Conservative religionists of all stripes always operate under the delusion that forcing their religion on others is not only okay, but will always have a happy ending. Facts do not matter them. Joe Kennedy is just one more fool trying to make a buck on religion, by presenting himself as a victim of the godless left. On the plus side, the days are numbered for people like Joe Kennedy. Religion cedes ground with every passing year they will never recover. I think there are people alive today who will see religion's influence reduced to the point of irrelevance.
None of these kids were around while he was coaching originally, they have no link to him. The other coaches are busy coaching. I’m glad to see him all by his lonesome on the field. Even if a bunch of lookie loos came to cheer him on in the stands, there probably wasn’t as many as he wanted.
"I'm Coach Kennedy, and I am going to do my Christian Nationalist duty and p̶r̶a̶y̶piss all over the football field. Hey, why am I by myself? I thought all you students were good little Christian Nationalists like me! Doesn't anybody want to do a group p̶r̶a̶y̶e̶r̶piss?"
He made the spectacle he wanted, got his way after his tantrum, and everyone apparently recognized it for what it was and refused to participate. Good.
Still another proof that "sports builds character." Yeah, right. What is smilingly called "sports culture" in this country breeds clowns like Kennedy at a steady pace while athletes like Colin Kaepernick and Pat Tillman remain rare, at best. Whoever it was who said "Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing." was speaking for virtually every coach and most athletes in the racket. And a saying about winning at any cost, even at the cost of blatant dishonesty, might just as well be the motto of Liberty Counsel and ADF, too. Joe Kennedy and Liberty Counsel were made for each other.
Ah, so he's on "wingnut welfare". A lot of "famous" people seem to manage that after they give up their day job. Pretty lucrative from what I can gather.
“It’s true that Kennedy will soon release a ghostwritten memoir called Average Joe: The Coach Joe Kennedy Story. There’s also a movie about him in the works produced by the God’s Not Dead people; while he’s not directly involved with it, he’ll presumably be involved with the publicity campaign.”
Let me guess, Jim Caviezel will play the coach. It’s the natural progression from God’s son, in “Passion of the Christ,” to god’s football coach! Remember there is nothing more American than, God (only Christian), country, guns, Trump and football.
It’s also an amazing rags to riches story of how a poor lost soul found Jesus, became a lowly paid coach, and thanks to the religious zealots on the fascist court, became an instant millionaire and inspiration to all the faithful hypocrites, who pray for their modern day prophet: Trump.
It’s must see TV, coming soon to the Cristian Gay Conversion Network!...:)
What does all of the above show? It shows that, beyond anything else, Coach Joe Kennedy is a SELFISH, SELF-INVOLVED ASS, who is likely far more interested in his own self-aggrandizement than he is in football or the kids he was supposed to teach and guide on the gridiron or much anything else. He seems to have gotten his wish, too. I'm sure that 𝐺𝑜𝑑'𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑: 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 will be every last bit the proselytizing opus that its predecessors were, as well as an utter box-office failure, but that doesn't matter.
Joe Kennedy got what he wanted and more, especially considering that the Bremerton school district got stuck with the bill. You don't get a whole lot more self-absorbed than that.
I think the whole thing is a farce. Why would the creator of the universe give a damn about a high school football game? On the flip side I find it encouraging that about 40 million Americans have stopped going to church in the past 25 years. Let's hope the trend continues.
This has all the signs of a pyrrhic victory. Wins the legal right to pray on the field, ensures hundreds if not thousands of Christians in his community who might have thought it sounded like a good idea 'on paper', now think it's a total dick move.
The *really* amusing thing is the fundies just don't understand why their numbers keep dropping. His Jesusing is so inspiring! So brave! Can't everyone see that? I think they truly don't get it. Which means their numbers will continue to drop.
I’m on vacation this weekend, so I haven’t been here much. When I woke up this morning I was not prepared to deal with a troll on a month old article about transgender people.
I need to get over myself apparently when there’s like a fraction of a percent of athletes are transgender yet he’s freaking out over an incident that was not unusual for the sport.
The next right-wing story he features in will be about how sad it is that everyone else in that photo is so lost to Jeeeeezus that they didn't even have the "courage" to say the magic words with Coach Chucklefuck, and how he 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 have saved their souls if only the meanie school district hadn't... um... *𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴* not... fired him. Or something.
So a Christian group can invade a secular chapel to keep anyone but Christians using it, but if someone tries to use their beach on Sunday they get mad and block it?
The district map drawn up by the FL GQP was already bad, but Nazi Ronny decided it wasn't 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 shitty enough for his liking and called a special session of the legislature to present his own map which, surprise surprise, split Laswon's district so that his mostly-Black constituents would lose their Representative and have their votes drowned out by white Republicans.
Because, y'know, businesses should 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 be allowed to express their sincerely held beliefs when their sincerely held beliefs are 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥. If you want to be inclusive and welcoming, take that commie shit somewhere else!
Conservative religionists of all stripes always operate under the delusion that forcing their religion on others is not only okay, but will always have a happy ending. Facts do not matter them. Joe Kennedy is just one more fool trying to make a buck on religion, by presenting himself as a victim of the godless left. On the plus side, the days are numbered for people like Joe Kennedy. Religion cedes ground with every passing year they will never recover. I think there are people alive today who will see religion's influence reduced to the point of irrelevance.
None of these kids were around while he was coaching originally, they have no link to him. The other coaches are busy coaching. I’m glad to see him all by his lonesome on the field. Even if a bunch of lookie loos came to cheer him on in the stands, there probably wasn’t as many as he wanted.
