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Posted By: warshawlaw

And I do not mean to insult the beliefs of anyone, including that seller. However, I have a big problem with a seller sending me stuff telling me that "God's wrath remains on" me unless I follow their particular religion. I do not feel hyper-sensitive, either. As Roger Kahn recounted about a discussion he had with Clem Labine, who didn't see how Jackie Robinson being called a "black bastard" was any worse than if he'd been called a "French-Canadian bastard", that's because they aren't lynching French Canadian bastards in Mississippi. It is all too short a philosophical jump from God's wrath to man's wrath. Christian religious zealots have a less than stellar record in their relations with non-Christian minorities (see, e.g., the Crusades, Inquisition and Holocaust, for three examples). My ancestors left Russia and Poland because of Orthodox Church-inspired pogroms against their towns. Have whatever beliefs you want but have the good taste and good sense to shut the hell up around others who may not share them.

Let's keep politics and religion (and crying) out of baseball cards. The only time I want to hear the Lord's name invoked in baseball is when the groundskeeper trips over the tarp.