Christianity meets Ultimate Fighting:
Finally, someone is making a movie that answers an important question: "Can you love your neighbor as yourself and at the same time knee him in the face as hard as you can?" That's a direct quote from Paul Burress, a pastor in Rochester, N.Y., who believes mixed martial arts can help bring people together.
Michael J. O’Loughlin raises an eyebrow:
I understand the relationship between athletics and faith, but do you think this is comparable? Mixed martial arts is quite controversial; its brutality is illegal in some states. Is this compatible with Christianity, or an aberration?
Gabe is more sanguine:
I don’t really see what the big deal is? I mean, quite clearly, sending a young child into the ring with another young child to “tear his head off” is the purest way to express the teachings of Jesus Christ. The Golden Rule, if I remember it correctly, is to choke another out with the triangle choke you would like to be choked with. Right?
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