"I'm Coach Kennedy, and I am going to do my Christian Nationalist duty and p̶r̶a̶y̶piss all over the football field. Hey, why am I by myself? I thought all you students were good little Christian Nationalists like me! Doesn't anybody want to do a group p̶r̶a̶y̶e̶r̶piss?"
He made the spectacle he wanted, got his way after his tantrum, and everyone apparently recognized it for what it was and refused to participate. Good.
Still another proof that "sports builds character." Yeah, right. What is smilingly called "sports culture" in this country breeds clowns like Kennedy at a steady pace while athletes like Colin Kaepernick and Pat Tillman remain rare, at best. Whoever it was who said "Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing." was speaking for virtually every coach and most athletes in the racket. And a saying about winning at any cost, even at the cost of blatant dishonesty, might just as well be the motto of Liberty Counsel and ADF, too. Joe Kennedy and Liberty Counsel were made for each other.
Ah, so he's on "wingnut welfare". A lot of "famous" people seem to manage that after they give up their day job. Pretty lucrative from what I can gather.
“It’s true that Kennedy will soon release a ghostwritten memoir called Average Joe: The Coach Joe Kennedy Story. There’s also a movie about him in the works produced by the God’s Not Dead people; while he’s not directly involved with it, he’ll presumably be involved with the publicity campaign.”
Let me guess, Jim Caviezel will play the coach. It’s the natural progression from God’s son, in “Passion of the Christ,” to god’s football coach! Remember there is nothing more American than, God (only Christian), country, guns, Trump and football.
It’s also an amazing rags to riches story of how a poor lost soul found Jesus, became a lowly paid coach, and thanks to the religious zealots on the fascist court, became an instant millionaire and inspiration to all the faithful hypocrites, who pray for their modern day prophet: Trump.
It’s must see TV, coming soon to the Cristian Gay Conversion Network!...:)
What does all of the above show? It shows that, beyond anything else, Coach Joe Kennedy is a SELFISH, SELF-INVOLVED ASS, who is likely far more interested in his own self-aggrandizement than he is in football or the kids he was supposed to teach and guide on the gridiron or much anything else. He seems to have gotten his wish, too. I'm sure that 𝐺𝑜𝑑'𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑: 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 will be every last bit the proselytizing opus that its predecessors were, as well as an utter box-office failure, but that doesn't matter.
Joe Kennedy got what he wanted and more, especially considering that the Bremerton school district got stuck with the bill. You don't get a whole lot more self-absorbed than that.
OT
Over on the previous FA article, bagen.onuts has made note of the fact that Jimmy Buffett died.
Buffett dies and this assclown gets a victory lap on a high school football field for martyrbation. The godthing is a joke.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/
Sort of like 1984? Only worse.
I think the whole thing is a farce. Why would the creator of the universe give a damn about a high school football game? On the flip side I find it encouraging that about 40 million Americans have stopped going to church in the past 25 years. Let's hope the trend continues.
If coaches do it for love of the students, many of them seem to have a strange definition of love.
This has all the signs of a pyrrhic victory. Wins the legal right to pray on the field, ensures hundreds if not thousands of Christians in his community who might have thought it sounded like a good idea 'on paper', now think it's a total dick move.
The *really* amusing thing is the fundies just don't understand why their numbers keep dropping. His Jesusing is so inspiring! So brave! Can't everyone see that? I think they truly don't get it. Which means their numbers will continue to drop.
I’m on vacation this weekend, so I haven’t been here much. When I woke up this morning I was not prepared to deal with a troll on a month old article about transgender people.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/richard-dawkins-used-his-new-podcast/comment/21633283#comment-39453765?utm_source=activity_item
I need to get over myself apparently when there’s like a fraction of a percent of athletes are transgender yet he’s freaking out over an incident that was not unusual for the sport.
The next right-wing story he features in will be about how sad it is that everyone else in that photo is so lost to Jeeeeezus that they didn't even have the "courage" to say the magic words with Coach Chucklefuck, and how he 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 have saved their souls if only the meanie school district hadn't... um... *𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴* not... fired him. Or something.
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"NJ battles Christian group blocking Jersey Shore beach on Sundays"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nj-battles-christian-group-blocking-jersey-shore-beach-on-sudays/ar-AA1g9LFT
So a Christian group can invade a secular chapel to keep anyone but Christians using it, but if someone tries to use their beach on Sunday they get mad and block it?
OT- A Flori-derp double feature:
First up, Ron DeSeptic gets told off by a judge after attempting to unilaterally re-district US Rep. Al Lawson, a Black Democrat, out of office: https://apnews.com/article/florida-redistricting-politics-gerrymandering-desantis-d04d4d69a5c52e2997e94fa842f8757e
The district map drawn up by the FL GQP was already bad, but Nazi Ronny decided it wasn't 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 shitty enough for his liking and called a special session of the legislature to present his own map which, surprise surprise, split Laswon's district so that his mostly-Black constituents would lose their Representative and have their votes drowned out by white Republicans.
Next up, the Party of Small Government(tm) wants to tell local business owners that they can't put rainbow stickers in their windows: https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-safe-places-orlando-eb2cab0fa22aaee977d48db14be2d29a
Because, y'know, businesses should 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 be allowed to express their sincerely held beliefs when their sincerely held beliefs are 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥. If you want to be inclusive and welcoming, take that commie shit somewhere else!
Where's that meme...
https://img.ifunny.co/images/a60950a81247757726edc316fe32b665c7a71fbdca9f7730b660f8be10753897_1.jpg