Salon.com > Marcus Cederstrom http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 21:55:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What if Tim Tebow were Muslim? http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/what_if_tim_tebow_were_muslim/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/what_if_tim_tebow_were_muslim/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12114821 Tim Tebow's profession of faith has thrust the mixture of sport and religion into the national spotlight in a way that few can remember.

Students have been suspended for "Tebowing" -- dropping to one knee to pray, even if you're the only one doing it -- in a school hallway in New York. Rick Perry claimed that he would be the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses. "Saturday Night Live" lampooned Tebow’s fan-boy love for Jesus. In response, Pat Robertson has claimed that the skit demonstrates “anti-Christian bigotry.” His supporters even called for a boycott of HBO after a Bill Maher tweet made fun of Tebow and his relationship to Jesus after his Denver Broncos lost to the Buffalo Bills.

After an overtime upset of the Pittsburgh Steelers last weekend, Tebow's Broncos play the top-seeded New England Patriots on Saturday. For at least one more media cycle, there will appear to be no way to separate Tim Tebow – the person, the quarterback, the Christian – from his religion.

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