With Wake Forest starting 5-0, this should be an easy time to bask in the program and in college football generally. Should be. But although I, like Wake Forest, broke with the Southern Baptists some time ago, enough of the old low-church is in my blood that I can’t help but feel uneasy. Baptist theology is not strictly Calvinist, since the whole point of adult baptism is the free will of the individual soul, but it’s just as distrustful of anything that feels too good. 5-0 feels good, feels really good, and a lot of Wake Forest folks, myself included, just can’t trust it. We want to stand and cheer, to holler our lungs out like we were at a revival, to ride this winning streak right into the New Year. But we’ve grown up Wake Forest fans, and Southern Baptists, and we assume Apocalypse is right around the corner. Or next Saturday.
* Nothing really makes good Baptists happy.
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