Its actually a sad commentary on how pathetic we’ve become:
Last week Florida Gators Quarterback Tim Tebow’s photo may have graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, the same magazine that is best known for its annual “swimsuit issue,” but the contrast between the two cover stories couldn’t have been more glaring.
At 21 years of age and graced with boyish good looks, Tebow is one of the most talked about rising stars of the NCAA; but the football superstar literally left reporters speechless last week when he answered a question during a press conference about whether or not he is “saving himself” for marriage.
“Yes I am,” said Tebow briefly, who then indicated he was ready for the next question. However, in the video of the press conference, a reporter is heard stumbling over his words in the background as he tries to ask a follow-up question. Tebow then laughs, obviously reacting to the reactions of the reporters in the room.
“I think y’all were stunned by that,” he says. “Y’all can’t even ask a question. Wow. I mean, I was ready for that question. I don’t think y’all were.”
It wasn’t the only controversial remark that Tebow made that day. In response to another question about whether or not people may be tired of the volume of coverage devoted to the young football star, Tebow, a devout Christian, said that the level of exposure he receives is a mixed blessing. However, he said, he looks at the positive side that, thanks to his fame, he has been able to share his Christian faith with so many people.
Tebow is also an abortion survivor – as the story goes on to note, Tebow’s mother was pressured to have an abortion due to infections during her pregnancy. She chose life, the world got a good quarterback and, more importantly, someone who is smarter than most of us.
I think all of us who convert or “revert” (as I did) to the Christian faith almost immediately realize that pre-conversion, we were a bunch of creeps and we’d give just about anything if we could make the past as if it had never been. Talking it over not too long ago with a single-mother friend of mine – shortly after I got married and after she became engaged to be married – we both realized that it is a very large regret that the particular aspect of physical intimacy would never be, for us, something we solely self-donated to the person we decided to marry. Tebow will, God willing, never have such issues. It is to be hoped that he’ll find himself a woman who is as wise as he’s been (though, of course, if God wills that it end up being a woman who gave herself to folly, then that will be fine, too; and Tebow will be a rock of support for such a woman rebuilding her life).
This is a man who is altogether admirable – doubly so because I’ll bet large amounts of money that he’d be the first person to deny anything special about himself. And in the larger sense he is right – he is the normal man; those of us who bought in to the lies of the modern world, we’re the abnormal ones…even if that means most people alive are abnormal.
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