But think of it this way: what would a Christian culture look like? It would be Christian from top to bottom, from Chartres to refrigerator-magnet kitsch, from the Pieta to Elvis-and-Jesus-on-black-velvet, with Bach, Jesus Christ Superstar and Kumbaya. Michelangelo, Hagia Sophia, li'l fluffy bare-bottom cherubs and hot cross buns.
If you're going to have tacky juveniles who are Christians, you're going to have tacky juvenile Christians running and whooping through big paper banners.
It's all good. Maybe not "good art," but it is what it is.
I’m inclined to agree with you as well.
But I still says it’s tacky, and if I was the coach, I’d say “no” — not because of the ACLU/lawyer pansies, but the other extreme -— I don’t think this is effective way to spread the Gospel in that it is tacky and trite.
Not really related, but I do rememeber a Jewish guy (linebacker, went to Stanford) on our HS team -— he always ran around the banners, but didn’t bitch about them.
He would stoically stand when everyone else kneeled when the coach did a pre-game prayer -— said Jews didn’t kneel before God, just bent their knees.
Not sure why I just remembered that.
We had a Jehovah’s Witness that skipped everything, I think.