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This is just a follow up to this story, a followup you will no doubt not find anywhere else, because crazy religious BS is never called out in the media, especially when it involves celebrities. At the start of this month, Dwight Howard confidently declared his team, the Magic, would win the NBA championship because of his god. The exact words were, "God. That's the reason, I'm telling you." Well, the Lakers won and he and his team lost. So where was his god?
I don't remember seeing the Lakers riding iron chariots, do you? That's apparently kryptonite to the god of the Christian bible (Judges 1:19), which I assume is the one Dwight was referring to. Maybe his god didn't like the shout out. Maybe he failed to give the appropriate burnt offering to his god, which of course smells so sweet to his god (Numbers 29:6). Maybe, despite the promise and the belief from Howard, his god already had the outcome worked out. Maybe he would have liked to help out the Magic, but you know, there's that whole non-intervention, free will thing which prevents him from interfering. Maybe he was able but simply not willing?
We could go around and around like this all day. It's fun, but not really the reason why I'm doing this followup. The reason is I'm really tired of the media giving a pass to nonsense like this. When anyone claims something is going to happen because of some supernatural entity, that everyone needs to beg such an entity for some favorable outcome like rain, or that we must do this or that in order to secure continued favor from such an entity, those kinds of claims need to be called out in the media, and in cases like this where the claim was made and the claim turned out to be bunk, well somebody should be calling that out, and it certainly shouldn't just be me.
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