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Kaka may have come out saintly after rejecting Manchester City's 100 million pound transfer carrot, but the AC Milan superstar performs a goal celebration that reveals alot that is egoistical about his religion.

Prima facie, this heavenward-goal dedication is touching. But it symbolises the illogical nature of many practitoners of his religion, Christianity.

Soccer, in how it distils complex reality into a simpler polemic, has inadvertently provided us a lucid case study.

In a team with 11 players and thousands more fans, each side has more than its fair share of devotees seeking divine help. On a meta-level, to pray for and celebrate the success of their team is an impossible contradiction, as the result can only go one way, disappointment or success. The 'raised hands celebrtion's' most glaring problem: it's only done when winning.

To thank his/their god for every goal makes said god fickle-minded at best. For how can this god indulge the aggregate aspirations of one side one week, and exclude it the next? It'd take a very whimsical deity to do that; that moniker necessarily profanity to the so-called 'Rock of Ages'.

But it's probably the fans who are stone-headed. Will you ever see the the Christian section of the Rossoneri ostentatiously thanking Jesus for teaching them about "learning things the hard way" if AC Milan gets trashed 5-0? Only if they do that, will theirs cease to be the self-centered sun dance it is.