Sir, while I respect your years of learing and study and the position you have earned in your community I am forced to say, with all due respect, STFU.

Uh... Go Pats?

As if that rabbi would give two shiats if mosques were burned.

Chistians are so cute.

TeddyBallGame: Uh... Go Pats?

pretty much

Done in one (typo)

He's right.

This is all kinds of stupid.

I know nothing of this Tim Turbow, but I do know that Turducken is one of the most vile concoctions ever on the face of the planet. If you could have gay sex between species, this would be very gay sex.

Seems the original Tebow article has been taken down. Link from this article now just goes to the Jewish Week main page, and a search for "Tebow" yields no results. So, kudos to the Jewish Week editors for realizing they had put up an asinine column and correcting it.

i didn't read the article, but was this Steve Kings power rankings comment?

m3000: I hate Christianity (as an organized religion), but I also think all the Tebow hate is stupid. This rabbi is also stupid.

Whatever happened to live and let live? This Rabbi is weapons grade stupid.

BitwiseShift: I know nothing of this Tim Turbow, but I do know that Turducken is one of the most vile concoctions ever on the face of the planet. If you could have gay sex between species, this would be very gay sex.

If eating three animals at the same time is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Elaine Dickinson: Would you like something to read?

Hanging Lady: Do you have anything light?

Elaine Dickinson: How about this leaflet, "Famous Jewish Sports Legends?"

N.O will win. Let's start a civil war

and after the looting and burning of all other religious institutions Michelle Bachmann will be swept into power and the end of days shall commence.

Anyway, as for TFA, it's fine to criticize Hammerman's column as the idiocy that it is, but I wish the author hadn't played the victimized Christian card.

Did they need an excuse in the first place?

This cock sucker should be shot in the face.

SilentStrider: How is that different from usual?

This. I don't doubt that somewhere out there is a Christian who would take Tebow's success as a validation of his faith (which, for the particular Christian in question would include bashing Muslims and gays), and go out and do so, saying that God spoke through Tebow and supports his actions.

However, if the Broncos lose, said crazy Christian would probably have done the same thing at some point anyway, but without using the word "Tebow", so it would just be a story about regular ol' Muslim- and gay-bashing, and not Tebow-inspired hate, so we probably wouldn't even hear about it.

This thread...

Dogfacedgod: This cock sucker should be shot in the face.

I agree. All extremists should be lined up and shot!

jso2897: Mr. Tebow could have avoided all this controversy by simply heeding Jesus to begin with:
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen of men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full."

That would require actually following their faith and not the paranoid, self-loving, money-worshiping cult they've become.

The Rebe's hatred is ok because he hates through the hole in the sheet.

(Upright Citizens Brigade reference)

Aw c'mon everyone, calm down. Let's just hold an interfaith pork supper so everyone can get together and have fun.

ChubbyTiger: Sir, while I respect your years of learing and *snip*

That's a lot of ogling.

CapnBlues: jso2897: Mr. Tebow could have avoided all this controversy by simply heeding Jesus to begin with:
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen of men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full."

Probably my favorite verse from that mythology.

That verse is pointed towards people doing that to make themselves look good. I'd say Tebow's motivation is not that, but much closer to that referred to in Matthew 28:19...

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"

He left out the part about cats and dogs marrying each other.

"Tebow! Tebow! Tebow!"

Will someone explain, in a nutshell, why I keep hearing his name? I'm too lazy (tired) to Google and sift^TM.

/yes, I am out of the football loop this year

The Rabbi Coughlin line is hilarious.

It's Tebow, Tebow
Gotta get down on Tebow
Everybody's Tebowing for the weekend, weekend
Tebowing, Tebowing, Yeah!
Tebowing, Tebowing, Yeah!
Tebow,Tebow
Tebow,Tebow
Tebowing for the weekend!

remember when all those mosques got burned after Tebow won the national championship twice?

To be fair, the guy's comments were that If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful", that " ...emboldened faithful can do insane things... and that While America has become more inclusive since Jerry Falwell's first political forays, a Tebow triumph could set those efforts back considerably.

I'm not sure I agree with point 1. Point 2 is basically correct. Point 3, again, I just don't see a correlation between football and religious fervor.

Overall, I'd say that I disagree with this Rabbi (and frankly think he's kind of an idiot), but TFA's author is a bit of a douche for replacing "CAN" and "COULD" with "WILL".

Its a basic strawman from some asshat looking to get more hits on his worthless blog, and pretty much a non-story.

Crewmannumber6: m3000: I hate Christianity (as an organized religion), but I also think all the Tebow hate is stupid. This rabbi is also stupid.

Whatever happened to live and let live? This Rabbi is weapons grade stupid.

Live and let live? You understand that some of Christianity's fundamental beliefs are that: all other religions are false, All of their adherents deserve to be tortured for all eternity if they don't convert, and that it's their mission in life to, through conversion, eradicate all other religions and belief systems on the planet?

Rabbi Hammerman?

ArcadianRefugee: "Tebow! Tebow! Tebow!"

Will someone explain, in a nutshell, why I keep hearing his name? I'm too lazy (tired) to Google and siftTM.

/yes, I am out of the football loop this year

I don't know anything about Tebow. I'm still using my VCR.

drjekel_mrhyde: N.O will win. Let's start a civil war

I'm ok with this. I'm a Vikings fan (to use the term loosely). Breesus is my fantasy quarterback. He could set the single game passing record on Sunday against the Vikings and their utter lack of a secondary.

Not to worry, rabbi.

Rogers and my Green Bay Packers have got this one.

GO PACK!