It’s finally Friday and like me, many Americans are looking forward to the playoffs this weekend. While there are four games, one in particular is reaching “heavenly” proportions. That game of course is Tim “Jesus” Tebow and the Denver Broncos vs. The New England Patriots.
For those of you unaware of the whole Tebow mess, he’s the Denver Broncos quarterback who is ranked 24 out of 32. While his stats are subpar, Tebow is credited with several last-minute “miraculous” wins. And of course after every win he takes a knee to thank Jesus for the victory. Good stuff.
If that’s not batshit crazy in itself, then try this statistic on for size. In a nationwide survey on January 8th, 43% of 756 respondents believed that Divine Intervention was at least partly responsible for Tebow’s success! There’s a margin of error of only +/- 3%. I would have thought it was more like 100%, but I’ll take their word for it.
If this poll is representative of the United States as a whole, then it’s no wonder why the country has seen better days. The very thought that God has nothing better to do than help some mediocre quarterback win football games is straight up crazy. Let’s be God for a minute… Never mind war, poverty, or Catholic priests molesting children… no I’m gonna focus my magical powers on a stupid f^ck!ng football game. Yea that makes complete sense!
Are these people out of their minds? Seriously naive? Or just f^ck!ng morons? Wow! I just can’t believe it’s the 21st century and people honestly believe that there’s a God winning football games.
You can see the complete results of the survey here.
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Your headline is right on. American general dumbshitness is off the scale. From Europe it is incredible to see still held belief in religion story with so many Americans. Now expecting such god to favor team in US football so bizarre. Now looks like Tebow had big loss, so you who believed still think god help or not?
At any time, there are approximately 27,000 children around the world dying of starvation and malnutrition. Clearly, suspending the laws of physics and probability is much more important than these children.
If you knew someone that was aware of a great evil, child abuse, murder,or terrorism and that person could stop it with no risk or effort to himself, yet did nothing. Would you feel that person was as guilty as the actual perpetrators? That’s a good description of the god so many worship.
Great post James. Popular book about said “god” also has that being prescribing violence, bigotry, and hatred, yet folks ignore those naughty bits in their apparent blind willingness to be believe and in their laziness of not reasoning things through.
Amen James. Religion is keeping us from reaching our full potential as humans.
@GDer – These religiots wouldn’t even think that their sky-fairy actually abandoned Tim “Moron” Tebow or even claim that it was somehow sidetracked by doing something useful. They would simply ignore the loss and “pray” that their demon-god was paying attention next time – not that it was their all-powerful, all-knowing fairy could be blamed for any such oversights.
Stupidity doesn’t even cover this kind of delusional superstition.
I like how we bash Tebow yet he is a huge success.
Perhaps we should be more like him.
Great post James. Popular book about said “god” also has that being prescribing violence, bigotry, and hatred, yet folks ignore those naughty bits in their apparent blind willingness to be believe and in their laziness of not reasoning things through.
@GDer – These religiots wouldn’t even think that their sky-fairy actually abandoned Tim “Moron” Tebow or even claim that it was somehow sidetracked by doing something useful. They would simply ignore the loss and “pray” that their demon-god was paying attention next time – not that it was their all-powerful, all-knowing fairy could be blamed for any such oversights.
Stupidity doesn’t even cover this kind of delusional superstition.
Indeed, James. Religion is keeping us from reaching our full potential as humans.
At any time, there are approximately 27,000 children around the world dying of starvation and malnutrition. Clearly, suspending the laws of physics and probability is much more important than these children.
If you knew someone that was aware of a great evil, child abuse, murder,or terrorism and that person could stop it with no risk or effort to himself, yet did nothing. Would you feel that person was as guilty as the actual perpetrators? That’s a good description of the god so many worship.
Proposing the facts, I disagree.
The facts are that at any time, there are approximately 27,000 children around the world dying of starvation and malnutrition. Clearly, suspending the laws of physics and probability is much more important to christian “god” than these children.
If you knew someone that was aware of a great evil, child abuse, murder,or terrorism and that person could stop it with no risk or effort to himself, yet did nothing. Would you feel that person was as guilty as the actual perpetrators? That’s a good description of the god so many worship.
That pretty much says it James. You have to conclude that even a mostly benign deity is hard to believe given that data. As that great person said, at that point, “why call it god”…
although surely not all us ‘mericans are ‘fscking stupid.’. Hey, I is one…
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