Religion, Coaches and intolerance...

SO I am gonna rant a little here, so put your rubber boots on, might get deep here. I believe in things, I don't now that what I believe in would be accepted with traditional thinking in religious hardcore groups. But let me throw out an example of why I stick to my guns on what I believe. I listened to a couple people describe the loss of loved ones to suicide, gut wrenching to say the least. This was followed by a person who lost their spouse to a sickness, he was so upset by this he himself almost OD'd. His statement following this statement was that because he was a christian that he knew if he committed suicide he would not go to heaven.

Okay, did you catch it? Yeah. Lets really look at this, because this is probably another one the Pope or whomever should sit down and revisit as they have so many other things that the church is intolerant of. My wife passed away due to a sickness. I think the people that lost a loved one to suicide also lost their loved ones to a sickness. The brain, mind can become ill, so ill it can make you do horrible things to yourself, your friends, family anyone. So for someone to say that a person who took their own life would be forsaken for such a thing, well is just ignorant. It's little things like this that cause me to stumble when approaching any sort of organized religion. I mean I want to, I believe there is something after death, but I think humans have a long way to go to totally understand what is going on here and after.

Okay, so on another subject I wanna talk about coaches, I am shocked at some of the methods used in coaching young kids. I was involved with coaching kids with my dad when I was younger, and cant ever remember my dad calling out a kid in front of everyone during a game, humiliating the kid in front of everyone, or my dad picking up my brother and whooping his ass as he went to the bench. Yet here I am watching a baseball game seeing this very thing.

I can remember a kid on the team my dad coached, and he was probably the best player on the team, and he probably knew it. One game, my dad couldn't make it so this kids father offered to help me out behind the bench. This kid to his hockey stick and gave another kid a two hander across the back of his legs, needless to say he got a penalty. After this kid got done with his penalty he got back to the bench, I explain that we wouldn't have that type of play on the team and promptly sat him for the rest of the period, his dad didn't say a peep but later told my dad that I handled it perfectly. I didn't make a specticle of it, didn't make a joke of it to make him look bad, and in turn he never did anything like that again.

SO I ask, what is with these coaches I am seeing now? We are talking young kids here, just learning the game of baseball, they are going to make mistakes, heck the pros do. I think that maybe there needs to be better training for coaches, I dont know that these coaches get anything like my dad and I did back when we coached minor hockey, but it is needed. These kids deserve better, they deserve to have fun, and learn from their mistakes, not be afraid of what might happen if they do make mistakes.

Okay, enough ranting for one night. Night all.