I will be charitable enough to accept Michael Vick’s convenient assertion that he has now “found Jesus and asked him for forgiveness and turned my life over to God” at face value.
Still doesn’t mean his ass shouldn’t sit in jail for the maximum penalty, and have his NFL contract torn into dog-bite-sized chews. Jesus’ forgiveness doesn’t equal the court’s, and any Christian worth the name would seek to do something material (if not penitential) to atone for the hurt done to others. Finding Jesus doesn’t mean a “Get out of Jail Free” card, and it doesn’t mean a guaranteed multi-million dollar income when he’s done his time.
(via Les)
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Is it possible they really don’t know what a standing joke it is when a public figure is caught out? “I found Jesus!”
Can anybody really be that dense?
The first I heard of this was when I read a news story telling that the most valuable (based on bids) copies of his trading cards on ebay were the ones a woman had let her dog chew up.
It does seem to be “Public Relations Emergency Maneuver #1.” I do feel some obligation to give the benefit of the doubt (I’m uncomfortable questioning a man’s heart), but I can see how scandalously dubious it is — and, as I noted, it ought to have little bearing on the legal and civil proceedings.