Atheist David Silverman Say Tim Tebow is “Full of Crap”
David Silverman is president of American Atheists — the same group behind the mocking atheist tag-along to the Travis AFB holiday displays. He recently told CBS that Denver Broncos’ quarterback Tim Tebow was “full of crap” for the public displays of his faith — most notably, Tebowing, which Jason Torpy seemed to think violated regulations when performed by members of the military.
one atheist group believes he’s doing it all for personal gain…
Silverman believes that Tebow is “full of crap” when he publically displays his Christianity on the football field and said his prayers are for publicity.
“It’s not that Tebow prays, it’s that he waits for the cameras to be on him to do it,” Silverman says. “He’s totally faking.”
It is likely Silverman has only ever seen Tebow on camera, which makes it a mystery how he knows what Tebow does when the camera isn’t looking. Better yet, he fails to explain how Tebow manages to extend his “faking” throughout every aspect of his life. It’s apparently a perfect con.
As atheists often do, Silverman then puts on the cloak of a leader of the Christian faith and tells Tebow how he should live out his faith:
Silverman says if Tebow is truly a Christian, he would pray in private, not public.
“It is not surprising Tebow ignores Matthew 6:5 in which Jesus says, ‘When you pray, do not pray like the hypocrites in the street,’” Silverman says. “They pray to be seen praying. Pray in the closet.”
Of course, an atheist who doesn’t even believe in Jesus Christ is eminently more qualified to interpret the Christian faith than the millions who are actually of that faith — and who have generally supported Tim Tebow’s public expressions of faith.
Interesting how you don’t actually address the problem, re: Matthew 6:5. You simply whine that atheists shouldn’t scold Christians about not following their own rules.
@Kate
There are millions of Christians in the United States, and billions in the world. No mainstream Christian doctrine or denomination holds to what the “right reverend” Silverman is trying to tell them they are supposed to believe.
The only “problem,” therefore, is in the mind of the atheist, who attempts to hold people of faith to a doctrine which he himself neither believes nor understands.
@JD
I’ll have to disagree JD:
As it turns out, from the Pew Research Center, according to the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey (Sept 2010); Who Knows What About Religion — Overall, the three groups that perform best in this survey are atheists and agnostics (who get an average of 20.9 out of 32 questions right), Jews (20.5 questions right on average) and Mormons (20.3 questions right).
http://www.pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey-Who-Knows-What-About-Religion.aspx
Atheists and Agnostics know more then the religious do about their doctrine.
@Carmine Wiggins
A very nice effort, but the Pew Survey doesn’t support your conclusion.
The survey generally demonstrated that atheists/agnostics have a statistically higher knowledge of some facts of a broader range of religious beliefs than the adherents of any one specific belief. Thus, an atheist might be more likely than a Christian to know the name of, say, the sacred Islamic text, but the survey did not show an atheist would be more likely than a Christian to understand, say, the Christian concept of forgiveness.
In fact, of the 32 questions, only 12 dealt with Christianity, and “white Evangelical” Christians beat atheists/agnostics on almost every one of those questions. (Turns out more atheists correctly identified Moses…)
More to the point, none of the questions had anything to do with doctrine.
Thus, your statement that atheists “know more then the religious do about their doctrine,” insomuch as it relies on the Pew Survey, is wrong both in who “knows more” and in what they “know more” about.