re: Anti-Religion group attacks Clemson football program

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you're bashing Christianity while defending Islam

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that's not a fair representation of my perspective. The question posed was whether there were any muslim charities worth mentioning and the answer to that is obviously yes. I would argue there are also a lot of christian charities that do good work.

I view both religions as stone age perspectives on teh world which should not be conflated with morality when they are obviously limited (and in cases where they are moral it is because sources of morality outside of religion have reformed and shaped their teachings).

If you wanted me to argue which one was worse (between christianity and islam) I would say in theory both are the same - they are man made ideas which are bad because they pretend authority they do not have and suppress free thought and development of ideas for reasons of self interest and narcissism rather than idealism.

In practice however islam has been worse (during the 20th and 21st centuries at least). Recently as a whole muslim fundamentalists have more severely restricted the freedom of individuals, advocated for violence as a political means more frequently, and more thoroughly restricted the understanding of the universe by their followers by declaring many scientific teachings to be forms of blasphemy in opposition to religious teaching. But many of our fundamentalists are no better in theory. They would like to restrict the teaching and understanding of many scientific disciplines because they view them as being counter to religion.

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would you be defending him if he was teaching Islam?

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Being as it's 100% voluntary and these guys claim to have Christian bliefs, I'd have no problem if he was teaching Islam, so long as it was still voluntary.

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a I'm sure it is "voluntary."

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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I'm pretty sure it is voluntary. I highly doubt Dabo would sit a player or punish a player for not agreeing.

How would people who voluntarily pray together offend someone else? How sensitive are atheists these days?

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Cause teaching players good moral values in a surrounding that involves Christianity is the same as teaching Islam.

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Ignorance, so much in this post.

I am on the fence on this one. If this isn't being forced on the players then I see nothing wrong with it. At the same time, like it has already been said, substitute bible with quoran and a lot of the people currently praising Dabo turn into hypocrites fast.

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That isn't his job. His job is to coach football. He can easily teach values without any random religion.

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fun bunch ,you don't seem like much fun.....

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Cause teaching players good moral values in a surrounding that involves Christianity is the same as teaching Islam.

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Yes, it is

He's teaching good values that I'm sure he uses to build a team atmosphere on the football field, I don't see the problem.
Maybe he should bring in some Islamic leaders and Jewish leaders to give his players other options? They're all promoting mostly the same values.

For his atheist players, I guess they don't participate, but since they're atheist they shouldn't really care since they think it's all fake, why would they be offended?

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Public University…They have a valid point.

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Curious: What point do they have?