I'm not from Georgia, but I live in the state now and let me tell you it is absolutely crazy down here. A prayer before the high school football games, prayers and and a rousing patriotic song before Rotary meetings, groups of Primitive Baptists dunking each other in the river (just like "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" for crap's sake), no signage on the black neighborhood's polling place except, "ID REQUIRED," restaurants where you have to eat your grits and hushpuppies with a side of religion. It's just H. E. double-hockey-sticks for a semi-well educated West Coast liberal.
These folks are so impressively dim that they know absolutely nothing about their own denomination. Baptists did a lot of the separation of church and state heavy lifting in the early days of the country...including being the source of the phrase "separation of church and state," since Jefferson used it as a direct reference to a phrase used by Roger Williams, who founded the first Baptist church in America.
Good question. Yes, the Anabaptists withdrew from government and didn't participate in the "things of this world." The group began in Switzerland and Germany. Their closest modern day successors are Mennonites and Amish. The origin of today's Baptists gets complicated. Some people think they were British Anabaptists, but others say not. Today's evangelical Baptists (I know some) will tell you they predate everybody, including Catholics! But yeah, the inclination towards theocracy among today's Baptists is not historically grounded. I think they're fearful people with a tribal outlook that has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with psychology. The only thing I see in common with Anabaptists is not baptizing people until they're old enough to believe in a belief system. Good article here about Anabaptist thought on the "hangman question."http://www.mhsc.ca/index.ph...
Remember when the right was all up in arms because a Muslim community center was being built somewhere in NYC, and yet this doesn't seem like a problem.
You have my sympathies. I'm a California liberal and just spent 10 yrs living in rural TN where things are exactly as you describe. Fortunately, we left last month and are now back in CA. I was never so happy to leave a state. Good luck to you.
"They’re 0-2 this year, but you’d think they’re 15-0"
Now see, that right there is your religious hallucination, just like the commanding voices of Jeanne d'Arc. I say we burn this muh-fuh at the goal posts!
0-2 so far this year? The God-botherers are always claiming that, with God, all things are possible. Evidently, all things except changing reality.
Lather, rinse, repeat
Everything is Roger Goodall's fault.
Glory Days.
Keep this bullshit out of the games. So sayeth Arian Foster.
What about if the coach was Catholic? Would they have been oK with that?
Excellent comment!
I'm not from Georgia, but I live in the state now and let me tell you it is absolutely crazy down here. A prayer before the high school football games, prayers and and a rousing patriotic song before Rotary meetings, groups of Primitive Baptists dunking each other in the river (just like "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" for crap's sake), no signage on the black neighborhood's polling place except, "ID REQUIRED," restaurants where you have to eat your grits and hushpuppies with a side of religion. It's just H. E. double-hockey-sticks for a semi-well educated West Coast liberal.
I'm sure that they'd have been just okey dokey with it if he had been Muslim and had the players recite the shahada, also too.
We passed on Jesus in the draft just like we did Marino.
These folks are so impressively dim that they know absolutely nothing about their own denomination. Baptists did a lot of the separation of church and state heavy lifting in the early days of the country...including being the source of the phrase "separation of church and state," since Jefferson used it as a direct reference to a phrase used by Roger Williams, who founded the first Baptist church in America.
Good question. Yes, the Anabaptists withdrew from government and didn't participate in the "things of this world." The group began in Switzerland and Germany. Their closest modern day successors are Mennonites and Amish. The origin of today's Baptists gets complicated. Some people think they were British Anabaptists, but others say not. Today's evangelical Baptists (I know some) will tell you they predate everybody, including Catholics! But yeah, the inclination towards theocracy among today's Baptists is not historically grounded. I think they're fearful people with a tribal outlook that has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with psychology. The only thing I see in common with Anabaptists is not baptizing people until they're old enough to believe in a belief system. Good article here about Anabaptist thought on the "hangman question."http://www.mhsc.ca/index.ph...
Remember when the right was all up in arms because a Muslim community center was being built somewhere in NYC, and yet this doesn't seem like a problem.
You have my sympathies. I'm a California liberal and just spent 10 yrs living in rural TN where things are exactly as you describe. Fortunately, we left last month and are now back in CA. I was never so happy to leave a state. Good luck to you.
Think of the upside to this - why use steroids when they can get juiced on Jeezus?
"They’re 0-2 this year, but you’d think they’re 15-0"
Now see, that right there is your religious hallucination, just like the commanding voices of Jeanne d'Arc. I say we burn this muh-fuh at the goal posts!
And fishes. But not actually *in* the Gatorade. That's more of a Jew thing, probbly.