Athletes and the Court

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violakat

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Top recruit collapses in court after receiving three-year prison sentence | The Dagger: College Basketball Blog - Yahoo! Sports

This news article is about a young man who collapsed when read his sentence. Apparently a whole community came out to support this young in asking for probation, including the victim, simply because he had a chance for a basketball scholarship to Ohio State. Instead the judge gave him a three sentence.

A part of me wants to say, "right on Judge", simply because the young man needs to learn he will be help accountable for his actions. And what happened there could be used as an example to other young men and women, that if they are not careful, their actions could wipe away their dreams.

Yet another part of me thinks that maybe a little leniency may have effected this young man more, in knowing that his actions put his dreams in jeopardy. But then again, it could have easily sent another message. One of will let you get away with everything, simply because your special.

What do you think?
 
Digital_Angel_316

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Baal is not the god we should worship, Basket-Baal or other. Being good at bouncing an orange ball attempting to throw it into a peach basket for status, power, and gain of all sorts is not a worthy endeavor, it is idolatry. Popularity is not (or should not be) License to commit crime whether it is child abuse or coercion, manipulation, extortion, rape or other. From little league and pop warner to high school, college and on to professional sports, the United States in particular, but the world at large (thinking for example the Olympics) has given license to Baal. License for colleges to run entire counties with their sports program as a popular front, license to manipulate schools and teachers, license in turn to manipulate (or oppress) people ... in short, license to sin.

Perhaps the dissonance here is the lack of consistency in judgment from one situation to another. That might depend on how much a judge or teacher or cop or mayor or newspaper owes their soul to the local sports syndicate, Sons of Sam that they are ...
 
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violakat

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Just because one enjoys playing sports and is good at it, does not make them a worshiper of Baal. Ball and Baal are completely two different terms. They are even pronounced differently.
 
Digital_Angel_316

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violakat said:
Just because one enjoys playing sports and is good at it, does not make them a worshiper of Baal. Ball and Baal are completely two different terms. They are even pronounced differently.
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Not sure about the horse, but I don't think you see it at all. Baal is Idolatry used for gain. Basket-baal is just that. Ditto that for other sports, music and entertainment - Idolatry for gain - Baal.

Denial is a defense mechanism, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may use:
* simple denial: deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether
* minimisation: admit the fact but deny its seriousness (a combination of denial and rationalization)
* projection: admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility by blaming somebody or something else.

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You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
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violakat

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Be careful of associating everything with idolatry, because that can become a form of idolatry itself. It's easy to start seeing stuff as worshiping. And yes, when we place anything before God, it does become a form of worship for something other than God, which is idolatry. Including the love of seeing how everything is idolatry. Be careful, and do not go down that path.
 
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Criminals don't get nearly what they deserve.
 
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