Bring on Jerry Falwell!

[johnnd05]

I'm sure some of you may have seen this, but it's the slow time of the year, and it's always good to laugh a second time at a story like this:

Given the chance, I'd watch the Super Bowl with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who knows about Baal and ball. Twenty years ago, in Lynchburg, Virginia, at a Liberty University Flames game, Dr. Falwell told me: "Jesus was no sissy. He was tough, he was a he-man. If he played football, you'd be slow getting up after he tackled you."

He had me at "sissy." The rest was revelation. The muscularity of Dr. Falwell's evangelical Christianity was a perfect fit with football, another win-or-lose game. For Americans, war hasn't produced a real winner for more than 60 years. That's why we need football. But let's get back to Dr. Falwell. "My respect for Catholicism and Mormonism goes straight up watching Notre Dame and Brigham Young play," he told me. He hoped that, someday, Notre Dame and Liberty, his evangelical college, would meet for the national championship, thus informing the nation that "the Christians are here, we're not meek and we're not going to fall down in front of you. We're here to stay."

(And there's more: link.)

I don't see K. White et al taking him up on this one, do you?

 

[LOVEMYIRISH]

I don't see K. White et al taking him up on this one, do you?

1) Those guys will be like Div3...lol (only the walkons for ND would need play)
2) I can't imagine ND being caught dead associating themselves with Falwell.

haha

 

[johnnd05]

I say we put out the all-stars from the intramural teams.

 

[johnnd05]

(I meant the GIRLS intramural teams ...)

 

[Vince Young]

Well, I for one say kudos to Falwell. Considering what many Protestant preachers have to say about "the Roman Church" or "the Papists," it's kinda refreshing to see that at least one high-profile Protestant realizes the Catholic Church is not the enemy.

Seriously, back in high school I once had a kid who asked me if I was Christian. I said yeah. He asked what church I went to, I told him, and he recognized it and said, "Oh. Then you're not Christian. You're Catholic." Said it like it was some damn disease or something.

Given my choice between Falwell and that kid, I'll take Falwell... even if he is a little delusional about the chances of his team ever getting into Division I, let alone playing for the title.

 

[BGIF]

Well, I for one say kudos to Falwell. Considering what many Protestant preachers have to say about "the Roman Church" or "the Papists," it's kinda refreshing to see that at least one high-profile Protestant realizes the Catholic Church is not the enemy.

Seriously, back in high school I once had a kid who asked me if I was Christian. I said yeah. He asked what church I went to, I told him, and he recognized it and said, "Oh. Then you're not Christian. You're Catholic." Said it like it was some damn disease or something.

Given my choice between Falwell and that kid, I'll take Falwell... even if he is a little delusional about the chances of his team ever getting into Division I, let alone playing for the title.

I wouldn't give Falwell credit for embracing Catholics as Christians as opposed to recognizing his PR ploy for connecting HIS school's name with THE Franchise in college football. His football comes from after his theology AND politics. He'd like you to vote for his candidate against his enemy's candidate but don't expect an invite for dinner. Or for you son to be allowed take his daughter out on a date. We aren't that equal.

 

[Vince Young]

I wouldn't give Falwell credit for embracing Catholics as Christians as opposed to recognizing his PR ploy for connecting HIS school's name with THE Franchise in college football. His football comes from after his theology AND politics. He'd like you to vote for his candidate against his enemy's candidate but don't expect an invite for dinner. Or for you son to be allowed take his daughter out on a date. We aren't that equal.

*shrug* Hey, I'll take what I can get, I guess.