Cole Hocker says in post-race interview that "God carried his body across the line"

I can't hate on someone worshipping something if it's positive.

Flagpole, you do love the opinions of ANY athlete or celebrity that align with you however. You are a confused old man full of contradictions.

I'm with you free. 3 o-clock. Time for God to get what's coming to him

when i heard that, i thought. oh boy, i'm out. and like a good born-again atheist, i turned the channel

You heard about Samson?

Did she explain why she didn't help him

The day he could beat Josh Kerr was always going to require a miracle .

" And when I run. I feel His pleasure "

Chariots of Fire

This the primary evidence for there being no real God. The fact nobody really thinks it gives you any advantage in life to pray to God.

If people really believed in it they'd ban praying and have WADA style org set up to make sure athlete's aren't engaging in brown nosing The GOAT of the universe. Letsrun would have a Coevett style commenter who's always accusing God botherer countries of cheating behind closed doors. Carrying bibles around with them, and doing that cross thing on their chest.

Saying that, the abstract word God does point to something that is real. That REALITY is king and you can kid yourself in life all you want, but at some point you are going to faceplant and there's nothing you can do about it. Also, hell would be something like a life squandered but then realizing too late that it was wasted, and then not being able to let go as the darkness envelopes you. In this moment it will FEEL LIKE HELL! As opposed to the man who lives the right life and as the darkness comes there is peace in his mind at what he did, and who he was.

Anyway Cole MF Hocker is the King!

I notice that many here are hurling insults at Cole Hocker for believing in God. Would you do the same if a Muslim attributed his win to Allah?

ok? So the man has faith? Now what?

Is there any chance that Hocker just meant it in some sort of abstract way? Not everyone thinks of God as a magical, white-haired man with a white robe and a long beard who can do miracles like a big monotheistic Zeus. Maybe he just thinks of "God" as something powerful but less concrete?

What if "God" was just a word people used to describe all the wonderful and ineffable forces of the universe? Or the countless and powerful union of a billion unpredictable choices and forces in our lives? God, to some philosophers, is just the manifestation of all the laws of the universe - immutable as they are - in our lives, not a magic human on a golden throne in the clouds like Zeus (which is how kids think of God).

The downside of this version of God is that "he" isn't a person, so "he" is hard to relate to. And he doesn't make choices for or against us. The universe is set in motion and follows these unchanging laws of nature. That's God to some people.

God is just a lot easier to say than, "All the events of the last 20 years and the laws of physics and chemistry and psychology came together to carry me across the line."

Many polite people are reluctant to poke fun at other people's God(s). Whereas people are more comfortable commenting on their own culture and their own community.

I am also more likely to be openly critical of bad choices my friends & family are making (I'd try to stop a friend from making a bad choice) but I wouldn't go up to a stranger and tell them how to live their lives.

That is why we are more openly critical of "our own" people and less towards people from other cultures.

Again, I beg people to read some basic Thomas Aquinas, it would really clear out all these stupid ideas, considered intelligent to dim 14-year-olds who just opened a Reddit account, that God is a “white-bearded sky daddy” or whatever. Analogy vs. univocity, primary vs secondary causation, etc.

That's been tried. The crucifiers went home devastated!

That's why he's an Olympic Champion and you're living at home with your mommy and daddy saying, "Religion is silly", and yes, it may be "silly" to you but not to him. Seems like it worked pretty well for him.

Cole Hocker- Olympic Champion

Flagpole-?

And an Olympic Gold Medal!

Your move...

The Old Testament explains how God's people experience misfortune. God saved his people and protected them, but they frequently turned away from Him and His Commandments. The result was war and/or various calamities. When they returned to Him and were contrite, they were forgiven and blessed. The cycle continues.

The steeplechase guy is a religious nutter butter too isn't he?

Makes it more likely that they're up to something sketchy to me. People who have to announce their religiousness publicly all the time are very likely to be up to no good.