Do Mormons really pray after each touchdown that BYU makes?
I read an anti-Mormon Web page that said Mormons pray after each touchdown BYU makes. Is that true?? Of course not! We pray BEFORE the touchdown. As our scriptures say, faith precedes the miracle. The minute grain of truth behind this silly attack is that BYU fans can take football way too seriously. I was at BYU in 1984 when they won the national championship. Those were dark days for academics – all people talked about was football, football, football. I thought I was escaping such foolishness when I moved to Wisconsin. But then came the Green Bay Packers and the Superbowl. Sadly, they won. For six weeks our local paper reported almost nothing but Packer trivia. China could have invaded and conquered Washington, D.C. and no one here would have noticed. (In fact, they may have done so after all!) Then I yearned for the relative sanity of BYU. Well, I’ve got to run. The Braves are losing game 4 of the World Series – and unless I get busy, it looks like they haven’t got a prayer.
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- I read an anti-Mormon Web page that said Mormons pray after each touchdown BYU makes. Is that true??
