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June 22, 2005
A Little Religious Rant
I am a bit sick of star athletes and people in general thanking Jesus or God or Mohammed or whomever for giving them victory or scoring the touchdown, or making the sale, or winning the race, or even finding the child in the woods. Let's get a little context here. The earth is a small planet revolving around a small star, one of approximately 300 billion stars in a relatively small galaxy, which in turn is one of 80-120 billion galaxies that we estimate exist. This number is probably quite low. Add another metaphor to the mix. If you stretch your arms out to your sides, that represents the history of the earth. Take a small nail file and run it across one nail, once. You have just eliminated all of human history (From Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything).
How arrogant we are to think that God would care about one of us winning the conference championship, or Super Bowl one year, or even finding one child lost in the woods given the way that millions have died.
Posted by Chip Spear at June 22, 2005 7:51 AM
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