If you are a fan of the New Orleans Saints and are thrilled that they had such a good season, culminating in a Super Bowl victory, I've got some bad news for you. They didn't win because they were talented, worked hard, were well-coached, or anything of their sort. In fact, they deserve no praise or credit for their winning season at all. Why? You see, Goddidit! That's right, their Super Bowl win happened only because the Christian god made it happen.
Skeptical Monkey has a great post on the idiocy of many Saints players. My favorite part is the observation that the Christian god was involved in human affairs enough to care who won the game while practically destroying Haiti (or at least allowing it to happen).
Apparently, god takes a vested interest in who wins the Super Bowl, but he couldn’t be bothered to spare the lives hundreds of thousands of Haitian citizens.
You don't get to have it both ways, Christians. Your god is involved, or it isn't.
3 comments:
E, you forgot the other more likely solution to the Christian conundrum...
a) God kills innocent babies in earthquakes
b) God is impotent
c) God is a man-made concept.
Epicurus said it better 2500 years ago (before Christianity was invented)
Since it is mainly the Christian god you atheists here are so upset about it is worthwhile to point out that the Christian god is the same as the Jewish god and that god made no claims of absolute goodness, in fact that god was pretty mean and petty. That Jewish god did choose certain people to promote over others so perhaps the Saints have more Jews on their team or in their ownership than any of the other NFL teams. It may be that all superbowl winners have been teams with greater numbers of Jews or Jewish owners- has anyone ever investigated?
But on that principle, wouldn't the Giants and Jets win in alternate years?
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