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From the latest @ Christianity Today:

Meet the Rio Olympians Who Put God Before Gold: A glimpse of inspiration and testimony from some of Team USA’s Christian athletes

Gabby Douglas, 20
Gymnastics (previously competed in 2012 London)

CT interviewed Gabby Douglas following the 2012 Olympics, when she became the first African American gymnast to win gold in the all-around competition. She discusses her career and her Christianity in the memoir Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith. Douglas described how she keeps the faith during the Games: “I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel…. I always pray at every competition, when the judge's hand goes up I am praying, and there are little Scriptures I like to quote. That keeps me motivated when I am about to go out on the competition floor. I would say little short prayers, quoting Scriptures: I can do all things through Christ, don't fear, be courageous. Little things like that get me motivated.”

After reading thru the sludge-like comments from FR posters... CodeToad; dforest; newfreep; exnewsexspook; bgill; ac86ut89; organic panic; laweeks; TADSLOS; HomerBohn; Hulka; Sagar; Leaning Right; The ErnFormerlyKnownasBig; ladyjane; GBA; Jane Long; Senator_Blutarski; Rooster Redux; Varon; Mr. Mojo; tomkat; nutmeg; nikos1121 ...
...I'd say 80-90% of you are either simply off-base (hey, that happens; me, too on other occasions) or worse, are seriously spiritually/socially sick.

Instead of taking a deeper look @ her based upon her previous testimony...many of you want to compile a narrative of her entire life based upon...

(a) an unraised arm;
(b) the position of her fingers (fist);
(c) a few of you judged her inwardly based upon a few close-ups of her face;
(d) many of you brought race into it & linked her to others you dislike & judged her on skin color as well [Lord, look out if people of the world judged me on my white color based on the actions of a select 10+% of whites around the world]

Most of you would fit into well to the MsM with the way they try to turn very minute points about Trump into major character narratives. As such, many of these posts (certainly not all of you whom I'm pinging) are...
...a true embarrassment to FR,
...to the conservative movement as well,
...& are in need of repentance re: these specific comments before God.

I'm sure Gabby Douglas is far from perfect; I'll take her public witness of her Christian faith any day before your attempted judgmental take-downs based upon the thinnest of observations.

For those of you who claim Christ as your Lord, you've unnecessarily maligned a sister in Christ minus further investigation. [I saw two posters cite some gossip of her as the closest thing to "researching" who she is]

Bottom-line: Upgrade your public comments:
...a few of you need to knock off your racist comments...
...& the rest of you need to stop tolerating racist comments...
...overall, most of these comments are so shallow they don't even make a splash!