smerconish wants to muzzle jesus!

aka- s.i.c. argument #8

first things first.
a conservative would relish the opportunity to combine america's beloved sport with america's beloved deity. the only thing better? rush limbaugh part owner of st. louis rams.
a conservative clean sweep!
on to business.
was perusing smerconish's

"Must See Of The Day" 

   @http://www.smerconish.com

and found his philadelphia daily news piece, titled: "when playbook meets praybook" @

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/64343087.html

i think joel osteen might take issue with michael's stand on the literal hail mary's, the new-age genuflecting, and the flexing of WWJD tattoos on bulging, finely cut biceps not so subtly combined with pigskin and astroturf.

maybe it's an 'equal time' thing and the devil needs to get some credit for fumbles and interceptions. personally, i have yet to hear a single professional athlete blame satan for coming in third place. in fact, quite often third place gives no credit to god whatsoever, but instead credit goes to the two guys who ran faster and more faster than third.

 a no no----------------------->

                                

 i think kurt warner eyes are asking jesus for a touchdown.

oh! he got it!

 NO THEYRE NOT!

the smerconish piece quotes usa today contributor, tom krattenmaker,author of, onward christian athletes: turning ballparks into pulpits and players into preachers. 

"His problem is not with religious athletes but what he sees fueling their frequent public displays of religion.

He observes a movement that "promotes an exclusive theology (and politics) counter to the interests of the majority of us in a religiously, politically diverse America." There is, he writes, an overemphasis on evangelical Christianity and right-wing politics that dominate to the exclusion of other beliefs and worldviews."

 i think krattenmaker is one conspiracy shy of blaming george w. bush.

first, i believe EVERY SINGLE RELIGIOUS DEITY is believed to be, up there. no god walks the earth; theyre ALL up there! mcnabb could easily be giving prop-fingers to allah or vishnu for all we know.

second, krattenmaker is asserting there is a right-wing connspiracy of republican, evangelical christian season ticket holders "taligating for jesus!" and baptising nfl players during half-time.

third, is there a more despised religious group in this country than evangelical christians?

good grief, maybe they just really, really like god.

"I'm just getting on my knees giving my respect to God. I don't see how that's a personal foul or anything like that."

when smerconish is eating hoagies and watching football, he doesnt like all the pda for the big guy up there.

i dont know; might be a bad idea to muzzle jesus.

smerconish hearts joel osteen

i have always been a little weirded-out by smerconish's fascination with joel osteen.
first, its just plain odd i could twitter a confession to my pastor in 140 words or less.
second, i stumbled upon a concert venue page to find osteen appearing between metallica and the "so you think you can dance" tour.
third, that smile. you might think its a perfectly nice smile, but i think behind that smile is a man who could easily eat my face off. i think that poor woman is his next victim.
                                      

i tell you this, first save your soul from that man, but primarily in response to the topic of the "super-church". sharing the gospel of jesus christ suddenly requires a wireless head-set, musical guest appearances by the christian singer de jour, and a gift shop conveniently stocked with every book written by the super-churches' super-pastor.

 oh, and some jesusy knick-knacky things.




with mosques popping up throughout the united states, i imagine denominational christians are feeling somewhat, left behind. islam, the second largest religion is quickly catching up with the 1st place christians by leaps and bounds as it is now the worlds fastest growing religion.
not to be outdone by a bunch of muslims, super-christians everywhere are flying off the pews of their teeny, tiny churches into the lushly padded arena chairs of a stadium-sized McChurch. this up-sizing of christianity is nothing new.
non-denominational churches have been around since english episcopal independents broke free from the church of england back in 1600 something. it is only the intention adopted by the new and super-improved non-denoms that's suddenly different.
the mcchurch often works around a yearly budget of around $50,000,000. yeah, thats right, 50 million beautifully tax exempt bucks. i can remember my church raised money by guilt tripping us into trick-or-treating for unicef, forcing potential treat-givers into choosing whether to nickle and dime some hungry kid in africa or give the cute witch some candy. i eventually had to resort to lying about a sick brother who was unable to trick-or-treat for unicef and since i was unable to carry TWO unicef boxes and my treat bag, i volunteered to give up my treat bag and carry one for him instead.

 hey, i was happy AND the starving kids were happy. it worked all the way around.

super-mega-McChurches are all about two things:
1. dollars
2. numbers
the McChurch is big business.
furthermore, under the guise of 'unification', christians are given permission to forgo all those pesky rules denominations are so keen on enforcing in the name of god, but, (and this is the important part) non-denominational, united christians will draw strength (and converts) and give those darn muslims a run for their burkahs reclaiming christainity as the worlds fastest and most superest religion of all!

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache%3AlfrQcHYHScsJ%3Awww.lambert-edwards.com%2Fassets%2FExeSummaryChurchFinanceMarket.pdf+lambert+edwards+analysis+us+church+finance+market&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AFQjCNGa3qT9wvB0xa0tCMQnblL9SfZARA

this is fascinating.

go read it.

and peace be with you.

smerconish hates steven singer

four days every week, my husband and i travel from our home in delaware, to the renfrew center in philly to visit our daughter.
one particular trip, the husband turns down the radio, "who the hell is steven singer? i see that billboard all the time."

"well!", said i.
"i can tell you exactly who he is and why people hate him."
i went on to tell him the history behind the "i hate steven singer" billboard, verbatim, as i  learned of it on the smerconish morning show.
my husband was most impressed with my uncanny knowledge about a random billboard in pennsylvania.
i would like to thank michael smerconish for always keeping me informed of cool things.

go phillies!

also, a plug for the guy we hate. steven singer donated $33,000 to the shanksville, pennsylvania 9-11 memorial fund. i hear he also has some nice jewelry.

http://www.stevensingerjewelers.com

http://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm  (flight 93 memorial fund link)