Is the Super Bowl Baal Worship?

I rarely watch the whole Super Bowl, but last night was an exception because we cancelled our church service due to a winter snowstorm (12 inches) and also the fact that the Pittsburgh Steelers were playing.

But Phil Ryken, pastor of the historic Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelpia had this to say about Super bowl-mania:

"The Super Bowl is a grotesque idolatry that reveals, in so many ways, what is wrong with American culture: the self-indulgent consumption, the superficial entertainment, the hype, the marketing, the seriousness given to a grown-men's game, etc., etc. Then there is the way it displaces the worship of God (not that anyone has Sunday evening services any more)."

Read the rest of his short post here.

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