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stitcherman
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the "religion" of television sports
 Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:28 pm
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http://www.religionlink.org/tip_050118a.php
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After organized worship, athletic competition is perhaps the oldest communal impulse known to mankind, and today sports and religion mirror each other as never before, experts say. "Super Bowl Sunday" on Feb. 6, 2005, is a case in point: a Sabbath-day event that will bring thousands to a contemporary cathedral - and tens of millions more via television - to watch gridiron gladiators who call on God's help for their success.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/worship
wor·ship (wûrshp)
n.
1.
a. The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.
b. The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed.
2. Ardent devotion; adoration.
3. often Worship Chiefly British Used as a form of address for magistrates, mayors, and certain other dignitaries: Your Worship.
v. wor·shiped or wor·shipped, wor·ship·ing or wor·ship·ping, wor·ships
v.tr.
1. To honor and love as a deity.
2. To regard with ardent or adoring esteem or devotion. See Synonyms at revere1.
v.intr.
1. To participate in religious rites of worship.
2. To perform an act of worship.
This pic sure looks like worship.
http://www.centralohio.com/ohiostate/football/fans/gallery/photo03.jpg
Walk into a public place and watch as men stare into a box, dress themselves in the same colors and symbols as in the television. Look at the intensity at wich they stare into the "BOX". Scream with joyfull emotion or express the human feeling of dissapointment. All for some guy in a box catching a ball that has absolutely nothing to do with them or their life in any way.(sports financial bettors excuded)
The chatter of knowledge of useless statistics among them and to the extent is simply amazing.
One of their parents or wife or child could be cured of a lifethreatening disease and the amount of joy and celebration and sharing with other people in there life would be one tenth the joy and jubilation expressed by sports worshippers for a "win" by "their" "team".
Oh yes it is worship.
a. The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.
b. The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed.
2. Ardent devotion; adoration.
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Or possibly television sport enthusiasts are in (or participate in) a cult?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult
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1: formal religious veneration : worship
a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement
And all for some guy in a box catching a ball that realisticly has absolutely nothing to do with them or their life in any way.(sports financial bettors excuded)
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Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:04 am
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They don't pay people $600K per week to speak the truth. Nor do they pay them to even spark some intrigue into looking for it.
Funny how the world is engineered so all the good people in the world have no or little money. Still its all control.
The only real way is to boycott them - stop feeding/fueling the elite and make the change by creating it with the other.
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perverted_introvert
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Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:07 am
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quote:
Super Bowl Sunday" on Feb. 6, 2005, is a case in point: a Sabbath-day event
Do you know where the Sabbath originated? Judaism. Do you know what day it was? Saturday.
Fail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat
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Shabbat or Shabbos (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, shabbes, "rest/inactivity"), is the weekly Sabbath or day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night.
Hmmm SUN-day? Sounds vaguely pagan if you ask me.
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/notsun.htm
Exodus 20:8:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020:8-11&version=9;
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8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Dan%207:8-10,21,22,25,26&version=31;
25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.
Still going to a church with a steeple? Haven't you read your Old Testament?
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stitcherman
Joined: 19 May 2007
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Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:49 pm
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the worship of kissing the ground in front of millions. 
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/2003-nascar-4.jpg
And a even better perspective of the worship.
Look at the banner at the top!
http://www.scenedaily.com/news/articles/sprintcupseries/Kyle_Busch_needs_to_kiss_the_bricks_at_Indy.html
Don't miss the race now,  sunday at 1. 
........Walk into a public place and watch as men stare into a box, dress themselves in the same colors and symbols as in the television. Look at the intensity at which they stare into the "BOX". Scream with joyfull emotion or express the human feeling of dissapointment. All for some guy in a box catching a ball that has absolutely nothing to do with them or their life in any way.(sports financial bettors excuded)
The chatter of knowledge of useless statistics among them and to the extent ;is simply amazing.
One of their parents or wife or child could be cured of a life threatening disease and the amount of joy and celebration and sharing with other people in there life would be one tenth the joy and jubilation expressed by sports worshippers for a "win" by "their" "team".
Oh yes it is worship.
a. The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.
b. The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed.
2. Ardent devotion; adoration.
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". . . that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." -- Thomas Jefferson's Last Letter, June 24, 1826 |
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shatoga
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Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:26 am
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Thanks for the topic.
Came to mind:
"The Great Gawd Harley Davidson" (movie Galaxina)
Worshipped by millions with religious gatherings, processions such as Sturgis, Daytona, where people bring their household gods to display and venerate.
Many feel the presence of the spirit in any very large gathering of bikers.
Disclaimer and apology.
I took some time off and missed a couple years of posts
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