[Old School Hound]

I didn't even read it.

That's a lie. You follow me around on here just so that you respond to my thought experiments. Everyone on here sees how you follow me from thread to thread. You can't help yourself.  As Bryan Adams might sing, much of what I say, I say for you.  


Btw, for those who think that religiosity in sports gnaws at me... Not a big deal,  no more than , say, a fly in my soup sort of annoyance. I'm a liberal . Live your life as you see fit is my mantra. Religiosity is silly to many of us but all I care about is having entertaining basketball to watch. I like Pope and I like Cal-two different guys with different styles and different philosophies about life. I've enjoyed watching teams of both coaches. Btw, Cal is a devout Catholic who attends Mass daily. It' s a big part of his life. That's no less silly than Pope's relkigiosity and yet I have been the biggest Cal supporter on this board for years. I overlook the silliness. I just want entertaining basketball from my coaches.

Many of you may have forgotten that I grew up a Southern Baptist---Bible School, Sunday School, Sunday morning/ Sunday night ,Training Union on Wednesday nights, revivals, vacation Bible school ,Bible camps. I've been there. done that. Do you know where I have heard the worst name-calling about Mormons and Mormonism?  Correct. From the church pew in my Southern Baptist church on the corner of Fourth and Kentucky Street in downtown Corbin. We were "taught" that if you were a Morman, you were in a cult and you were going to hell. What I didn't realize at the time was that I was part of a cult, as well, right there on Fourth Street.

I don't care if we have a roster of Mormons or Jehovah Witnesses(I was actually invited to a JW Kingdom Hall once... and went---that's for another thread). I just want to be entertained by some basketball. It's not one of the really important things in life but if I'm gonna spend four hours of my time each week watching it, I want to be entertained. It was an entertaining season. Success!!!

I didn't read your Pope rant.

Sorry, I don't believe people congregated at your church every week to make fun of other people. At least not to vast majority of them. BUT, even if they did, all humans are greatly flawed as we know. That's all the more reason to embrace God, not do the opposite like you did. Christianity isn't a "cult", that's just ignorant. The vast majority of Christians are fine people. I think you are making excuses. FWIW, I do know several people who say they stopped going to church because people were ruining it for them. Again, it's mostly excuses in my opinion. Don't let flawed PEOPLE ruin your relationship with God. That makes zero sense. And I know you decided to subscribe to the theory that in the beginning there was total nothingness and then it blew up. hahaha

An old Baptist joke: Why won't Baptists sc... standing up? They're afraid people will think they're dancing. hehehehe

I literally heard Mormon jokes and rants about Mormons going to hell and being a cult dozens and dozens of times from preachers in the pulpit of Baptist churches.  And it wasn't just hate of Mormons that was spewed from the pulpit. The last night I attended a service was when a preacher used a very vulgar term from the pulpit in describing gay men and women. Churches are temples of hate. I've seen more hate in churches than I have ever seen in a homeless shelter or a Communist rally supporting the homeless. Hate is synonomous with religion. Millions have died because of religions hating other religions. I want no part of it. 

Just entertain me with basketball. Keep religion out of sports.