Josh McDougal running update 3/1/12

I think you are presenting a false choice. A person is free to be pious and express their beliefs. People are free to find that rude when introduced into other topics like business or sports. I think there is a fine line when discussing individual success because faith may be very important to that athlete and he or she may feel it contributes to their success.

"He turns to religion to "protect" him from getting laid and partying? That is nuts."

how is not participating in using a human being for sexual pleasure nuts?

clearly your morals are skewed!

Coaching success? wrote:

ttc wrote:

With his coaching, running success and the best blogs I've read- Everyone should appreciate his awesome contributions to the sport.

Please tell me about his biggest coaching success thus far?

He said running success, not coaching success. It's a list that reads like this:

1. coaching

2. running success

3. best blogs I've read

"how is not participating in using a human being for sexual pleasure nuts?

clearly your morals are skewed!"

If you are using other humans beings for only for your sexual pleasure, I humbly suggest that you are doing it wrong. Two people mutually consenting to enjoying sexual pleasure together is a fine thing. Individuals sing other people for your own purposes is being an a**hole. If YOU can't tell the difference between those two scenarios, then it is perfectly clear that it is your morals that are insufficient to the task.

The ascetic lifestyle is capable of producing wonderful things. But what makes it special is that it involves the SACRIFICE of good things. If the things being given up aren't good, then there isn't a sacrifice and the asceticism isn't special.

I respect people who voluntarily give up things in exchange for higher goods. On the other hand, people who can't tell the difference between healthy human love and exploitation deserve only pity.

exft wrote:

I don't think people are deeply offended by Christ, Buddha, Muhammed...

People are offended when those teachings come with a personal agenda attached to it.

Christ, you're either for Him or against Him, His own words. You either accept Him as God in the flesh, or burn in Hell forever when you die, most of teaching was based on this, which is why you see repeated attempts on His life by angry crowds, etc.

Muhammad was told by "Allah" to conquer the world, to give the entire world the choice of convert, die, or "submit" aka accept an oppressed status. Muhammad himself went about conquering Arabia, massacring Jewish tribes, etc.

No doubt. Society instructs us to celebrate each religion. It is a nice way to describe religious oppression.

How Quickly We Forget wrote:

McDougal was also made fun of for being a Christian, funny how nobody would dare ridicule an American college runner if he said he was a Muslim (that's another argument).

Oh really? wrote:

Christ, you're either for Him or against Him, His own words. You either accept Him as God in the flesh, or burn in Hell forever when you die, most of teaching was based on this, which is why you see repeated attempts on His life by angry crowds, etc.

Muhammad was told by "Allah" to conquer the world, to give the entire world the choice of convert, die, or "submit" aka accept an oppressed status. Muhammad himself went about conquering Arabia, massacring Jewish tribes, etc.

Troll rating: 1/10

There may be a lot of stupid people out there, but very few are stupid enough to buy into picking and choosing lines from two different brands of invisible sky-friends.

Let's play pick and choose scriptures. The Koran teaches that the Prophet said:

"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trust worthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things."

The Christian Gospels teach:

“Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”

“Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us.

Both scriptures have teachings of peace and teaching of violence. It's like that one guy said once: you can tell a tree by the fruit that it bears. If you say "Jesus Jesus" or "Allah Allah" but act like a jerk, you are a jerk. If you say "Jesus Jesus" or "Allah Allah" and love your neighbor and forgive them, then you are a righteous dude. The brand of invisible sky-friend you choose to talk to is much less important than whether you act out of love or hate.

Koppenberg wrote:

The Christian Gospels teach:

If one reads and watches it will be worth it. We are all infants. We will all die infantile, lying in our human excrement of lies, hate, violence, lasciviousness, etc.

Honest consideration should bring you to your knees. If it does not, you're lying to yourself.

Don't respond to me...I won't be back to check this.