Jesus may be Sarah Palin's personal savior and God may be Kurt Warner's co-pilot, but the Lord Almighty has a funny way of rewarding some of his loudest evangelists.
Back in late October, Sarah confidently predicted that on election day, God will do the right thing for America. Meanwhile, Kurt Warner apparently did Joe Namath one better during the week leading up to the Super Bowl, suggesting that God would guarantee a victory for his Cardinals.
Happily, as it turns out, God doesn't choose favorites.
But all of this personal appropriation of God and God's will, while funny on the surface, is really rather scary. More so when politicians do it, than when quarterbacks do it, but scary either way.
It all stems from the same ethos that guides a suicide bomber to carry out an attack on civilians. Or the delusional belief that your dog is telling you to kill people. Any time a mere mortal claims to have God on his or her side, bad things are bound to happen, because it leaves everyone else out in the cold.
Naturally, neither Sarah or Kurt bothered to explain why God let them down in their respective moments. Apparently, God's work only manifests itself when good things happen to them.