Is Religion Losing Ground to Sports? The New Golden Calf?

[Shooby]

Is religion losing ground to sports?

By Chris Beneke and Arthur Remillard, Published: January 31

Chris Beneke is an associate professor of history at Bentley University and the author of “Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism.” Arthur Remillard is an associate professor of religious studies at Saint Francis University and the author of “Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era.”

“Some people go to Jerusalem. I go to Pittsburgh.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-religion-losing-ground-to-sports/2014/01/31/6faa4d64-82bd-11e3-9dd4-e7278db80d86_story.html

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[mollyanna58]

I saw a sign in front of a church yesterday: "Be sure to join us for pre-Super Bowl worship"

[Shooby]

LOL! Pray for your team to win big!