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22. Disgusting

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 11:23 AM

Mar 2012

Yeah, let's just shut people up instead of encouraging a debate. If we were talking about another set of ideas, say Keynsian Economics, no one would be crying and whining about locking the thread. Because the set of ideas in question is "Christianity," we just need everyone to shut up.

Don't pretend to be a liberal if you're shutting people up and censoring their viewpoints. That's the hallmark of the authoritarian mind. The recipe for bad speech isn't shutting people up -- it's more and better speech.

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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