Tebow draws crowd of nearly 15,000 at Texas Easter service
April 8, 2012 at 10:22 am in Grand Forks Herald
Tim Tebow drew a crowd of about 15,000 to an outdoor Easter church service Sunday, telling the gathering it’s important to be outspoken about faith while admonishing athletes about not being better role models. Continue Reading
If Tebow wants to be ostentatious with his religion, it’s up to him. People can choose to listen or not.
However, when he says in response to a question about what needs to change culturally in America:
“First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God. The more that we can get back to that.”
…somebody needs send him back to history class.
First and foremost in modern America is “We The People” — and the “under God” bit only came in the McCarthyist 1950s.
If you agree that the constitution is fundamentally American, then you have to agree that comments like Tebow’s are fundamentally unAmerican.
Tebow has allied himself with the likes Gingrich, Palin, Beck et al., and as such, I have to agree with an American political icon:
“I don’t have any respect for the Religious Right.”
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Postscript: I received a message via Area Voices about this comment from a frequent poster who used to be known as zardoz. He railed against me for attacking religion at Easter, and for being antagonistic to Tebow’s “true” statements. Turns out even religious folks have the same problem with Tebow: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/christianity/problem-tebow-easter-extravaganza
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General comment: Solon has written to me privately (via Area Voices messaging) complaining that ” virtually every one of my posts is deleted. Liberal atheist censorship reigns here. It doesn’t matter what I write they delete it.”
Since quite a few of my messages have been deleted or blocked too (and I know the same happens to others) the “liberal atheist censorship” appears extremely unlikely. However, and for the record, I want to state that solon’s posts should NOT be blocked in any way (assuming they conform to the stated rules).
Solon has a right to free speech, and moreover, his views, the the resulting reactions to them, expose the readers of the comments to issues that are important to a free and educated society.
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