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Sports
Now, if we're going to be Christlike, there is
no way that we can be involved in the majority
of sporting events. Football in our country is
one of the most brutal. Colleges are identified
not by their academics; they're identified
basically by their sporting programs. During
football season, we see people gather around the
altar every Saturday for several months for
college football, and they get all caught up in
that. Spurgeon made this statement in the
1800s: "This is the age of excessive amusement.
Everybody craves for it like a baby for its
rattle. In the more sober years of our fathers,
men and women had something to live for better
than silly sports.” Again, I've got another list of
quotes just on the subject of sports. When we
talk about sports, we're talking about athletic
contests, races, the gladiator games, the boxing,
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