Taking sides with Dylan on the God question

If both teams or participants are praying to God before a game or contest, and only one wins, doesn’t that prove that God is on one side but not on the other?

Taking sides with Dylan on the God question

It’s not often you’ll see it written here, so enjoy it while you can: Bob Dylan was on to something when he wrote With God On Our Side.

If you are a fan of overrated troubadours from the mid-60s, a field with plenty of candidates jostling for attention, you probably know the song, which lists participants in various wars and asks how the winners could claim divine support if their defeated opponents claimed the same.

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