PLAYING GOD
This is part of the primordial temptation to be as gods. In the film “Hoosiers,” actor Gene Hackman, playing the role of a new coach in a small Indiana town, responds to the charge that too much importance is being given to basketball in the school. His antagonist complains that basketball players are being treated as gods. Hackman replies, “Don’t you understand that men would kill to be treated like God for just a few minutes?” That is self-esteem run amok. It is self-esteem tottering on the brink of destruction. It is the opposite of the lowliness of mind to which we are called. From The Applause of Heaven, by Max Lucado
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