2008’s “God Save the Fan” asks what Tiger Woods did to piss Jesus off

eddie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:07:23 +0000

I just finished Will Leitch’s excellent book God Save the Fan. (If you’re a sports fan, I highly recommend that you check it out.) The book was published in 2008, before Tiger Woods’ exotic sex life became late-night talk show fodder.

I thought this passage was worth posting, given that we now have the benefit of hindsight:

As to what Tiger did to “piss Jesus off,” I think we now have our answer. Heh.

In case you’re interested, the chapter goes on to make what I think is an excellent point: When athletes give thanks to God, they’re not grandstanding, nor are they trying to shove their religion down your throat. Instead, what they’re really saying is, “I’m not that great, and I don’t deserve these accolades.” In other words, they’re trying to stay humble.

Map Showing the Modern Distribution of World Religions

eddie — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:58:06 +0000

I happened across this great map showing the distributions of the world’s religions. As one would expect, Christianity dominates the Americas, Europe, Northern Asia and Australia, while Islam dominates the Middle East and Northern Africa. Hinduism is big in India, and surprise surprse, the generic term “Chinese Religions” is most popular in, of all places, China.

I would have liked to have seen a little finer breakdown of some of the categories, but that aside, the map is pretty good. It breaks Christianity into Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, and Roman Catholic and Islam into Sunni and Shia. Of course many of these categories could be forther subdivided (especially Protestantism) but this is great for a general overall picture.

This is a small version of the map and key. To see the full sized version, visit Wadsworth.com.

Check out the full sized version at the Wadsworth website

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