Collie stood by his comments afterwards, saying his intent was to reflect a belief that good living and hard work pay off with success.

Hmmmm


Sounds like all the comments above stating he was just talking about Karma.

Regardless of what people think Karma does have a place in religious/theological entities. Buddhist and Hindu have many aspects intermingled with philosophy that utilize the concept of Karma.


http://www.gotquestions.org/karma.html

Christianity and even we as Mormons also have the aspect of Karma in our religion (reap what you sow).

http://lds.org/scriptures/search?lang=eng&query=reap&x=0&y=0


So to try to state that one was speaking about Karma and one was being Religions/self-righteous is pretty humorous.