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Does God Care Who Wins the Super Bowl?
National Catholic Register ^ | 2/9/2024 | Patti Maguire Armstrong

Posted on 02/10/2024 7:30:58 AM PST by Bogle

"As a cheerleader at St. Alphonsus High School, before each game, we gathered in a circle and prayed a 'Memorare.' We prayed to win. Back then, most Catholics sent their children to Catholic schools, so there were enough schools in suburban Detroit to have Class A, B, C and D divisions. That meant that before every sporting event, dueling Catholic prayers went up for the win. Did the victors just pray better?"

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: catholiccaucus; coaching; ofcourse; prayer; sports; toppriority
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To: chajin; SaveFerris

Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.


21 posted on 02/10/2024 8:16:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bogle
God cares because God cares about His children and what they are concerned with.

Does God have a favorite team?

That is a different question and the answer is probably not.

He is most pleased with the players who are doing His will but that is a different question then what you were asking.

22 posted on 02/10/2024 8:23:20 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: Bogle

Yes.

“For the Lord your God is a jealous God ... and Taylor Swift is starting to make him nervous ...”


23 posted on 02/10/2024 8:24:40 AM PST by x
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To: Bogle

The SB is such a big deal that I remember who won it 10 years ago..., no, wait,... 5 years ago,... uhhh, wait,... last year,... uhh,... I guess I just can’t remember.


24 posted on 02/10/2024 8:31:18 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Vaquero
I have stopped watching woke organizations. Including NFL, MLB, and now NASCAR. let them rot and bleed out.

I'll watch or listed on the radio if there's nothing else on and I don't have something better to do, but I cut the cord years ago so they don't get a penny out of me when I do watch.

25 posted on 02/10/2024 8:33:09 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: Bogle

I don’t know about whether God cares who wins. I can say I don’t.


26 posted on 02/10/2024 8:33:53 AM PST by dforest
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To: Gary from Dayton
God only cares that it not be played on Sunday

Not really. Gods a Sabbatarian, you see.

27 posted on 02/10/2024 8:38:19 AM PST by BipolarBob (One flew East and one flew West . . .)
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To: dfwgator

Who turned this into an anti-pep rally?


28 posted on 02/10/2024 8:41:37 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Vigilanteman
I'm old enough to remember when public schools would not dare have school events on a Sunday. Most of them also blocked out an additional weekday night which were reserved for church activities, typically a Wednesday night or Thursday night.

Western Oklahoma is still like that. (I think the whole state is like that, but I'm not 100% sure.) I grew up in CT, and even 50 years ago it was not like that there.

29 posted on 02/10/2024 8:50:31 AM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: dfwgator
the idea that sports can help put athletes on a path to eternal life.

It's nothing short of brutal out there.

30 posted on 02/10/2024 8:54:23 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Bogle

Manipulating the outcome of any sporting event whether it’s point shaving, throwing a game, or divine intervention would be frowned upon by bookies everywhere. They take a dim view of others fixing games unless they’re the ones doing the fixing. I’d hate to be the one upsetting their betting lines. Those Italian Catholics can be a rough bunch.


31 posted on 02/10/2024 8:55:07 AM PST by The_Harlequin (…the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, wi)
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To: Bogle

The priest and the rabbi go to the fights. Before the first bell one fighter, Irish Paddy Murphy, genuflects and makes the Sign of the Cross. The rabbi asks the priest,
“ Will that help him?” The priest responded, “ Only if he can fight.”


32 posted on 02/10/2024 9:02:58 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Bogle

Since every team in the National Faaggots League has bowed before the Globohomos and BLM then they are all going to Hell anyway, so no.


33 posted on 02/10/2024 9:20:18 AM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: duckman

Run The ‘Race!’


34 posted on 02/10/2024 9:21:00 AM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Bogle

The immortal Satchel Paige said: “Don’t go praying for rainy days unless you pray for sunny days too.” Reggie Jackson said: “Please Lord let me hit a homerun, I’ll tell them you did it. Those two quotes pretty well sums it up for me.


35 posted on 02/10/2024 9:40:36 AM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: dfwgator

“Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.”

“The object in football is to march downfield and penetrate enemy territory, and get into the end zone; in baseball, the object is to go home! “I’m going home!”

And, in football, they have the clip, the hit, the block, the tackle, the blitz, the bomb, the offense and the defense; in baseball, they have.. the sacrifice.”

George Carlin, or course.


36 posted on 02/10/2024 9:43:43 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: marktwain

Nailed it.


37 posted on 02/10/2024 10:00:22 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Bogle

No and neither do I.
Its over priced entertainment and that is it.


38 posted on 02/10/2024 10:11:41 AM PST by Zathras
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To: bigbob

Only when He bets on it.


39 posted on 02/10/2024 11:00:29 AM PST by DPMD (ua)
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To: Bogle

You will know if God has a bet going, if the ball gets hit by lightning while in the air.


40 posted on 02/10/2024 11:03:34 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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