Post by mikef6 on Jan 5, 2023 16:19:45 GMT
There’s no excuse for using a tragic football injury to promote your personal brand of religion, but Dan Orlovsky did it anyway. This is not a rant about prayers in general. If people want to pray at home, I’ve got nothing to say. The ring around Damar Hamlin by his teammates kneeling in prayer did not bother me a bit because the NFL is a private company, not a public supported high school or university. The discussion that is most important is the NFL’s lack of regard for player safety. It was Hamlin’s teammates and on-field opponents who insisted that the game be stopped. The NFL owners wanted it to continue.
That didn’t stop people from exploiting this tragedy to push their private religious agendas. It is frustrating to watch someone like ESPN football analyst Dan Orlovsky deliver Christian prayers on TV on behalf of Damar Hamlin rather than offering useful analysis.
“We believe in prayer”? Who’s “we”? Orlovsky acts like all ESPN’s viewers share his Christian beliefs, but there’s no reason to believe that’s true.
“Some things are unanswerable”? The only person who should be saying that right now is a public relations staffer for the NFL
Orlovsky got plenty of praise for that stunt, but what would have been conservative reaction if a non-Christian – Muslim, for example - had offered up the same so-called consolation from Allah?
- thanks to OnlySky Media
That didn’t stop people from exploiting this tragedy to push their private religious agendas. It is frustrating to watch someone like ESPN football analyst Dan Orlovsky deliver Christian prayers on TV on behalf of Damar Hamlin rather than offering useful analysis.
“I heard the Buffalo Bills organization say that we believe in prayer, and maybe this is not the right thing to do, but it’s just on my heart and I want to pray for Damar Hamlin right now. I’m going to do it out loud, I’m going to close my eyes and bow my head, and I’m just going to pray for him.
God, we come to you in these moments that we don’t understand, that are hard because we believe that you’re God and coming to you and praying to you has impact. We’re sad. We’re angry. We want answers, but some things are unanswerable. We just want to pray, truly come to you and pray for strength for Damar, for healing for Damar, for comfort for Damar. Be with his family to give him the peace. If we didn’t believe that prayer didn’t work, we wouldn’t ask this of you, God. I believe in prayer. We believe in prayer. We lift up Damar Hamlin’s name in Your name. Amen.”
God, we come to you in these moments that we don’t understand, that are hard because we believe that you’re God and coming to you and praying to you has impact. We’re sad. We’re angry. We want answers, but some things are unanswerable. We just want to pray, truly come to you and pray for strength for Damar, for healing for Damar, for comfort for Damar. Be with his family to give him the peace. If we didn’t believe that prayer didn’t work, we wouldn’t ask this of you, God. I believe in prayer. We believe in prayer. We lift up Damar Hamlin’s name in Your name. Amen.”
“Some things are unanswerable”? The only person who should be saying that right now is a public relations staffer for the NFL
Orlovsky got plenty of praise for that stunt, but what would have been conservative reaction if a non-Christian – Muslim, for example - had offered up the same so-called consolation from Allah?
- thanks to OnlySky Media
