Posted on 08/10/2010 10:56:17 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
He’ll have plenty of opportunity to fast after he gets cut.
Go for it dude!
You coulda had a nice carreer, but I will respect you if you stick to your religious principles ( oh and don’t hack the heads off any non-believers or stone any women )
Hell, we should all take out an insurance policy on him!
“Hey Coach, have him run a few more drills before sundown!”
Sure.
And I’d feel the same way about a Christian who refused to play on Easter. Personal decision.
However, if the guy signing the paycheck doesn’t agree, those players should live with the consequences.
Living by your principles means being willing to suffer for them, not expecting others to make accommodations so you aren’t inconvenienced.
If this football player can play as well as his competition without hydration, fine. If he drops of a heat stroke or gets trampled on the field, it’s his own durn fault.
The team should make him sign a release of liability.
I admire his devotion to his religion - misguided though I think it may be. Yea, I hope his boss is looking for someone more reliable.
What is the difference - other than taking a lot of money.
LOL!
I hope the owner and coaches are listening.
Sunday wasn’t a day of rest for the early Christians, either. It was the first day of the week, a workday. They met before dawn to worship, then came together again in the evening for the Lord’s Supper.
Saturday was the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath.
Few of us honor either day as they did, either for rest or worship.
How about both men are stupid, besides do they still play professional baseball in the US?
Well said.
he should sign a ‘Kori Stringer’ clause.
Sounds like this guy is going to take his false god and go head to head against the true God....the God if of Moses, Elijah, Paul, Peter and the rest of the saints.
I am sure he will have the same outcome the last time a viqueen tried going up against Saints.....
He was a 2008 draft pick, are they saying this is the first camp he’s doing this?
Sandy Koufax was stupid? Eric Liddell was stupid?
Glad to know where you stand on people who have sincere beliefs about their faith.
Ramadan doesn’t fall in the same portion of the calendar every year.
Not really, I feel sorry for this guy as much as anything. He’s bought in to what Churchill referred to as the greatest retrograde force in history. Islam is a political ideology masquerading as religion which is wholly incompatible with Western ideals.
Hopefully he can get straightened out.
If it was an NFL player refusing the play on Sundays, you bet he would be cut.
We need a new legal and semantic test for the word ‘religion’.
Any organization that proselytizes their belief system in part or in whole by coersion violates the definition of the word ‘religion’. Any faith with ‘convert or kill’ in its tenets anywhere should not be confused with ‘faith’, and shouldn’t enjoy the protection of the first amendment.
As such, Islam doesn’t meet the ‘faith’ test. It’s not a religion. It’s not even a cult. It’s a gang, and its members subscribe to the belief that if you do not accept Islam, then you should die, or be subject to those that are. It’s an autocratic form of government with a sort of dogma at its core. Himmler tried to give Nazism that sort of dogma artificially and succeeded mightily within Germany early on.
In the US should be able to choose freely to believe or reject the beliefs of any religion at any time without the threat of death, the withholding of rights, or without being subject to any economic penalty for leaving that religion.
If the dogma in question can’t withstand that test, then it shouldn’t enjoy first amendment rights. Jefferson in the Federalist papers actually suggested the test: “It neither breaks my back, nor picks my pocket, what another man believes. . .”
We are a court case away from such a test being applied. Some large company needs to withhold service based on their being Muslim, and then state that the discrimination based on faith didn’t meet the test based on the fact that any dogma relying on coersion as a method of proselyzation isn’t actually a faith since the dogma required violation of the higher and fundamental rights of ‘life’ and ‘liberty’.
With a very small tweak, mosques would suddenly be looked at as just another clubhouse and not a place of worship. We can and should raid and bomb more mosques, since radicals rely on the first amendment to ensure their arsenals remain safe.
Very true.
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