"I thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and my team mates." Tim Tebow
It is hard not to enjoy watching this second string quarterback scrambling and running like a halfback far exceeding expectations. But there is a down side.
First of all the quote. Paying first and foremost allegiance to a religious figure rather than his teammates. Perhaps he and Jesus should play the next game together and give the rest of the team the day off.
And even harder to deal with is Tim Tebow has now become the grand and glorious hero of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, Laura Schlesinger, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and all of Fox News. Boy that’s a hard nut to swallow, let me tell you.
This issue also overlaps into politics. These Faith Based Republican Candidates also put their religion above their country, the Constitution and even their children. TOO MUCH RELIGION is what drives not only most all the terrorism in the world today, but most of the intolerance and bigotry past and present. We need Momma Bear’s just right porridge. Join a Unitarian Church near you today!
Even the Bible says give 1/7th of your time to religion and 1/10th your money. That’s about a 13% commitment which seems about right. But when it becomes all you are, trouble trouble.
In one of America’s famous classics from 150 years ago the only survivor of a mass drowning caused by religious driven vengeance got it right.
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in, then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.” Ishmael – From Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
What is most poignant in the novel is that not only did the entire crew of the Piquod get caught up in the religious fervor served up by that raving madman, but so did the novel’s voice of secular rationalism Mr. Starbuck.