That football player, Steve McNair's minister was just on a news program this

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Praire Crone

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morning telling everyone what a? wonderful person McNair was. Is it the money that makes someone wonderful in the eyes of clergy? This football player was shot by his girlfriend. He had a wife and two young children but he kept women in other homes that he had, ran around on his wife all the time and apparently everyone knew about it. But this minister just seemed to shrug that off like it wasn't important and kept talking about how much money McNair would donate to church things and the community. So to religion is the money the most important thing? If not... then would they have treated some average joe who had a regular job and had girlfriends and was shot to death in a trailer park by his drunk girlfriend while his wife and two little kids were at home the same way????

I have a hard time believing that they would have the same attitude about the average guy versus the profootball player don't you?
Sorry but I think the man was an insult to every decent man in his church and all the women there too. I am not a fan of Christianity but I do respect people of any faith who really try to live the way that they see as decent. McNair was an insult to the ones that are actually trying to be the good that thier religions teach. The minister is doing a great disservice to those who are really trying to be what he preaches each and every sunday from his pulpit.
 
Its pretty typical that for anyone that dies the minister glosses over their shortcomings and pumps up their strong points. Mostly for the comfort of the listeners ala M. Jackson.
 
Chill out a little. Not every church is like that. Just the ones who don't have the spirit alive in the church and just care about the money. Pray for that church that God will show up there.
 
Maybe, but I'd honestly prefer to think the best, and the best in this case is that everyone needs someone else to care for them, to notice them, and witness the fact that they existed. McNair's money wasn't important, and neither is his fame. Both of them will fade with time. Although I am not a Christian, it is at least good that his pastor was there to say a kind word.

His behavior was wrong, but it doesn't detract from there being something good in him, and that's worth honoring.
 
What makes people think that his wife didn't know about his "other" lives? There may have been an agreement. He keeps her up and their children, financially, and he lives his life as he wants as well does she. She gets everything when he dies and none of his "gfs" get anything. If the wife had that kind of set up, I think she was one smart cookie! If they were divorced she would have gotten an allotment per month, a home, and be set on a budget and only the kids and anyone else her husband wanted to give to in the event of his death would be the only beneficiaries. Now that he is gone, she and her children will get everything, no matter what is stated in the will because she is still married and soul benefactor and contest the will and hold everything in probate (except the life insurance policy) for a max of 10 yrs.

Now, on the morality of the preacher, like others stated, it is his job to sugar coat or bring up is positives rather than berate him for his life. It will be up to him and his deity to handle that. It is true that you will not hear of someone of the low income sector being "praised" publicly but in the church or at his funeral the pastor will say similar things to appease the mourners as well as help others look past his faults and the faults of others concerning him, to teach them to see the real person that they were trying to be instead of the what "polite society" thinks he should have been in the public eye. That is what religious belief is all about, no matter their belief. It is to see the good in everyone and to help them follow that good side as much as possible.
 
It all harks back to that maxim, "don't speak ill of the dead."
To honor a man's generosity is something of a separate thing from speaking of his infidelity.

I remember wracking my brains trying to think of something kind to say about a woman who had died, when everyone who knew her understood that she was a thief and a liar. Finally, in my letter to her sons, I praised her for being a great artist, which was true.

Imagine being McNair's wife right now, held up to scorn by an entire nation and perhaps the world. Everyone clucking their tongues over how blind she must have been not to see signs that he was cheating on her! Poor thing, so hard to get through this awful time.
 
i have never heard anyone stand up and speak ill of the person who died, especially the pastor. When they are gone it only hurts the family.
 
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