Spirituality: Football not Environment

Ahnimus

Quite possibly the dumbest thing I ever heard.

I was watching CBC's The Agenda with Steve Paikin. The topic was "Worshipping at Secular Altars" guest was Cheri DiNovo
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=379038&ts=2007-07-06%2020:00:19.0

Cheri says something to the effect:

"I don't mind so much that people use faith and spirituality in sports. It's when they attribute it to something that is totally non-related to spirituality, like environmentalism."

Ok, what? First, I don't buy the whole spirituality thing anyway. But to suggest that the environment is "non-related" to spirituality is a joke.

Is it just me, or do Canadian debate shows like The Agenda and The Hour find some of the least intelligent and uninformed Canadians to participate in their debates?

OutOfBreath

OK, about where in the interview is this part? Maybe she says something there. But my interpretation of your verbatim would go along the lines of this: She has no problem with athletes thanking god and so on, as long as they dont relate it to unreligious things. She is really a christian something or other but has to use the phrase "spirituality" for it to be general and pc enough for a politician. So if athletes and so on use the name of god, they must mean it in a religious sense, she feels.

And environmentalism can have but doesn't have to have spiritual underpinnings motivating it. A completely rational argument of (self)preservation can justify it well enough.

As for the environment not having anything to do with spirituality, well, she's a christian, and christians often practise a sharp division between the material world and the soul. The environment, being of the material world, is thus not related to spirituality.

Needless to say, I don't agree with anything of what she seemed to be saying.

PS: TV-debate shows are all 100% crap. I think that's kindof universal. Some are less bad than others.

Peace
Dan