Yeah, But Does Jesus Fumble on 4th and Goal?
Why is it always football that brings out the high school Jesus freaks in Texas?
It’s always football where they want Jesus on the field. It makes it appear that Jesus is not a basketball or baseball fan because these issues never occur there. It’s only football and now it’s in Kountze, Texas. And, yes, of course that’s east Texas.
HOUSTON (AP) — For three straight weeks, high school football players in a small southeast Texas town took the field by bolting through large red-and-white banners that hollered the praises of Jesus Christ.
Most people in Kountze viewed the banners as evidence of the students’ admirable moral upbringing — Christianity and the Bible always had been fundamental to this town of 2,100.
But someone complained to a foundation that fights for the separation of church and state, and by Tuesday, a day after receiving a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the superintendent banned the banners, and the town became embroiled in a controversy that has touched other communities nationwide.
Yes, because nothing quite says “I am a Christian” more than running through a banner with Bible verses on it to kick your butt and probably give you early signs of Parkinson’s disease.
Now, I have a reasonable solution to this. Does it work? No, it does not. Last year the Kountze Lions finished 7th in their division out of 8 teams. Apparently, there was one team who put Buddhist quotes on their banner and consequently came in dead last.
Except win.
Apparently you cannot do that through Christ. And Christians all over the word have the Kountze High School football team to thank for that.
Thanks to Sam for the heads up.
Have we forgotten Santa Fe? Here’s a link to all that happened including the Supreme Court decision. While the ‘good’ Christian folks in this town were fighting to force prayer, they were allowing persecution in school. Bet something similar is happening in Kountze.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/ps_prac.htm
1And then there’s TEBOWING…….
2Oh, and I forgot…there is also TOUCHDOWN JESUS in Monroe, Ohio…or there was until it got struck by lightening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGTBFPte-MY
People are ignorant beings, I believe….
3If the good people of Kountze, Texas want their kids to read Bible verses….. there is an easy solution to that problem.
They could take them to Church or Sunday School.
4I think Jesus is trying to tell them something with their next to dead last standing.
5“But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly.” Matthew 6:6
6Honey, if it gives those guys courage to face a couple large guys coming at them at bullet speed, I say leave ’em alone. It ain’t hurtin’ nuthin’ unless they got Jews or Muslims on their team.
7Which reminds me of something earlier. A TP friend sent me one of those emails about Christians not being able to pray in school events. I emailed her back and said Be at peace; Jews and Muslims can’t either.
8Jesus would kick a field goal on fourth and goal. However, Jesus can’t hit a curveball.
9If they’re claiming to be Christians, they might want to do and not do what Jesus said to do and not do, and one of the things Jesus said was (translated into modern English, of course) “Don’t make a display of your religion, like those who stand on street corners praying out loud–they just showing off so people will think they’re pious.” Followed by the verse quoted above.
As for praying at school games–sure you can. You just can’t grab the microphone and tell everybody to bow their heads and listen to _your_ prayer. Everybody gets to pray his/her own, “in silence” as Jesus suggested was the right way to do it. (He also said alone behind closed doors, but I don’t think it’s wrong to pray for the kid who’s lying there limp and you really hope he doesn’t have a broken neck.) I’ve prayed many a prayer at such times but I didn’t impose my prayers on anyone else. That’s what freedom of religion is about: you have yours, I have mine, neither of us thinks we have a right to force the other to believe or say or listen to the same thing.
10Local paper thought this was front page news for at least (2) days.
What got it off the front page….. was a story about an African-American Ex-Cop….. who is “alleged” to have laundered money for the Mexican drug cartel.
Just when you think it can’t get any more pathetic…. it does.
11@Marge Wood,
“Which reminds me of something earlier. A TP friend sent me one of those emails about Christians not being able to pray in school events. I emailed her back and said Be at peace; Jews and Muslims can’t either.”
Classic!
Would love to hear if you get a response from your TP friend after that comeback.
12Look at the Hubble Deep Field photo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HubbleDeepField.800px.jpg
and watch the short video:
http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/hubble_deep_field/
Those aren’t stars; they are galaxies, with millions of stars in each one. And the sky they occupy is the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length, so multiply that by the size of the sky to see how many, many stars are all around us.
Now if you think a being created all of that (I don’t), how can you possibly think that that same being gives a flying fart who wins a football game? And what kind of ego does it take to think that?
Thanks to AZFan and Elizabeth Moon for pointing out that these people aren’t even reading their own bible, and can pray anywhere, anytime, as long as they don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.
13DAchipster, I believe it was Lee Trevino who said” If you are on the golf course and lightning threatens, hold a one iron into the air. Even God can’t hit a one iron.’
14Why do some football ‘fans’ want to turn God into a cheerleader?
15Off topic, but how many cheerleaders does that school HAVE? There are more cheerleaders than football players. I’m surprised there are that many girls in a town that small.
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