Sports talk radio is not the best entertainment but it sure beats Glen, Rush, and Sean beating up the Obama administration. Listeners in Philadelphia have listened to forty-eight hours of casuistry while Eagles’ fans process the reality of Michael Vick being added to the roster. After serving two years in federal prison for molesting and killing dogs in dog-fight related activities, Vick has been cleared by the NFL to play and the Eagles swooped him up. For a sampling of the moral outrage, check this out.
Now if only we could convince football fans that an unborn child is higher on the chain of being than a pit bull.
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How about we convince pro&college sports fans that such amusements are merely training for jingoism? I think there’s an inverse relation of sports-following popularity to societal morality.
Baus, come to think of it, I can’t recall any neo-Calvinist of note who ever wrote about sports. Something wrong there.
Convince football ( Philly in particular) fans…!?
I don’t know which is harder: convincing Rushies and Beckies that theirs is more entertainment-hackery or neo-Calvinists theirs is a low view of creation.
Baus, I’m America’s second least interested male in sports, but lighten up, man. Besides, remember, Jesus is Lord over every square inch, even those you and I have little to no need for. Hey, I thought you were the neo-Calvinist here?
See what I mean about light in the loafers?
One of these days, Alice, one of these days.
Don’t be silly. Of course neocalvinists have written about sports!
See Mark Roques “Fields of God”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fields-God-Football-Kingdom/dp/1850785066
I can’t necessarily recommend the perspective offered therein (haven’t read it), as I take Chomsky’s views (gasp!) to be partial common grace insights on the matter, viz, pro/college sports are a means of indoctrination to passivity and irrational submission to authority and group-think.
Allow me to mention in a non-fallacious way that the Nazi’s loved sports for good reason.
A “redemptive” approach to sports would include utterly neglecting (or otherwise opposing and undermining) the corrupt pro/college industry (as it is entirely designed to distract you from things that matter; waste your time, focus, and money) in favor of healthy recreation and personal discipline and responsibility.
But I don’t suppose you have any idea of what I’m talking about. It’s hard to see past addictions.
Why is a neo-Cal perspective always about more virtue and less corruption? What is unique to neo-Calvinism about that? PETA has lots of morality, so do the opponents of the Eagles hiring Michael Vick. When will neo-Cal’s take forgiveness and grace as the paradigmatic paradigm of a Christian outlook? (Mind you, I am as judgmental and prone to self-righteousness as the next. But really, all the virtuecrats need to hear how they sound.)
The obvious moral corruption in sports isn’t something neocalvinists made up.
But my point is actually that the pro/college industry is a corruption of “health” –intellectual, societal, etc; and a corruption of the sports themselves. If there is a true spirit of any given sport, I believe it is best cultivated with the “ideal of the amateur” so to speak. Pro/college sports are to real sport what mechanically processed meat-like food products are to Bessie (the animal that eats grass in my back yard).
I don’t think a Christian outlook on anything need view “nature & grace” as an either/or.
Again, an understanding of neocalvinism’s “structure & direction” helps here.
Don’t neglect division 2.
The ignorance of the Reformed academics on display. Obama and his Alinsky pukes from Chicago attempting to put a socialist tyranny on this nation, and you blithely complain about the only voices in the media that confront that evil. Not being able to discern evil, not having valuation for the fight itself, is a sign of lack of regeneration. You sound like liberals. Liberals in the world, liberals in the Christian academy, same thing. Why do you people self-identify as Christian?
“Why do you people self-identify as Christian?”
I get it — “Christian.”
I don’t know what “division 2″ means. I’m thinking it’s an inside joke about dualism, but I have no idea. Thankfully!
Please don’t explain.
I’m scared that the Pit bull desires a unique kind of owner…these pet dogs, regardless of how ‘supportive’ nevertheless have teeth, are still animals without moral ideas and when they DO bite, won’t let go. As in all animals…some often be more suseptable to instinctual habits and time and time again, this breed tends to perform just that.
Unbeliebvale how well-written and informative this was.