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Activities or Social Ethics that the African American race largely takes part in. |
Example 1- |
Guy 1: Dude, check out that rap battle! |
Guy 2: Nah, man, that's nigger shit. |
Example 2- |
Guy 1: I hate how the black folks skip the whole lunch line. |
Guy 2: I know! It's total nigger shit! |
nigger shit nigger white racist black |
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Maurice Jones-Drew does not get nearly enough credit for what he does on the Jacksonville Jaguars. He carries the team on his back year after year no matter what kind of talent (or lack thereof) is around him, and yet he is never even considered the best back in the NFL or an MVP candidate. |
That needs to change. We can all agree that Aaron Rodgers deserves to be league MVP after the season he has had, but if he wasn't around, Maurice Jones-Drew should absolutely be the front-runner for league MVP. Why? Let's take a look at the candidates: |
Drew Brees |
I am not saying in any way that Drew Brees hasn't been impressive this year. He will most likely break Dan Marino's record for passing yards in a season on Monday night against the Atlanta Falcons and the Saints have just about locked up the NFC South. |
So why does Jones-Drew deserve the MVP more than Brees? Simply because of how much talent Brees has around him. The defense is roughly middle-of-the-pack, but Brees has a virtually uncoverable mix of size and speed in tight end Jimmy Graham, a huge sure-handed receiver in Marques Colston, a speedy deep threat in Devery... |
The Saints can also boast a top notch offensive line with two of the best guards in the game. Brees's success can be attributed to his immense skill as a passer, but he also has a lot of help from talent around him. |
Barring Aaron Rodgers, should MJD be MVP? |
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Tom Brady |
Brady's stats are good year after year, but what really sets this season apart is the terrible play of his defense. This is definitely one of the worst defenses in the NFL and yet Brady and the Pats are 12-3 sitting atop the AFC East. Of course, two of the teams in the division are the Bills and the Dolphins. However, ... |
The main knocks against Brady, however, are all the talented players around him. After all, even Curtis Painter could find at least some success with the Patriots offense. The Pats boast the best receiving tight end in the game in Rob Gronkowski, one of the league's best receivers in Wes Welker and an outstanding offen... |
Maurice Jones-Drew |
Here is a guy who deserves a lot more MVP consideration than he is getting. Of course, isn't that always the case with Maurice Jones-Drew? The dude has been working hard in the Jaguars' backfield with some of the league's worst passers, and he still gets no consideration for MVP. |
This year, the Jaguars had the league's worst passing attack, averaging not even 150 passing yards a game. It is safe to say Jones-Drew had to face eight men in the box more than a few times. Yet, he still led the league in rushing with 1,606 yards, 242 more than the next place runner. And it's not like he has an elite... |
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The Jaguars were only able to come away from 2011 with five wins, but in all of them Jones-Drew either had 100 yards from scrimmage or a touchdown. He accounted for almost half of the Jaguars' total offensive yards at the end of the year. Oh, and he did all of this coming off of a major knee surgery this offseason that... |
When you compare Maurice Jones-Drew with Drew Brees and Tom Brady, there should be no comparison. The latter two may rack up more impressive stats, but they both have so much more talent around them than Jones-Drew, who has to basically get by on his own and still manages to be the league's top rusher. |
Unfortunately, the few workhorse backs that still exist in the NFL never get enough credit for what they do, and Jones-Drew is no exception. Though Brees and Brady will most likely be the only other players getting any sort of MVP love, if Aaron Rodgers wasn't in the running the real MVP would be the league's most unde... |
Keep the Faith |
A reader blog about liberal religion with Rev. Beth Ellen Cooper |
A little bit of American religious history: Part 2 |
The status quo in 16th century Europe was either a corpus-Christianum (church-state) or a state-church such as Saxony, Zurich, and Geneva. The Anabaptists of the day, so named because of their view that baptism could not occur until someone was of sufficient age to determine for themselves whether to devote their lives... |
The Anabaptists believed that the civil government denied spiritual government and so the two could not be in anyway related. The Anabaptist conviction toward separation of church and state included two vital positive affirmations: |
1) The civic right of a free man to private religious interpretation. |
2) The Christian duty of voluntary association to enforce a strong internal discipline. |
In these two ideas lay the seeds of the U.S. Constitution’s declaration of religious and individual freedom. |
At the 1538 Bern Disputation, the Anabaptists declared that state authorities have a place in the non-Christian world, but the only authority of Christians was the Lord Jesus Christ. Again, the state had a specific role of keeping order in society, given the existence of those who perpetrate evil. What the Anabaptists ... |
Hans Denck is credited by some as being the first Anabaptist leader to articulate a person’s right to individual religious interpretation. Otherwise, the Anabaptists were more concerned with the congregational level of religious liberty. Both of these approaches have specific parallels in the development of American po... |
The separation of church and state is an issue that is most often taken for granted by Americans via the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights. However, this issue is not as easily parsed as one might assume. Back in 16th century Europe, those calling for strict separation included the notion that r... |
You may have heard that Republican candidate Fred Thompson said recently that he isn’t a churchgoer. I don’t know how well that will serve him in the polls, but at least he is honest with his answer. And interestingly, all of the candidates are being honest this year as they talk very openly about their faith….This emp... |
Back to separation of church and sate…We often hear popular and vehement idea that the U.S was established as a Christian nation. But many scholars contend that the influence of religious motives in bringing about the American Revolution is often overstated. While clergy were zealous at the time, church membership had ... |
As I imagine is the case for most Americans, I had come to believe over the years that the First Amendment was clear and easily interpretable within the context of a “wall” of separation. That is, neither institution could legally encroach into the affairs of the other. Some scholars have challenged the assumption that... |
“Separation” was historically an anticlerical, antiecclesiastical movement, and was not what was desired by the dissenters who influenced the inclusion of the First Amendment. The dissenters wanted freedom from the laws recognizing religion and giving government salaries to ministers based on their religion. These diss... |
Just as the Anabaptists were minority dissenters in Reformation in Europe, various groups in the U.S. wanted the church to be free from government control. This is, of course, not a direct parallel. In 16th century Europe, new churches were being established, in 18th century North America a new state was being establis... |
“Separation” as a movement, despite Jefferson’s earlier declaration wasn’t popular again until the mid-19th century. Separationists were worried about the influence of the church on the government. They and the secularists fought for an amendment that guaranteed separation of church and state. When they couldn’t get it... |
At least one Catholic scholar in 1960, John Murry, stated that the first amendment stems from “the necessity of creating a social environment, protected by law, in which men of differing faiths can live together in peace.” In this context, the first amendment is pluralistic, liberal, generous, not restrictive. However,... |
Seeing these interesting challenges to my preconceived notions about separation of church and state, I have decided to look again at the source. Of course, returning to the source is what generations of religious and political reformers alike reformers have done when faced with the morass that results from centuries of... |
The First Amendment reads as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So, the... |
a) respect an establishment of religion, |
b) prohibit the free exercise of religion, |
c) abridge the freedom of speech, |
d) abridge the freedom of the press, |
e) abridge the right of the people peaceably to assemble, |
f) abridge the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. |
Read in the broader context, I see this as a specific limitation of government power regarding religion, free speech, free press, peaceable assembly, and petition. I do not read this as a limitation on the church. I, unlike Thomas Jefferson, read “respecting an establishment of religion” to be a statement of disestabli... |
Today we are presented with issues of church and state in which, all sides argue their case based on the first Amendment. Both those for and against maintaining the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance invoke the First Amendment as justification – as did those in the case of Judge Roy Black and his placement o... |
In a few days, I will conclude this series of posts with a discussion of the parallels between some of the founding religious and political documents in North America. |
Keep the faith, |
Rev. Matt |
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1. rachel says: |
Excellent. Thank you. |
2. Miemaw says: |
The University of Houston, Clear Lake, is to be commended. They didn’t give into the pressure, from e-mail, etc., and cancel your lecture. |
Bishop Tutu was not afforded the same courtesy in Minnesota. |
3. Ed T. says: |
This is probably one of the best explanations of the First Amendment (along with the background explaining *why* it was written the way it was) that I have read. Thanks for the insight. |
4. David says: |
St. Thomas’ actions are regrettable. But I hold a private, Roman Catholic University to a very different set of standards than I do a publicly funded University. Indeed, I think it’s good stewardship for a church to discriminate based on viewpoint—where the government should not. |
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Well, no matter how much we try to stop them, people keep trying to socially network around these parts. So, I have a proposal |
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In a twist on the MySpace theme, you can make Enemies instead of friends. This reverse social-networking will be a round-about way of telling who's networking the most, as you cannot be making friends unless you're also making enemies (that's the theory, anyway). It is NOT to be a reward for trolling, any more than UGO... |
Everyone could automatically be an enemy of Spang (or Famine, I'm not sure which, yet), and get to add enemies as they go. They won't REALLY be making new enemies online, any more than you can really make new friends online. We'd probably have a link telling n00bs this for when they're panicking upon first entering the... |
edit Why do this? |
Well, social networks make websites grow, and this is a unique enough idea that I think it'd get us a little buzz, and I think the potential backlash against us could be minimal. Plus, it'd probably help keep the stupid off the site (those who leap to conclusions without actually thinking), which is also good. |
edit How could we pull this off? |
Ok, here it gets a little trickier, as I'm stupid and don't know too much about programming. I think if we set it up so everyone got a subpage to their userpage, with an "enemies" list on it, that could work. Maybe give them a tab at the top of their userpage, or whatever. Maybe have a notice like the "You have new mes... |
edit So, what do you think? |
I couldn't possibly even start to do this. Leave comments, suggestions, or volunteer below. |
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