Motormouth: Religious people who worship motor racing are less likely to enter heaven

Motorsport might be an ungodly pursuit because it puts lives at risk, harms the environment and overconsumes precious resources in a sinful way.

Therefore, it’s probably a sin for religious people to indulge in motorsport, with the level of sinfulness matching the motorsporty activity in question. 

The lowest, almost harmless, level is to follow any form of motorsport as a reader (e.g. news stories and website articles), viewer (e.g. telecasts and livestreams of motor races), and/or listener (e.g. podcasts and radio reports).

The next level is teeming with journalists who create the motorsport content and the media outlets which propagate it. Key opinion leaders (qualified or otherwise) and so-called influencers also drive this dissemination of motorsport action/information across the internet and around our poor planet, which suffers from the additional emissions (carbon, smoke, noise) generated by motor racing and its associated activities.   

The next higher level of sinfulness in the motorsport context is where you play an active support role in the fast and furious world of motor racing. 

These guilty parties include the mechanics, engineers and technicians who provide the elbow grease, and the businessmen, sponsors and organisers who manage the money. Slightly less guilty are the race-related officials who enforce the rules and ensure fair competition. 

Sharing the guilt, and sometimes supercharging it, are the government bureaucrats who pave the path for major motorsport events, the civil servants who approve the necessary permits, the logistics experts who transport the teams from race to race, and even the administrative staff who handle the paperwork. 

The level of sinfulness when worshipping motorsport is most infernal if you participate as a driver. 

Behind the wheel of your racing machine, whatever its power and purpose, the Devil is your wicked co-driver whose one-track mind only thinks of the fastest corners to theological disaster.  

The machine doesn’t matter. Everything from a basic go-kart to an exotic F1 rocket would qualify the driver as losing his or her faith in some way.  

The race series also doesn’t matter. It is ultimately a sinful championship, where the competitors are speeding towards eternal oblivion and God is watching from a distance.

Wait a minute! If the Almighty is watching the race, could he be the supreme superfan? 

Here’s hoping that motorsport devotees won’t be denied entry to heaven when they take the chequered flag at the end of their final life-lap on earth. 

Theological disaster is around the corner for this racing driver.

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