Sydney McLaughlin addresses "Cancel Culture"

In reference to his disdain towards the theory of quantum mechanics you fool

Some conspiracy theories have significantly shaped Western culture, for better or worse, more than their peers.

Did any of you actually watch the short video? Clearly some religious interviewer asked her a provocative/leading question about being "cancelled" for her beliefs, and Syd gave the most benign answer you could expect.

Why? You clearly ARE a bigot just own it. You are also completely ignorant of what goes on in schools. How should I engage with someone like you that thinks LGBTQ people and diversity is bad and that we don't teach academics?

Lots of misunderstanding about Christian beliefs being thrown around in here, particularly about what athletes mean when they thank God for their performance. The Christian does not believe that God is rewarding their faith with special little favors of performance.

"If there was any idea of a sort of bargain - any idea that we could perform our side of the contract and thus put God in our debt so that it was up to Him, in mere justice, to perform his side - that has to be wiped out.

I think every one who has some vague belief in God, until he becomes a Christian, has the idea of an exam, or of a bargain in his mind. The first result of real Christianity is to blow that idea to bits...Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already." - C.S. Lewis

Like many of you I was an atheist for many years. Another C.S. Lewis quote that comes to mind when thinking about where I was: "Christianity has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need any forgiveness."

Love to you all.

Almost Forgot...14:01 5k, 100k/year

Doesn’t seem that scared at the olympics

Has always been so and will continue to be as long as right wing and other conservatives have their way. A good education has always been the downfall of fascists and conservatives. Hence the reason why they always go after the intellectuals, burn books and close down access to fact based information. Conservatives and fascists have always thrived on a poorly educated populace.

I have long handicapped her properly, on and off the track.

Consequently I'm prepared for greatness during hurdles and quite the opposite whenever she says or writes something

I’m a spiritual person, but not an organized religion person. She can believe what she wants because of it helps her that’s fantastic. She’s not trying to proselytize anyone. She’s just telling you what works for her. In this country you can worship any which way you want just stay out of government, and don’t expect the government to bow down to your beliefs because we have separation of church in this country. And if you can’t like that, then go back to the country where you came from or if your an American, legal immigrant? Shut up.

also, she's not saying she's being canceled, the term isn't used. she's basically saying she believes what she does, wants to be herself, that she thinks any response will even out in the wash ("god will provide"), and so what if she loses some business, and she hopes they find her truth eventually.

fwiw that last bit is where she's not being a victim. she's not beefing about her bottom line and she wishes those who disagree her well. i don't think you listened to what she said if you wandered down cancel culture road with this.

i'm not gonna hunt down source material on this but it sounded like more of an abstract "what if" discussion than a concrete one. i've barely heard discussion of her beliefs and not heard of anyone beefing at her or cutting ties, much less butker type culture war stuff.

Frauds like Claudine Gay and her ilk have rotted the institutions of higher learning and done far more damage than any of your imagined book burnings and "closing down access". What does having access to a cesspool of intellectual disease impact in terms of benefit?

Not even mentioning the modern day book burning of woke censorship of every platform.

Because Christians are sooooo oppressed in America.

I suspect that her religious fanaticism is in part related to her crippling anxiety before races. I have never seen an athlete so wound up as her in the call area before the 4x4. Her belief seems to offload some pressure of responsibility to an outside power, so allows her to deal and thus run better, or at all.

A side.note is that religiosity is always highest in women hurdlers of both types, who feel extreme pressure in a punishing event.

It is not about merely the religion, it is the individual telling about the religion and what they believe. Contrary to what is often written not all religions seek GxxD. Certainly not all men follow their faith the way they should, myself included. But if are you sincere, that does count for much! Repent and although I do this daily in a personal way, we must also do it in community. My lists of sins is long...

My father once proclaimed in the newspaper that all religions are good. I think that used to be true. Certain we have seen what the opposite brings when there is no order and no discipline.

Or maybe it is to give glory and thanks to God.

We need to bring back Christianity! It is not gone, but it has been altered too many times. What is real truth?

YES.

Look for the Good, in everyone and every thing! Be a good finder!!!

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.””
‭‭John‬ ‭14‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.””
‭‭Acts‬ ‭4‬:‭12‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,”
‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭2‬:‭5‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Jesus claimed that He was the only way to heaven. He’s either lying, being a lunatic, or is truly Lord. I’ll let you be the judge of that. Repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ!