‘No atheist at the top of a bobsled run’

[I'm With Stupid]

Thanks to being in god's good graces he managed to finish 21st.

Lol. See this is why sports people shouldn't be interviewed. Just throw yourself down the ice, let us watch you, and fuck off.

[MattHunX]

"...I don’t really believe in atheists."

Never heard that before. Dumb and Dumber. I wonder what his jesus-lover-buddies on the team would say if he had an accident, and okay, maybe even lived. "God wanted me to break my ribs for my sins, but I haven't sinned, so god must've punished me for the sins of others, I have taken one for the team I guess...lol...owww"
I'm pretty sure those atheist who were on his team just went along with the praying so they wouldn't make the jesus-lovers cry.

[Reverend Blair]

Isn't not believing in atheists kind of like not believing in socks?

[MattHunX]

Isn't not believing in atheists kind of like not believing in socks?

The term "Non-stamp collector" is not appropriate here, right? Something else...

[noncredo]

Isn't not believing in atheists kind of like not believing in socks?

Well I don't believe in people who don't believe in atheists...or socks.

[ED209]

Sledging - ooh, scary.

[Mishakal]

We aren't in foxholes, or not on top of bobsled runs. Where in the fuck are we supposed to go?

Hell of course, it's where all the interesting people go... :twisted:

[GrayToneS]

Let me start by saying; Simon, I'm glad you've found your way to rationalia, P & CA wouldnt be 'current' without you constantly digging up news reports for us.

“You know there’s no atheist in a foxhole, right?”

Wrong!

“There’s no atheist at the top of a bobsled run, either.”.....“I’ve had atheists on my team and they have no problem talking to God before the run,” Rush said.

The title of the article was quote-mined from a self contradicting statement.

“Everybody likes it. Even the atheists, for instance, they like how it sets the tone.

My family prays before meals at family gatherings. I don't like it! It doesnt "set the tone", or make the food more appetizing than what it already is unless you count the agonizing waiting period while I go through the motions of praying,,,all it does is cool my dinner off!!!

“I pray about the prayer before the race,” Rush said.

I wonder if he prays about his pre-prayer-prayer?

Rush played football for the University of Saskatchewan and was recruited as a bobsledder.

This guy couldnt cut it in a real sport. Then again, the only reason bobsledding is considered a 'sport' is b/c they're competing. Its no wonder the bobsledding majority are religious b/c all it takes is a little push, hop in the bucket, stick your head between your knees and pray. Unless their driving, atheists are too smart to bobsled (no offense Dr. Kwaltz).
The Georgian bobsledder who died must have known bobsledding was a direct ticket to paradise.

“One of my guys at the beginning of the year told me that he’s an atheist,” Rush said. “By the end of the year, he’s not an atheist anymore. He’s not a believer yet, but he’s coming around. I think it’s more important than winning medals, to be honest with you.”

Not a believer, but not an atheist?
Sounds to me like he's lying, pushing a story for the religious hungry media.
I'll bet his atheist teammate is cursing him

Thanks to being in god's good graces he managed to finish 21st.

Haha
Maybe he should convert to islam, initiating the prayer posture several times a day would be a great workout for a bobsledder!
Although then they could only bobsled into the sun.

Sledging - ooh, scary.

Right.
Skeleton is a "sport" that takes some real cahones!

[Thumpalumpacus]

Former USAF firefighter. Never prayed, always sprayed. If the dumb sonofabitch isn't thinking at the top of the run, he'll bite it one day at the bottom.

[kiki5711]

They should kiss a hard boiled egg instead! (Jamaican bobsled team Cool Runnings)

feel the rhythm
feel the rhyme
get on up
its bobsled time
COOL RUNNINGS

[mozg]

We aren't in foxholes, or not on top of bobsled runs. Where in the fuck are we supposed to go?

Skydiving.

I jump out of planes without praying. Gravity hasn't let me down yet.

Never heard that before. Dumb and Dumber.

I've heard people say they don't believe in atheists before. It's rather like saying you don't believe French people exist. You've got to be a barking lunatic.

[Chinaski]

We aren't in foxholes, or not on top of bobsled runs. Where in the fuck are we supposed to go?

Skydiving.

I jump out of planes without praying. Gravity hasn't let me down yet.

Never heard that before. Dumb and Dumber.

I've heard people say they don't believe in atheists before. It's rather like saying you don't believe French people exist. You've got to be a barking lunatic.

I think they mean that they don't believe there are people who really don't believe in god. It's so inconceivable to them that someone might not believe that they just deny it and say we all do, somewhere down in our heart of hearts or whatever.