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Katie Thomas: For Coach, God and Archery Are a Package Deal [LINK-ZUM]

During the Olympics, [Kisik Lee, the head coach of the United States archery team] and at least three of the five United States archers who qualified to compete in Beijing met every morning to sing hymns and read from the Bible, and to attend church together in the chapel at the Olympic Village. Lee believes having a strong faith makes for better archers because it helps quiet their minds. To that end, he tailored [archer Brady Ellison]'s Olympic schedule to include spiritual and athletic objectives. "I give him six tasks a day, including reading the Bible and education," Lee said. "And he's doing it." [...] To be an effective archer, Lee said, athletes must learn to clear their heads and focus. "If you are Christian," he said, "then people can have that kind of empty mind."

[Article continues at link. God is a busy deity. He has to monitor and maintain the orbits of the electrons of 1.7 x 10^77 hydrogen atoms in the part of the Universe that is visible to humans, make sure the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Georgia and Sri Lanka and Darfur and Somalia are going according to plan, keep up various famines and plagues, oh, there's just so much to do! But at the same time God cares very much that the right people win the archery competition in the 2008 Olympics. That is why Coach Lee had his team use time that might otherwise be wasted in training instead in the more important pursuit of talking to an invisible monster that lives in the sky. All you have to do is look at who is winning to see the effectiveness of having a mind emptied by Christianity. - Trevor Blake]

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