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It is simple...I never gave much notice to him until people started making fun of him. I didn't even know he was a christian.



Chicken and egg, but literally nobody cares what faith a person is as long as they don't make a big deal about it. His form of prayer, that whole taking a knee and putting his fist to his head is unusual so people noticed.

If he had simply stood on the sidelines, bowed his head and said a prayer, nobody would care, but he was making a show of it. If you want to say other people pray on the sidelines, you'd be right, but show me anybody that takes a knee and puts their fist to their head . . . that's the show.

He's responsible for his own ridiclue, at least in part due to it.



So then it's okay to ridicule homosexuals who dress up and behave weird in public to exhibit their sexual traits?

And it's okay to ridicule skydivers for risking their lives jumping out of airplanes?

Anyone who does anything "abnormal" deserves whatever ridicule they get?

That's about the same as those people who say that when a provocatively dressed woman gets raped that she "deserved it because she was asking for it... Are you sure you want to stick to this line of reasoning?

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So then it's okay to ridicule homosexuals who dress up and behave weird in public to exhibit their sexual traits?

And it's okay to ridicule skydivers for risking their lives jumping out of airplanes?

Anyone who does anything "abnormal" deserves whatever ridicule they get?



I'm not saying it would be OK. I'm saying it would be understandable.

If you, JR want to ridicule the gay pride parade being held in your city, I will disapprove of your individual behavior, but understand the mob mentality. I will also say a gay pride parade in your city probably does open itself up to ridicule and would be partly responsible for negative reactions to it. It would be the organizer's right to hold the parade, but it would be naive of them to think there isn't going to be a reaction to it.
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So then it's okay to ridicule homosexuals who dress up and behave weird in public to exhibit their sexual traits?



In Provincetown or Key West, no. In East Bejesus, Idaho, why not?

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And it's okay to ridicule skydivers for risking their lives jumping out of airplanes?



In Perris or Z hills, no. At a Acrophobes Anonymous meeting, why not?

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Anyone who does anything "abnormal" deserves whatever ridicule they get?



I do not know about deserving, but one gets used to it.


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I've always found celebrating scoring to be unprofessional - seems a real professional shouldn't be so surprised about succeeding once in a while. It's pretty juvenile



I agree but then....we're talking PR....particularly so for TV.
Puttin' on the Ritz is good for ratings much as dirty laundry is.
'Mericans just love that stuff!
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We generally accept that ONE exceptional thing with our heros, politicians, celebrities that allows them to be in the potition they have. Add in another thing and it's just too much. .


Please remove my name from your "we" list.
My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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So then it's okay to ridicule homosexuals who dress up and behave weird in public to exhibit their sexual traits?

And it's okay to ridicule skydivers for risking their lives jumping out of airplanes?

Anyone who does anything "abnormal" deserves whatever ridicule they get?



I'm not saying it would be OK. I'm saying it would be understandable.

If you, JR want to ridicule the gay pride parade being held in your city, I will disapprove of your individual behavior, but understand the mob mentality. I will also say a gay pride parade in your city probably does open itself up to ridicule and would be partly responsible for negative reactions to it. It would be the organizer's right to hold the parade, but it would be naive of them to think there isn't going to be a reaction to it.



So then you disapprove of those who ridicule Tebow for his religious beliefs?

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I don't hate Tebow, I do hate the Tebow Phenomenon. Why do all these Christians think that God is more concerned with the playoff ambitions of the Denver Bronco's quaterback over some of the more pressing world problems?



If God is omnipresent, He can handle it.


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I have no doubt that God versus Himself would end in a tie. So yes, He'd be winless.


That would not be perfect.


Who are you who provides counsel withouth knowledge? It is not up to you to say what it and is not perfect.

Be gone, Eliphaz...:P


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I don't hate Tebow, I do hate the Tebow Phenomenon. Why do all these Christians think that God is more concerned with the playoff ambitions of the Denver Bronco's quaterback over some of the more pressing world problems?



It's simple. They don't. It's the religiophobes who cranked up the bandwagon. Welcome aboard!
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>If God is omnipresent, He can handle it.

Could He make a team so good that He couldn't beat them?


Now there's a philosophical conundrum!
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His team would involve a round ball and two nets.
CLAPTON is God!
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It's simple. They don't. It's the religiophobes who cranked up the bandwagon. Welcome aboard!




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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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I don't hate Tebow, I do hate the Tebow Phenomenon. Why do all these Christians think that God is more concerned with the playoff ambitions of the Denver Bronco's quaterback over some of the more pressing world problems?



It's simple. They don't. It's the religiophobes who cranked up the bandwagon. Welcome aboard!


Bullshit. The press has been gushing about this guy's religion and his devotion to it since his junior year. The first time I ever heard of him I tuned in to watch a football game and was given a 10 minute lecture about what a wonderful person he is off the field because somehow proselytizing makes you a good person. I guess Tom Cruise is a saint.

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The press has been gushing about this guy's religion and his devotion to it since his junior year.


And your point is....may I guess?
"Since they "gushed" it's their fault that I got wadded up and started the bashing in response."


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The first time I ever heard of him I tuned in to watch a football game and was given a 10 minute lecture about what a wonderful person he is off the field because somehow proselytizing makes you a good person.


Reminds me of my Mom when my nephew put on a porn tape.

"That's the nastiest thing I've ever seen in my life! Especially near the end when the guy at the beginning......" True story.

So, backatchya....Bullshit.
What is it...the press, the Christians, Tebow himself, the announcers, your willingness to sit through 10 minutes of stuff that upsets you, Tom Cruise....you listed so many.

Maybe you missed the idea that whatever "gushing" was going on, the religiophobes got wadded up and got the bandwagon cranked up.

In your case, you could have just
a) muted
b) left the room
c) changed channels
d) turned it off
e) ignore it
f) laughed at the idiocy of using national TV to extol the virtues of one specific player
g) laughed at the TV director even considering broadcasting it
h) gotten all PO'd and jumped on the bandwagon.

Personally, I chose, f) and g).

Oh...it was the "gushers" that started it?
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I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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Bullshit. The press has been gushing about this guy's religion and his devotion to it since his junior year. The first time I ever heard of him I tuned in to watch a football game and was given a 10 minute lecture about what a wonderful person he is



When? What lecture? What network?
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