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Tue Jul 15, 2014, 04:16 PM Jul 2014

This is How You Should Tweet When Your Baseball Team Runs a Promotion with an Atheist Group



July 15, 2014 By Hemant Mehta 28 Comments

On Friday night, the St. Paul Saints minor league baseball team became the Mr. Paul Aints as part of a promotion with the Minnesota Atheists, the third time they’ve partnered up.

What I didn’t realize was that the person behind the team’s Twitter account would join in on the fun:





At least there was a happy ending to the game!



Outside the stadium, though, Christians were hard at work undoing the “damage,” leaving all sorts of Jesus-y tracts on windshields. A couple of atheists scooped them up:



http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/15/this-is-how-you-should-tweet-when-your-baseball-team-runs-a-promotion-with-an-atheist-group/

More tweets at link.
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This is How You Should Tweet When Your Baseball Team Runs a Promotion with an Atheist Group (Original Post) rug Jul 2014 OP
To night they are on the road playing the Winnipeg Goldeneyes... 4139 Jul 2014 #1
A regular promotion by PZ Myers. longship Jul 2014 #2
I'm so glad they have turned this into a fun event. cbayer Jul 2014 #3

4139

(1,893 posts)
1. To night they are on the road playing the Winnipeg Goldeneyes...
Tue Jul 15, 2014, 04:40 PM
Jul 2014

.... and they Aint gotta prayer

longship

(40,416 posts)
2. A regular promotion by PZ Myers.
Tue Jul 15, 2014, 04:44 PM
Jul 2014

What's not to love? Baseball and religious argument. Everybody loses? (Well, it ain't Aussie Rules Football.)

Go ain'ts!

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