After Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson went down in Sunday's exhibition game in Pittsburgh, the almost universal disposition was that he'll miss the coming season with a torn ACL. It predictably raised all the old questions about what kind of reform, if any, should come to the NFL preseason.
All questions that Lions safety Glover Quin doesn't think need to be asked. It was God's will, he said that Nelson be injured, so any changes the NFL would make would be meaningless anyway.
"I hated Jordy got hurt, but in my beliefs, and the way I believe, it was -- God meant for Jordy to get hurt," Quin said. "So if he wouldn't have got hurt today, he wouldn't have played in that game, if he wouldn't have practiced anymore, and the next time he walked on the field would have been opening day, I feel like he would have got hurt opening day. So in that sense, now they've got three weeks to makeadjustments and prepare before opening day, as opposed to it happening opening day and now you're in the season and now Jordy gets hurt. It happening in the preseason, you hate that it happened, but that gived them time to make adjustments and try to find something."
Quin's piety is admirable, but his theology is weak. Most philosophical theology and other religious doctrines through the centuries have always placed the freedom of the human will and of nature as primary. Good and evil, and hope and tragedy, only have any validity in relation to our ability to choose between them and learn from them, and if every movement is already a pre-determined fact planned before it is taken, then they would have no meaning.
Such a belief poses God as a dictatorial puppet-master and mankind a worthless species with no inherent reason to do anything. Which would render God making mankind a worthless and pointless project, which would render God worthless and pointless.
Not quite what he intended, most likely, but it certainly is what his comments imply.
Glover Quin needs to read some St. Thomas Aquinas.
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