Should the losing team blame God?

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18 Sep 2009, 8:20 pm

I'm not a big sports fan but occasionally I'll watch a football game. Inevitably at the end of the game interview, the winning team will thank God for the victory. The logical inference would be if God helped team A to win, then shouldn't the losing team blame God for losing.

I'm still waiting for the post game losing team interview. "We're a better team and deserve to win, but obviously God wanted us to lose. For instance when we we're third and long, I should have had the first down but God caused me to fumble. Its all his fault."

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18 Sep 2009, 8:28 pm

I think I've heard post game interviews where a player on the losing team said something along the lines of saying it wasn't god's plan for them to win.

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18 Sep 2009, 9:19 pm

It's all about not appearing to be self-centered and proud.

Athletes that get full of themselves don't engender themselves to the fans watching the game. Humility is the key.

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18 Sep 2009, 10:16 pm

zer0netgain wrote:

It's all about not appearing to be self-centered and proud.

Athletes that get full of themselves don't engender themselves to the fans watching the game. Humility is the key.

Most likely it's a matter of not admitting they played a lousy game and figured it was God's responsibility.

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18 Sep 2009, 10:19 pm

If God is handing out victories then why train?

A team of fatasses could win the superbowl if they prayed hard enoough, yes?

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18 Sep 2009, 10:49 pm

Well in my case, I've often found it to be the opposite. Most people whom I've come across in having bad "luck" say that god will eventually direct them to an answere or that there's a light at the end of the tunnel no matter the disaster. While I look or try to look at my action from a logical perspective, the feeling seems much more somber than my religious constituents.....

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18 Sep 2009, 11:01 pm

MissConstrue wrote:

Bringing God or fate or whatever into the equation of responsibility is just a matter of ducking out of one's own responsibility for one's own condition. Undoubtedly there are bad circumstances one cannot overcome but in the long run one must take responsibility for one's own life. Copping out is cowardice.

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19 Sep 2009, 5:14 am

in Africa, it's obvious to everyone that the winning team won becuase they had better juju's and a more powerful shaman. skills have nothing to do with who the winner is.

just replace the juju with god/allah/zeus and there you go. all humans have this ridiculous and annoying tendency (see the "God exists" thread in Random Discussion)

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19 Sep 2009, 6:38 am

anna-banana wrote:

According to wiki...

Juju is supernatural power attributed to an object. So maybe they have magic boots :lol:

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19 Sep 2009, 6:53 am

Dilbert wrote:

A team of fatasses could win the superbowl if they prayed hard enoough, yes?

Of course...Why do you think the players pray in the locker room before every game? Football is 80% "getting right" with God...everybody knows that. In most cases, the team that is closest to God, so to speak, will take home the game.

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19 Sep 2009, 7:08 am

0_equals_true wrote:

anna-banana wrote:

According to wiki...

Juju is supernatural power attributed to an object. So maybe they have magic boots :lol:

sure, anything can be a juju! a dried scalp, a cross pendant, St.Someone's little finger, a four-leaf clover etc. sky is the limit! :wink:

speaking of magical boots on the field- in 1998 in Congo a whole football team was killed by a lightning that struck the field. the other team was fine. in this case, it really was the shoes! :lol:

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19 Sep 2009, 8:08 am

Francis wrote:

The looser loses because he was not up to snuff and made mistakes or because the winner is just more skillful or made fewer mistakes. It is all relative. It has nothing whatever to do with God (assuming that God exists). If God exists He has better things to pay attention than trivial human games.

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19 Sep 2009, 8:18 am

You know when little children trip over a chair or whatever, and exclaim "Stupid chair!"?

Well, this is a bit like that.

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19 Sep 2009, 2:04 pm

Henriksson wrote:

You know when little children trip over a chair or whatever, and exclaim "Stupid chair!"?

Well, this is a bit like that.

Little children? Uh oh. Now I'm feeling immature. I still do that. :oops:

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19 Sep 2009, 3:28 pm

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You know when little children trip over a chair or whatever, and exclaim "Stupid chair!"?

Well, this is a bit like that.

Little children? Uh oh. Now I'm feeling immature. I still do that.

Thats funny. I am constantly blaming inanimate objects for things.

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19 Sep 2009, 3:48 pm

if god is real im shure he finds all of our behaviour entertaining

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