From CBS (read the article here):
According to a national telephone survey conducted by Poll Position, 43 percent of people believe that “divine intervention” is responsible for Tim Tebow’s success . . .
That’s right, God cares about football, plays an active part in it’s outcome, and is a Denver Bronco’s fan. If you are playing against Tebow, you aren’t on God’s team. If you are cheering for Denver’s opponents, you are cheering against God’s will. Does that make you evil?
To be clear, I believe in a God that wants each of us to be the best we can be. I pray for strength to improve my humanity, but I don’t pray to get a better deal on car insurance, or to rain hellfire on my neighbor because his grass clippings end up in my yard. Those seem to be the sort of motives that I’m aspiring to eliminate, rather than consecrate.
I know there are folks that believe in a more activist God. I ask only one thing as we head into a political season. Can we please not demonize the other side? We’ve got a lot of work to do here in this country, and if 50% of the country is categorized as “evil”, “alien”, or “immoral” (all easily found on Google in references to President Obama or President Bush), then we can’t get anything done. We are all God’s people, sinners and saints, Democrats and Republicans.
And far be it for us humans to pick sides anyway, because we are fallible. For instance, were you one of the people who thought Mitt Romney’s real name was “Mittens”? 2% of people surveyed thought so (and only 6% knew his real first name, “Willard”).
January 16, 2012 at 12:33 pm |
Amen!