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Soccer Moms are taking on The Church and wining

Posted by thebestonli • 10/14/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: God, moms, religion, sports, weekend

I was recently reading one of my local free news papers and the title of one of the stories caught my eye. The title reads "Soccer Moms vs. God". Now I said wow thats catchy I wonder what that is all about. So I began to read the article and very fast it all made sense to me. With all the sports that we have our kids in these days religious obligations are going by the way side. God takes the back seat when their is sunday football game your son is playing in Or a soccer game your daughter is playing in. No matter what religion what day saturday or sunday God Usually comes in second. Does this make sense to you? Has this happened to you before or all the time? This was a great article and it really rings a bell and made me think how about you?.

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10/14/08

DrowseyMonkey

I guess it's an issue with people who believe in god. Of course not all people care about that sort of thing. I guess if it is important enough you make choices, otherwise I guess it's not that important.

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10/14/08

lvs

thats a catchy title...but hardly any mom would want to do that in reality! I think it would not be right equating going to church to having faith in God.

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10/14/08

inmyredhead

Attending Church is not a rule so to speak. 'Church' or 'God' is inside of each beleiver. Nothing done out of obligation is done out of love. God only wants us to do things in love, for him.
So if you are hung up on the belief that you MUST attend church, then maybe you just better be doing your homework the next time you consider signing your kid up for something. Check the schedules and dates before you commit. If that's what a parent beleives, then it's a parent's job to stay on top of that. Not wait til it interferes and then complain.

Crazy people.
It's not brain surgery.

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1. 10/14/08
  
  globalgirl
  
  Attending church doesn't make one a Christian, contrary to popular myth.
2. 11/19/08
  
  MadameX
  
  "Attending Church is not a rule so to speak."
  
  In some religions. In Roman Catholicism and the various Orthodox churches, Sunday mass is an obligation.
10/14/08

drjay1966

Is church the same thing as God?

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1. 10/14/08
  
  inmyredhead
  
  No... at least 'I' don't think it is or should be at all. But that was kind of my point. People who get their panites in a wad about such things are probably trying too hard to be 'Christian'. They think they HAVE to worship inside a church on certain days, and then often on those days ONLY. It just doesn't work that way... but I guess I can't speak for all. Often it's just what people are taught all their lives.
10/14/08

voodooKobra

God doesn't come in second in my life; nor at all.

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10/15/08

SweetViolet

I guess nobody noticed that Jesus didn't have a church...or even a tent...to preach in.

Just one more thing to dwell on to make themselves feel superior to those who don't share their delusions.

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1. 11/19/08
  
  MadameX
  
  I think everyone noticed--especially when it came to the very end of his ministry and he said "I will build my church..."
10/15/08

bloggernoob

that's pretty interesting. i actually think that established sports is better for people then established religion. i hope that this spreads. if we want to progress as a species, we need to get rid of silly superstitions.

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1. 11/19/08
  
  MadameX
  
  Right. It's MUCH better to have people out punching each other out and screaming curses at each other over a competition between their ten-year-olds. