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heh, pretty neat having something i wrote read and responded to by the guy ive been reading every day for the past year and change. this whole internet thing.......crazy.
anyways, if i didnt elaborate well enough my position, let me try to do so now. you brought up the angels as a good reference point. wouldnt they be most likely of all sports teams to be in gods favor? what about notre dame? they actually are a religious instituition. im sure most of if not all of the players on their football and basketball teams are devoutly religious. what do we make of their success, or lackthereof?
i think its silly to ASSUME that we as human beings, can even begin to understand the mind of a higher being. just by definition, a higher being is one whos level of understanding would be "higher" than ours. its as if you were giving a lecture to a chimpanzee on particle physics. just simply on two different levels of consciousness and mind. i cannot prove that god doesnt do favors for people, or involves himself in peoples lives, or answer prayers, but im not claiming special knowledge that he does do those things. mojician is making a gigantic claim, so he better have some special evidence to back up those claims. and thats what i mean by arrogance. to claim to know how the mind of a vastly, exponentially superior being operates, what motivates it, what he does or doesnt do in the lives of the human beings on this earth, to me seems arrogant. to many people it may not seem arrogant, but to me it most certainly does.
if god were giving favor to those sports teams whos names made reference to himself, how narcissistic and petty would that make him? kinda sounds like something a human being might crave. attention, adulation, naming something in my honor. do we really believe that the creator of the universe and everything in it cares to punish arizona state athletics because they use the name sun devils? really?
1 more thing. i went back and reread mojicians post, and to me it did seem quite dogmatic and specific.  he opened with, "does god help people perform their jobs? of course he does."  he said things like "jesus promises our daily bread, and he gives it", and  "he only helps people weather their storms, rather than giving them continual good weather."  i mean to me, those seem like specific insights into the inner workings and feelings of god. he is saying those things as though they are facts. he didnt say, in my view, or in my belief. it didnt come off as particularly open minded or tentative.
i just take issue when somebody starts making huge claims like that. thats all. i hope im not coming off like im trying to jump down his throat. i do notice that when he was talking about the rays, he did say things like "could be", and came off much less hardline than his first couple paragraphs. which i think is a much wiser way to put things when talking about gods motives. anyways, this ended up too long, so ill cut it off here. being as this is the first time ive posted on this site, i hope im not coming on too strong, or being a jerk. im just trying to articulate my position. i know religion is a hot button issue with many folks, and im not trying to incite anybody. just trying to call it how i see it.