Allen West’s Football Head Injury
Allen West says that separation of Church and State is what causes high school and college football injuries.
Seriously.
Okay, I will admit that he was speaking to a group in Gladewater, Texas, so he was pretty much free to say any damn crazybutt thing he wanted to without suffering any challenge as long as he said God told him this stuff.
And even in high school, before every game at Grady Stadium, the pastor would come down and pray before every football game. I don’t remember catastrophic injuries. I don’t remember anyone getting carted off that field paralyzed.”
Yeah, yeah, I forgot to add that the group in Gladewater was real real old so, hell, they can’t remember what happened yesterday, much less 40 years ago.
Allen West: solving the world’s problems through group prayer.
Thanks to Auntie BFly for the heads up.
Perhaps separation of Church and State causes acute memory loss in aging crazy people.
Or perhaps, if West ever played football, recurring concussions did the trick.
People like West seem to think their version of God is a petty, hurtful tyrant.
1Right! We can easily see how well the praying has worked for the last 2000 years.
2Why do these people insist on turning God into a cheerleader?
3Once upon a time my husband and I visited my sister in Abilene to witness a performance of my niece’s high school band’s halftime show at a Wylie High School football game. At that point I had been living in that liberal bastion of Colorado for over 20 years, my husband hails from Philly, via Ann Arbor, NYC, London, and Chicago to Denver. My niece was the drum major; this was a command performance on my part, so I warned my husband about all that praying that goes on prior to the ballgame, so he wouldn’t be standing there with his mouth open, looking around in total disbelief at what was happening during the routine that happens before most Friday Night Lights events across Texas. There’s a whole lot of Jesus going on, and if you’ve never seen something like that, it can be shocking. But what happened next, even almost knocked me off my feet. The entire band performance was religious music. Onward Christian Soldiers, Amazing Grace, a little Hallelujah Chorus, and a playing of It Is Well down in the end zone to end the performance. The only thing missing was the gospel tent. The crowd loved it. Clapped, sang along. Quite an experience. We stood there and played polite, trying to pretend we were not shocked, while applauding my niece’s spectacular performance with the big baton. My sister/family were borderline offended when we later told them that a performance by a public high school band of Christian music at a public athletic event would never happen in Colorado, or Philadelphia, or Chicago, or most other backwater places outside the Deep South. Different world. Allen West knew he was preaching to the choir.
4Freedom of religion for whom? Obviously not for anybody who doesn’t swallow that swill.
5A scientific study was done on whether being prayed for helped hospital patients. Some were told about the praying and some weren’t. No freaking difference in outcome, with one exception. The people who were told they were being prayed for tended to have worse outcomes than anyone else. Possibly they thought, Crap, if people are praying for me I must be in really bad shape!
Ever notice how nobody prays that a missing limb will grow back? If “all things are possible with God,” why not?
6Rilly,it was a simple spelling error that started this landslide of religious bullpucky. What once was god’s will is now and forever godswill and the revelers scarf in down with gusto.
7Is this the same Allen West who was or is a wife abuser? Just wondering how God would react to that problem he has.
8Re-read my entry above and I see that it’s unclear. There were four categories of patients in the study: the prayed for, the unprayed for, the prayed for and told, and the unprayed for and told. Only the prayed for and told had a different (worse) outcome than the other groups.
9Rhea, I remember a study with the same categories. I think it was in the late 1990s. The outcome on that one was the opposite of your report. Must have been a different study. I wonder which one was bogus? Maybe the parameters were vastly different.
All that being said, even in right wing SD, where I grew up, there would never have been a half time show like that. What crapola!
10Um, I went to a parochial high school in a huge urban area. We managed to scrum up a football team but no band. Consequently we went all the way through high school without religious music except in church and lordy none of us came out brain damaged. And get this, there was no prayer before during or after the game. Matter of fact, for an impoverished part of town, we managed to actually get people into and all the way through college. Course, most of us had to work, some of us full time but despite all the hardships we had, we made an incredibly good academic record. And again, none of us were brain damaged.
11Rhea,
12Allen West’s ‘brain’ went missing sometime ago, it ain’t never gonna grow back… preyer or not, no way.
I’m sure my Catholic high school and the University of Notre Dame I attended for a couple of years will be excited to know that none of the injuries they’ve sustained over the years were actual injuries, the godless fakers.
The Citadel used to do prayers all the time, I don’t know if they still do, but they certainly did when Marc Buoniconti (whose dad played for Notre Dame, before he joined the godless Dolphins) was paralyzed in the 80s.
Allen West apparently isn’t praying right: seems to me he’s a walking head injury.
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