Morgan Shepherd: On the Road with Jesus [Archive]

justsaygnosis

14th May 2003, 03:43 PM

It must be that good versus evil thing again.
Josh Hill must be one of those 'challenges of faith' kinda guys.
It appears the judeo-christian anthropomorphic god is as capricious as all the rest of the man made deities.
It must have been a good idea to let 9/11/2001 happen so this nation could go over and kill some muslims for jesus or something to that effect.
I guess some days the guardian angels are off on coffee break or working out contract discrepancies when one of their charges gets overrun by random occurrence.

CSSMariner

14th May 2003, 04:57 PM

I knew Morgan Shepard when he lived in my hometown of Eden, North Carolina. Our sons were friends.

Morgan is illiterate, he can only sign his name. Well in any case that was about twelve-thirteen years or so back, and before I moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1993. He could not read then, and given his age I doubt that he has made much progress since then.

Morgan would drink and beat his wife and his son. He was under the control of "Mr. Booze" for a long time. He has been married more than once, and was by and large an a**hole. Correction, a stupid, religious, a**hole. He still is as far as I can tell from afar.

Fundamentalist Christianity is endemic to the NASCAR crowd. When Michael Waltrip hit the wall by the edge of a track entrance gate at one race, and I can no longer remember which track it was, his car was literally ripped in half with the front end down track and the rest with him still strapped in the seat looking back up the track at approaching cars. Luckily, everyone missed him and he lived. He was also knocked out by the impact.

He swore that he died in that crash, and was standing before his God who told him that he still had more work to do in life; therefore, he was restored and returned to his body. It was the talk of the garage area, and the really depressing thing was most of the NASCAR folks believed him and accepted that crap. At the time in my company, Hughes R&D, I was designing and building high strength, light weight suspension and chassis components for Busch and Winston Cup cars. Some of them were used in Waltrip's car. That is how I was so familiar with the NASCAR drivers and builders.

Be that as it may, it seems that God is a NASCAR fan, but is always riding with the winner for some reason, the picky dip.