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Troublesh00ter's avatar

𝐼 π‘ π‘‘π‘œπ‘œπ‘‘ 𝑏𝑦 π‘šπ‘¦ π‘“π‘Žπ‘–π‘‘β„Ž π‘π‘’π‘π‘Žπ‘’π‘ π‘’ π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘β€™π‘  π‘€β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ 𝐼 π‘‘π‘œπ‘™π‘‘ π‘šπ‘¦ π‘π‘œπ‘¦π‘  π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘¦ 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 π‘‘π‘œ π‘‘π‘œ...

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.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Children don't coun't, now how about him disrespecting parental rights ? You know, those rights christian wackos pretend to fight for ?

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

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!

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Maybe once they graduated this high school. The bullying resulting of it would put to much pressure on a teen.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

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.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Physically, not socially.

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Eric's avatar

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.

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Joe King's avatar

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.

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ericc's avatar

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.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

That was my first thought - Mental Health Crisis. Flight to Religion is a frequent sign of such a crisis.

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Tinker's avatar

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'.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

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.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

BEFORE?!? For what I read in this article, the deep end happened about 10 squares back!

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XJC's avatar

Jesus Kool-aid overdose.

Antidote: reality.

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oraxx's avatar

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.

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Tinker's avatar

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.

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oraxx's avatar

They do live in a bubble. It's always us against them.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

And where does β€œbrotherly love” fit in?

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oraxx's avatar

Mostly, it doesn’t.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

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.

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oraxx's avatar

Should that happen, they would play the poor persecuted victims of the godless left. It's a win-win for them.

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Joe King's avatar

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.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Viva la diffΓ©rence!

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Boreal's avatar

Won't be long until we read about him raping children or some other crime.

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Joe King's avatar

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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.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Xtians love captive audiences. The younger, the better.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Fuel for the hypocrisy.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

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!

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cdbunch's avatar

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.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

What is a school resources officer ?

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Richard S. Russell's avatar

Basically a cop with some training on how to be sympathetic and spend time listening instead of ordering.

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Joe King's avatar

Training they forget on day one, so they can treat children like criminals.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

There are twenty or so empty churches on route to my parents’ house in TN, he could just setup in one of them. Someone will show up, I’m sure.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

Any for sale? Can you set one up as The Church of the Freaky Circus Sex?

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Sko Hayes's avatar

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?

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Boreal's avatar

Praise jesus. πŸ™„

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Victoria Wright's avatar

I wonder how much is the Supreme Court re-writing the Constitution and how much is sycophantic AI chatbots.

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cdbunch's avatar

I don't think the Amish are talking to AI chatbots.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

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.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

It was an injury inducing β€œhip-drop” tackle, too.

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Victoria Wright's avatar

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.

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Boreal's avatar

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.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

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.

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larry parker's avatar

Left sock right sock left shoe right shoe is the only way to do it.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

HΓ© non. La preuve en image. It's left foot, then right foot

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=srk5xQ4Ny1k

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

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!

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Victoria Wright's avatar

I'm really glad it's not just me!

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Ed Buckner's avatar

How could he have foreseen that? The First Amendment has only been in effect for two and a half centuries or so.

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ericc's avatar
4hEdited

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.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

And Christians call atheists "arrogant?" That's some nerve right there.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

I don’t care what religious hypocrites that lie with impunity say anymore. It pollutes my brain and there is already plenty of microplastics in there gobbing things up.

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Boreal's avatar

"I don’t know what the hell any of that means, but it sure as hell didn’t help the boys get any better at football. They ended up losing the game 35-0."

Nothing fails like prayer.

https://ibb.co/B5X31SrK

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Boreal's avatar

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

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Holytape's avatar

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."

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Campbell was supposed to gouge out his own eyes, not his QBs.

Campbell should’ve gouged his own eyes after he ran them up and down his player’s naked body in the locker room shower.

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larry parker's avatar

None of the players should be high.

Eta: I do not practice what I preach. : )

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

That also prevents the other team's defense from reading the quarterback's eyes.

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cdbunch's avatar

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.

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