I see you have perfected the art of speaking authoritatively about what you do not understand. Or have you become an expert on polling now?
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Is God a Sports Fan? Many Americans Think so...
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I see you have perfected the art of speaking authoritatively about what you do not understand. Or have you become an expert on polling now?
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
You have your god.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Yep. Who?
I do get annoyed when athletes, musicians and actors think god for their award or game wins, as if that entity doesn't have more important affairs to attend to.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
A preist and a rabbi went to a boxing match. Before each round one of the fighters made the sign of the cross. The rabbi asked what that meant. The priest said, "Not a damned thing if you can't fight."
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
james bond
Well-Known Member
Heh. Jesus told the billionaires and millionaires to sell all their possessions and give to the poor for it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man into heaven.
'Holds up in other countries too', perhaps. Very much doubt it being a world wide thing.
More directly, we hear constantly that God can't intervene in suffering because 'free will'.
But a Hail Mary in a playoff game...
Scott C.
Just one guy
Could God bless a player or a team to perform well in a game? Sure. Does he regularly? I don't know. But I would say with more confidence that if God were to guide the results of any game, it would not be because he's simply a sports fan and wants his team to win. Rather, it would be because he's a fan of the human race and there are far greater purposes involved, chains of events that will suit his purposes. Maybe a team loses, the coach is fired, he gets a job with another team and moves across the country. In the new locaiton, his children thrive and and have unique growth opportunities they would not otherwise have had. So, losing the game was a blessing. Can we conclude that God therefore orchestrated the loss or did he simply allow the loss to occur and then turned it into a blessing for the coach? I don't know. But I do give God thanks for the good things that come my way, in whatever form. I also believe God knows and cares about the details of our lives.
QuestioningMind
Well-Known Member
I guess this explains why God hasn't taken the time to clarify all of the inconsistencies in His bible. Clearly he's glued to ESPN 24/7.
Sure, fictional characters can have whatever superpowers that can be dreamed up for them to possess.
What's more amazing is that in the process of granting these superpowers, the assumption that any of this has anything to do with an actual non-fictional being.
No
Anyone that prays for their sports teams to win is asinine. Disclaimer: I have done it myself in the past. I know better now. Pray for them to not get hurt, or to not hurt someone else is acceptable. But praying for outcome is asinine.
God doesn't favor any sports team or players, over any other teams or players.
End of Story.
Especially for cheaters Tom Brady. Oops sorry that just slipped out.
I made good on my promise to boycott the NFL and college football this year. Not a single game, not even when my time team was in a playoff or championship game. Which I am glad I missed anyways. Because I probably would have hurt some people had I watched the UGA vs Bama game, from what I hear.
Not sure if it's God, just rigged, or something else but...
Yes. In the 80's I watched a TV show called "Perfect Strangers" where Balquey Bartokamis bet on sports games based on what he knew about the animals the teams were. I tried it several years later and it seemed like it always worked. Sometimes I think there is some sort of theme and all the teams just somehow fall inline. I don't know how it works but I'm a believer!
Stanyon
WWMRD?
I have seen numerous polls and studies by experts and so called authorities that were completely wrong in their assessments, enough times for me to not take any poll or study as the first and last word on anything. The 2016 election stands out, oh but they weren't wrong? If they didn't take into account the electoral college then it doesn't seem their study was very thorough because they didn't take all factors into account. We could also point to the study about eggs causing cancer, a few years later they didn't cause cancer the list of failed expert opinions and polls could fill libraries.
siti
Well-Known Member
Yeah - I would have expressed outright skepticism on this but my team has been doing remarkably well since we've had Jesus on our side...and as a life long (suffering) City fan born just a few hundred yards from the locations of both the old Bennett Street ground (which they abandoned in the 1920s) and the 'new' Etihad Stadium (City's home for the last almost 15 years)...I can tell you for sure that this is nothing short of miraculous (or maybe just because they've got a helluva lot more money to spend on players these days).
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Odd that the evangelical wing of the GOP doesn't heed this.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
No
Anyone that prays for their sports teams to win is asinine. Disclaimer: I have done it myself in the past. I know better now. Pray for them to not get hurt, or to not hurt someone else is acceptable. But praying for outcome is asinine.
God doesn't favor any sports team or players, over any other teams or players.
End of Story.
Especially for cheaters Tom Brady. Oops sorry that just slipped out.
I made good on my promise to boycott the NFL and college football this year. Not a single game, not even when my time team was in a playoff or championship game. Which I am glad I missed anyways. Because I probably would have hurt some people had I watched the UGA vs Bama game, from what I hear.
Speaking of the boycott, do you wonder how god might feel about the whole weird flag idolatry thing that everyone is crying about?
He is probably more concerned with the NFL players that make $10 million a year, then claim everyone else is privileged, and that they are the oppressed.
LoLz
I believe we are micro-managed with the Torah and subsequent books,
so yes I believe you could say "God is a sports fan."
so yes I believe you could say "God is a sports fan."