Christians in Sports
In the wake of the recent Kurt Warner dustup ("I was benched because of my faith"), Robert Lipsyte at ESPN shares his observations of Christians in Sports. Key grafs:
Religious experience is so varied, it's hardly fair to stuff all publicly pious players into the same revival tent.
Stock car racers who have been raised evangelical Christians are suspicious of those expressive baseball and football players who they say are praying to "trinket Gods, false Gods," merely to bring them better luck.
Piety often does seem like just another performance enhancer. . .
I've almost always found that the ostentatiously religious athletes tended to be nicer, if not always more fun, than the party animals.
And then, of course, so many of the God Squadders turned out to be hypocrites, moaning in the chapel before the game, moaning in the lap-dance club afterward.
Stock car racers who have been raised evangelical Christians are suspicious of those expressive baseball and football players who they say are praying to "trinket Gods, false Gods," merely to bring them better luck.
Piety often does seem like just another performance enhancer. . .
I've almost always found that the ostentatiously religious athletes tended to be nicer, if not always more fun, than the party animals.
And then, of course, so many of the God Squadders turned out to be hypocrites, moaning in the chapel before the game, moaning in the lap-dance club afterward.
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