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Head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes football team, Super Bowl winner and NFL Hall of Famer Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders, is coming under fire from an atheist group for holding team prayers and other religious activities.
“It’s come to our attention that Coach Sanders has continued to entangle the university’s football program with religion and engage in religious exercises with students and staff,” the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote in a recent letter to university executives pointing to a post-game prayer with the Colorado Buffaloes team following their win over Baylor University last month.
Prior to the delivery of a prayer by Pastor E. Dewey Smith of House of Hope Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Sanders is recorded declaring to the team: “If you don’t believe in the Lord, you better believe in Him now.”
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“It’s come to our attention that Coach Sanders has continued to entangle the university’s football program with religion and engage in religious exercises with students and staff,” the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote in a recent letter to university executives pointing to a post-game prayer with the Colorado Buffaloes team following their win over Baylor University last month.
Prior to the delivery of a prayer by Pastor E. Dewey Smith of House of Hope Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Sanders is recorded declaring to the team: “If you don’t believe in the Lord, you better believe in Him now.”
Continued below.
Atheist group demands coach Deion Sanders stop pre-game prayers with football team
Head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes football team, Super Bowl winner and NFL Hall of Famer Deion Coach Prime Sanders, is coming under fire from an atheist group for holding team prayers and other
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