Seperation of Church and Football

There is an interesting article on the front page of the New York Times this morning (Sunday Oct 30, 2005), about the increasing role that prayer and religion have at major college football programs around the country. Many coaches are cited claiming the benefits of encouraging their players to believe. Every coach quoted made it clear that participation was completely voluntary on behalf of the players and that there were no repercussions for not participating. The article then mentioned that many people from outside of the teams, ie school administrators fear a first amendment law suit. I am interested in what people think. Please comment. Here is a link to the article, you may have to log in to the nytimes site.

Increasingly, Football's Playbooks Call for Prayer

Today in American society Christians are thought of as merely an ultra-right wing, close minded, perhaps even bigoted voting block. Due to the unfortunate comments by so called "Christian leaders" such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, Christians are portrayed as unintelligent, anti-science, homo-phobic, and isolationist. This is simply not true. Christians know that reason and science are tools God has blessed us with to better understand His creation, and ultimately to glorify Him. However, there is a void of intelligent response from Christians. While intelligentresponce.blogspot.com does not have any delusions of grandeur, this blog is intended to be a forum for intelligent, non partisan discussion among Christians. Perhaps by fostering discussion, leaders will emerge to represent Christianity better than what has befallen us today. Please post commuting and suggestions and keep tuned for more content.