They ALL need to do that, coach? Does that include any Jewish kids who may be on your squad? How about Muslims? HOW ABOUT ATHEISTS? News Bulletin, Coach Campbell: not all of your team may necessarily share your faith. They may not even agree with your particular brand of Christianity. In forcing your version of your belief on them, YOU DISRESPECT THEIR BELIEFS, and in a public school setting, that is not just utterly inappropriate, IT IS ILLEGAL.
You can believe as you please. You do NOT have the right to push your belief on the kids you are responsible for.
I'm waiting for the kid to come out and confront Campbell or someone like him to say, "I don't need you to tell me what to believe," or better: "I don't believe in your god or your savior, and I don't appreciate your pushing your beliefs onto me!"
I may be waiting a while, but if it happens, it'll be worth the wait!
Then make it someone like a middle linebacker or a down lineman, who actually OUTWEIGHS his coach. Yeah, I know intimidation is uncool, but then, so is proselytism.
Most teens couldn't stand up to someone like this. A few could. Probably someone who has their own deeply held beliefs or someone whose new to the school and won't be there next year, Or someone whose already being bullied.
I remember being amused when I watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and seeing how the kids in that story were more than willing to go head-to-head with adults, at least in places. Maybe that's how it is in the UK.
Which tends to make out American kids as being wimps? I dunno...
When I was in school, in Norway of course, too many decades ago, praying before meals was common in classrooms. When we were 10 yo one of my classmates refused to do that prayer and was denied to eat. The next day the school principal visited our class at lunchtime to tell us praying before meals are not mandatory. And he told us to visit him in his office if our teachers didn't stop this. I was a big bit surprised by his take.
It sounds like Campbell may have been experiencing some sort of psychological issue. It sounds like people were confused by his behavior, since he apparently hadn't acted that way before. I think that ought to be the real focus here - whether he needs some sort of intervention before he really goes off the deep end.
More likely he went to a revival meeting over the summer and was motivated to do more active proselytizing. Then assumed Free Exercise Clause absolutism and now views any pushback he gets as unconstitutional persecution.
Both could easily be true. I.e. he's having some sort of personal crisis, went to church, and a preacher or other attendee encouraged him to do this as a way to fix his crisis.
That was my thought also. I think something may have happened that caused him to have a break of some kind. Maybe not a psychotic break but something that caused him to fall back on what was comfortable for him. For many people that comfort comes from the indoctrination they received to follow the 'Lord'.
There is a certain sub-set of Christians who simply cannot be disabused of the idea it's okay if they do it. These are the same people who would go out of their tiny little minds at the mere suggestion a football coach might lead his team in either Islamic prayer or the wrong flavor of Christianity. A great deal of it is performance art and virtue signaling, with the intended goal of instilling rote conformity in young teens.
They are drilled that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Their belief system is so full of logical fallacies that their brains no longer are able to discern reality. When they venture out in public they take that superiority with them and it often results in them declaring everything that is not in their bubble is Satan.
Philadelphia is nicknamed "The City of Brotherly Love". It's the only place went to a baseball game wearing the visiting team's shirt that someone physically threatened me. Baltimore gave me no problem, nor did San Francisco for wearing my NY Mets stuff. I've been to a Florida Panthers home game wearing my NY Rangers jersey and nobody bothered me.
Makes me wonder if a stiff fine and maybe a vacation behind bars would get the message through ... or whether that would just cement the idea of persecution that much deeper. My impression is, to use a Heinlein-ism, that Campbell will need to have his toes stepped on HARD before he will finally apologize.
Thanks to Christian Fucking Privilege, the fine would be $100 and the jail time would be the 4 hours between arrest and bail. And he would still call it persecution by the evil commie liberal Democrat deep state who hate all true Christians. He was passing out Trump bibles, after all.
If he wants to be a preacher so bad, why doesn't he find a church that will let him preach? It's Tennessee. There's one across from every bar and gas station.
Oh wait. His day job is school resource officer. He wants to force the children to listen to him at gunpoint.
Oh, but his job is leading innocent children to Christ! That's a job that doesn't know any particular location (or governmental restriction!). He HAS to do it ... mostly to feed his own malnourished ego!
Maybe the problem is a little lower and he needs a lift kit for his diesel heavy-duty pickup truck, that somehow is always pristine, though no one ever washes it.
The idea is ze is the "good guy with a gun" in a school shooting. Mostly they manhandle and handcuff Muslim students for bringing an engineering project to show her teacher.
Edit: Apparently, I conflated two instances. The one I mentioned here was a 14-year-old boy not a girl.
"Witnesses reported that Campbell explained that during the volleyball game, βthe Spirit gave him a word from Scriptures to tell the girls,β and after sharing it at halftime, the team came back to win."
