God and the Death of America - God Loves Webb Simpson – But He Hates the Hell Right Out of Chez Reavie

God Loves Webb Simpson – But He Hates the Hell Right Out of Chez Reavie

In the latest tiresome instalment of tv athletes (there are quite a few athletes, really, but they don’t all get to be on tv) who point to the sky and then thank god when there’s a microphone, Webb is that man.

Dude, you’ve won *2* tournaments, and if the Lord was pushin’ for you like you’re pushin’ for Him, you maybe might have won many more.  Tiger got inspired by two-bit pancake-house whores, and look what he pulled off.  The Webbster might’ve backed the wrong demi-urge entirely, if golf success was his aim.

Anyway, why has there never been an embargo on scripturally illiterate pinheads sounding off about things they know nothing of? 

For so long now, as a kind of groaning death rattle, American athletes have been citing, along with their politicians, the Lord.  They do stand up there and they do suggest that they and they only have been blessed by the Lord.

Faith.  It’s a funny thing.  Funny in the sense that truly only dorks have it.  When you see it on TV, it tends to be dorks who have it.  Well, faith, as Jesus would have it, isn’t something you just pick up at Wal-Mart for $.99.  Faith—real faith—is hard won.  It knows setbacks and periods of querulousness. You don’t just point to the sky.  If I did that, I bet for sure I’d be struck by lightning.

American athletes on tv—as a kind of irreplicable genre—do refer to their Lord.  They know dogs and cats like I know boots and hats.  This, this, way in which athletes praise the lord when they have won, the while the world ignores the others who have not, what does it mean?

Well, well.  It means Michele Bachmann, far from the last American “of faith” to believe that storms that hit people she didn’t know (but whose votes she’d nevertheless solicit) were a visitation upon their morality.

The sky-pointing, you-did-that-tornado-to-you state of America now says a lot about why China is obliterating the U.S. now.  America is in desperate blind retreat.  It isn’t a good thing for many reasons.  Michele Bachmann may profit, but it’s weird that she could be so selfish, cryogenics aside, knowing she only had a few decades or less to go.  America needs some serious patriots now, but there are none on the horizon, and that means American workers are going to have bosses named Wong, not Smith.  And, had they not retreated to faith but instead just got off their asses and worked, Americans could have prolonged their minor empire.

People cling to the idea of an afterlife so that they can live forever afterwards; in this way, they absolve themselves from having to act well while they actually lived and dealt with human beings.

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