“ praise to Jesus “ or whatever
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Just FYI, Notre Dame is a Catholic University. Players are usually Christian.
He’s saying that his faith guided and strengthened him in the face of adversity.
I don't care what anyone's religion is, but I wonder how it feels to be a player on the losing team, who is equally convinced that God is looking out for his team.
I didn’t say that Jesus helped ND win. All I said was that Leonard prayed for strength.
Yes, I understood you. I probably should not have hit reply... because I was just making a general comment about how born-again Christians like to thank God for giving them the victory and across the field you may have a guy who is equally pious who is left scratching his head.
Really? Are they like, atheists at LSU or something? I think most football programs are pretty reliably christian, as far as it goes. If anything ND players might be less christian, on account of they're all like, enlightened, and intellectual and they have to go to class. And I think ND prides itself on exposing its charges to all kinds of philosophical tastes shall we say. So you might have the occasional crisis of faith more frequently at ND than you would at some secular state U.
You don't have to be an atheist to go to LSU, but you might have to be a southern baptist. Actually Louisiana is totally catholic, like the one Catholic stronghold in the otherwise Protestant south.
Pretty sure those kids are very grateful to have had the chance to play in the Sugar Bowl and realize that there are much more important things in life.
That was a George Carlin bit. Christian athletes! They're quick to thank him in the throes of victory, but you never see his name get dropped when they lose. But I think it's been nuanced and smoothed out over time. Now it's like, thanks for giving me the strength. No one's guaranteed a victory, and god don't play favorites, but I do appreciate being able to enjoy god's grace. It helps, let's just say it helps....
I was addressing the OP and his original comments..
Where in there did I say athletes from other schools weren’t Christian?
Well George Carlin has not only been classless but wrong more times than not, and obviously knows little about this. For if he would of looked he would of seen many Christians school if not all took a knee after the game whether they won or loss.
I gotta say, that is an excellent post on the subject of George Carlin, who I am a particular admirer of. Classless and wrong more often than not. I think he would have appreciated that.
Remember what Lou said “God doesn’t care who wins the game, but his mother sure does”. LOL
LOL, I quoted some variation of that on another thread just yesterday.
I was a high school kicker and missed THE kick on the final play of the biggest game of the year. My coach took me to breakfast the next week and flat out told me he was glad I was the one who lost the game. He said that with the intensity and the stakes of the game he was genuinely worried about the mental/emotional health (I'm sure he phrased it differently back then, but you get the idea) of whoever blamed themselves afterwards. Said he didn't have the same worries for me because he knew how strong my faith was.
People who think that crediting Jesus is about wins and losses just don't get it.
People who think that crediting Jesus is about wins and losses just don't get it.
Make it 2 midols. And maybe play with it for a while
This is just one example, so the idea that athletes don’t thank Jesus when they lose is made up horseshit. I’m not an overly religious person, but it does bother me when people trash devout religious people. Wtf do you care who they thank and how they reconcile their lives?
