Ivan Provorov jerseys sell out days after NHL player refuses to wear LGBT pride jersey
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I'm an atheist and even I'd refuse to wear an LGBT pride jersey at this point.
I say 'at this point', I think I reached that point about 5 years ago, if not longer.
I'd refuse just on general principle. He's there to represent Philadelphia, not the LGBT community.
why won't you wear the ribbon?
Seinfeld!
I don't get why it always has to be for religious reasons. Maybe I don't like compelled anything. Just once I want someone to say "Nah I'm an atheist I just don't like faggotry."
Because it's easier, legally.
Personally, I hate the idea that you need an excuse, and people always trot out their religious beliefs. I have nothing against those beliefs, to be clear, but my issue is with the compelled speech itself.
I can refuse to participate in compelled speech for whatever reason I damn well choose. I don't need to be Christian, or Muslim, or whatever, to not want to be forced to support something I, for whatever reason, disagree with.
Then say, "My reasons are my own."
Be prepared to take them to the mat, though.
You have pretty consistently correct views on spiritual warfare. Can I ask why you consider yourself atheist?
If you want to get technical, I'm agnostic because I have to concede that I cannot know with absolute certainty that there's no god, or almost certainly no supreme being described with any genuine knowledge or accuracy in any known religious text. I say 'atheist' in casual conversation because when people hear ;agnostic' they think you're on the fence and 'just don't know', when the reality is I'm 99.9% certain that we as humans have had no meaningful contact with anything from a higher plane of existence, and that no ghosts or spooks or spirits - in the literal sense at least - walk among us.