- Dave Barry

As for me, I worship Matt Jacobs’ perfectly styled articles. When the fudger actually writes.”

Fixed.

I don’t really care what Joe said, its his blog and I enjoy reading it. But didn’t your momma ever tell you the two things you don’t bring up at dinner are Religion and Politics?

Comments like “The fact remains that we’re sinners and need to rely wholly on Christ for our salvation” sound kind of strange on a Cubs blog. And kind of scare me…. But if it improves your life and fills a void then more power to you. As for me, I worship Matt Murton’s perfectly styled red hair.

Wrigleyviller — I have had my own struggles with evangelism and proselytizing and (I think) I understand your feelings about encountering it here.

Topics of faith and religion are often a touchy thing. This should be no surprise. I propose that we let everyone express their own responses (as posted here) — be they positive, negative or neutral — without slapping anybody down. I don’t think I heard anybody here say anything that was not reasonable or respectful.

It is his site, and he can do what he wants with it. I said so in my very first sentence, and my point was NOT to tell him what he can and can’t write. Obviously I can pick and choose what I read, and he is under no obligations to me in any way. I thought I made it very clear that I was simply trying to inform him that there are people, like me, who don’t like that kind of content, and explained why.

I also think that it takes a willful ignorance to not find any evidence of proselytizing in his post. In fact, Joel – who criticized my post – explicitly makes an analogy in which he describes how Joe is trying to “share” what he’s found. Obviously, he’s not twisting anyone’s arm to convert them, but there’s literally no reason to write things like “If you have any questions about how you can know Christ as your savior, please don’t hesitate to contact me” if you don’t want to change people’s minds. It’s the online equivalent of evangelizers handing out fliers on the street with their contact info on them.

I don’t know cubbieluv’s personal religious beliefs, but unless you belong to a non-christian religion in this country you can’t understand the omnipresence and extreme annoyance one experiences when people essentially tell you, with absolutely no shame, that your religious beliefs are incorrect and (although Joe certainly did not make this post in a derogatory fashion towards anyone else’s religion) an implied suggestion that only their religious beliefs hold true. If I am misconstruing the explicit and implicit claims of his post then I do apologize.

Speaking of the Cubs–nice game tonight!! Go figure–Pie and Cedeno were the ones who clinched it.