{"id":14773,"date":"2011-12-16T01:13:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14773"},"modified":"2011-12-16T01:13:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:13:43","slug":"military-atheist-jason-torpy-calls-for-tebowing-reprimand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/military-atheist-jason-torpy-calls-for-tebowing-reprimand\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Atheist Jason Torpy Calls for Tebowing Reprimand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Torpy of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers picked up\u00a0last month’s\u00a0post\u00a0on Tebowing<\/a>, even plagiarizing text from ChristianFighterPilot.com in the process.\u00a0 He reached a different conclusion<\/a>, however:<\/p>\n

Tebowing with Afghan kids is clearly an evangelical activity that must be pulled from the site with reprimands for the troop involved.\u00a0 The NFL game is misappropriation of government resources \u2014 and any Marine will tell you his body is a government resource.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, Tebowing.com<\/a> a private website, so there is no governmental authority to enforce “pull[ing] [anything<\/em>]\u00a0from the site.”<\/p>\n

Second, Torpy is really going to say “Tebowing<\/a>” is an “evangelical activity<\/em>” with a straight face?\u00a0 He probably thinks the Bonfire Brewing Tebrew beer<\/a> is an official communion drink.\u00a0 And how Marines “Tebowing” at an NFL game is “misappropriation” is anyone’s guess.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, even Torpy’s fellow atheists called him out.\u00a0 Just one example (of many):<\/p>\n

“Tebowing” isn’t exactly a religious activity…I don’t see it as more than taking part in a popular internet meme.\u00a0 To take it to the level where you’re saying “clearly, they’re being told to praise jesus” or whatever, is taking things to a bizarrely self-serious level…<\/p>\n

I’m a pretty militant atheist, and an absurdly anti-Tebow individual. But good god is this post a waste of time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Torpy obviously misinterpreted the recent public response to the Camp Pendleton cross “scandal”<\/a> as a validation of his invective, and he’s trying to make use of that capital.<\/p>\n

It seems he misperceived his own level of self-importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Torpy of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers picked up\u00a0last month’s\u00a0post\u00a0on Tebowing, even plagiarizing text from ChristianFighterPilot.com in the process.\u00a0 He reached a different conclusion, however: Tebowing with Afghan kids is clearly an evangelical activity that must be pulled from the site with reprimands for the troop involved.\u00a0 The NFL game is misappropriation of government resources \u2014 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,20,70,186,5285,253,107,149,2,461,11,17,10,171,2496,41],"class_list":["post-14773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-atheism","tag-evangelism","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-jason-torpy","tag-maaf","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-nfl","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tebowing","tag-tim-tebow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}