Ever see Latino ball players get up to the plate and make the Sign of the Cross on themselves a certain number of times? Or the guys who wear gold motorcycle chains around their necks with crosses on them that could hold the Queen Mary in port if thrown overboard?
Don't they realize the guys on the opposing teams have the same paraphernalia and rituals?
Or have you noticed the people who drive like maniacs but think that because they have religious items on their dashboard or hanging on their rearview mirrors it's okay?
We all have our superstitions. Some people call it obsessive compulsive disorder. Somehow we'll be kept safe, or we'll win, or God will like us best if we carry trinkets of our belief. Or maybe we don't really believe in anything but the power of the sacramental.
Touch wood.
1 comment:
religion is so very very very strange. like look what's happening with the pope. around the world he is loved and revered. but his spirituality is based on the mistaken notion that christ rose from the dead. let's face it. no way anyone ever got dead and then got alive. but i'm not saying i have any less respect for the dude. really i liked his style. and as far as beliefs go of course i gotta admit that what i just said is also based on the mistaken notion that i think i know what i'm talking about. of course i don't! no one does!
but when things really get tough for me, the anxiety creeping through the psyche like a mother rat burrowing for its young in my curare laden belly, that's when i'm reciting soft and fast "Hail Marys" like nobody's business. and you know waht it helps.
still i scoff at the whores down on the avenue with their tits presented to your innermost weaknesses and what is that shining chain holding as it works its way into obvious cleavage. why its the miraculous medal of the blessed virgin mary.
strange world indeed.
but not strange enough to invalidate the good.
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