From bunnythor@uswest.net Thu Feb 03 00:56:01 2000
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Subject: Re: TAN:  What the hell...(Da Superbowl)
From: bunnythor <bunnythor@uswest.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 22:56:01 -0700

Lurker Below wrote:
> 
> On 1 Feb 2000 17:22:31 GMT, lundblad@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Nathan
> Lundblad) wrote:
> 
> >That kinda stuff drives me batty; if Jesus Christ wanted the Rams to win the
> >goddamn Super Bowl, he'd descend triumphantly from on high, put on pads,
> >and call the damn plays himself.
> 
> There is quite a bit of difference betwixt _thanking_ Jesus and
> attributing any wins to divine intervention.
>
If there is no divine intervention, what exactly are you thanking Jesus
*for*?

RelatedPeeve: People who credit Jesus for all their good actions, and
Satan for all their bad actions. These people obviously have *no* sense
of their own personal responsibility, which makes them creepily similar
to sociopaths and serial killers.

FollowupPeeve: The above people who also exhort you to "Do what Jesus
would do!"
How?
To do good things like Jesus, then Jesus has to do them, acting through
you. If Jesus does not choose to act through you, then you can only act
at Satan's promptings, else you sit there as an inert thing.
"Help me! I've become a metaphysical Pokemon!"

--Thor