Yes, but it's tied up in a bunch of other bits like not eating pork and worshipping a particular deity.
The secular quip raises the same questions about human motivations without the other baggage.
Because clearly George Steinbrenner is a better moral teacher than Jesus.
If GS taught the same without claiming to be the son of god, then yes.
Jesus didn't talk about eating pork or not though.
True, but he did teach about not doing good deeds just to show off, which was the original point.
Please keep HN threads free of religious flamewar. The parent comment wasn't particularly substantive but veering into general litigation of (biblical) religion definitely leads nowhere good. All such discussions are the same and therefore off-topic here.