re: Anti-Religion group attacks Clemson football program

If it's voluntary and there are no repercussions for not going, I don't care if he invites the team to attend a tent revival in his front yard where speaks in tongues and dances with snakes.

But the article says he's distributing Bibles, if that's on team time it needs to stop. The position of team Chaplin is fine as long as he's a background figure and not in the locker room trying to win hearts and minds.

You can't be a government official favoring one religion over another while on the job. What he does on his own time is his own time.

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I like Coach Swinney and applaud him for trying to teach these guys more than just football.

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So if he was teaching about the Holy Quran, you would be ok with that? Or is it only a certain brand of indoctrination that you endorse?

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Even if it offends one football player, this is not ok. Its a public university, if dabo wants to do this he needs to go to Baylor, I'm sure Clemson would be happy to swap coaches

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bullshite

All sorts of shite goes on that will "offend one football player" but because this involves religion that is somehow more important.

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I dont see the big deal

As a solid atheist, and a firm believer there is no such thing as a god, if they get something positive out of it, who cares. They clearly state it's 100% voluntary, if grown men who have the right to vote, want to gather together on their own free time and talk about Thor or Zeus or Buddah, or whatever fictional character they think is out there, so be it.

there's a ton more scandalous shite going on in college football programs bigger than church/state

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All of this.

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When did people get the right not to be offended? Who decides who has the right not to be offended, and who doesn't?

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Public Institution can't afford to blur the lines like this. This is about Religion, if it was about numerous other things it wouldn't be an issue.

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When did people get the right not to be offended? Who decides who has the right not to be offended, and who doesn't?

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No one is saying that.

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I'm offended by cocksuckers assfricking each other and calling it "marriage".

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No one cares about your homophobia

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I'm offended by institutionalized racism and calling it "Affirmative Action".

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No one is saying anything about race but you

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'm offended by radicals entrenching themselves in academia in order to indoctrinate naive and unspuspecting minds.

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Yet none of your constitutional rights are being infringed upon

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What about my rights?

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so you can't teach good morals using Islam? you can only use Christianity?

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How many charitable events and gatherings that include teaching strong morals are there around the country that involve Atheist and Muslims?

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How many charitable events and gatherings that include teaching strong morals are there around the country that involve Atheist and Muslims?

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This really belongs on another board or not at all on TD. A lot of the people who live in different parts of the country are not religious and still believe in charitable work. RE: muslims? There are plenty of US muslim charities such as these:

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The idea that charities are restricted to christians only is a laughably parochial attitude. Most of Western and Northern Europe is not very religious and still believes in charitable work.

Furthermore many religious Christians who claim to be doing charitable work are really not performing charitable work - they are instead engaging in self promotion and political lobbying. Take, for example, the case of Mother Teresa. She still enjoys a saintly reputation in spite of buddying up to dictators and despots and opposing the use of sex education and contraceptive use to reduce the poverty of the third world and slow the spread of HIV. She also never made any serious attempts to reduce poverty by using the money she raised to build institutions that would reduce poverty in the longer term.

know your mother teresa

Clemson is a public university. This is not Oral Roberts or Liberty University.

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they could have chosen to play for another coach

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so they should not expect to receive fair treatment in a public university if they do not share the same version of faith? even assuming he clearly advertises his religion on the recruiting trail I don't think this is fair in a public university.

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or they could speak up about it now

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surely you can see that's not an option without consequences. you put yourself at risk of reprisal if you make your coach look bad or question his authority.