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San Diego St. RB Adam Muema leaves the combine for "religious reasons"


Boltergeist

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Until people admit theres a problem, no one can "help." But everyone is way to politically correct to publicly state this, due to the flame they'll take on social media for "helping" anyone that is associated strongly one way or another about religion/race/sex/etc

Dead wrong.

I am a devout Christian who has no trouble saying this kid is being led astray by a con man and probably needs help.

I'd add that I've discussed this kid's story with Christian friends who also follow football and gotten no disagreement at all.

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Dead wrong.

I am a devout Christian who has no trouble saying this kid is being led astray by a con man and probably needs help.

I'd add that I've discussed this kid's story with Christian friends who also follow football and gotten no disagreement at all.

You are not on national TV with potentially something to lose. Theres a reason media members avoid controversial topics like the plague. We both know that.

You, I, and every member of the huddle can sit around wanting to help this guy all we want. But no one of power is stepping in are they?

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I find it strange that when he says God spoke to him it's seen as nonsense when that occurred regularly in religious dogma.

Why could it happen back then and not today? How is it nonsense now but not less than a couple thousand years ago?

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I find it strange that when he says God spoke to him it's seen as nonsense when that occurred regularly in religious dogma.

Why could it happen back then and not today? How is it nonsense now but not less than a couple thousand years ago?

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Were you there back then and confirmed that he indeed spoke to people?

 

I find it funny how we can scrutinize everything we hear in the news today yet some people believe in something 100% that happened 2000+ years ago. 

 

I dont mean to offend anyone, just merely giving a different viewpoint. 

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I find it strange that when he says God spoke to him it's seen as nonsense when that occurred regularly in religious dogma.

Why could it happen back then and not today? How is it nonsense now but not less than a couple thousand years ago?

Sent from the Carolina Huddle App

You've banged this drum since the beginning and it only testifies to the fact that you don't know the in's and out's of the story.

He isn't claiming to be spiritually communing with the Lord. He was completely and utterly convinced that a Twitter account he follows was God and was making life decisions based on that account.

I know you desperatley want to spin this into a "crazy religious kooks! huzzah!" story but it's not one of those stories.

It's a story about a con man and a guy either dumb or mentally unstable enough to fall for it, which is what makes him crazy, not his faith as so many here want the story to be.

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O wow lol didnt even realize he was following some guys twitter! LOL

 

Both Sports Illustrated and ESPN recently published lengthy, well-written profiles of Adam Muema, the troubled San Diego State running back who gave up football to follow an Internet prophet who calls himself “Ray-El.”

Both magazine stories cited Raw Story, because we were the first to dig into Ray-El and find out that he is actually a man named Raymond Elwood Howard-Lear, 45, who grew up in the Chicago area, has had some legal troubles, and ran for Congress and governor of Illinois, both with negligible results.

Muema had put up great numbers in his junior year at SDSU and then had declared for the draft, but as the scouting “combine” neared in February, he began posting strange things at his Facebook and Instagram accounts, and then ditched the combine. He was found wandering around the Fort Lauderdale airport, where he had apparently spent three days.

 

After that, the only interview he gave was to Raw Story, when we had a Facebook conversation with him in March.

ESPN had a brief text exchange with him after that, but neither publication had luck reaching Muema again for their lengthy stories. The SI profile suggested that he might be in Mexico, where Ray-El had called for his followers to gather.

Muema’s last posting at Facebook, on May 19, was the photo you see above, with the somewhat ominous caption, “Go out with a smile on your face!”

 

All hail RAY-EL!

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I find it strange that when he says God spoke to him it's seen as nonsense when that occurred regularly in religious dogma.

Why could it happen back then and not today? How is it nonsense now but not less than a couple thousand years ago?

Sent from the Carolina Huddle App

Ill say this again, its not just "religion" in general that everyone has an issue with here. Much like the others have responded to you, this isn't the story about a guy who "found Jesus Christ" or anything like that. The dude now prays to Ray-El. Which is just some random guy on facebook and twitter who named himself the god of his own created religion and set up a youtube page to spread his worshiping of himself . He tries to hook in mentally unstable people, and it looks like his bate worked.

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Ill say this again, its not just "religion" in general that everyone has an issue with here. Much like the others have responded to you, this isn't the story about a guy who "found Jesus Christ" or anything like that. The dude now prays to Ray-El. Which is just some random guy on facebook and twitter who named himself the god of his own created religion and set up a youtube page to spread his worshiping of himself . He tries to hook in mentally unstable people, and it looks like his bate worked.

 

Why does Jesus Christ have more credibility than Ray-El? Why is one crazy but the other isn't? They both operate on exactly the same amount of evidence. Seems very judgmental to bash one and not the other.

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Ill say this again, its not just "religion" in general that everyone has an issue with here. Much like the others have responded to you, this isn't the story about a guy who "found Jesus Christ" or anything like that. The dude now prays to Ray-El. Which is just some random guy on facebook and twitter who named himself the god of his own created religion and set up a youtube page to spread his worshiping of himself . He tries to hook in mentally unstable people, and it looks like his bate worked.

 

 

Isn't that how every religion gets started? Not trying to be inflammatory. Joe Smith and mormonism for example.

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I find it strange that when he says God spoke to him it's seen as nonsense when that occurred regularly in religious dogma.

Why could it happen back then and not today? How is it nonsense now but not less than a couple thousand years ago?

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Its all freakkin wifi maan. . . . whole world's goin to hell.

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