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  • Posted on: Tue, 02/07/2012 - 5:37pm #36321
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    McDunkin

     By posting this:


    Letter: Idol worship

    Mon, 02/07/2011 – 21:02

    I can’t walk across campus without hearing Jimmer Fredette’s name a dozen times. His name comes up everywhere: in class, at work, during lunch …  really, people? Cut it out with the Jimmer worship. Last time I checked, idol worship was very much frowned upon in the scriptures.

    Don’t you have a life to live? Then quit wasting it in front of the TV or in lines at the Marriott Center.

    At the very least, stop trying to convert those of us who don’t follow BYU sports and don’t care that baseball and badminton are two different things. Pushing basketball on us isn’t going to make us like it any better.

    I’m not blaming Jimmer for all this; was it Nephi’s fault in the Book of Mormon when his brothers worshiped him? As far as I’m concerned, Jimmer is perfectly free to live his dreams. If he reaches his goals and lives his dreams, more power to him. I would like the same courtesy from his fans: let me live my own dreams in peace, even if they don’t include ever sitting in the Marriott Center screaming my brains out.

    Michelle Peralta

    Apple Valley, Calif.

    http://universe2.byu.edu/node/13756

     

    And later on, the Jimmer faithful made National news with responding with this:

     
     
     
     
     
     

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  • Posted on: Tue, 02/07/2012 - 5:50pm #633211
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    akhan786
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    Haha I got through the first 20 posts, but then I started scrolling down and realized how long it was…

    Funny post. I hate Debbie Downers. *cough*cough* Michelle *cough*

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  • Posted on: Wed, 02/08/2012 - 12:20am #633324
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    omphalos
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    Damn that was brutal. Jimmer fans are crazy.

    Admittedly, Michelle made some valid points, but then ruined them by posting about it on facebook.

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  • Posted on: Wed, 02/08/2012 - 3:58am #633336
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    JoeWolf1

     What a moron, I forgot all about that until now.  

    Now she knows what non-religious people feel like everytime someone tries to "convert" us or tell us we’re going to hell.

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  • Posted on: Wed, 02/08/2012 - 6:06am #633378
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    F_DA_PO
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    Agreed that she’s being ironic because she seems like a religious nut, but the Jimmer mania is so annoying. I still see posters on this board saying JIMMER!!!!!. The kids a role player in the NBA and is too small and unathletic to ever be "worshipped" anymore.

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