The New American Religion: The Rise of Sports and the Decline of the Church
By ALBERT MOHLER
http://www.albertmohler.com/
February 4, 2014
Super Bowl XLVIII may have been a bust as a football game, but it was a blockbuster as a cultural event. The telecast of the event attracted a record 111.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched television event of all-time. That record will most likely be eclipsed by the next Super Bowl, and the trajectory shows no signs of dissipating. America takes its sports seriously, and Americans take football with the most seriousness of them all.
In a real sense, big-time sports represent America's new civic religion, and football is its central sacrament.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By ALBERT MOHLER
http://www.albertmohler.com/
February 4, 2014
Super Bowl XLVIII may have been a bust as a football game, but it was a blockbuster as a cultural event. The telecast of the event attracted a record 111.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched television event of all-time. That record will most likely be eclipsed by the next Super Bowl, and the trajectory shows no signs of dissipating. America takes its sports seriously, and Americans take football with the most seriousness of them all.In a real sense, big-time sports represent America's new civic religion, and football is its central sacrament.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
