by William Thornton » Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:50 am
The " two Christians" piece" is flawed, as Mattingly writes:
"Readers are told that Tebow is living out one version of the Christian faith, while Kaepernick is living out another.
The problem, of course, is that Tebow has – throughout his career – been relentless in his work with a wide array of charities, investing both his money, his skills as a fundraiser and his own time and talents. Much of this work has focused on the needs of children, especially orphans, in impoverished nations (the missionary kind side of Tebow's life) as well as special-needs children everywhere. That led to this fun Tonight Show moment a few months ago."
WP carried it because it fit the MSM narrative about American Christianity being neatly divided into the pious but mostly all talk, conservative evangelicals and the social justice, relentlessly working for the cause, religious libs.
Mattingly is not clear on what the "heresy" is for which he employs the term in his title.
Tebow isn't not the "darling" of all and is haughtily and lustily reviled by many, same as Kape.
It is a salient point for Mattingly to speculate what would happen if players protested abortion before games by kneeling. Owners would quickly squash that, I suppose, and sports media and MSM would take a different tack as well' I'd guess.
I commend Kaoe for good works and make no judgment about his faith. His protest is silly and confusing. But I'll let the NFL owners chew on how much money they are willing to indirectly invest in it.
At any rate, the piece by a religion prof in Australia has a big hole in it but why mess up a good title with balance and facts?
My stray thoughts on SBC stuff may be found at my blog,