>A blurb in today's sports page was that the team chaplan for the Washington Nationals baseball team was let go yesterday due to comments against people of the Jewish faith.
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>He was asked by a player if Jewish people were doomed due to their non-believe in Christ. The chaplan just nodded.
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>I'm very sad to hear that these type of discussions are still occurring in the 21st century. I'm getting more and more inclined to believe your comment about fundies not being that smart.

What's the chaplain doing in a baseball team? Praying for a score? Doubling as a psycho-ops engineer to boost the morale? Doing pep-speeches? Having an obstacle if they ever hire a non-Christian player?

Are the Nationals an equal opportunity employer? If they ever hire a non-Christian player, would they have to hire another chaplain of that player's faith? What if the new guy was not religious, would they hire a - what, a secular non-chaplain with a specific duty to do nothing as a non-chaplain, only to double on the other side jobs?

In this particular case, I wonder what the team will do. Will they be able to find a chaplain of any Christian denomination who would answer the same question differently, and stay within the dogma of his or her church at the same time.