Penn State and Nebraska Teams Pray Together For Child Sex Abuse Victims
There was a touching scene before Saturday's Penn State-Nebraska football game when all the players and coaches from both teams joined in the middle of the field to say a prayer for the victims in the emerging child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the nation (video follows with commentary):
May G-d bless all the victims and families taken advantage of by members of the Penn State University faculty and donors, and let there be swift justice for those that were involved in these heinous acts as well as for anyone that assisted in covering them up all these years.
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I don't discount the power of prayer ever
Submitted by Calypso Jones on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 3:08pm.
but isn't it just a little freaking too late for that? At this point i'm more interested in the DISinterest that has prevailed for the last ten years. EVEN among the parents if they knew and the children. What has happened to us as a society that we sit back and let this happen.
My niece's facebook status
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 3:13pm.
"Do it for the victims and JoePa" meaning PSU beat Nebraska. These kids don't get it. The victims could surely care less how a football team does, especially one whose coach didn't report their rapist to the police. And that is the problem with this whole thing.
Please G-D..
Submitted by Rackie on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 3:18pm.
make all this go away so we can get on with FOOTBALL!
A pregame prayer?
Submitted by shayne62 on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 3:50pm.
Where's the ACLU? I thought that wasn't allowed!
this has really gotten out of hand!
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 6:31pm.
a PRAYER!!!
Child abuse is one thing (who knows maybe the children were members of NAMBLA) but for the school to expose young children to religious expression at a football game is a more serious form of child abuse.
The ACLU's trigger finger must be quivering like the last leaf to fall from a maple tree. A prayer! In public! Exposing a whole stadium to religious expression! There must be hundreds who felt 'uncomfortable' and need to be compensated.
Pride, Compassion and Humility.
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 6:30pm.
I think most of the country watched this moment on their tv sets today with feelings of shock, anger, and extreme sadness. Watching this event unfold showed that yes, the football teams and the PSU students have compassion for the victims of those horrible, horrible crimes. What we saw on that campus today, with the help of the Nebraska football team was to help start the healing process. It is unfortunate that this current group of players will be the ones to bear the brunt of the scandal even though Satan himself walks free on bail around State College. Given the circumstances, we saw everything that is right with humanity, and let us never forget the victims of those heinous crimes committed against innocent and helpless children.
Are we not allowed to say
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 1:07am.
"God" any longer?
And now that there has been a large display of religion by all of these football players, will they be forever excoriated in the press as talentless and not ready for the NFL like Tim Tebow?
bob, it's not a matter of
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 8:36am.
bob, it's not a matter of "we're not allowed" to say it. Jews do not write the name of God out of respect for its majesty. I don't know if Noel is Jewish, or if that is his own personal tradition for other reasons, but using G-d is a religious tradition, not one of political correctness.
If that's what you were referring to. If not, ignore this.
Yeah- that's it mb
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 11:54am.
I hadn't known that about Jews- and I've got a contingent in my gene pool- nor had I seen it written that way here. Twice on this thread, in fact. That's why I asked. Thanks for the explanation. Also, I wasn't trying to be inflammatory with the question in the event it came off that way; I was just curious if I had missed a recent change to NB protocol.
Good morning BK
Submitted by cocodrie on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 12:08pm.
The name of God in hebrew is YHVH. There are no vowels in hebrew and jews do not say God's name out of their reverence for Him. The pronounciation is lost and no one really knows how to pronounce it anymore. God is usually referred to as The Lord by the jews.
Jesus referred to God as his father, The word He used is properly translated as "daddy" and that's why the jews accused Him of blasphemy.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Thanks coco
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 12:11pm.
Hence the removal of the "o". Makes sense.
Class act Penn State and Nebraska...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 10:03am.
...unfortunately, just as it happened many times in Biblical history, it took a disaster to bring men to their knees...
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne