Of Miracles
The big headline at Huffington Post this morning:
The Boston Globe, while a little less triumphalist (the front page headline: "Patriots showing they may be best in NFL") riffed on Bronco QB Tim Tebow's religious pretensions below the fold, calling last night's drubbing a "beating of — shall we say — Biblical proportions."
Meanwhile, over at timtebow.com, the smited Broncos QB had yet to offer exegesis on his pre-game Bible verse: Romans 8:37-39.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.This is clearly meant to be consolation to his loyal fans for losing against the Pats. Tebow obviously knew he was going down. Or should have. Like my friend Ellen said today, "Jesus is a Jew. He doesn't work on Saturdays." (In fact Jewish Law explicitly forbids scoring on Shabbat.)38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So while it may seem everyone's picking on Tebow, and it may seem as though the Broncos lost last night, it's all part of God's plan.
The one thing Christianists love better than gloating on their own super-star humility when victorious is persevering in their faith in the face of defeat.
Because everybody knows when True Believers win it's undeniable proof of the truth of what they believe. And when they lose it's still undeniable proof of the truth of what they believe. It's just that God is testing them. He's daring them not to believe the undeniable proof of the truth of what they believe because he knows that they never will.
Because never does doubt, the smart man's faith, come into play.
Doubt is the ultimate heresy for the True Believer.
So you can be certain Tebow believes he's being tested. And if there is something truly enviable about people of faith, as they are sometimes called (and sports fanatics, as they are other times known), it is that their ultimately petty successes and failures gain epic proportion in the arena of play.
There's a lesson here for all of us. Why is it only True Believers can turn an epic ass-whooping into an ultimate victory for faith? I mean, the Huffington Post is wrong. There is a miracle here.
It's the miracle of faith.
It goes down to the non-mockery of things.
Bacon is a great example of something that is highly discriminated against by some religions.
It's a matter of teaching religons that if you properly cook the bacon it is ok to eat.
Some folks eat poisonous blowfish, same thing, has to be cooked properly.
Some people listen to "Hoodie and the Blowfish", I'm fine with that to as long as I have control of the volume.
We are all free to mock at will.
When one religion says we are not free to mock then an inalienable right is at risk.
Tebow is gonna do Katy freakin Perry, and I for one am jealous. If I could have been a star quarterback just to see a glimpse of Katy Perry's........
Digression Ended.
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well said...
Part of Tebow's success is because of his blind belief....we'll see how that goes...
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