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louis-t

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13. Big money NEEDS big religion, it's how they win elections.

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 03:19 PM

Mar 2012

Big religion supports big money for a price. "Get us what we want and we'll support you". Hence, the barrage of right-wing social bills being passed. When you only work for 1% of the population, you need to make deals.....

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I'm getting sick of how evangelical Christians are inserting religion into college sports. [View all] MadHound Mar 2012 OP

Excellent rant. I agree. Faygo Kid Mar 2012 #1

You know what this reminds me of? Soviet Olympic athletes. 2ndAmForComputers Mar 2012 #2

It reminds me of "trial by combat" logic. eShirl Mar 2012 #21

George Carlin had a great bit about Christian athletes one time. Initech Mar 2012 #3

Agreed! Dawson Leery Mar 2012 #4

Well...Big Money and Big Religion seem to walk hand in hand. canoeist52 Mar 2012 #5

Big money NEEDS big religion, it's how they win elections. louis-t Mar 2012 #13

Didn't ya know that GAwd is a big football fan. Mumble Mar 2012 #6

Or anyplace else. Including casual conversation. gag geckosfeet Mar 2012 #7

i did`t know god worried who won or lost... madrchsod Mar 2012 #8

It's even in High School aka-chmeee Mar 2012 #9

Whats funny to me is the idea of a Christian God that cares so intensely about college athletics undeterred Mar 2012 #10

Need a constitutional amendment for freedom FROM religion. n/t jtuck004 Mar 2012 #11

I agree with this rant. NoNeed4Attention Mar 2012 #12

Sorry. I agree with the alerter. This is a flame war waiting to happen. Locking. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #14

Disgusting _ed_ Mar 2012 #22

On request from the OP, I reviewed the entire thread again and decided to unlock it. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #31

"Flame war waiting to happen" is NOT within your purview tkmorris Mar 2012 #60

kick n/t MadHound Mar 2012 #15

Apparently the lock didn't work.. pipoman Mar 2012 #16

Well, you must be fairly young, MadHound Mar 2012 #19

I'm not that young pipoman Mar 2012 #20

Never watched Ali box, huh? LanternWaste Mar 2012 #51

in my yute, it would be a shock to see a team prayer ChairmanAgnostic Mar 2012 #54

God has better shit to do than worry about who wins a fucking game that means NOTHING! YellowRubberDuckie Mar 2012 #17

+1 treestar Mar 2012 #23

Well, to be fair, if this so-called God exists Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #52

I love that Epicurus quote! hifiguy Mar 2012 #57

Agree! Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #58

I like it. YellowRubberDuckie Mar 2012 #68

We need to go back to feeding them to the lions DLCistheGOP Mar 2012 #18

I would Tivo Tebow getting TKOed tkmorris Mar 2012 #62

I'm not. I hope they do more of it! LOL lonestarnot Mar 2012 #24

Yeah, how dare people give their opinion SATIRical Mar 2012 #25

You forgot to list homosexuality is an abomination, contraception enuegii Mar 2012 #30

Evangelical Christian values like intolerance, anti-intellectualism, MadHound Mar 2012 #33

The personal biases that allow people get from A to 5 are often quite beyond me. LanternWaste Mar 2012 #53

It seems that assholes assume values like hard work, selflessness and humility RainDog Mar 2012 #46

Wow. Could you be a little more overly-sensitive? SATIRical Mar 2012 #50

LOL RainDog Mar 2012 #64

Yeah, there's that pesky damned First Amendment again. What were the Founding Fathers THINKING?? WillowTree Mar 2012 #26

gawd forbid CherokeeWarrior Mar 2012 #27

So the ongoing creep of evangelical Christianity, into all aspects of our lives and society, MadHound Mar 2012 #32

I think that if anything we are moving toward a more SECULAR society and that causes the evangelical cherokeeprogressive Mar 2012 #34

I think that you might have a point about secularism Nikia Mar 2012 #36

Baylor Has Certainly Taken a Few Shortcuts The Great Escape Mar 2012 #28

what do you think would happen ldf Mar 2012 #29

That sort of thing is not unusual Nikia Mar 2012 #35

Well somebody is really insecure SpartanDem Mar 2012 #37

It sounds like you are offended at the First Amendment. former9thward Mar 2012 #38

I'd actually like to see some OTHER religions get invoked at sporting events. Ken Burch Mar 2012 #39

How do they account for all of those years when Baylor played like crap? Ilsa Mar 2012 #40

I guess Baylor wasn't instilling Mariana Mar 2012 #41

The funny thing is, Ilsa Mar 2012 #44

So that's why the Jayhawks lost? proud2BlibKansan Mar 2012 #42

Amazing, isn't it? BiggJawn Mar 2012 #43

I have a nephew who while playing high school football..... mrmpa Mar 2012 #45

"I understand that this is an evangelical Baptist university, but really now..." Union Scribe Mar 2012 #47

become a hockey fan! iverglas Mar 2012 #48

There is the eternal quest for the holy grail JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2012 #49

very true ;) iverglas Mar 2012 #55

I don't think it's any worse than it used to be, hughee99 Mar 2012 #56

I'm sick of evangelical Christians, period n/t Aerows Mar 2012 #59

Baylor Bills Itself as a Christian University MineralMan Mar 2012 #61

When I was growing up in the sixties, seventies, and on into the eighties, MadHound Mar 2012 #63

I'd rather see no religious expression at all in sports. MineralMan Mar 2012 #65

to me it's just an indicator of how big of an asshole someone is RainDog Mar 2012 #66

That is a "fill-in-the-blank" OP DFW Mar 2012 #67

I am not a sports fiend. xxqqqzme Mar 2012 #69