Murray, that you’re writing about an avowed pagan as if there’s some moral lesson here for Christian readers is silly. I appreciate your message on repentance at the end but overall you’re simply saying that Lance is a bad man.

Well, we all know that. What would one expect? Lance is driven by a humanistic, pagan worldview and is appealing to the sporting authorities. et al, from and to that gestalt.

Even if he was forgiven, his titles restored and fines returned, he and everyone involved would never be satisfied because there is no justice in a pagan worldview.

Do I individually have a responsibility to forgive Lance? For what, I ask? All he ever did was provide entertainment, whether that was the thrill of watching him win or vicariously enjoying his shame when his sins were revealed–it was all and nothing more than entertainment.

Perhaps I should be asking Lance for forgiveness for holding him, firstly, in high regard and, secondly, in contempt. He is deserving of neither of those since all he is and ever was is a sinner not yet saved by grace.

The irony boggles the mind: the 20th century has taught us that we are simply the random byproduct of a process where only the fittest survive. Lance Armstrong should be lauded for showing us what can be achieved when not mired down by society’s fallacious moral constraints. He is the best example we have of a pagan, humanistic worldview.