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I really hate to wade in, being one of the handful of professed non-Christians in America...
(By the way, this is why it seems to me that Dungy slapped non-Evangelicals in the face, by saying the "big story" was "two Christian coaches meeting in the S.B." It had happened dozens of times already, but they call news news because it's something new.
Unless you conclude that the catholics, mainline protestants, and others except Marv Levy, were really "fake Christians.")
But I digress... I really hate to wade in, with my scant knowledge of WWJD etc., but it seems that in the stories in the Greek bible, Jesus was always forgiving someone a sin, and explaining how those judging him or her were big fat hypocrites. I mean, it was sort of his modus operandi.
It's in the oldest part of the Torah that you find the injunctions against homosexuality, witches, and ham, not in the Greek bible.
By the way, when Dungy's group starts a Focus on the Roast Beef, I'll give him some credence on that count. Why focus on one predecessor-religion tabu, and leave the others out?
At any rate: The real problem here is reconciling the present interest in gay-bashing for God, with Jesus' modus operandi, as we see it in the "he who is without sin, cast the first stone" parable.
Does Dungy believe he is without sin?
At any rate, I know this is about to be kicked over into the religion forum if I don't shut up now, and I have, in the past, asked for just such results when a thread becomes about religion. So mea culpa, guys.
By the way, I do think PatChick's got it right. It's a diversity angle; once again, indemnifying the league against any negative image (oooo they only value their white coaches. I see how it is....)
Eh well. Hopefully the NFL spot will be back to normal in a year... though we WILL have the proposal to re-do Thomas Jefferson with Sherman Helmsley on Mount Rushmore to worry about....
JUST KIDDING,
PFnV
(By the way, this is why it seems to me that Dungy slapped non-Evangelicals in the face, by saying the "big story" was "two Christian coaches meeting in the S.B." It had happened dozens of times already, but they call news news because it's something new.
Unless you conclude that the catholics, mainline protestants, and others except Marv Levy, were really "fake Christians.")
But I digress... I really hate to wade in, with my scant knowledge of WWJD etc., but it seems that in the stories in the Greek bible, Jesus was always forgiving someone a sin, and explaining how those judging him or her were big fat hypocrites. I mean, it was sort of his modus operandi.
It's in the oldest part of the Torah that you find the injunctions against homosexuality, witches, and ham, not in the Greek bible.
By the way, when Dungy's group starts a Focus on the Roast Beef, I'll give him some credence on that count. Why focus on one predecessor-religion tabu, and leave the others out?
At any rate: The real problem here is reconciling the present interest in gay-bashing for God, with Jesus' modus operandi, as we see it in the "he who is without sin, cast the first stone" parable.
Does Dungy believe he is without sin?
At any rate, I know this is about to be kicked over into the religion forum if I don't shut up now, and I have, in the past, asked for just such results when a thread becomes about religion. So mea culpa, guys.
By the way, I do think PatChick's got it right. It's a diversity angle; once again, indemnifying the league against any negative image (oooo they only value their white coaches. I see how it is....)
Eh well. Hopefully the NFL spot will be back to normal in a year... though we WILL have the proposal to re-do Thomas Jefferson with Sherman Helmsley on Mount Rushmore to worry about....
JUST KIDDING,
PFnV