American
Thinker has an article today about Colin Kaepernick and various other
self-proclaimed Christian NFL players who take a knee during the
National Anthem, focusing on Kaepernick's unChristian personal behavior.
It's called "Colin Kaepernick Needs the Truth" by Trevor Thomas. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/11/colin_kaepernick_needs_the_truth.html
I'm
Jewish but live in America and have been exposed to a number of
Christian examples. I don't recall Jesus taking his ministry to sports
stadiums (the Romans built them) or ampitheaters performances but rather
He took to speaking at the Great Temple in Jerusalem and in town
squares where people discussed the issues of the day. There are stories
of Jesus feeding the poor with loaves and fishes, something that these
football players could well afford to do at times becasue of their
astronomical salaries.
Recently I saw on Youtube a story about the
semifamous who had recently died. One of them is the African former NBA
player Manute Bol who returned to Sudan and gave away most of his
fortune to help poor people in his country to alieve their suffering. I
don't believe Bol ever took a knee at an NBA game - he just did Good
Acts. No, Bol was everything that these NFL millionaire idiots are not.
Bingo. And, Jack, the
people Jesus and his disciples fed with the loaves and fishes weren't
necessarily poor, they were merely people who came to hear His message,
and it just happened that Jesus was speaking in an area where there
were no purveyors of food. The people (with the apparent exception of
the lad who had brought his lunch with him) hadn't come prepared for a
long day of instruction and therefore hadn't brought their own
provisions. One CAN extrapolate that these folks probably weren't the
"upper crust" of the society, because Jesus' message appealed more to
the poor and downtrodden.
And it's not going
too far to believe that Jesus chose just such a place to preach, with
the idea that He knew exactly what He was going to do as far as
producing a miracle with the feeding. Jesus never did anything by
accident.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at November 19, 2017 09:46 AM (6tzEm)