Thu May 14, 2009 6:40 pm EDT
The guy is on the front cover of "UFC 2009: Undisputed" but it really hasn't changed Forrest Griffin, who is still wacky and quick-witted as ever.
Griffin visited the ESPNRadio1100 studios in Las Vegas to preview the May 19 release of the new video game. He says he can still keep a low profile around Las Vegas while visiting the local Albertsons or Blockbuster but it's a different world when he actually attends fight cards (1:00 mark).
Griffin touched on a variety of topics including the dilemma of too many Silvas and Jesus. That's right, Griffin opined on history and religion, referencing Sarah Palin:
"I was reading the Bible the other day," Griffin told the Cofield and Cokin Show on ESPNRadio 1100. "I realized something, all these crazy, like, Palin people that talk about Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus hung out with, like, the lowest of the low. He hung out with like whores and derelicts. He really did. He was, like, the most liberal guy of his time. It just really amuses me. Jesus was a liberal."
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In part two, Griffin discusses the strange reaction everyone greets him with now that they know he's fighting Anderson Silva.
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-Mark 2:17
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did u know that the Bible is proven to be the most historically acurate work of literature ever written? This is especially amazing when u consider that it isn't actually 1 book, but rather 66 books written by more than 50 diff. writers; most of whom lived generations apart from each other, and thus could not have possibly corroborated each others' stories. Also when u consider that the carbon dating method (which is how scientists estimate the earth's several million years of age) has been proven to be waaaaay off. I am NOT by any means a religious nut, but I am a Christian, as well as a sensible human being. To believe in a dating method that is (at best) a highly uneducated guess, or a "theory" of evolution, which it's own theologian (Darwin) denied himself on his deathbed, as he had never really found any solid proof to back it up- speaks volumes of your pride and ignorance... for that, I'm sad for u, but to each his own. That being said- I pretty much agree w/ Forrest's (and fightchica's) view of Jesus- the guy wasn't just liberal; he was straight-up revolutionary. It's sad that the modern church has become a religion instead of a relationship, as it was originally intended. Modern Christianity is so watered down to the point that it's now no more than a flock of millions of sheep that follow only what a guy standing at a pulpit has to say, rather than the teacher (Jesus) himself... "everyone vote republican cause that's what I feel is Godly", says the preacher- so everyone does... sad.
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The "Jesus is a liberal" statement made me laugh so hard my co workers had to know what I was laughing about. That is one of the funniest statments I have heard in a long time. I never thought of it that way. GOOOOO JESUS!!!!
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did ur co-workers then proceed to tell u what a weirdo u are for laughing at that statment? cuz it couldn't be more true...
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Hail whoever u want, dude; that's ur business, not mine. Like I said- I'm not one of the right wing religious freaks, bent on saving the world. God is there if u choose to accept and respect His existence; if not, then that's ur choice too. But u don't have to listen to me as far as the Bible's accuracy; just look it up. The things that it actually says happened (not the mataphoric stuff that people interpret to mean w/e they want), actually happened. I'll give u about 50/50 on carbon dating; but like I said, it's not completely accurate.
On the other hand- God isn't really helping me out a whole lot in life right now; so hail Obama!
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To be honest- we ALL worship the almighty dollar, before we worship anything else. U may deny it; but u know it's true...
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