I used to be a BIG football fan. Every Sunday, I was up by noon (I was a bachelor and Saturday night didn’t end until Sunday morning) so I could watch my beloved Kansas City Chiefs.
I learned to hate the Denver Broncos. Still do, but not as much as the filthy, cheatin’, nasty Raiders.
Anyway, to this day, I ensure my children do not wear orange and blue together. But I can’t help but want to support Tim Tebow. I guess it’s the desire to root for the underdog. That’s why I was a Patriots fan in ’85.
Still, he plays for the Broncos. I mean, I can’t get past that.
So, given the history of hating the Donkeys, the last thing I want is for the Denver Broncos to win anything, let alone a Super Bowl.
Is that crazy? I want Tebow to win but want the Broncos to drown in an ocean of fail.
Yeah, maybe.
But not as crazy as this:
If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants. While America has become more inclusive since Jerry Falwell’s first political forays, a Tebow triumph could set those efforts back considerably.
For some reason, this Rabbi (yeah, you read that right) thinks that all it will take is a Christian winning the Super Bowl for fellow Christians to turn into frothing, violent hate machines of destruction, and of course, our targets would be Mosques and gays. Oh, and those danged foreigners!
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman somehow believes the moral equivalency nonsense regarding Christians and Muslims. You see, if the Muslims will riot over a cartoon of Mohammed, then surely those football fueled fundies will go into a frenzy over one of their own beating all the odds and winning the Lombardi Trophy.
Rabbi Hammerman is a fool. If, God forbid, the Denver Broncos win the Super Bowl, there might be riots in Denver, but it will be Budweiser Coors fueling the action, not Christian fundamentalism.
(Almost forgot) Hat Tip: Rhymes with Right
[...] calling this guy, as I did, a prejudiced idiot. Fortunately, others are not tired. Duane Lester sums up the Rabbi’s foolishness thusly: Rabbi Joshua Hammerman somehow believes the moral equivalency nonsense regarding Christians and [...]
I’ve got a big flash for Rabbi Hammerman: Tebow would not be the first Christian to win a Super Bowl so he can probably put his fears to rest. While he may display his faith more publicly than NFL quarterbacks of the past that have won Super Bowls, I’m preeetty sure most of them would describe themselves as Christians.
You’ve beaten me to the punch!
If the honorable Rabbi’s thesis was correct we would have already seen smoldering Mosques and ERs filled with gays and immigrants who had been savagely brutalized by those terrorists-just-waiting-for-the-dog-whistle zealots to mobilize in world-conquest mode, reigning down holy judgment on the “sinners”.
It seems he conflates death-to-the-infidel, suicide-vest, sword-wielding jihadis with dying-to-self Christians verbalizing their faith. It’s an easy mistake to make, actually, if your worldview is Lib/Dem/Prog-based.
I really think that pro sports has become a distraction from reality as it was probably intended to be. We have a western world drowning in debt, turning its back on its “age of reason” beginings, promoting the dilution of the culture, and Westerners are content to root for their favorite team or player. It is a form of cultural denial.
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I don’t care who wins… I’m breaking stuff.
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Me thinks the good Rabbi orgets the lives if many Christians lost in WW2 to save the Jewish population from extinction at the hands of the Dictator & his henchmen. We did it willingly. You are welcome Rabbi. Oh, & I really don’t care who wins the Superbowl – know it won’t be the Rams!
This has to be the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. Maybe it should read: If Tebow wins, more faith will be placed in God and as such, the Muslims will be up in arms offended. And, do we really care about that? NO!
[...] few days ago I posted an article about an anti-Christian screed written by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman. The premise of Hammerman’s [...]
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