Mr. Haliburton is a follower of Jesus that happens to play a professional sport. He is blooming where he has been planted. I don't believe that reading the Bible, the very word of God that connects us with the Word of God, should ever be approached as a "punishment". The Creator of the universe and all it contains, left us to go and prepare a place for each of us and left behind 66 love letters to instruct us and prepare us for our lives here and our life to come. If a loved one goes away on an extended trip somewhere leaving us 66 letters and we don't want to read them, how much do we love them?