I think the Special Olympics are terrific. I take my kids to it. I remind them that if not for the Grace of God© it could be one of them out there, making fools of themselves.
Though I have to say, it is boring. After all, you see one retard, you've seen them all. I'd like to see some more interesting feats. Like running and carrying a pan full of burning gasoline with the other team swing bats that them to force a spill.
With a little ingenuity, they could turn it around and have it be a profit making endeavor to benefit the Church and please God. Because at the end of the day, is it not accommodating Jesus what it is all about?
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.