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Well, why didn't you say so?

I've long wondered why so many people get so very worked up when athletes attribute their winning ways to God. An e-mailer to The Volokh Conspiracy seems to have hit on an explanation:

Really, the athletes should be saying, "Clearly, my free will was not in accordance with God's providence" or "My will was in accordance with God's providence," rather than blindly ascribing victory to Jesus.

Dammit, Kurt Warner, you've egregiously misstated the Augustinian formulation! No wonder everybody's always mocking your faith! You brought it on yourself, you insufficiently-versed-in-early-Church-writings um PERSON, you.

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