Posted on 11/08/2015 8:56:45 AM PST by springwater13
In Carson’s telling, an early instance of heavenly intervention comes during his freshman year at Yale. It is the night before a final exam in chemistry, and Carson, who had developed weak study habits in high school, is hopelessly behind in the class. If he fails, he will have to drop out of pre-med. “Either help me understand what kind of work I ought to do,†Carson prays to God, “or else perform some kind of miracle and help me pass this exam.†While he sleeps, Carson dreams that a nebulous figure enters the chemistry hall and begins working out problems, while Carson, sitting alone in class, takes rapid notes. The next morning, the actual test contains all the questions from the dream. Carson scores a 97. “For whatever reason,†he concludes, “the God of the universe, the God who holds galaxies in His hands, had seen a reason to reach down to a campus room on planet Earth and send a dream to a discouraged ghetto kid.â€
Set aside for a moment that when a college student has not prepared for an exam, yet somehow learns the questions ahead of time, supernatural assistance is but one possible explanation. God didn’t just help him pass a test, Carson decides, but also expressed divine support for the young man’s vocation. Carson tells readers that he had “the sense that God not only wanted me to be a physician, but that He had special things for me to do.â€
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Jesus helps me fill out my tax return and I always get money back.
Two things.
The Post writer is an idiot who has never taken a Chemistry class and would fail if it tried.
And why did they not go over Obama’s book with the sane zeal?
Obviously this latter is a rhetorical question we know the answer to.
The author of this hit piece is a racist and a religious bigot. There, I said it.
And that’s why a talentless hack like Carlos Lozada is writing for the Washington Post.
I’m not sure Jesus got him into Yale, but Affirmative Action sure did.
This article is weird. So now Jesus helped him cheat on a test by showing him the questions ahead of time? Was this before or after he supposedly had his picture taken for the Yale paper for being the most “honest” student?
Surely you will agree that pride goeth before the fall?
Well, I guess since Carson and Obama are so close on policy issues and friends, this is a sort of association vetting of Obama.
You have continuously proven yourself an unintelligent, dishonest (intellectually and otherwise) jack ass.
Keep it up.
Yeah, that is why he graduated with the highest GPA ever.....
If Carson believes that the Lord intervened and helped him in college, then that's what happened..
That's what faith is.
The author, IMO, is poking fun at faith at Carson's expense.
Not that I am surprised, because this media lynching is all about anti- religious bias and not really about vetting a candidate.
The Post is really bending over backward to demean Carson.
This article is sophomoric to it’s core.
End over end, neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them, righteous up rights
Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life
Make me, oh, make me, Lord, more than I am
Make me a piece in Your master game plan
Free from the earthly temptation below
I’ve got the will, Lord, if You got the toe
And it's not at all to dream the answers. Happened to me more then once.
You can call it divine intervention, and maybe that's true.
But it's also true that your mind works on issues during the semi-waking state when concentration is easier. Ask just about any decent engineering or science student.
I guess it's not shocking to see these Journalism majors go into ridiculous detail about a guy's college courses 50 years ago. We all know they're lazy scum who throw rocks at anyone who achieves anything. Communists have always been that: the dumbthugs who pull down anyone who tries, and gets ahead of the violent and stupid.
So we are supposed to take his word that he didn’t study for a test and Jesus gave him the answers anyway? In my world, if you don’t study you fail - as it should be.
Carson is either delusional or a fraud. Take your pick.
I don’t see a named writer for the article. Did no one ‘fess up to this, or was it just an omission in your posting? I think every one of these halfa$$ed “journalists” should have their name known quite publicly.
To an atheistic secular humanist giving God credit is humblebragging. ..kinda like shining a flashlight in his/her eyes.
Jesus take the wheel.
Use the Force, Luke.
“The author, IMO, is poking fun at faith at Carson’s expense.”
This is a juvenile article on all levels.
Ultimately it is the equivalent of junior high kids making fun of another.
And it is absurd to use a book written to be inspirational book for this sort of supposed criticism as if it is a work of academic history or biography.
http://www.pattonhq.com/prayer.html
Another who believed in prayer.
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