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Posted on 05/18/2025 5:48:49 AM PDT by vespa300
Tiago Corte de Alencar, a Seventh-day Adventist lawyer and amateur judoka, recently won a legal case allowing him to reschedule mandatory judo certification exams that conflicted with his observance of the Sabbath. The case, filed against the São Paulo Judo Federation, highlights ongoing questions around religious freedom and inclusion in sports and public life.
Alencar observes the Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, a central belief for Seventh-day Adventists, but faced scheduling challenges as he progressed in judo. Certification exams, required to advance to higher belts, are administered by the São Paulo Judo Federation and traditionally held on Saturdays.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Alencar was able to take a black belt exam online on a non-Sabbath day. But when the time came to pursue a higher rank, he again requested a date change. The Federation denied his request, prompting Alencar to seek a legal remedy.
“When I received the denial, I felt deeply sad,” Alencar said. “Since childhood, I learned that respect for religious beliefs is essential for human coexistence, especially in educational and sports environments that should promote inclusion and personal growth.”
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Thank you very much and God bless you.
And looks like God worked it out for him. Amen.
Sorry
I am not interested in your sect
____Sorry
I am not interested in your sect___
yeah, it’s for people who actually read and study the Bible for themselves so I can see why. Just move on....nothing here for you to see. Thank u.
The seventh day Sabbath. It is the best day,
.......
And it’s coming up on False God Tiws day this Roman Beast week..
It’ll be the 22nd Day of His 2nd month as in the days of Moses.
The day that manna didn’t show up after it showed up the 6 days prior.
Remarkably, Judaism doesn’t Remember that weekly Sabbath event in their Roman calendar observing.
It’s a new day and vespa300 is posting something on FR. I wonder what topic it will be on. Jesus? No. Calvary? No. The resurrection? No. The anointing, leading, healing, and sealing of the Holy Spirit? No. Jesus coming back soon? No. God’s love, forgiveness, grace, and mercy? No.
Then what? The Sabbath. Of course.
It’s great that we live in a day when many people can exercise their freedom of religion and conscience without government interference. Not everyone in the world has this liberty.
That means you get to celebrate the Sabbath and honor God as you believe by resting from physical work. It also means that I and many others here can refute your false doctrine of Christians being morally obligated to physically rest every Sabbath.
Consider the reality that heretics become fixated on a particular doctrine to the point of neglecting other very important doctrines. And it soon becomes apparent that the doctrine fixated upon is wrong—twisting scriptures to accommodate a mistaken belief. And this results in other scriptures being twisted in a similar way.
2 Peter 3:16 NKJV
As also in all [Paul’s] epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
And in other breaking news: Chick fil A stores are to remain closed on Sundays, the Lord’s Day.
____It’s a new day and vespa300 is posting something on FR.___
Yeah, one post a day while Catholics post all day.
Get outta here....
I doubt college football isn’t changing a thing on their Saturn Day..
Many assemble on it in the thousands and pray to God their team wins.
That count?
I even heard some, maybe most, Hindus fast and pray on Saturn Day in their religion..
Maybe that counts, too..
In other news...
Sabbathers work overtime posting (writing is forbidden) on the sabbath.
Typical of legalists... they don’t do what they demand that you do.
Hypoctites gotta hypo donthcaknow!
Most college games on played on the wingnuts’ “sabbath” day, not the Lord’s Day.
The NFL and Walmart are a different case. Both are godless.
_____In other news...
Sabbathers work overtime posting (writing is forbidden) on the sabbath.
Typical of legalists... they don’t do what they demand that you do.
Hypoctites gotta hypo donthcaknow!____
Another Bible scholar who missed the part where Jesus threw out all those petty stupid legalistic rules the pharisees had. But unlike this idiot, he didn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I think this is the same idiot who is so paranoid and threatned by Sabbath keepers.....he copied the moderators to have us silenced. Scared of a little Sabbath keeper.....
Stay on topic hypo...
Sabbath... lno writing permitted.
...give it a rest...legalist
... and YOU AIN’T Jesus!
Stop comparing yourself to Him.
Jesus wasn’t a hypoctite and NEVER sinned.
You ain’t Jesus
___Stay on topic hypo...
Sabbath... lno writing permitted.
...give it a rest...legalist___
Hey, you didn’t copy the moderator to have us silenced again? Paranoid boy. Scared of a Sabbath keeper. Don’t worry, we don’t bite.
____Stop comparing yourself to Him.
Jesus wasn’t a hypoctite and NEVER sinned.
You ain’t Jesus____
He was accused of breaking the Sabbath. That’s a sin. You know by breaking of their petty rules. Like you did! You would have made a great pharisee paranoid boy.
You don’t frighten me son.
I know who you are and who your father is.
You follow in his footsteps, deceiving people and burdening them with laws you don’t even follow. Jesus said the same things about the legalists and hypocrites whom He confronted. He gave us an example on how to confront those who try to make converts who then are TWICE the sons of hell as Pharisees.
It’s all in Bible with red letters to help you understand better.
I already made my point to Jim, as have many others.
You’re “on the radar” as you stink up his site and there’s no reason to bother him as he enjoys his Sunday with his family.
_____I already made my point to Jim, as have many others.
You’re “on the radar” as you stink up his site and there’s no reason to bother him as he enjoys his Sunday with his family._____
hahaha.....paranoid boy scared of a Seventh day Adventist.
So he doesn’t want to compete on Sunday?
Sandy Koufax, anyone?
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