DIVINE INTERVENTION IS FINALLY VALIDATED ONCE AND FOR ALL
Ever since I was conscious and read a seminal book on speculative philosophy by Will Durant called The Story of Philosophy I have sought essential answers to ultimate questions. These questions have included: what is the nature of reality? Where am I from? What am I doing here? Where am I going? What is my life purpose? How do I know it? How can I be sure that what I believe is actually true?
In my on going attempt to get at the truth of these matters one all pervading question has hovered over all the rest. That question is - is what we call God conscious? That is does God intervene in the lives of we human beings, individually and or collectively? And if so how do we know for certain that he, she, or it, actually is doing so?
I mean no disrespect - this is a serious issue. There either is or there is not a conscious God who runs the big show called life, or I suppose - logically - there is not. Then whatever else is really going on is up for grabs and personal and collective speculation.
Well - mark this date - February, 4th, 2007. It is a day that will surely rank as one of the penultimate days in world - yea - cosmic history. For today the revelation of revelations has occurred. The biggest question has finally been answered. And to think that all I had planned to do was to watch another anti climactic superbowl game.
Enough tension. Enough build up. Enough of enough.
In the presentation of the trophy the owner of the winning team and the coach attributed their winning season to none other than God. Mind you they both seem like fine up - standing men. In fact the sports announcers indicated at the end of the game that the coach has never said a swear word except for one time during the year. He slipped and let go with a muted "damn" and swore he would never say a swear word again. I have no doubt but to believe him.
Their collective remarks make it crystal clear that what was most significant about the win was not that the coach was the first African American coach to win a super bowl but that his team won because they were Christian and presumably elected by divine intervention to win.
Now I find this truly revealing. In listening to him and the owner extol the virtues of God it woke me out my spirtual lassitude. Listening to their words I associated to the fact that many professional teams I have watched in the playoffs are utterly convinced that it is by the will of God that they are the victors.
Oh sure the team members are given some credit for knocking their heads off - risking permanent bodily injury- playing on although sick, often maimed, clearly hurt and often seriously unwell. Practicing and honing their skills until they individually and collectively achieve skill levels that are truly remarkable. But the real force - the penultimate - credit belongs to God.
With all of these attributions to the will of God who am I to question it?
It is also interesting to note that this wide spread total belief that God is exclusively on our side has its presence even among our top leaders. Our very President is utterly convinced that this is so. Makes you kind of wonder about the final outcome though as it appears that if the Iraq war was the superbowl game - the U.S. team seems to be losing by a score of 100 to 2. But there are plans afoot for a major change of tactics which should turn the score around fast. Just ask out leader he will tell you so.
Of course it is interesting to note that if all the sports teams in the US {to say nothing about those in the rest of the world} and the leaders of our country {to say nothing about the leaders in the rest of the world} are equally convinced that God is on their side - exclusively - doesn't this collective attribution of being God's favorite eventually going to result in a bit of a logical and practical head scratching event somewhere down the line?
But no cause for worry. If this collision of narcissistic splendor were to actually occur an apt solution would always be possible. Instead of the concept of one God we could always return to the perhaps more realistic multiple Gods idea. In that way each team and each leader could have their own personal God to rely on. Still it makes me a bit uneasy to think about this.
However, at the moment, no need to worry because the Colts won the superbowl and they obtained victory because God was on their side. I heard it loud and clear with my own ears just a few minutes ago.
Oh My God!
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