Secularism, Teresa, Tebow

Two religious items have come up in the news this past week, Mother Teresa and Tim Tebow. Secularists and neo-Atheists are protesting the religious expressions of life, love, and compassion.

Mother Teresa is to be placed a postage stamp; Nobel Peace Prize winner (given she wasn't an anti American Statist this is monumental), and the safety net for thousands of the poor. The protest is about her being a religious figure. There's criteria number 9: "Stamps or stationery items shall not be issued to honor religious institutions or individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings or beliefs."

Secularists and Atheists say her religious status should keep her off the stamp. It amazing that's the issue, and not an appreciation of one human being's personal sacrifice and organizing brilliance that brought safety, health, love, and compassion to so many. What's important?

The criteria is ridiculous and serves intolerance and bigotry. The argument that it violates separation of church and state is specious since we're constantly told the the Post Office is a private, self supporting company. There's also the problem of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X being on stamps; both were ministers. King's whole approach was from Scripture, which he quoted often. Should they be removed?

Tim Tebow, college football great, is presenting a pro-life message with his mother in a Superbowl commercial. All the Secularists and neo-Atheists are in a fuss about this too. There's been an unwritten rule for Superbowl commercials that political and social advocacy ads not be allowed. CBS has changed this. Like Teresa, the message has a religious foundation, and so must not be allowed in public. Gloria Alred is suing, based upon conjecture and not fact, showing the Statists, Feminists, and neo-Atheists are so upset they are making stuff up to stop this story of courage, love and compassion. Tebow's mother said her doctor advised her to abort her child because of some disease she had, and she said no, and gave birth to Tim.

Though anti-religious bigots do their best to quash the free speech of those that disagree with them, I think both sides are being short sighted. Tebow and his mother along with Focus on the Family are opening the door for Leftist propaganda in this venue in the future. As much as I agree with the pro-life message, Statists in the future will have yet another venue to propagate their lies. Are you ready for commercials bashing America, praising Castro and Chavez, Islamofascists, and other Statist dictators, along with all the other horrible things they support? I'd just as soon keep this one on the side lines, and stick with the unwritten rule of no advocacy ads. I just want football and stupid funny commercials for three hours.

I do wish the National Organization for Women (a really small group of less than 500,000; Concerned Women for America have over 2 million members, which doesn't get coverage in the Jurassic Press because they are Conservative), militant neo-Atheists, groups like the Freedom from Religion Foundation, would just give it a rest. Just quit whining, complaining, and protesting every little thing that doesn't fit their intolerant bigoted belief system.

Football and Sports Media

A few weeks ago I posted an article about Tony Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers and his religion. In college football there's also a devout player, 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, University of Florida quarterback. Tebow is a senior, and an up front evangelical Bible quoting man. He puts scripture verses on his eye black. His parents are missionaries in the Philippines. Religious man of religious parents.

It appears that sports writers (the same breed that excoriated Rush Limbaugh based on lies), are offended with all the religiosity. I guess football players that get in fights, get drunk, abuse their wives or girlfriends, are disrespectful and full of themselves, have the 'f' word every other word of their vocabulary, are more interview acceptable. Seems to me Tebow, Bible verse spouting and all is more of what we should look for in both an athlete and a human being. Can all that religious scripture talk get irritating? Sure. Sometimes even irritates me, a Christian zealot. So can 'f'ing this and 'f'ing that, and 'like' 'anda' 'ummmm' 'like' 'ya know' 'like' yada yada yada... be irritating? Sure. Why increasing negative comments about the religious guy? What about comments about the inarticulate thugs yammering profanity?

I suspect sports writers are like the rest of the MSM; Leftist anti-Christian bigots. Much of what passes for sports writing now is politically correct mindless meandering using sports as metaphor for political venting. I don't follow sports so much any more, but in my younger days I read, and even wrote sports stories, and I don't remember any political or social commentary.

Sports writers need to write about what's on the field of play. We don't care if you don't like hearing scripture and God talk during an interview. Just ask the questions, report the games, then shut the hell up.

Here's an example of the kind of bigoted sports writing I'm talking about.