brimstone will rain down up the followers of this false God.

Capolitize that1!!!

[hifiguy]

5. Nobody in pro sports had to make the choice of

turning down a spot in a PhD program anywhere as an alternative.

Most pro athletes, while physically gifted, are not the brightest bulbs on the marquee about anything other than their sports.

The gawd talk does get wearying for us fans, though. And any gawd that demands fear is by definition nothing worth following.

[betterdemsonly]

8. Then the Ayn Randies use their techies and wall street billionaires to claim moral superiority

to the common horde, and many of those people are ivy league wunderkinds like Zuckerberg.

[hifiguy]

9. And hitting the one-in-ten-million perfecta in the tech world

is more about luck and being in the right place at the right time with an often trivial idea than anything else. Could ANYTHING be more ultimately trivial than Facebook?

The REALLY smart people in the sciences - the Edward Wittens and Brian Greenes and Alex Filippenkos and Steven Weinbergs - are teaching someplace and making a good living doing REAL science. None will ever be fabulously wealthy.

[Angry Dragon]

6. I guess god has a voice in who wins and loses

[msongs]

10. losing is being punished by god evidently, like when the warriors lost games nt

[betterdemsonly]

11. There going to get old eventually and will start losing for that reason. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

14. The deity has to control important things like basketball games so

it has no time for preventing wars or disease or the death of children.

[moondust]

17. Poor Tim Tebow.

Must be praying to the wrong God or something.

[BeeBee]

15. Meh. I'm an atheist and I don't have a problem with this...

and I certainly wouldn't classify either as a "fundamentaiist (sic) victory rant." They played well and won. If they want to thank their god then good for them.

[betterdemsonly]

16. What about the implication that people are not successful because they don't have faith in god?

As democrat doesn't that strike you are really right wing nutty? The fundamentalist republican Christian Post clearly loved that. The religious right always claim the poor are poor because of lack of faith and moral failings.

[joeybee12]

18. Actually, they're right, the Warriors winning proves there is a God...

And a vengeful one at that because he denied Baby James another ring...which is fine by me!

[tishaLA]

19. Pacquio is a right wing repub? Who campaigned for Reid in NV?

I'm no fan of the man, but I think the idea that he's a RWNJ isn't true. A fundie? Perhaps. Lots of people, in fact, thought Reid won his last election--it was a very narrow victory--because Manny had campaigned for him a few days before the election and helped turn out LV's Filipino voters.

[lovemydog]

20. It didn't bother me.

I watched the game and watched the interviews.

That's just their opinion.

No big deal to me.

I guess I sound like The Dude in The Big Lebowski.