I’d argue that nothing in the bible is real, but ok.

What a fucking waste of perfectly good trees.

My Aunt’s family are huge hockey fans. Her husband, my Uncle, is a Leafs fan. At the tender ages of 4 and 6, both my cousins became Canadiens fans specifically to spite their father. I took this as an indication they’d be psychopaths, but they turned out pretty well adjusted after all.

Your entire argument relies upon the basis that whatever version of “information X = Jesus proof” you’re citing, wasn’t a recounting of fiction in the first place.

“History was written by the victors”

You show a kid in Eritrea a picture of Messi, a picture of Cristiano, and a picture of the Air Jordan logo. I’d wager dollars to donuts which one he’s going to recognize.

Sure, agreed, but they’ll definitely be able to identify the Jordan logo.

As a proud consumer of Pro-Stars cereal back in the day (pretty sure the life sized Gretzky poster I had on my bedroom door was redeemed from a Pro-Stars promotion actually), I commend you greatly for this reference.

You don’t think there are casual or selective followers of other religions?

Yeah the word for mom is astonishingly similar across a lot of languages. Or starts with an “M” sound at the very least.

At least the Yankees or Cowboys didn’t have an owner who purposely tanked the team so he could sell/move them.

Or just a bandwagoner who has no real interest in following sports, but still has “their teams”, from whatever point in their life that it was socially relevant.

Andy:

Exactly like it does, because we all only want the cheapest and most convenient thing, and right fucking now.

(For instance, none of my friends and I ever decided to shoot bottle rockets at one another. For my brothers, no matter how many efforts my parents made to the contrary, and how many trips to the ER resulted, there was no discouraging that game...)

A large part of me wants to say that kids would better off not attending school at all than “free religious schools”, but I grew up saying the Lord’s Prayer every morning until 5th Grade rather than the National Anthem, and turned out okay enough I guess. I just feel bad for the more suggestible children who buy into…

“Appealing” and “practical to own and drive on daily basis for anyone besides a farmer/general contractor”, are two entirely different things.

The obvious answer first, little deeper for the second: