Weird Time for Christians

NM11046 said:
I wonder what the reception would be publicity wise if a jew or a hindu or muslim etc made a public move like this.

IMHO, its not appropriate for tv.  If its your choice to call attention to yourself "praying" on national television you're doing it for the wrong reasons.
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The religion whose founder explicitly told followers to be modest in prayer really seems to be the one that brags so much about it.

 
NM11046 said:
I wonder what the reception would be publicity wise if a jew or a hindu or muslim etc made a public move like this.

IMHO, its not appropriate for tv.  If its your choice to call attention to yourself "praying" on national television you're doing it for the wrong reasons.
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funhusker said:
The religion whose founder explicitly told followers to be modest in prayer really seems to be the one that brags so much about it.
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You guys are only saying that because it's explicitly spelled out in unambiguous terms in the first part of the first Gospel of the New Testament. 

Matthew 6: 5-8

5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

7 And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

 
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For show, not a show.  Sorry, I should have dropped the a.

And the ESPN comment, that is correct.  I watch ESPN for games.  I stopped watching them for everything else since the Longhorn Network.

 
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It's an awkward take on the situation, but I did flash on all the professions where someone might drop dead of a heart attack from work-related stress, or all the $18 an hour road construction flagmen who get clipped every year, and how long work is halted in response, or how many millions of people don't stand vigil, give prayers or contribute to your favorite charity, not to mention the lack of first responders mere feet away who give you a fighting chance of living. 

So yeah. It literally was a show. And this particular Monday Night Football was probably the biggest show of the season. The media dropped everything to report the unprecedented tragedy, but the fact is 850,000 people in the U.S. have a heart attack every year. It's not to take away from Hamlin, who sounds like a great kid who was well-loved, but we do pick and choose the stories we elevate into national events and moral posturing. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
It's an awkward take on the situation, but I did flash on all the professions where someone might drop dead of a heart attack from work-related stress, or all the $18 an hour road construction flagmen who get clipped every year, and how long work is halted in response, or how many millions of people don't stand vigil, give prayers or contribute to your favorite charity, not to mention the lack of first responders mere feet away who give you a fighting chance of living. 

So yeah. It literally was a show. And this particular Monday Night Football was probably the biggest show of the season. The media dropped everything to report the unprecedented tragedy, but the fact is 850,000 people in the U.S. have a heart attack every year. It's not to take away from Hamlin, who sounds like a great kid who was well-loved, but we do pick and choose the stories we elevate into national events and moral posturing. 
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68 yr old with heart disease having a heart attack, 48 yr old obese male with a high plaque score having a heart attack and a high performance athlete suffering a heart attack from a one in a million type hit to the chest while on video really aren’t the same story at all.  This doesn’t make anyones life less valuable though.  

 
Crusader Husker said:
He doesn't understand it is OK.  Engaging can be like going to a Longhorn message board and trying to tell them why they should be Husker fans.
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Outside of "giving thanks", a pretty trivial display of prayer, when did Jesus pray in public?  It is in the Gospels that Jesus rarely even prayed WITH his disciples.

 
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