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10-07-2008, 03:21 PM | #1 |
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If you left the LDS church
Would you still cheer for BYU or would you become a Utah fan?
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10-07-2008, 03:24 PM | #2 |
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I have an apostate friend here in Dallas who still cheers for BYU football, even though I'm not sure he likes BYU the school.
Not only is it possible to separate LDS from BYU. But also BYU from BYU football. |
10-07-2008, 03:28 PM | #3 |
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I know plenty of people who have good feelings about BYU the school because of the football program. If the athletic program was discontinued they would have the same feelings about BYU as they do Ricks. They don't know that Ricks changed its name.
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10-07-2008, 03:31 PM | #4 |
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As much as the U may like to consider itself the antithesis of the LDS-backed BYU, it clearly isn't.
If anything, the U is simply flotsam and jetsam that the Church jettisoned years ago. How many Utes are actually active members? Probably the majority, frankly. If not, a very significant percentage. Real apostates would cheer for Wyoming....where there is universal hatred not only for the school, but the for the Church. At any given Utah game, the majority of the people in the stadium are members. Boo!
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10-07-2008, 03:39 PM | #5 |
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What can I say, haters gotta hate. I'll give you folks credit though, no matter how many times we burn down those creepy looking meetin' halls y'all build, you come right back and build'em again.
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10-07-2008, 03:46 PM | #8 |
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I can imagine a future in which I would leave the Church. I can't imagine one in which I leave BYU football.
That's sort of sad, I guess. |
10-07-2008, 03:51 PM | #9 |
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I feel bad for SU's kids.
They will never relate to his passions of apostate-ism and the Utes. Without those two things, you could blow SU over with a sneeze. |
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