There isn't any "halftime" in volleyball. And they came back to win because they played better, not because of any supernatural intervention. What, God doesn't like the other team? FFS
I find this situation 3/4 annoying as hell and 1/4 sad. If Campbell is suffering a mental collapse, maybe some kind of a βnot Jesusβ intervention is necessary. Religion is not the antidote, it fuels the problem.
Wittum must be a real pos if Crazy Marsha kicked his ass.
"Campbell explained that during the volleyball game, βthe Spirit gave him a word from Scriptures to tell the girls,β and after sharing it at halftime, the team came back to win."
It explains why coach Campbell gouged out the eyes of his star quarter after he saw the quarterback staring at the cheerleaders with a lustful gaze. You know what Jesus said, "it will a better to gouge out your eyes to prevent you from sinning, than to be damned to hell. Also if you play one high safety, you're going to get burnt."
Also, asshole, they're high school teens, not babies. The justification for your job is in fact to turn these teenage boys into men, you can't do that when you infantilize them.
I'm a pagan, not a Christian, but I'm just wondering... isn't it embarrassing and a touch unethical to lobby Jesus that hard for one group of kids to beat another group of kids in a game? Not only is it it setting a bad example to be performing instead of doing your job, it also implies that the results of a game have less to do with skill and effort and more as some divine reward or sign of favor. Is it Jesus' job to pick winners and losers?
If this isn't his normal behavior, he definitely needs a health check.
French Pagan here. No collective prayers before, after or during a game. The nearest thing of a religious ritual that I know of is Zinedine Zidane always putting his socks and shoes in the same order.
πΌ π π‘πππ ππ¦ ππ¦ ππππ‘β πππππ’π π π‘βππ‘βπ π€βππ‘ πΌ π‘πππ ππ¦ πππ¦π π‘βππ¦ ππππππ π‘π ππ...
They ALL need to do that, coach? Does that include any Jewish kids who may be on your squad? How about Muslims? HOW ABOUT ATHEISTS? News Bulletin, Coach Campbell: not all of your team may necessarily share your faith. They may not even agree with your particular brand of Christianity. In forcing your version of your belief on them, YOU DISRESPECT THEIR BELIEFS, and in a public school setting, that is not just utterly inappropriate, IT IS ILLEGAL.
You can believe as you please. You do NOT have the right to push your belief on the kids you are responsible for.
Children don't coun't, now how about him disrespecting parental rights ? You know, those rights christian wackos pretend to fight for ?
I'm waiting for the kid to come out and confront Campbell or someone like him to say, "I don't need you to tell me what to believe," or better: "I don't believe in your god or your savior, and I don't appreciate your pushing your beliefs onto me!"
I may be waiting a while, but if it happens, it'll be worth the wait!
Maybe once they graduated this high school. The bullying resulting of it would put to much pressure on a teen.
Then make it someone like a middle linebacker or a down lineman, who actually OUTWEIGHS his coach. Yeah, I know intimidation is uncool, but then, so is proselytism.
Physically, not socially.
Most teens couldn't stand up to someone like this. A few could. Probably someone who has their own deeply held beliefs or someone whose new to the school and won't be there next year, Or someone whose already being bullied.
I remember being amused when I watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and seeing how the kids in that story were more than willing to go head-to-head with adults, at least in places. Maybe that's how it is in the UK.
Which tends to make out American kids as being wimps? I dunno...
I once held the record for youngest student to be sent to the principal's office for telling the teacher what she could do with her stupid demand.
As a kid, I would have no problem with telling this guy to get stuffed. Other kids love that.
Excellent! Wouldn't hurt to have more like you!
Then that kid gets no playing time.
And the coach gets called on the carpet AGAIN, never mind more time in court! Campbell is in enough trouble as it is.
When I was in school, in Norway of course, too many decades ago, praying before meals was common in classrooms. When we were 10 yo one of my classmates refused to do that prayer and was denied to eat. The next day the school principal visited our class at lunchtime to tell us praying before meals are not mandatory. And he told us to visit him in his office if our teachers didn't stop this. I was a big bit surprised by his take.
That much of a disconnect between teachers and principal? WOW!
It sounds like Campbell may have been experiencing some sort of psychological issue. It sounds like people were confused by his behavior, since he apparently hadn't acted that way before. I think that ought to be the real focus here - whether he needs some sort of intervention before he really goes off the deep end.
More likely he went to a revival meeting over the summer and was motivated to do more active proselytizing. Then assumed Free Exercise Clause absolutism and now views any pushback he gets as unconstitutional persecution.
Both could easily be true. I.e. he's having some sort of personal crisis, went to church, and a preacher or other attendee encouraged him to do this as a way to fix his crisis.
That was my thought also. I think something may have happened that caused him to have a break of some kind. Maybe not a psychotic break but something that caused him to fall back on what was comfortable for him. For many people that comfort comes from the indoctrination they received to follow the 'Lord'.
Actually, you make a potentially very valid point. Something may have rattled Campbell's cage hard enough to cause some kind of mental break.
That may explain him. It does NOT excuse him.
That was my first thought - Mental Health Crisis. Flight to Religion is a frequent sign of such a crisis.
^^^^Ever so much this.
BEFORE?!? For what I read in this article, the deep end happened about 10 squares back!
Jesus Kool-aid overdose.
Antidote: reality.
I think he found a church that made him feel good about himself.
The Church of the Bathroom Mirror
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That was my thought as well.
There is a certain sub-set of Christians who simply cannot be disabused of the idea it's okay if they do it. These are the same people who would go out of their tiny little minds at the mere suggestion a football coach might lead his team in either Islamic prayer or the wrong flavor of Christianity. A great deal of it is performance art and virtue signaling, with the intended goal of instilling rote conformity in young teens.
They are drilled that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Their belief system is so full of logical fallacies that their brains no longer are able to discern reality. When they venture out in public they take that superiority with them and it often results in them declaring everything that is not in their bubble is Satan.
This always also applies.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/edd2d053fe68ced33479baa3d1640d5c015a7d4e7ba3aef240799208094886fc.png
This is really, really good.
They do live in a bubble. It's always us against them.
And where does βbrotherly loveβ fit in?
Mostly, it doesnβt.
Philadelphia is nicknamed "The City of Brotherly Love". It's the only place went to a baseball game wearing the visiting team's shirt that someone physically threatened me. Baltimore gave me no problem, nor did San Francisco for wearing my NY Mets stuff. I've been to a Florida Panthers home game wearing my NY Rangers jersey and nobody bothered me.
I don't know about brotherly love.
There's no hate like Christian love.
Makes me wonder if a stiff fine and maybe a vacation behind bars would get the message through ... or whether that would just cement the idea of persecution that much deeper. My impression is, to use a Heinlein-ism, that Campbell will need to have his toes stepped on HARD before he will finally apologize.
Thanks to Christian Fucking Privilege, the fine would be $100 and the jail time would be the 4 hours between arrest and bail. And he would still call it persecution by the evil commie liberal Democrat deep state who hate all true Christians. He was passing out Trump bibles, after all.
Should that happen, they would play the poor persecuted victims of the godless left. It's a win-win for them.
Viva la diffΓ©rence!
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If he wants to be a preacher so bad, why doesn't he find a church that will let him preach? It's Tennessee. There's one across from every bar and gas station.
Oh wait. His day job is school resource officer. He wants to force the children to listen to him at gunpoint.
Xtians love captive audiences. The younger, the better.
Fuel for the hypocrisy.
It's almost as if adults raised without religion are frequently too hard to convert, but that's just crazy!
Oh, but his job is leading innocent children to Christ! That's a job that doesn't know any particular location (or governmental restriction!). He HAS to do it ... mostly to feed his own malnourished ego!
Maybe the problem is a little lower and he needs a lift kit for his diesel heavy-duty pickup truck, that somehow is always pristine, though no one ever washes it.
There are twenty or so empty churches on route to my parentsβ house in TN, he could just setup in one of them. Someone will show up, Iβm sure.
Any for sale? Can you set one up as The Church of the Freaky Circus Sex?
I just need some property to setup a tent. Like the other Tennessee preacher man we love to hate. But better.
What is a school resources officer ?
Basically a cop with some training on how to be sympathetic and spend time listening instead of ordering.
Training they forget on day one, so they can treat children like criminals.
The idea is ze is the "good guy with a gun" in a school shooting. Mostly they manhandle and handcuff Muslim students for bringing an engineering project to show her teacher.
Edit: Apparently, I conflated two instances. The one I mentioned here was a 14-year-old boy not a girl.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-girl-arrested-similar-circumstances-ahmed-mohamed-advice/story?id=33838741
Yep. Another guy who has power over kids, probably with a gun.
He tried out for the PD and failed. The lowest bar.
Won't be long until we read about him raping children or some other crime.
That's what I just posted. He's up to something really awfulβ¦
https://ibb.co/wNM343kw
Can we talk about how many Christians seem to be losing their minds lately?
I mean just kind of going bashit crazy?
Just recently some poor Amish woman killed her infant and it sounds like her husband killed himself, all glory to God?
I wonder how much is the Supreme Court re-writing the Constitution and how much is sycophantic AI chatbots.
I don't think the Amish are talking to AI chatbots.
An unintended bonus to their lifestyle?
