Incomplete Pass: Tim Tebow Says America Based on ‘One Nation Under God’

[cleanhippie]

New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow, already a polarizing figure, has given anyone who favors church-state separation reason to be uneasy about him.

On Easter Sunday, Tebow participated in a question-and-answer session at Celebration Church, a megachurch in Georgetown, Texas. News reports said 15,000 people attended the service at which Tebow spoke, and he said plenty of benign things, like “it’s ok to be outspoken about your faith.”

But one thing Tebow said is problematic from a church-state standpoint.

In response to an inquiry about what needs to change in America, he said, “First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God. The more that we can get back to that [the better].”

I wonder which God he’s talking about.

http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2012/04/11/incomplete-pass-tim-tebow-says-america-based-on-one-nation-under-god/

And JUST when I had decided to look past his religious BS and see him as a pro football player. Fuck. That. Guy.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Tim Tebow needs to keep his religion to himself and stop proselytizing that bs nt

[laconicsax]

2. His religion is all about proselytizing.

Some Christian sects place a great importance on proselytizing. I'd bet good money that Tebow's particular brand is one such sect

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. You said it perfectly. Proselytizing is his only religion. nt

[lastlib]

3. That boy's had a few too many concussions....

What if my God doesn't like your God, Tim? Who gave you a monopoly on truth??

[Dawson Leery]

5. People such as Timmy Tebow exist to promote theocracy.

I like nothing about him.

[2ndAmForComputers]

6. Ladies and gentlemen... this is Religion in America.

[cbayer]

12. No, it's not. It's one section of religion in America, but more than that, it's celebrity religion

in America.

[2ndAmForComputers]

14. I'm sure such views, in celebrity-deprived churches, are a very tiny fringe minority.

[cbayer]

16. I have no idea what you are talking about.

[2ndAmForComputers]

18. You're a smart person.

Don't try to pretend otherwise.

[cleanhippie]

19. No need to be obtuse, cbayer.

In fact, its the act of being willfully obtuse that IS the barrier to the civil, open, and honest communication that you (and you father, among others) continually say that you want.

[Goblinmonger]

17. It's a pretty dang big section

as surveys posted on here have shown.

The liberal churches you and your father speak of are in the minority. But, if they are not, then why don't you do something about these guys because they have a lot of control if they are that small.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Treaty of Tripoli, ratified in 1797, unanimously by Congress and signed by President John Adams.

"As the United States is not in any sense a Christian nation..."

[eqfan592]

8. I already didn't like this ass-hat

This just solidified it. Keep playing crappy football, Tebow. American politics would be better off without you.

[The Straight Story]

9. Was he talking about the govt doing this or people in general?

Big difference.

Everyone seems to push their philosophy on others/preach to people about why their ideals get the best results.

America needs to do X/Y/Z to get on track (I see such things on a website I go to called DU).

I may not agree with his ideals, and I can assure you there are people here whose ideals I don't agree with either - just not sure why folks get upset when a football player talks about their ideals and not when others do (and again, if he is wanting laws passed based on religion, that's a different/separate issue).

[eqfan592]

13. The fact that he specifically used the phrase "On nation, under God"...

...leads me to believe he was talking about both the government AND the people, but that is just my interpretation of it.

[dmallind]

10. The country was based on a motto thought up 180 yrs after its founding?

and that only as red-scare paranoia panicked the knuckle-draggers into coming up with some form of loyalty-oath that separated us from the godless commies?

Tebow's god works in REALLY mysterious ways....

[ehrnst]

11. "one nation under God" - get back to the Eisenhower administration?

Does he know what the tax rates were for people in his income bracket were in the '50's?

[Rob H.]

15. You mean he's never heard of "E pluribus unum"?

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I say!

[Boabab]

20. Timmy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed

and he isn't a good QB, at all.

Jets teammates are going to get quickly sick of answering questions about a player who really won't add much in the way of winning games.