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Just thought the following video was an interesting take in how some Christians take their religion into their MMA fights and how some apply their MMA profession to their Christianity.

https://youtu.be/dPWnsQsUxNo
 
Looks very interesting, especially the part where they brought young boys into the game. The poor kid looked terrified, I'm not sure he quite believed God would protect him. But that's what faith is all about I suppose.
 
Looks very interesting, especially the part where they brought young boys into the game. The poor kid looked terrified, I'm not sure he quite believed God would protect him. But that's what faith is all about I suppose.

That's the part that I didn't want to comment on so as not to offend anyone. But I can't resist...

I think that is criminal child abuse. It's no different than not letting a child seek proper medical treatment because of faith-based practice. Very manipulative since most pre-teens/teens still can't think for themselves. I believe one can still be a Christian, or whatever religion they want, while still adhering to some scientific certainties like curable illnesses being attended to or not telling your 9 year old son God will protect him from being pummeled in a mixed martial arts cage.
 
I saw a documentary on HBO a few years ago called Hard As Nails. It is about this reformed bad boy who created his own ministry that's swept up a good part of teenagers in the NY/NJ region. It is a definitely a must-see. Here is a link to the trailer
 
God and religion have no place inside the octagon.

heck god has no place in any typ of sport.


so whenever you lose its because god answered the other guys prayers?
 
Looks very interesting, especially the part where they brought young boys into the game. The poor kid looked terrified, I'm not sure he quite believed God would protect him. But that's what faith is all about I suppose.

Faith isn't about testing god. We learn that in the end of Christ's 40 day fast as Satan tried to tempt Jesus. Faith is about following gods laws and building a relationship with god, not seeing if he will protect us from our selves. Faith is not stupidity.
 
Faith isn't about testing god. We learn that in the end of Christ's 40 day fast as Satan tried to tempt Jesus. Faith is about following gods laws and building a relationship with god, not seeing if he will protect us from our selves. Faith is not stupidity.

Too often it is. I don't have a problem with faith per se but there be a whole lot of stupid faith out there imo. There really needs to be more religious folk callin other religious folk out on their crazy stupid nonsense.
 
Faith isn't about testing god. We learn that in the end of Christ's 40 day fast as Satan tried to tempt Jesus. Faith is about following gods laws and building a relationship with god, not seeing if he will protect us from our selves. Faith is not stupidity.

Did you watch the trailer? I was referring to what the father was telling his young son.

At any rate, I guess I could have put it better. Because you're right, it's more about testing yourself.
 
God and religion have no place inside the octagon.

heck god has no place in any typ of sport.


so whenever you lose its because god answered the other guys prayers?
Yep. Or you just didn't send in enough money to your favorite Televangelist.




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Of course, when people become their own "gods", something that is in my opinion pretty much the norm, we get to make up our own morals and rules for everything. HighlandHomie, for example, is not all that bashful about saying adults putting kids into a fight ring are committing "criminal child abuse". Might be some judges who would say as much. even without a specific legislative definition to rule on.

Same guys want government to use force on every issue to secure compliance with their laws, actually, even though they might not be all that ready to understand themselves in that light.

In watching the trailer, what I saw was training for self-defense in some aspects, and at least one kind of sport that society has traditionally accepted. People who don't like this seem to be on the same page with the folks who object to kids playing dodge ball, philosophically speaking. It's the mindset that "the government", through an infinity of supposedly "good laws" and an absolutely adequate police force with sufficient arms, should make sure nothing goes down in this world that isn't not "approved" by the truly enlightened elite intellects among us.

I picked out the comment from one of the fighting pastors that much of Christianity has feminized men to the extent it is a definite problem.

Men need to be competent to defend themselves, their families, and their liberties against any threat, including "do-gooder" liberals who are just out of touch with reality and living some kind of tyrannical fantasy of their own, and who do in fact employ, at other peoples' expense, force to do so.
 
I don't mind the idea of reaching new demographics through MMA. Kind of cool, actually. I do question suggesting to a teenager that God is going to protect you if you have enough faith, in an MMA fight.

A couple years ago I went to a sports-bar with my Jewish friend and watch Jon Jones destroy Ryan Bader. Jones commented that (paraphrasing) "Jesus helped me with this fight." My friend responded, sarcastically "I guess Jesus did give him that 85" reach".
 
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