And I remember the anger of the fans...not at Tim Tebow but at the media for their relentless exposure of this faith. It wasn't Tebow who was getting in your face with his religion, it was the media that was doing it for him.
But then he went into the pros, and yes there were - and are - a lot of people who want him to fail, and now it's all about Tebow throwing his religion in their faces, as opposed to the media (when its still the media that's doing it.)
Lots of people want him to fail, lots of people want him to turn out to have feet of clay...some little skeleton in his closet that makes him a hypocrite. Rush says it's because liberals want everyone to be the same, they don't want anyone to stand out. "If everyone is bad, I don't have to be good."
And that may be true.
I myself think the animosity against Tebow's overt Christianity is that they do see it as a form of missionary work, and most people don't really like missionaries coming into their house (or their country) and telling them to forget their beliefs and embrace the missionary's beliefs. Most folks don't like Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses coming to their door and wasting their time...and in a sense Tebow does that on Sundays -- they think. (But I say again, it's the media browbeating them with this stuff, not Tebow.)
As an atheist, I don't really care what Tebow believes. But I am for the underdog, Tebow was an underdog, and so I'm glad he's doing well, and I hope he continues to do well.
And as a woman, I really have no problem with the Christian faith at all. If Teboew were a fundamentalist Muslim, demanding that women put on burkhas and not drive cars and keep their mouths shut when their lords and masters were present...then I'd have a problem with him.
As it is... more power to you, Mr. Tebow.
"So what gives? Why does even Tebow's own coaching staff and management offer so little public support" for the guy? Well, you and I all know the answer, here. "Jake Plummer, the latest to take pot shots at [Tebow], might have been speaking for anti-Tebowites everywhere when he said in an interview on a Phoenix radio station that he would like Tebow more if he would 'shut up' about his faith in Jesus Christ." Just shut up about that and it's okay, Tim! "And with that little comment, the cat, as they say, was out of the bag. Plummer said what the commentators wouldn't say. Their dislike for Tim Tebow is not, as they would have us believe, about his throwing motion or his completion percentage; it's all about his open professions of faith and his goody-two shoes image. When it comes right down to it, [American culture today doesn't] want heroes who are truly good."
Instead, "We wait for evidence that he really isn't that good. We hope to see him kick a player on the ground, drop an F-bomb on television, or Tweet pictures of his privates" like Anthony Weiner. "In the meantime, we always have Penn State's Jerry Sandusky to make us feel better about ourselves," because, in the end, Tim Tebow makes the sports media realize... You fill in the blank. That's "Larry Taunton is the director of Fixed Point Foundation and author of The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief." Now, obviously, this guy is also a man of faith. But aside from that, I'll tell you the reason why this piece appealed to me is that this one thing here at the end: Our culture does take people, set 'em up to knock 'em down.
There is a psychology behind that, and the psychology is rooted in inferiority. We don't want anybody to be better than we are so that we don't have to deal with how bad we are. If everybody's a scumbag, then everybody can be a scumbag. But if there's somebody who's not a scumbag who does well, well, then maybe it's not okay to be a scumbag. It's the whole liberal thing about not wanting judgment out there. It's also about the fact he's highly visible on his love of Jesus Christ. That just makes 'em nervous, 'cause the people who don't believe in Jesus Christ are the ones who are bothered.
They may even go to church every Sunday or whatever, but they don't really believe in Jesus Christ. Tebow smacks 'em in the head with that, too. That makes 'em uncomfortable, but this guy's right. There's everything in the world to admire about the guy, "except that Jesus business." That just drives people nuts. He says thank you. He calls reporters "mister." He does all this charitable work behind the scenes. He gives credit to his teammates. He has no ego whatsoever. He's got his own general manger -- John Elway -- hoping he fails. Well, it appears that way. Elway, two games ago, Tebow scores a winning touchdown and Elway is applauding like he's at a golf tournament. And they asked Elway, "Have you found your quarterback of the future?"
"No way," he said. "Has to be better on third downs! He's gotta throw the ball better, damn it! He's gotta throw the ball better, gotta be better on third down. No, we haven't found our quarterback yet," and despite that, despite that! You think your boss hates you? Despite that, Tebow's out doing what he's doing and not whining and not complaining, and that people don't like. Meanwhile, we're romancing the Occupy people. We're romancing Obama. We're romancing society's corrupt perverted losers, because in a comparative thing, who doesn't look better than somebody defecating or urinating all over themselves? So we're kinda happy to have 'em out there. In comparison, we look pretty good.
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