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Originally Posted by Interested Ump
... Why so sensitive about religion?
...Are we here, ultimately, for nothing and are nothing?
Imagine living a life with an assured dead end and the clock ticking down with equal assuredness, to your demise with nothing to hope for except..
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The religious proselytizers (not invariably, but nearly so, and not uniquely, but nearly so) couch their positions in a false "either/or" dichotomy. I have no faith in the existence of any supreme being, but I don't believe "we're here, ultimately, for nothing and are nothing" either. I don't have any inclination, and see no compelling reason, to justify or explain what I DO believe to a bunch of strangers.
When I tell sellers of cookies, or magazines, or home improvements, or politics, or kitchenware my loyalties lie elsewhere, they NEVER ask for justification. Purveyors of religion ALWAYS do. That's why so sensitive about religion.
If the umpires in MiLB aren't relieved of this burden, however slight it may be seen by others, I feel bad for them.