[Scanian]

Tebow can be passive in the face of persecution if he wants to but my first reaction to those two sacriligious opponents who were aping Tim’s prayer pose just to mock him was to yell, “Get up and assume the Heisman Trophy posture in their face, stiff arm and all.”

Tebow drives them crazy because he is not only devout, he has been devout while enjoying great athletic success. Jealousy figures as much in the mockery and criticism of him as anything else.

[Guenevere]

And they don't understand...(& therefore are threatened by) Tebow's 'sense of self'.....His sense of self is not centered in what he achieves or doesn't achieve....he is centered in the Lord.

..therefore he is fully realized in who he is and who he belongs to.

'They' flat out don't understand this, but they feel threatened by it.