Something something religion something something Tebow sucks something something predetermined thugball.

There, I saved you all the trouble of participating in yet another of an endless series of Tebow threads that the modmins are trolling us with, all of which end up the same way no matter what twist you put on it.

Nearly 45 per cent of Americans believed God was actively helping Tebow on the football field, according to a CBS poll released last week.

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But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
-Matthew, 6:6 (NIV)

loonatic112358: Rapmaster2000: Over Christmas, a friend and I were reminiscing at the bar about how in 8th grade we were attacked by parents of a rival middle school team following our win. They freaking chased us out of the locker room. I remember some 40ish year old man beating on the bus with an axe handle.

People get way too silly about school sports, or maybe it's just people in rural Indiana get way too silly about basketball.

No, people get way too worked up over sports

rioting over pro sports, parents freaking out at little league games, people act like the world revolves around someone being able to chunk an object at some sort of target

This. Oh my god, someone threw a ball better than someone else? KILL HIM!

DaddyRat: CapnBlues: But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
-Matthew, 6:6 (NIV)

Yeah, that.

/God says STFU and GBTW

the jesus freaks really hate it when you quote their own dude at them.

/hot
//Go Flames go!
///Please?

Farking Canuck: How do the people who believe that god was helping Tebow come to terms with the fact that he got his ass kicked in his last game.

Did god lose? Did god abandon Tebow? Did Tebow's opponents pray harder or more effectively??

/I think it is the typical "Was it good? Then it was god! Was it bad? Then god had nothing to do with it ... maybe it was the devil."

I was watching the saturday game at a bar in beantown, and i heard a lot of people saying things like, "i guess jesus sat this one out, huh?" and "it turns out that knowing the playbook is even more valuable than knowing jesus" and my favorite "hey jesus, where were you on that one, dipshiat?" (paraphrasing that scene in happy gilmore)

chewielouie: CapnBlues: DaddyRat: CapnBlues: But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
-Matthew, 6:6 (NIV)

Yeah, that.

/God says STFU and GBTW

the jesus freaks really hate it when you quote their own dude at them.

Not really, but it amusing to see atheists take Bible verses out of context.

u mad? explain the context so i can learn.

Prank Call of Cthulhu: CapnBlues: But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
-Matthew, 6:6 (NIV)

So what I take away from that is, go to your room and shut the door and your father will come and give you a "reward" in secret? Is this from the little known Book of Pedobear?

I think it may have actually been a letter from Paul to the Pedophilistines

Prank Call of Cthulhu: CapnBlues: Paul to the Pedophilistines

Win.

you're too kind. :)

chewielouie: Jesus was addressing the hypocrites who ONLY prayed in public so that others could see them in public, but in private it was back to business as usual. Unless you have some inside information that Tebow does not also pray in private, then your use of Matthew is misplaced.

"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Matthew 5:16

I'm sorry, but that reeks of desperate justification. Matthew 6:1 says "Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven." As a matter of fact, the first 14 verses of Matthew Chapter 6 seem to be pretty specific about this issue. The take-home message from Chapter 6 in general seems to be about being secure and confident in your own salvation and righteousness, rather than evangelizing and bragging to everyone about how holy and good you are. I'm certain Tebow prays plenty in private, but it seems to me that his public prayer makes him quite the hypocrite. If ONLY Christians and other jesus freaks watched football, I'd say he's alright. But he's evangelizing and acting like a self-righteous hypocrite. He is ASKING for this attention. He could as easily take a silent moment standing with his head down or eyes closed on the sideline, and God (if there is such a thing) would hear him just fine. Instead, he strikes a distinctive pose and shouts about it to the press. That's exactly what the Christ of Matthew Chapter 6 opposed. Then again, you point out that there's a very different Jesus in Chapter 5.

It's almost as if these books were cobbled together hundreds of years after Jesus died, or maybe as if Jesus was just a normal, fallible guy who was trying his best to get people to stop being horrible to each other, while having some delusions of grandeur.

Wadded Beef: Tebow vs. Pittsburgh: 316 yards passing. Everyone knows John 3:16.

Tebow vs. New England: 136 yards passing. John 13:6: "He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Think about it.

OR!

When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"
-John, 1:36

Think about it.