Tripp York, an instructor in religious studies, published a satirical prayer titled "A Prayer to the All-Powerful, All-Knowing and Beneficent God Who Really Loves Sports (but not the Orioles and Some South Asians)" in the Spring 2009 edition of Christian Ethics Today.
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