I know. You're thinking: what in the heck (or, maybe, hell) is a diary about poker doing on Daily Kos?
Well, tonight I saw perhaps the most hilarious moment in poker -- EVER. It was a huge pot in the biggest poker tournament on the planet -- the World Series of Poker -- and one of the players was "all-in."
What ensued was tremendous hilarity. One of the players prayed -- seriously -- to God. The other player's fiancee quoted scripture and asked God to let her soon-to-be-husband win the pot so that he would become a believer. I'm not kidding! Video after the jump.
This moment was so precious, so spectacular, I put it up on YouTube. Watch the clip. You'll wet your pants as you watch these two people act as if God takes sides in poker tournaments.
Whether you are a believer or not, I think you can agree with me that these people were taking the Lord's name in vain.
They were taking what John F. Kennedy said about country, applying it to religion, and inverting it.
They were saying: "Ask not what you can do for mankind, but what God can do for you."
I think when people refer to God as an "imaginary friend," this is exactly what they mean.
The God to which these people prayed is certainly an imaginary friend.
There may be a God, or a higher power, or a spiritual union amongst mankind. But he, she, or it certainly isn't taking sides at the poker table. That's what random chance was invented for.
Peace,
Patel1946
George Orwell wrote Politics and the English Language in 1946