Clay Jones for June 29, 2022

I’m not sure if this will happen at footballs games, but I could see this happening at a New Jersey Devils game.

That would certainly be funny. But what’s not funny is that several of the kids on his team felt more or less compelled to join in his prayers, despite their own personal preference. Really really not funny.

I wonder what would happen IF a Hebrew, Muslim or a member of the Satanic “church” tried that!!! And let’s not forget Buddhists, and the Hindus!!

;-)

Looks like the bench warmer might finally get in the game.

I can see a school being blown up for supressing Muslim prayers.

I am astonished, but not surprised, at the amount of “Christian” support for this coach’s defiance of Jesus’s express directions. “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the streetcorners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 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.”

The dark lord = Voldemort (or somebody else).

I’ve always wondered why people pray before ballgames. Do they actually think God cares, or controls, who wins? If they are praying AFTER the game, is to give thanks that no one was injured, or that the other team lost?

Get in line in that processional

Step into that small confessional

There the guy who’s got religion’ll

Tell you if your sin’s original.

(Tom Lehrer, “The Vatican Rag”)

Oh, and the way things are going, one can imagine Arkham’s “Lovecraft University” and its “Fighting Cthulhu’s” praying to their namesake, “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. Give us this touchdown!” And the ball an actual severed human head!

Let’s not forget our Pastafarian friends:

“I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me (Afterwards is OK; just use protection). The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization.” (Wiki)

All our bases (oops, wrong sport) need to be covered.

Hey Clay! You almost stole my comment from the other day. I suggested they sacrifice a goat, since striking down Row V. Wade has made virgins scarce now that it’s open season on breeders.

Not, likely, a riot would probably ensue.

Okay kids, I’m going to lead a prayer on the 50 yard line. You don’t all have to join me although when I said if you’re not praying you’re not playing I was just following our lord’s call.

Kandiss Taylor’s theme during her campaign for governor in Georgia was “Jesus, Guns Babies”. Thankfully she lost. But Trumpers are spreading this message saying that SCOTUS is 3 for 3.

Can’t wait to see the reaction when someone starts leading non-Christian prayer. That’s when you’ll get the false nonsense about the U.S. being a Christian nation.

Boebert is saying that the church should direct the government. Which church? If Catholic, then she’ll have to give up her guns. Just ask the Pope.

The religious outside christianity understands that because the weak and tenuous hold christianity has on its flock demands that christians are constantly required to publicly reinforce their belief system to each other, even though doing so violates the specific commands from the deity they are worshiping. So it is unlikely they will publicly humiliate themselves the way christians do.

Only whoever does their laundry would know.

He’s praying he doesn’t get caught in the little boy’s locker room.

That could be problematic. I mean I’m not sure that Satan is a football fan as much as Jesus.

OK, here’s a post from not-quite 20 years ago: https://www.wnd.com/2005/10/32839/

Some excerpts:

“I had the privilege of serving our nation’s Air Force while assigned to Hickam Air Force Base on the beautiful island of Oahu in the beautiful state of Hawaii.”

“Because we worked in the youth department of our church and taught teenage Sunday School classes, we were anxious to be involved in the lives of the students we worked with. So we were quite excited to be able to attend our first football game at Wahiawa High School.”

“Coming from a fairly traditional Southern upbringing, I was not at all initially surprised when a voice came over the PA and asked everyone to rise for the invocation. I had been through this same ritual at many other high-school events and thought nothing of it, so to our feet my wife and I stood, bowed our heads, and prepared to partake of the prayer. But to our extreme dismay, the clergyman who took the microphone and began to pray was not a Protestant minister or a Catholic priest, but a Buddhist priest who proceeded to offer up prayers and intonations to god-head figures that our tradition held to be pagan.”

“Because unless you’re ready to endure the unwilling exposure of yourself and your children to those beliefs and practices that your own faith forswears, you have no right to insist that others sit in silence and complicity while you do the same to them. I, for one, slept better at night knowing that because Judeo-Christian prayers were not being offered at my children’s schools, I didn’t have to worry about them being confronted with Buddhist, Shinto, Wiccan, Satanic or any other prayer ritual I might find offensive.

Gary Christenot"

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James 2:24

I love how the Conservatives make up their own religion and call it “Christianity.”

Decisions from the radical, “bought and paid for” SupremeNOT judges will cause more damage than good.

The Satanic Temple has filed a civil lawsuit against a Pennsylvania elementary school after the school turned down a request to form an after-school Satan Club.

Why is Clay drawing about the Chicago Bears? Not that prayers are going to help in 2022.

Maybe I’ll show up in a bikini, a colander on my head, foot-long boiled spaghetti noodles around my neck, and singing the doctrine of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Apparently, you can get fired for not attending mandatory prayer meetings at your job. In North Carolina, 2 employees were fired for not joining company Christian prayer. I wonder how the Supreme Court will rule on that.

Praying at sporting events seems pretty foolish. Does anyone serious believe in a god who cares which team wins? Presumably both sides could be praying—how would god decide between them? Really, people, grow up.

I was raised without belief in any religion whatsoever, but I was forced to recite the Lord’s Prayer. At the time that seemed like a violation of my rights. It still does.

As I said above, I was raised without belief in any religion. My parents weren’t believers, and they hadn’t been raised to be believers themselves, so I guess I was a third generation nothing. But my parents were interested in the history of religion. I knew more about the Bible than any of the other kids in my school. My Dad was also interested in some kinds of mysticism, and I suspect he had some mystical experiences himself. He never talked about them, but he did write some rather mystical poetry. But he wasn’t in favor of any religious dogma, and he felt that organized religion was in general a bad thing.

That five-point star is not satanic. — It is a Wiccan symbol. We just passed Litha, the celebration of the peak of the strength of the sungod. It is earth-based, and any evil a witch does will come back to the doer. In essence, it is like Hinduism in that there is a wheel of life and constant rebirth.

When the first Muslim pulls out a prayer blanket and leads the elementary class with a prayer from the Koran, this will all be over.

I think God should come down from the heavens and show himself. He should let everyone know what he wants to settle all this. If there is a God and he is all powerful, he should be able to do this. I, personally can’t believe in some mystical, magical being that people let control their lives.

Zactly!

https://warprayer.org/

Why did he have to pray on the field? Jehovah is all around us. This goof could have prayed in the parking lot of Western Auto if he wanted. It would have been just as effective.

As if Jehovah gives a smelly rat’s bum about football. Jehovah is a Rugby Fan, always was.

All right, players, let’s gather here on the 50 yard line no less than one minute after the final second of the game (while the stands are still full of parent’s and townspeople who will not fail to note what a pious and devoted servant of GOD! their beloved coach is), all get in a circle down on one knee around ME, YOUR COACH, and we’ll all pray together to the GOD I BELIEVE IN.

And if you are so arrogant and hateful toward MY GOD, you do not have to join our group. You can just stand over there about ten feet or so off to one side (where everybody in the stands can witness exactly who the heathen who thinks he’s better than and knows more than YOUR COACH is/are).

Don’t worry, this is America, you have all the FREEDOM to hate GOD you could ask for.

You can even keep your uniform and helmet, and come out for practice every day for the rest of the year. Not that you’ll get to play. [Well, unless you’re REALLY REALLY good and can take us to the playoffs/championship. Then maybe we can cut some kind of a deal].

Amen.

My HR department JUST told me I couldn’t do this………………

Does Amazon have free shipping on voodoo dolls if you buy more than three?

So people willingly choosing to join a prayer is a problem.