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Originally posted by Bingo@Oct 20 2004, 09:29 AM
To be honest I think it's somewhat insulting to even minded religious people to make statements like he's crazy, etc, because he has faith. That's not fair. A person can be deeply religious, put faith in prayor, and still make rational decisions. If the decisions aren't rational then there's your issue, not the fact that he drops the name God from time to time.
Take Schilling after last night's game ... he said something like "God pitched through me tonight. In game one I had nothing, tonight it was God".
Would I have said that? Nope. But do I assume Schilling is crazy because he did? Not at all. The man believes, and that belief has driven him to become one of the game's best pitchers. More power to him.
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Bingo said:
To be honest I think it's somewhat insulting to even minded religious people to make statements like he's crazy, etc, because he has faith. That's not fair.
It shouldn't be insulting to even-minded religious people. It's not an even-minded concept. He claims to be ruling by divine right and he's acting like Joan of Arc (without the whole "success" part).
It's delusional. I can respect faith and prayer and the whole 9 yards, but if someone tells me god is directly guiding their actions, well, that's just nonsense. The nutcases on the other side of this whole "War on Terror" believe exactly the same thing.
Curt Schilling and the rest of the bunch have performed a
miracle and turned me into a baseball fan again. All that prayer after playing a game bugs me though. That is what should be insulting to religious people -- that these guys are on national tv saying "yeah, god spoke through my left arm and I got the guy to swing on that low and away fastball". I guess god wasn't working in that other guy's best interest, eh? God was playing for the BoSox last night? He picked sides against the religious guys on the other team and all those people in the stands. I'll admit, "crazy" is a harsh word. Maybe "wacky" is a better word. It's wacky to think that way.