Reading Time: 5 minutes In the days since Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during a football game and had to be taken to a hospital in Cincinnati, some people have used his near-fatal injury as a vessel to spread their particular flavor of Christianity via prayers, distracting from more pressing issues and denying credit from the medical personnel […]
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Qatar’s last-minute beer ban raises deeper concerns about the World Cup
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just 48 hours before the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the conservative Muslim country of Qatar reversed its position on allowing alcoholic beer in official stadiums. While such beverages may be sold at other fan destinations after 7pm, only Bud Zero may now be purchased within or around the stadium itself, unless you […]
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Christian school forfeits football game against team with two girls on roster
Reading Time: 4 minutes Valley Christian Academy, a religious school in Santa Maria, California, said it would forfeit an upcoming football game rather than play an opposing team that has two girls on the roster. It’s not the first time they’ve done this sort of thing, either. The game in question doesn’t take place until October 29, but it’ll […]
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A NC high school football coach is converting kids to Christianity
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the Supreme Court ruled that a public high school football coach was allowed to pray silently after games (even though he was actually showboating at midfield for effect), the question in the minds of many church/state separation advocates was how far other coaches would stretch that decision. How would they subvert the new rules so […]
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How the NYT botched its coverage of the Supreme Court’s football prayer case
Reading Time: 8 minutes The New York Times‘ hit podcast The Daily published what should have been a straightforward episode on Wednesday morning about a controversial church/state separation case in front of the Supreme Court. Instead, they screwed up basic facts and leaned heavily on the Christian side of the debate. The case in question is Kennedy v. Bremerton […]
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Political Hypocrisy: Vaccines, Capitalism & Greed, and Football
Reading Time: 5 minutes The utter rank hypocrisy of the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been on show over the last few days. Let me walk you through it. Johnson, in a private meeting of Tory MPs, let the true Tory cat out of the bag: The prime minister’s full remarks, which first appeared in the Sun newspaper, were reported […]
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A TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Coach Reminds Us That Shaming Doesn’t Work (LSP #46)
Reading Time: 10 minutes If you haven’t heard of Dave Daubenmire, he is every single thing you need to know to know that Christianity is a terrible religion that produces terrible people. Today I’ll show you the latest crazypants thing he’s gotten up to. He might have failed at his #1 task in life (raising a good future adult), but he sure ain’t letting that stop him.
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Super Bowl 50’s True Believer
Reading Time: 2 minutes Boston, MA Bret Anderton, 32 years old and father of three, sits in his La-Z-Boy and waits to see Tom Brady and the New England Patriots take the field in Super Bowl 50. Even though the game doesn’t start until 6:35 EST, Bret’s heart knows that Tom Brady may appear like a thief in the […]
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NFL Fan Thinks, “Them Terrorists Got Peyton Manning.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes Indianapolis, Indiana NFL super-fan, Jerome Wilder cracks open a can of his favorite domestic beer and thinks, “Them ISIS fellas got to Peyton Manning, and are destroying the American way of life — the NFL.” Jerome had heard that al-Jazeera broke the story on how Bronco’s quarterback Peyton Manning supposedly used human growth hormone (HGH) to amp […]
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Football Team Runs Out Brandishing the Christian Flag
Reading Time: 4 minutes …in where else but Mississippi? Did you even know there is a Christian flag? Anyone from Mississippi knows this because growing up Baptist we saw it marched into the sanctuary on special occasions. It’s even got its own pledge. I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior for whose kingdom it stands; […]