Matthew Le God Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 The club's media account has yet again involved itself in matters of religion with the announcement Mother Teresa becoming a Saint. Previously they've tweeted "thoughts and prayers" about incidents. Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC 3h3 hours ago Southampton FC Retweeted The Associated Press Welcome to the family, Mother Teresa! #saintsfc The club should remain secular, its supporters aren't all religious. I guess at this point some will be thinking "oh, but Southampton were founded as a church team". Even if you applied that argument it fails because St Mary's is an Anglican church, not Catholic and Sainthood's are done by the Vatican, not Church of England. Mother Teresa is hardly worthy of praise, she did far more harm to the world than good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4 Southampton's supporters aren't all followers of the same religion and never will be, so the club should be neutral and secular in the 21st century.
Lallana's Left Peg Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 10 pages, 3 bans, 1 death. But honestly, who cares about this stuff? It's twitter. It is not the club officially confirming which religions it likes and does not like. It was a light-hearted response to some news. I don't see how anyone could remotely be offended.
hypochondriac Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Oh no. The militant atheist has climbed onto his soapbox again.
hypochondriac Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 The club's media account has yet again involved itself in matters of religion with the announcement Mother Teresa becoming a Saint. Previously they've tweeted "thoughts and prayers" about incidents. Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC 3h3 hours ago Southampton FC Retweeted The Associated Press Welcome to the family, Mother Teresa! #saintsfc The club should remain secular, its supporters aren't all religious. I guess at this point some will be thinking "oh, but Southampton were founded as a church team". Even if you applied that argument it fails because St Mary's is an Anglican church, not Catholic and Sainthood's are done by the Vatican, not Church of England. Mother Teresa is hardly worthy of praise, she did far more harm to the world than good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4 Southampton's supporters aren't all followers of the same religion and never will be, so the club should be neutral and secular in the 21st century. Nope no one will be thinking that. Everyone will be thinking it's a throwaway comment on twitter you strange strange person.
Give it to Ron Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 It';s quite funny really that he took umbrage and spoke for those that are not religious - so those that are should not be allowed to enjoy a harmless tweet obviously very light hearted I think we should be renamed The Unbelievers.
hypochondriac Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Not sure why it needs to be pointed out, but they very clearly made this comment because she is being made a Saint and we are called the saints. So absolutely no preference for any sort of religion. What a weirdo.
Hatch Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Name change please for Matthew Le God to Matthew Le Seculist ( ps. I may have made that word up )
Give it to Ron Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 1.3 Charlie can you change your user name please we don't want any secular names on here please
SuperSAINT Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 I read the tweet this morning. I smiled. I didn't think about it again.
Lallana's Left Peg Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 This thread can only go well. But on the other hand it's one of the few things on the board that unifies all posters.
ART Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Just the thing that the Club needs this Ides of March. Perhaps it'll ward of the bad omens that befall us at this time of the year. Maybe Cortese will be canonized in years to come the way things are panning out.
Saint Charlie Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Charlie can you change your user name please we don't want any secular names on here please I can't. All my others have been banned.
Chalkboy Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 (edited) Made my day this post. I suppose we should also stop singing that gospel hymn as well, you know the one, about "saints marching"? A change of stadium name too. St Mary's....can't get much more religiousy than that. (religiousy???) Edited 15 March, 2016 by Chalkboy
Hatch Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Get rid of that stupid halo on the badge as well. I despair of this club sometimes I really do.
scotty Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 How tall was Jesus, mlg? I'd like a definitive answer on this.
Deano6 Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 I agree. Saints-related talk has no place on the Southampton twitter feed.
Give it to Ron Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 MLG is not the Messiah he is a naughty boy......
Mr Biscuits Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Given your username, I find your rant somewhat ironic.
Mr Biscuits Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 I'll just leave this here. http://youtu.be/eqpetBhG8IU
BallBoy Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Sad that anything even remotely to do with religion can attract such immediate anger. Good to see that most fans on here are treating the post with the reaction it deserves.
johnnyboy Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 I just laughed at the tweet ! mlg lighten up bro ,
jawillwill Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Bahaha. MLG I would normally defend your right to be a bit sad/ pedantic, but this takes the biscuit.
JxgrSaint Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 (edited) The club's media account has yet again involved itself in matters of religion with the announcement Mother Teresa becoming a Saint. Previously they've tweeted "thoughts and prayers" about incidents. Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC 3h3 hours ago Southampton FC Retweeted The Associated Press Welcome to the family, Mother Teresa! #saintsfc The club should remain secular, its supporters aren't all religious. I guess at this point some will be thinking "oh, but Southampton were founded as a church team". Even if you applied that argument it fails because St Mary's is an Anglican church, not Catholic and Sainthood's are done by the Vatican, not Church of England. Mother Teresa is hardly worthy of praise, she did far more harm to the world than good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4 Southampton's supporters aren't all followers of the same religion and never will be, so the club should be neutral and secular in the 21st century. I'm not religious and think it's just them being funny - but each to their own Matthew Le Oh..... I didn't come on this forum for you to force your secular Le Tissier nicknames down my throat rant rant rant etc and so on Edited 15 March, 2016 by JxgrSaint
farawaysaint Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Lol "How dare the club force their beliefs on me" posts video of one of world's most militant atheists. Live and let live, harmless phrases like my prayers are with you are an idiotic thing to get riled up over.
whelk Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 Oh my. I am guessing he just wants an argument and this is his best shot. Next he'll be saying we shouldn't all be going to church every week and praying five times a day. Bound to be contributing far more than Mother Theresa ever did as well cos sounds like such fun to be with the joy just oozes out if his posts. Without wanting to judge suggest get some therapy to understand why such a fascination and anger with God cos doesn't seem healthy.
supersonic Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 The club's media account has yet again involved itself in matters of religion with the announcement Mother Teresa becoming a Saint. Previously they've tweeted "thoughts and prayers" about incidents. Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC 3h3 hours ago Southampton FC Retweeted The Associated Press Welcome to the family, Mother Teresa! #saintsfc The club should remain secular, its supporters aren't all religious. I guess at this point some will be thinking "oh, but Southampton were founded as a church team". Even if you applied that argument it fails because St Mary's is an Anglican church, not Catholic and Sainthood's are done by the Vatican, not Church of England. Mother Teresa is hardly worthy of praise, she did far more harm to the world than good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4 Southampton's supporters aren't all followers of the same religion and never will be, so the club should be neutral and secular in the 21st century. Have you seriously not got anything better to do with your life than moan about a tweet that the club has posted? and before you pipe up about people moaning that the club was founded in a church, without that church, or religion, you wouldn't have a club to support. Stop being a bellend
Patrick Bateman Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 MLG being a complete mongboard helmet, AGAIN.
Manuel Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 If I was working for Saints FC media department, or whoever, I wouldn't have tweeted it. Not bothered though.
hypochondriac Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 If I was working for Saints FC media department, or whoever, I wouldn't have tweeted it. Not bothered though. Why? Who the feck cares? It was a joke.
CB Fry Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 MLG making it so easy for the rest of us. He's like a gift from God.
Saint-Armstrong Posted 15 March, 2016 Posted 15 March, 2016 I read the tweet this morning. I smiled. I didn't think about it again. Amen. Oops, I mean: so be it.
St. Neil Posted 16 March, 2016 Posted 16 March, 2016 Nuns to be banned from match day threads please.
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