What is wrong with Steve Johnson blaming God?

[Bulldog Bruce]

Some players always thank God for helping them make good plays. If you believe that He is working at that level during a football game, then it makes sense to blame Him when things go bad. God must be a Steelers fan or likes one of those defenders better.

 

[Paper Dog]

Which we all know can not be the case

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

for thanking God, so why call them out for blaming Him.

Most people feel that God is not interfering in athletic events in any manner.

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

I understand your point, but look at it this way. Take God out of the equation. If some NFLplayer thanked his high school coach for teaching him the fundamentals that helped him make big plays, everybody would think that was neat. But what if the same player blamed his high school coach for his poor play. That would be stupid, wouldn't it? This was just a stupid comment. And the "God" part had nothing to do with the dumbassedry involved.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

God never promises that following him will be easy. In fact, he makes it clear that it can and will be difficult at times. There are multiple examples of this throughout the Bible. It ain's all peaches and cream as Joel Osteen would have you believe.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

The part I am not sure is a perfect analogy is that there are people that believe God guides them physically in everything they do. Maybe Steve Johnson is one of those people. So God does more than just train him. God actually guides his hands. Therefore he can be praised for success and blamed for failure.

Either way, it is not worthy of being a story.

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

there are people that believe God guides them physically in everything they do

That's true. And I don't really have a problem with it - to a point. Justbe prepared to be consistent with it. If you thank God for your team winning this game, will you thank God after your next loss? If you thank God for helping you pass a test, will you thank Him for giving you the experience of failing as well? Most people just don't think of it that way.

And as you said, this really isn't a story.

 

[boomboommsu]

This story is basically about a likely Democrat (let's just leave it at that) that blames God. That's a narrative Drudge wants to push. The details are irrelevent (to him). Same as "it's cold in ______" fits the narrative against global warming. etc.

Drudge is clearly worse about it, but don't think ESPN doesn't do the same thing (for different narratives). That's how American media works. Anything that cuts against the narrative is usually reported terribly. See Cam-gate, where the narrative is Cam is Awesome! and the obvious ineligibility cuts against that, so the facts get mangled (MSU is at fault) and the story gets buried.

 

[mstateglfr]

Either way, its arrogant as hell. If you pray to God for you to win, that means you are praying for others to lose. Yeah, there is just something slightly F'd up about that.

Praying for you to gain anything material is flat out messed up.