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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
From one athiest to another then...why is it disrespectful?
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As a secular humaist, I feel it's as much my responsibility to respect the religons of other as it is for them to respect the fact that I believe in science and humanity. While I don't believe in a Chritsian god anymore, I did spend the first two decades of my life studying the Bible and other religious texts, and I feel I've earned the right to throw the bible at people.
Do you remember in Mark 11:15-17?
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Originally Posted by The Bible, Mark 11:15-17
On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves and would not allow anyone to carry murchandise through the temple courts. And as he taught [read: kicked the crap out of] them, he said, "Is it not written: " 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."
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It's so cut and dry that, according to Luke, Jesus braided a whip (can you imagine Jesus sitting in a corner, seething and braiding a whip? Time to go hide) in order to show the salesmen how serious he was.
The simple lesson from this passage is that the house of god is for prayer and reflection of God and the church. Bringing a blatently commercial Super Bowl into the house of God is somehing the bible wants us to understand is so wrong that Jesus would litterally kick your ass for it.