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Ransom, Ray Lewis, Super Bowl Our National Worship
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 09:33AM 
We were born to worship. That’s why Americans invented the Super Bowl. Our national religion is not Catholic or Protestant, it is sports. Last year just over 111 million Americans watched the Super Bowl—that’s roughly the same number of people who go to church each week in the United States. Advertisers pay almost four million dollars for a 30-second commercial during the game, because they know we are paying attention during those three hours.
What is it about sports—especially the Super Bowl—that appeal to our transcendent capacity? Why do so many of us rise to the liturgy of this game? Compare the worship we offer up Super Bowl Sunday to the worship we long to give every week—or every day:
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A truly great post as it depicts our nature to pursue “the Thrill of Victory and Agony of Defeat”. Throughout the years I’ve been active in many churches of many faiths/denominations who exhibited the exact traits … and I was right there with them (at church and at church family Super Bowl parties).
My sense of belonging to a winner, or surely soon to be winner, was the ultimate invigoration to draw many, many teammates together in the direction of their efforts. We see it especially so in our mega-churches, our Evangelicals, our Pentecostals and unfortunately, also, within all our fundamentalist religions throughout the World.
When so many are counter to one another can they all be constructive to the will of God? Why so many different versions of the Way unless, maybe, there is really more than one way (and I’m simply associating with only One of the many)? If I want to be a part of the Winner who must I follow as my Head Office and what single voice do I trust as my Coach? Do I get a chance to win next year with the team that I am now aligning my efforts, my time and my resources toward, when that team lost the Big Game this year? How much must I pay the big name players on my team to assure we all win? How many teams in the league are in the running for the last big win in the final Super Bowl when Jesus is the soul official?