'Def recommend it': NFL quarterback Kirk Cousins says he has read the entire Bible in two years in viral post
National Football League (NFL) quarterback Kirk Cousin's post on Twitter is going viral after he shared with his fans and followers that he took out time from his strenuous and physically-demanding football career to read through the entire Bible.
Cousins, last week, shared a picture of his copy of the Bible with a Fellowship of Christian Athletes logo on it, and the post soon began garnering thousands of likes on Twitter. The quarterback, who has previously been outspoken about his faith, wrote in the tweet: "It took me over two years, but just finished reading through the entire Bible for the first time. Def recommend it." The tweet, as of January 31, has received over 90,000 likes and 4,000 retweets.
The NFL player, in a post-game interview earlier this season, had talked about his faith, saying: "My faith is important to me, it’s the foundation for my life. Ultimately there’s where I gain my peace and strength. Win or lose today, God’s still on the throne and I take comfort in that," according to CBN.
NFL players are generally careful about expressing their religious beliefs in public. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, earlier in the season, had received criticism from LGBTQ groups after he promoted Focus on the Family's "Bring Your Bible to School Day." The group, Focus on the Family, is known for promoting gay conversion therapy, where LGBTQ people are urged through classes and training to convert to a more Christian way of life. The American Psychiatric Association has discredited the practice of the group.
Brees later defended himself, saying he did not know about the group's controversial stance on gay rights. "I was not aware of any of the things they said about them lobbying for anti-gay, any type of messaging for inequality of any type of hate-type related stuff. I was not aware of that at all," he said in a video.