Mixed Martial Arts Has Jumped the Shark Watch: Easter Edition
by Luke Thomas on Apr 7, 2009 10:31 AM EDT
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As Easter is approaching, one pastor is preaching that Jesus is entering “the Octagon,” or the fighting venue for mixed martial artists in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Spirit of St. Louis Church in Arnold, Mo., and its pastor, Tom Skiles, are branding this Sunday’s message as “Easter in the Octagon: The Ultimate Fighter.” The flier posted throughout the church and other areas notes that for so long Christians have been told they should be “nice guys” when in reality they should be ultimate fighters.
For children, there will be an “Easter Smack Down” with an inflatable boxing ring.
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LOL
Incredible… I wonder what the community reaction is. It’d be interesting to see how much outrage comes out of that.
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by Leland Roling on Apr 7, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
Isn’t turning the other cheek kind of Machida’s style?
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions
If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.
by BJJDenver on Apr 7, 2009 11:03 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
He was going to rest on the 7th day but Mazzagatti thought the devil was still intelligently defending himself.
"Japan is half-Machida" - iiowyn
by Day Man on Apr 7, 2009 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
fan-effing-tastic
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If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.
by BJJDenver on Apr 7, 2009 11:04 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Hard to tap when your hands are nailed to wood
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions
There is actually a fight team here in Colorado, that is formed by guys sharing their faith. I believe it called Team Prophecy and I think the guy who runs it is a minister or something.
I’m not religious myself, but I always found that mix to be pretty interesting.
If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.
Yup
The team is run by none other than Ron “H2O Man” Waterman, great guys and great fighters.
by Gunslinger20 on Apr 7, 2009 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions
I know you gotta defend your boys, big man, but this is fucking crazy – it’s not Jesus Camp ‘we need suicide bombers too!’ crazy, but still, fucking crazy.
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Seriously though, religion in it’s purest form is a thing of beauty. It’s when man gets involved that results in posters like those above.
“Oh hey honey, what’d you do today?”
“I practiced my GnP for Jesus”
“WTF?”
Remind me
“It’s when man gets involved that results in posters like those above.”
How do we have religion without man?
"Stop smiling you are about to be punched in the face !"
Great question.
When man interferes with the ‘message’ as illustrated by the post below written by pud333, that’s when the ‘message’ gets distorted.
Well, seeing as how man created religion, that would be kind of tough.
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions
So good.
If it weren’t true, you’d have to invent it.
Although detractors decry (MMA) as a brutal, bloody form of human cockfighting, aficionados know it is a brutal, bloody, totally fucking awesome form of human cockfighting. -The Onion
by The Kittitas Kid on Apr 7, 2009 11:18 AM EDT reply actions
I suspect it’s an attempt at drawing some attention to the church, perhaps getting people to listen. There’s a church in Vancouver where the Pastor has a new sermon each week that involves taking the latest blockbuster movie and drawing life lessons from it. Last month they were using Oscar nominated movies like the Dark Knight and Milk. Anything to get the kids in the door, I suppose, considering so many “polls” lately showing people losing their faith or acknowledging they don’t have one.
haha
this thing sounds pretty awesome.
in regards to the “jesus didn’t tap” brand, i find it a little odd when a fighter has it on his shorts next to condomdepot.com.
If someone can explain to me why this is so ridiculous?
I think the guy is a little out there, but better this than WBC.
im not impressed with your performance
Religion generally is not rational. The idea that an all knowing all powerful being controls every aspect of our lives is more ridiculous than Pastor Tom’s publicity stunt.
Keep firing Assholes!
the idea of something coming from nothing is more ridiculous IMO
im not impressed with your performance
theyre prominent atheist writers
certainly worth reading but sometimes they divert attention away from tough questions by making fun.
i dont think your avoiding anything, but the making fun thing caught my eye.
im not impressed with your performance
In fact...
I even defending Christianity in a post that got deleted. I guess pointing out that Jesus was a pacifist, and many modern “Christians” twist his words, is taboo. Considering other people have said the same thing, I can’t pretend to understand the rules.
