Beware of "The Underdog Wins" Stories

[Johny Joe Hold]

It seems like every year there is a new movie about the skinny kid whom everyone ignores but comes off the bench to win the big game. The same is true of politicians and business people who claim to come from humble beginnings and rise to fortune and fame. At Landover Baptist Church, we know this is not reality.

Reality happens when people of wealthy heritage are given advantages and use them to elbow out the not so fortunate. This is the way Jesus wants to world to run. Let's look at where this lesson comes from.

Jesus was raised by Joeseph. Joeseph was not some homeless failure, he was what we would call today contractor. This prosperity funded Jesus' career as a young preacher, saving thousands of souls. Without a head start in life Jesus would not have become a world figure. No one knows this better than Jesus Himself. That is why His favorite church today is the prosperous Landover Baptist.

Donald Trump is another example. Donld's father was a wealthy real estate investor. He passed along to Donald several million dollars and the skills necessary to buy and sell plus not pay back loans when it was helpful to his bottom line.

The skinny kid on the bench story actually was about a kid whose parents had money to send him to special athletic training camps. Regardless of how appealing those stories are about the underdog who wins, God favors those of us who have resources.

Are underdog stories realistic to my life? | Voice (christianpost.com)

[MitzaLizalor]

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Thoughtful message. And there in the piece was a valuable Scripture message

II Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

no better exemplified than in our own Pastor, especially the sound mind bit. And also the power but most of all, in love.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

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It's a disappointing piece, to be sure.

We often hearken back to simpler times when noble families exhibited moral leadership and ne'er do wells were drowned in the lake. Things like that make sense, whereas nowadays - including this pointless article - lines are blurred. In the story of David and Goliath, we root for David of course, the winner. Duh. In the fable of Baa Baa Black Sheep, we root for the rugged individual and a low-tax low-regulation economy. Because that's what creates job creators, who then create jobs for all the useless people.

I think the Christian Post needs to up its game instead of posting socialist propaganda.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Beware of "The Underdog Wins" Stories

It's a disappointing piece, to be sure.
We often hearken back to simpler times when noble families exhibited moral leadership and ne'er do wells were drowned in the lake. Things like that make sense, whereas nowadays - including this pointless article - lines are blurred. In the story of David and Goliath, we root for David of course, the winner. Duh. In the fable of Baa Baa Black Sheep, we root for the rugged individual and a low-tax low-regulation economy. Because that's what creates job creators, who then create jobs for all the useless people.

Singer John Fogarty made a lot of money with the-skinny-kid-wins myth. He had a song called, Put Me In Coach. If a kid's father owns the team, or is on the School Board, that kid has made the team. The U.S. is a simple place where justice prevails.

John Fogerty - Centerfield - YouTube

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

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If a kid's father owns the team, or is on the School Board, that kid has made the team. The U.S. is a simple place where justice prevails.

Before there were teams and school boards there was drab cultural void. Everything was homogeneous mediocrity. Now we have a greatly enriched experience with Starbucks, Subway and Target superstores in every town, as far as the eye can see. When it's Halloween time, they wheel out the orange decorations and sell pumpkin spice flavored corn syrup snacks then when it's Thanksgiving they bring out turkey flavored corn syrup snacks, and then at Christmas - a special time - they dust off the sparkly decorations and candy corn shaped corn syrup snacks for us. Ho ho ho. After that there's pink colored decorations for Valentines, egg-shaped corn syrup snacks for Easter, which runs straight into Mother's Day and/or Father's Day probably, I forget, with more snacks and more decorations and then it's time to sugar up for something or other and then we celebrate July 4th with mountains of corn syrup straight out of the jar and smeared over turkey and baked into honey marshmallow triple-bypass bread, nom nom nom. I'm so glad they force feed culture into us otherwise the whole world would be a barren wasteland.