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€uroMeinke · 09-30-2009, 07:40 PM

I'm fine with it as long as they all agree to convert to another religion, or abandon religion altogether should their team lose - since obviously, if they were paying to the right god they should win.

SacTown Chronic · 09-30-2009, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

- since obviously, if they were paying to the right god they should win.

Best typo ever? Best typo ever.

bewitched · 09-30-2009, 08:18 PM

I look at this as a mother of a child who is inadvertently agnostic/atheist*. Kids have a hard enough time fitting in as it is. I can just picture her sitting there, not agreeing with the majority yet feeling compelled to go along with it because, well, she's a kid. She's a strong kid, but it is still really difficult at an age to stand up against what is popular, right or wrong. Being from Texas (and unfortunately going to a small town school for a short time), I know the pressure put on kids who don't toe the religious (read: Christian) line...even the teachers discriminate.

As an adult, I can clearly see the absurdity in getting upset by this. As an adult, I could care less...but I care about the kids and how the outsiders feel. From this perspective it's wrong. Period.

*By this I mean her dad is a nonpracticing Christian and I am an atheist...she lives with me and has more or less, even though I in no way actively encourage it, adopted my beliefs.

09-30-2009, 07:40 PM	#1
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	I'm fine with it as long as they all agree to convert to another religion, or abandon religion altogether should their team lose - since obviously, if they were paying to the right god they should win. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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09-30-2009, 08:18 PM	#3
bewitched 101% Yummy! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: I know Kung Fu. Posts: 1,413	I look at this as a mother of a child who is inadvertently agnostic/atheist. Kids have a hard enough time fitting in as it is. I can just picture her sitting there, not agreeing with the majority yet feeling compelled to go along with it because, well, she's a kid. She's a strong kid, but it is still really difficult at an age* to stand up against what is popular, right or wrong. Being from Texas (and unfortunately going to a small town school for a short time), I know the pressure put on kids who don't toe the religious (read: Christian) line...even the teachers discriminate. As an adult, I can clearly see the absurdity in getting upset by this. As an adult, I could care less...but I care about the kids and how the outsiders feel. From this perspective it's wrong. Period. By this I mean her dad is a nonpracticing Christian and I am an atheist...she lives with me and has more or less, even though I in no way actively encourage it, adopted my beliefs. __________________ ~Whitney Wondering about the future of Ellington Woodard's punk@ss sh!t.*
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