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Now, isn’t it ironic that all this should be happening for sport? To me, sport is all about celebrating human<\/i> endeavour. Perhaps this is best reflected in the fact that the team that invokes God the most was the first strong team to crash out of the World Cup. Divine intervention ain’t no good if you don’t walk the hard yards yourself: that’s one good lesson sport teaches.<\/p>\n
On a related note<\/b>, do check out this excellent piece<\/a> by Austin Cline on atheism, in which he makes the following point:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cOm Wicketkeepera Namah?\u201d - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/om-wicketkeepera-namah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cOm Wicketkeepera Namah?\u201d - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A short while ago Set Max, as part of Extraaaaaaaa Innings, showed a gentleman somewhere in India doing Pooja for the Indian cricketers. 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