Me? On a soapbox? NO WAY.

As a Christian since the age of 4, I would love to be able to say that I have a faith that can move mountains & that it has always been of such strength. Unfortunately, however, that wouldn't be true. It has only been as of late that I have begun to make my faith my own and truly seek after His will and not my own (and to be frank, it's still a struggle... I fail daily).

That being said I am still secure in my faith as well as defensive of those who feel the need to attack my gracious & loving Lord. The same Lord who created all... who "was, and is, and is to come".

While my love for Timmy & shared faith are strong as well, I am having a really hard time with what people are saying... (from the eye black blog...)



Almost a year ago, CBSSports.com columnist Gregg Doyel wrote, “Tebow’s religion is seen as good because it is the religion of the majority. But it’s not the religion of everybody. It’s exclusionary, and just because you share Tebow’s faith, that doesn’t mean you're right.”

This past October, Sam Cook of the Fort Myers [Fla.] News-Press, picked up from USA Today’s Tom Krattenmaker and slammed the “far-right theology” of Tebow’s evangelical Christian father.

As recently as mid-December, Mark Axelrod, a blogger at the liberal Huffington Post sneered, “So, am I to believe that Florida beat Oklahoma because Tim Tebow had John 3:16 painted beneath his eyes?” Axelrod certainly knows that nobody is suggesting God takes sides in football games, and at the end of his piece he got to his real objections:

What I find rather disturbing is that he has to bring that religious faith onto the playing field as a way of testifying to it, as a way of letting people know just how deeply religious he is. The irony of making faith a kind of religious highlight reel is that belief in God isn't a spectator sport nor is a football field a venue for religious politicking.

The elite liberals at the Huffington Post and elsewhere in the media are embarrassed that Tebow insists on publicly testifying to his faith and using his high profile to exercise his Christian duty to evangelize.




Now if that's not a bunch of really sad, demeaning words from some lost souls, I don't know what else it is... (or how else to say it nicely).

As I learn to grow in my own faith, I appreciate & long for role models like Timmy who are vocal about their faith and aren't ashamed of the Gospel.