AFA Falcons Prayer
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This post was created on the previous version of the MRFF website, and may not be fully accessible to users of assistive technology. If you need help accessing this content, please reach out via email.Hi Mikey: Sadly, I saw your recent email about the AFA football team resorting to ostentatious group prayer on the field and in public.
To state the obvious, a football game is just that — a game. It’s a sporting event. Entertainment for the masses.
If we take our religious beliefs seriously, I believe we demean them by making them part of an ostentatious display at a game.
A football game is just that. It shouldn’t be confused with a revival meeting.
Of course, I completely agree with the retired general about Constitutional irregularities and the other points about bad optics and so on. I have nothing to add there.
Being a Christian, in my understanding of the faith, means being humble. It also means approaching God with a certain amount of fear and trembling. But these cadets, it seems to me, are not humbling themselves. They are very publicly asserting their faith in a climate where they know it will win applause. And that act of easy piety is just wrong.
Please don’t use my name. I have enough problems.
Best wishes,
(name withheld)
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As someone who used to complain about Tim Tebow’s prayer-on-the-sidelines antics as making the Broncos, their fans, and the entire state of Colorado complicit in condoning his behavior and supporting Christianity over other faiths, I am appalled to see the same thing happening on game day at USAFA. Clearly a “separation clause” issue as a reflection of USAFA, the U.S. Air Force, and the government in general.
A noted ecumenical Christian minister has lumped these public displays of piety under the rubric of “taking the name of the Lord in vain” (as in vanity). I like that interpretation.