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It doesn’t happen a ton here, but the opposing coach at today’s game insisted on a prayer circle.

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What kind of mental illness compels a person to insist that everyone take time to indulge their personal superstitions?

My boss (who is also a pastor but I work in a secular agency) insists on prayer at our

Posted by Taz <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Taz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 27, 2026, 19:22:57, in reply to "It doesn’t happen a ton here, but the opposing coach at today’s game insisted on a prayer circle. "

Team building lunches.

And he doesn't say "now your heads if you choose", just says "bow your heads".
Irritates the shit out of me every time.

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What kind of mental illness compels a person to insist that everyone take time to indulge their personal superstitions?

Sometimes you just need to yeet a bobcat *

Being an Illini fan is a goddamn curse.*

I’m sure he’s hiding something illegal *

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 27, 2026, 19:02:34, in reply to "It doesn’t happen a ton here, but the opposing coach at today’s game insisted on a prayer circle. "

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(for rent)

Insisted on the circle and invited anyone interested to join, or insisted on everyone joining?*

Posted by Tortillini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Tortillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 27, 2026, 18:52:01, in reply to "It doesn’t happen a ton here, but the opposing coach at today’s game insisted on a prayer circle. "

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That's ridiculous, unless it is in a church-run league or something.

Posted by SurfTheBoneyard <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=SurfTheBoneyard' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 27, 2026, 16:20:31, in reply to "It doesn’t happen a ton here, but the opposing coach at today’s game insisted on a prayer circle. "

If I was the opposing coach my suggestion would be to say my kids and their parents are of different faiths which may differ from yours, and I don't have their permission to do this, so we're not. (These types are big on the parents having absolute authority over their kids' stuff and would flip out if someone tried to do it to them with a different faith.)

Then I report them to the league admin.

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Sky Marshal of the Luftwaffle

“Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie

Whenever I really stop to think about modern religion, it reminds me of this quote

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 27, 2026, 15:55:02, in reply to "It doesn’t happen a ton here, but the opposing coach at today’s game insisted on a prayer circle. "

When we hear the old bells ringing out on a Sunday morning, we ask ourselves: can it be possible? This for a Jew, crucified two thousand years ago, who said he was the son of God. The proof of such a claim is wanting. Within our times the Christian religion is surely an antiquity jutting out from a far-distant olden time; and the fact that people believe such a claim...is perhaps the oldest part of this heritage. A god who conceives children with a mortal woman; a wise man who calls us to work no more; to judge no more; but to heed the signs of the imminent apocalypse; a justice that accepts the innocent man as a proxy sacrifice; someone who has his disciplines drink his blood; prayers for miraculous interventions; sins against a god, atoned for by a god; fear of the afterlife, to which death is the gate; the figure of the cross as a symbol, in a time that no longer knows the purpose and shame of the cross - how horribly all this wafts over us, as from the grave of the ancient past! Are we to believe that such things are still believed?

Nietzsche, from Human All Too Human, which was 140 years ago.

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What kind of mental illness compels a person to insist that everyone take time to indulge their personal superstitions?

like your kid's team along with his team? GTFO with that shit*

Posted by IlliniRunner <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniRunner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 27, 2026, 15:24:24, in reply to "It doesn’t happen a ton here, but the opposing coach at today’s game insisted on a prayer circle. "

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Yes. Middle of the infield post handshake line. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 27, 2026, 15:27:16, in reply to "like your kid's team along with his team? GTFO with that shit*"

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Gross. What did you do?*

Posted by IlliniRunner <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniRunner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 27, 2026, 15:59:23, in reply to "Yes. Middle of the infield post handshake line. *"

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