The Tragic Loss of Kobe Bryant An American Professional Basketball Athlete Was Dishonored And Christians Should Stand Against Racism

That quote originally came from @kaylagrl, who has a friend who says that comment all the time. And everyone knows that God loves orange kitties best.. lol

i think some ppl have nothing better to do than to be offended.
my cousin was a fan of Kobe bryant (hes 10 years old) so he must have been devastated to hear about his death. He was reading a big fat bio on the star and was going to basketball camp cos thats his thing he was into.

when people die many people will come out of the woodwork to testify what that person meant to their lives. Its called a funeral.

i was unable to go to a memorial or even a funeral for my friend, as she went missing and her body was never found. i planted a tree in her memory instead.
I have kept photos of her thats showed what she really looked like and I know which of her favourite ones were. She didnt like modelling that much because of how catty it could be. when you are a star people are always going to judge you.
your race, what you look like, whether you have a pimple or not...how tall you are, whether your hair is long or short, how many teeth you have and if they are crooked...how much you weigh...EVERYTHING.

oh brother

I'm a peaceful native person

I am a native of Canada

the Catholic church, eh?

is there anything you can just say without pleading the 5th and setting up the wagons?

just your style I guess

well go ahead if you can find that picture

er....painting...find that painting

his role was spiritual warfare?

I can't keep up with it.......

Seven, your avatars make me LOL...

Well said.
I think callousness in a thread posting the news of anyone having passed on is rude and inconsiderate. One doesn't have to know the person to feel compassion for those who did and are grieving. And being threads will be found on the search engines, imagine those people who happen on a thread where the person who died, this one happens to be a famous basketball star, is lied about by proxy of a publication that actually never did insult Kobe Bryant. Having the dread "R" word attached to the lie, while slandering and defaming the LA Times is not only vulgar but were it public and the person showed their face and we knew their name, likely actionable.

What possesses someone to spit on the dead? What possesses someone to forget they're mortal and shall one day die? What escapes their consciousness so as to think before they write lies about a dead person? When they themselves will one day pass on and that hateful act , whether recalled in their obituary or not, will always remain as part of their legacy.

Kobe Bryant is a person, no better or worse than anyone else. How disgusting. How insensitive when his precious daughter perished with him. As did many children and their parents. But it is someone's need to say Kobe dying deserves to be disrespected by nullifying his passing.

In my walk in this life I've encountered many a person who claims to be a Christian. Many do not use that title and yet the brilliant spirit within them says it on its own. Then there are others who claim to know Christ and fail to realize how they prove that in their demeanor is the testimony that says far more than the self-title of Christian itself.
Hitler was raised Catholic. Stalin served in the church as a young man and was Orthodox, but became atheist. Pol Pot was a Theravada Buddhist .Jim Jones was an evangelical.

Titles mean nothing! Character is the testimony that goes further and makes the impression people won't soon forget.

Professional sports is anything but honorable. The entire business only serves to promote satanic ideals. Think about it....does not every sport teach satanic principles? They all teach exploitation of an opponent's weakness, deceive your opponent by any means necessary, rejoicing when your "enemy" falleth, and the spectators are led to worship and idolize the unbelievably wealthy players enriched by mega-rich owners and their affiliates - riches that hardly ever serve to further the cause of Christ. Stadiums are Masonically dedicated to Lucifer, sex, drunkenness, and gambling embody the sport, and many times the fans brawl over which team is "better". I think the reason we never read of Jesus wasting time as a spectator has to do with some of that mentioned above...."nothing new under this sun" says the wise man in Proverbs.

Let us be very clear at this point.

There is no photo! There was never a photo the likes of what your OP describes.

You should be ashamed!

Yes He does. It's in the bible somewhere I'm sure.

Paul was into boxing though, fighting the good fight and running the race to win.

Maybe he was having a bad hair day. Wait...did he even have hair?

That dishonors his memory, his gifts and talents and you know it.

Stop dishonoring people in this forum. It is a Christian forum.

What people have I dishonered in this forum?

Why is your focus on idolizing a deceased basketball player who made millions of dollars and who cheated on his wife? Surely, there must be others that are more deserving of your focus.

Perhaps, but there's much to suggest otherwise. Object lessons can be drawn from anything, even from activities that have no appeal to us. Think of the example Jesus gave of the Unjust Steward who used his position to win favor with debtors at the expense of their creditor. Surely Jesus does not advocate such dishonesty and exploitation, but He freely used the story to point out an area of deficiency among the saints.
This same Paul also wrote "let nothing be done through strife or contention" - and as for the list of things in Philippians we are to "think on", violent sports doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. Nevertheless, if someone invites me over to watch sports, I'll go - but I'm more interested in the company there than I am a silly ballgame.

Basketball is not violent. That's the whole point. To depict an African - American basketball player deliberately in a violent looking photo, when basketball is not a violent sport, demeans all people of African descent.

Violence was perpetrated by the Los Angeles Times, not the sport of basketball. I'm not familiar with Kobe Bryant's personal life, but to portray him as a violent African American individual wearing a basketball uniform, is irrelevant to how the photo demeaned people of African descent, especially in America where they were oppressed before the Civil war.

No doubt the media is worthy of censor due to their incessant lying and manipulation of facts...just saying that contact sports (yes, basketball allows for legal and illegal contact even though many claim it's a non-contact sport) by definition embodies degrees of violence, from what might be considered innocuous to the viciousness of MMA. I don't see the point in defending athletes who are part of a business that's so diametrically opposed to the principles of the kingdom of God, is all. And a very tragic ending to his life and his daughter's life. I hope they knew the Lord.

I'm not going to post the photo of Kobe Bryant in question. Martin Luther (the German Monk) his role was spiritual warfare, like the Apostle Paul. But since Martin Luther's name came up, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's, "I Have a Dream," speech was the one that highlighted his life. He was not preaching angry, but was expressing Apostolic zeal for the oppressed, and for freedom in America and equal rights.

This is a photo I found at The Catholic News Agency website with an unknown copyright, used here only for demo purposes: I was not aware that he attended Roman Catholic Services.