tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post5134912086159684940..comments2023-10-30T07:10:34.610-07:00Comments on Underbelly: Execution DayBucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-83634191455163039292013-02-01T07:58:29.875-08:002013-02-01T07:58:29.875-08:00Praying does provide some people with the percepti...Praying does provide some people with the perception of comfort, but it is a misleading comfort. When the axe fell, his head came off just the same – another testament to the near-uselessness of prayer. <br /><br />Which brings to mind a question that has long troubled me: Why do football players pray in the locker room? So that God will smite this University and ensure the triumph of that University? Has God, if there is one, nothing better to do? Might (s)he better spend the day sparing the habitats of a diminishing population of wild animals, or feeding the starving, or making oppressors in Chad think better of their evil intentions?<br /><br />Prayer is a finger-in-the-dike strategy, which in the end has little impact on either history or the outcomes of football games. And when the dike breaks, fingers are of no use.<br /><br />Yours with philosophical crankiness,<br />The New York Crank<br /><br /><br />The New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.com