I actually can’t stand either of them (but especially Dawkins) because of the arrogance of their work. Never mind the tone: they act like this whole conversation didn’t happen 20 years ago around Hawking’s work. I also hate the whole “we’ve figured out how the laws of the world work to SUCH a degree that we’ve made divinity irrelevant!” argument, because it misses the point. The damn thing is, they have INTERESTING things to say, and should be a valuable contribution to the discussion, but they’re so damn off-putting that they do more harm than good.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Apr 7, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That might be a first! Sweet!
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Apr 7, 2009 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought The God Delusion was awesome – and when someone asks ‘what if you’re wrong?’, there are few other avenues to proceed down other than ridicule.
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
If you liked the God Delusion, you may want to check out Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith. It’s more philosophy-based than the biology-based arguments by Dawkins.
Oh man
Am I glad you brought that book up. I read it when I was 15 – right after Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich – that shit formed me. Smith was relentless.
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Evolutionary theorists/biologists who are very certain that their theories disprove the existence of (G/g)od.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Apr 7, 2009 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions
No doubt at all. He just rubs me the wrong way as a person.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Apr 7, 2009 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Dawkins calls himself agnostic about God ‘to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of my garden’ – ie, I CANNOT disprove them, but the totality of the evidence speaks for itself.
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
did all of our posts get deleted?
I cant see any of them. Also strange is only the theistic posts got deleted. Maybe my browser is messing up.
Anyways your beer deal works for me. ANd if i die and turn in to worm food, I’ll let you visit my friend lake house in orlando.
im not impressed with your performance
Gah I quit. I have to go to class at some point. Thanks for the internet discussion about a serious topic that didn’t dissolve into a screaming match.
Keep firing Assholes!
yep
im still kind of pissed off it got deleted
if two people can intelligently discuss a topic, why shouldn’t people be allowed to see it?
im not impressed with your performance
You’re right – Eve coming from Adam’s rib = infinitely more credible
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
To be fair, I think just about anything is better than the WBC.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
What is ridiculous is that the guy is spreading his own message instead of the Christian message. This isn’t spreading the word this is spreading his own interpretation and message under the guise of teaching the religion’s message (which seems to be a very prevailent problem in modern religions). It seems Christians have got very adept at twisting what is in the Bible to justify what they want to believe but that just isn’t how it works.
So I guess...
Dana White – God
Chuck Liddell – Jesus
Royce Gracie – Adam
Gina Carano – Eve
WAMMA – Satan
Did I miss anyone?
Best Part:
“Honestly, I pick on other denominations a lot. Here’s what I tell ‘em: I come out of a denomination, too. But on any Sunday morning I’ll pick on everybody from Catholics to the Amish. We don’t hold no bars.”
by Phantom Of Krankor on Apr 7, 2009 1:38 PM EDT reply actions
I believe so, yes.
I wonder if they also don’t bar no holds.
by Phantom Of Krankor on Apr 7, 2009 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions
As a Bachelor of Theology working on my Master’s, I have to commend the pastor on bringing up a often-neglected part of Christianity – but he might get more feedback than he was banking on. Hope his Theological Guard is up to naught.
On the other hand – I have a hard time trying not to laugh.
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Apr 7, 2009 2:22 PM EDT reply actions
Well…hmm.
I can’t really pass judgement on this or even give a thought about it unless I hear/see what goes down that day. There could be a real message in there, or it could be a church gimmick. I myself am a non-denominational christian, but I firmly believe churches need to ditch the entertainment for the word of God.
If I was a non-believer and heard about this, that would just reinforce my thoughts that the church is a joke, and desperate for members. Not trying to get all religious, but thats just the way the cookie crumbles for me.
Although, I do agree with this pastor on the thought that Jesus wasn’t some pushover…the man walked into a church and flipped over the tables of the money tellers and gave them the boot…I have a feeling that he didn’t flip over the table gently, and said God Bless afterwards. haha
Interesting article though…
Mixed Martial Arts Has Jumped The Ark
by Derek Suboticki on Apr 7, 2009 6:28 PM EDT reply actions 7 recs
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