THE SPORTS GOD
The announcement was recently made that the Cleveland Browns NFL professional football team was moving to Baltimore, Maryland — after thirty years in Cleveland. Among the many Browns fans interviewed, one man sat in his pickup truck and wept as he shared his feelings concerning Cleveland’s loss of the Browns: “Now me and my family will have no place to go on Sunday.” The sad part of this story is that a man does not know where else to go on Sunday now that he can no longer worship at the shrine of professional sports, the growing religion in America. Many children no longer know the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and many adults do not know the difference between the Gospels and the Epistles. What they do know now is the names of professional sports stars along with their performance statistics and ratings. This man no longer has a place to go on Sunday. His god…
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