The guidance is not to transform the physical abilities as your example suggests, it is to guide on the moral, social and religious.
I have read that Ben Carson is coming on board the Trump team. Would it be fair to say that he is capable of competently giving that advice?
I'm not sure. Partly because Carson didn't look very good doing a U-turn and endorsing the man who once
likened his temper to "a pathological disease" as incurable as the disease of child molestation, and partly
because Donaldus Minimus from all indications
rejects guidance of any kind on morality. Which is,
unfortunately, a too-close relative to too many of his supporters during the campaign who played the
card of
we're-not-electing-a-saint-or-holy-man-you-miserable-pudknockers! at least as loudly as the
Who used to play concerts.
Carson may now be Donaldus Minimus's choice for secretary of housing and urban development, but it
doesn't mean Carson has any kind of invitation to offer any kind of moral, social, or spiritual guidance.
(Considering Carson's previous career as a surgeon, I'm pretty sure Donaldus Minimus would reject
any kind of moral, social, or spiritual guidance Carson might offer as coming from someone who isn't
competent to offer what he isn't really looking for in the first place.)
By the way, my metaphor between a pitcher and a quarterback had less to do with physical ability as
with mental ability. Pitchers might need a certain physical repertoire to throw, but if they're not
doing any thinking on the mound the best fastball, the most voluptuous curve ball, the most
filthily-moving slider, the most Barishnykov-like knuckleball, the sinkerball most intended to go to
Davy Jones's Locker, is going to get spoiled. For base hits at least, for distance at most---with a meal
and a stewardess on board. Not for nothing did Warren Spahn once say that if hitting was timing
pitching was destroying timing. You've got to think as well as throw.
