Florida Columnist Goes After Catholic Converting Tim Tebow

Oh dear.!! I cannot imagine the calls and letters he got on that!!

I was watching Florida play Arkansas today where Florida barely pulled it out. For the record I was rooting for Florida because LSU needs all the SEC West teams to get as many losses as possible.

I have touched on Tebows faith before and my whole viewpoint at Tim Tebow Converting All those Catholics

Get Religon looks at this rather controversial article at Journalism, Jesus & Tebow.

As you can tell from my prior posts I pretty much disagree with the Columnist. In fact I pretty much disagree with the whole tone and point he is trying to make. Thought he does raises a interesting point when he says "Would it fly with the NCAA or TV networks if a player exhibited “God is dead” on his face? Freedom of expression would be wiped away as quickly as the greasepaint".

Still his rant on a separation of Church and sports is pretty silly. Sports and in particular college football is very God soaked. Ain't happening and it should not. Sports says a lot of about our culture and I see no reason to demand that the "religious aspect of it" gets purged from it.

As to Tebow I do admit it does seem that the Media sort of goes overboard in giving a lot of free exposure to the Tebows faith and his family's "Missionary" organization. This is not exactly a new story but more importantly Tebow is not the only Christian out there. For instance quarterbacks Colt McCoy of Texas and Sam Bradford of OKlahoma are pretty big Christians that are open about their faith. But thye don't get the publicity as Tebow does. Needless to say Catholic players that are devout don't get the attention either.

Still I find some the latest volley of articles against Tebow and what they call "conservative Christianity" sort of frightening. See another one here. Catholics will be next.