Praise jesus. π
Every time he prayed in public (and even worse, told his players to do so). he made an open field tackle on his own savior.
It was an injury inducing βhip-dropβ tackle, too.
And here I thought it would be one of those "unimpeded to the quarterback" jobs!
"Witnesses reported that Campbell explained that during the volleyball game, βthe Spirit gave him a word from Scriptures to tell the girls,β and after sharing it at halftime, the team came back to win."
There isn't any "halftime" in volleyball. And they came back to win because they played better, not because of any supernatural intervention. What, God doesn't like the other team? FFS
https://i.imgflip.com/2r75hk.jpg
Pray harder? Bring in more teammates?
Damn you! You beat me by nine hours. :(
Well, the other team's name was the Jezebels. : )
I find this situation 3/4 annoying as hell and 1/4 sad. If Campbell is suffering a mental collapse, maybe some kind of a βnot Jesusβ intervention is necessary. Religion is not the antidote, it fuels the problem.
Wittum must be a real pos if Crazy Marsha kicked his ass.
I was thinking 95/5 annoying/sad ratio, clearly you're much more empathetic than I.
I think if heβd always been this way, my numbers would be 99% and 1% respectively.
Fair.
Coach spends the game preaching and praying instead of coaching, team loses 35-0.
Now I don't think anyone's up there responding to his prayers. But if they are, maybe he should pay attention to the answer.
Incoming nit pick:
"Campbell explained that during the volleyball game, βthe Spirit gave him a word from Scriptures to tell the girls,β and after sharing it at halftime, the team came back to win."
There is no halftime in volleyball.
Let's not let's pesky little things like facts get in the way of a good Jesus story.
Facts have no place in religion.
Holly took a slapshot for the winning field goal from the third base line just behind the fifth green from DOWNTOWN! Nothing but net!
Birdie for 6 points.
Bowled a no-hitter.
That's a gutter ball.
A googly!
They were on needles and pins.
That's rough.
Any way you slice it.
Especially if someone gives you a wedgie.
I prefer my mashie niblick!
A little birdie told you that.
Oops. Somebody was lyin.' I pick Campbell.
But it's okay 'cause he was "Lyin' for Jesus"β’οΈ
Is there crying?
Let's hope so.
https://ibb.co/fdMfYckD
(I just posted that too!)
How the xtian grift operates:
Do something you know is wrong.
Be called on it and claim persecution.
Go on the wingnut welfare circuit to proclaim your martyrbation
Part the rubes from their cash with a GoGriftMe scam.
Rinse
Repeat
It explains why coach Campbell gouged out the eyes of his star quarter after he saw the quarterback staring at the cheerleaders with a lustful gaze. You know what Jesus said, "it will a better to gouge out your eyes to prevent you from sinning, than to be damned to hell. Also if you play one high safety, you're going to get burnt."
That also prevents the other team's defense from reading the quarterback's eyes.
Campbell was supposed to gouge out his own eyes, not his QBs.
Campbell shouldβve gouged his own eyes after he ran them up and down his playerβs naked body in the locker room shower.
None of the players should be high.
Eta: I do not practice what I preach. : )
Aren't you a little old to be playing high school sports...?
64 today.
I never graduated so I still have eligibility. ; )
Will we still need you, will we still feed you?
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday π.
You're trying out for the team again? Best of luck with that.
Old, out of shape, and bad knees is just what they're looking for.
Don't lose hope! There's a future for you any day now.
Enjoy your cake.
I never get high, because I do my drugs in the basement.
Also, asshole, they're high school teens, not babies. The justification for your job is in fact to turn these teenage boys into men, you can't do that when you infantilize them.
I'm a pagan, not a Christian, but I'm just wondering... isn't it embarrassing and a touch unethical to lobby Jesus that hard for one group of kids to beat another group of kids in a game? Not only is it it setting a bad example to be performing instead of doing your job, it also implies that the results of a game have less to do with skill and effort and more as some divine reward or sign of favor. Is it Jesus' job to pick winners and losers?
If this isn't his normal behavior, he definitely needs a health check.
Even as a young Catholic sportsman, I found praying to Jeebus about our recreational activities a little hard to take seriously. I mean, come on!
I'm really glad it's not just me!
To be embarrassed, you need to feel shame. Not a feature of the christer cult except to try and shame those who don't share their cult beliefs.
French Pagan here. No collective prayers before, after or during a game. The nearest thing of a religious ritual that I know of is Zinedine Zidane always putting his socks and shoes in the same order.
Left sock right sock left shoe right shoe is the only way to do it.
Everybody stop! I have to practice shoes and socks. Oh shit it's socks first.
HΓ© non. La preuve en image. It's left foot, then right foot
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=srk5xQ4Ny1k
https://ibb.co/1Js0w9jP