In the light of pressing needs and events, it is amazing how many things fade into insignificance, and how quickly God can give us a true perspective on what is truly important.
I’d say, lighten up, hombre! There’s a lot of things that people find enjoyable... if sports is escapism, don’t we need that? Americans seem to overdo things, that’s for sure, But if God is in charge, then it’s only your relationship to Him that ultimately matters.
There are a lot of people who are so addicted to sports, that it does distract them from God and threat of socialism. This is a good article and could be published on a website such as onenewsnow or worldnetdaily.
I have been hearing alot about the fact that hollywood is shocked that it is not immune from this economic downturn. They are quite stupid to think they would be immune this time around. Old hollywood did not have TV’s, DVDs, blockbusters and netflix, much less the internet to compete with. People actually had to go to the movies to escape. In hollywoods greed for ever larger paychecks, they created all of the above to make more per movie.
I think the same will happen with sports, although a bit slower. I believe televised games, cable sports pay channels and the like will drive attendance down dramatically this year and hopefully all these over paid athletes and movie stars will finally see they are not indespenible nor are they even remotely important.
I hope more families will engage in closeness activities as this downturn occurs. Camping, going to the beach, fishing, hiking. No distractions from the family, time to build relationships. Maybe then the kids and the parents wont need to turn to athletes and movie/music idols, they can have a hero to worship in their own family, their parents, as it should be.
God did not call himself Father for no reason. We are to base our relationship on the closest one we are supposed to have. Sadly, due to the above mentioned distractions, Father is last on the list, if he is even present in the home at all anymore. I, sadly, have to say, I hope this country completely crashes. I know that it will stink, but I also can only envision how this will rebuild families, churches, communities as never before, all while eliminating most distractions.
( I posted this on another blog )
Pro sports bore me. It is to physical activity what McDonald’s is to food. Colorful, world class( I suppose) but processed, stepped on, squeezed and marketed to death. I can hardly tell where the sports commercial ends and the commercial sport begins.
Listening to coaches, talking heads and athletes are painful. I swear, there are only twenty cliches in the history of sports. If an Islamist should ever get me, forget waterboarding, just make me listen to ESPN shows for days. (I’ll talk, I’ll sign anything, but just turn it off!)
At one time, America was wide and wild with lots of physical activity, little of it organized. Now the country is rule bound, law drowned and cubicals.
I like the kids that make their own sports. Surfers, skateboarders, trail bikes, climbers. They get the idea of sports like old English gentry might of. For themselves, and their own internal growth. Maybe out of the kids will come the courage to break out of our hoary old strictures of mass amusements, time wasting and mon ‘culture’