The Sports Crazed Idol

There will be lots of men and women acting like children tomorrow, feeding their narcissistic need to be elevated by proxy through a winning team. I will probably get blasted for this one, but I really see no purpose in grown men being paid huge bucks to pretend they care about the city that hired them, while they were born and raised somewhere else.

It makes more sense to me that a ball player would be born and raised in the area they represent on a ball team. But then again, we have to remember too, that this is merely entertainment crazed America that takes it's amusement to ultimate extremes.


When we are in family gatherings and nothing else is discussed except the ball games, we can sense how important they are to those present. No one is speaking about anything that matters for eternity, and irritation is expressed when there is a suggestion to move into a new area of dialogue.

The one who suggested that we talk about something else is treated as though they had committed some sort of infraction worthy of banishment, we can be sure we are dealing with idol worshipers.

Many of us have television shows we watch from time to time, we know they are not important, we use them to fill time when we are too tired to do anything else or when we have finished our work and want to relax.

However if any of us were to talk incessantly about the shows we watch, those listening would become bored and even aggravated at our endless verbiage. Carrying on relentlessly about every detail of the show we watched would annoy us bitterly, sort of like nails crossing a blackboard. There, now we have a picture of what this sports insanity feels like to those of us who are not interested.

As long as we are in America, we will have entertainment, it behoves us to evaluate what we are watching, how often we watch and whether or not we have turned the entertainment into an idol, through an obsession with it. If we find ourselves speaking more about our entertainment than we do God or the needs of others, then we can be sure we have idolatry in our hearts.

Even clean entertainment, seems almost like an oxymoronic idea, can be an idol if we enjoy more of it than we do working, praying and reading our Bibles.

Notice how much the secular media loves this stuff, that should give us a very big clue.

Just some things on which to cogitate in the coming hours, given the next immense event on the agenda in the media.