Humor aside (I get it) While there was no slight toward Muslims intended, a slight was intended solely towards those who would fight hard to allow Baseball Chapel to come into umpire's locker rooms...but would likely throw out a "preacher" from a non-Christian religion. (You can substitute "Muslim" in my previous rhetorical question with "Wiccah", "Shinto", "Buddhist"...)

Based solely on my own PERSONAL experiences...I believe there are more than a few who fit that description among the pro ranks.

I'm an equal opportunity type of person: I'd throw them all out (of the lockerroom, that is).

HARI KRISHNA
HARI HARI
HARI KRISHNA

It's "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare."

Just for your edification.;)

Sounds like you've been to one to many airports:D

Down the heart of the dish with that coment, walt. Let's follow with another.

People who claim they don't like religions or religious viewpoints "forced" on them, when various viewpoints are crammed down their eyes every day by TV, radio and all forms of media, curious? Why so sensitive about religion?

Because religious discussions hit people right in their hearts, it talks to the reality of our mortality, it gut checks the most important of concerns.

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..

Nothing. :(

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.

So many people claim to be Christians. Being a Christian is more, and I mean much more, than saying it. It is living it. It doesn't matter what faith you care to worship or if you choose not to worship at all. That's the bottom line.

Sorry Steve, I messed up the words Hare Krishna from the rock musical "Hair" for you.

Way to Google though. I have about 1,000 songs of sheet music with lyrics I've acquired over the years. This isn't one from my memory.........;)

Would you prefer the lyrics from George Harrison's, "My Sweet Lord"? I probably have that one somewhere.

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Hare Krishna from the rock musical, Hair

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rame
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Love love
Love love
Drop out
Drop out
Be in
Be in

Take trips get high
Laugh joke and good bye
Beat drum and old tin pot
I'm high on you know what
Marijuana marijuana
Juana juana mari mari
High high high high
Way way up here
Ionosphere

Beads, flowers, freedom, happiness
Beads, flowers, freedom, happiness

You can turn off a TV or a radio, or stop reading a newspaper column. That's a personal choice. You don't have someone in your living room reading that material to you.

Apples and oranges. It's completely different than someone coming into your work environment.

There are a lot of people at work I wish could be switched off or at least "muted". One day...