Reading a newspaper yesterday when I came across an article about Jarryd Hayne and his Christian faith. Apparently he was saved at Hillsong church (my church), and he notes the following about the power of his faith after he was left out of the State of origin rugby league squad:
Really? “The biggest test of my faith"! He's obviously leading pretty hard life. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, as this is such a brilliant for example of the stupidity of so much of our middle to upper class Western Christianity–concerned about the inane while the rest of the world faces real hardship.
Of course it is true that faith should change our character so that we respond in a better way to all the situations of life, and this is the point that Hayne is trying to make. But he would be better advised to keep that character development to himself. it provides atheists such as Peter Fitzgibbon with the right to ask the question: "Religious people, can you tell us: Does missing out on Origin selection count as a worthy “test of faith”? For the rest of us, it was commonsense alone that not only tested our faith, it shattered it!"
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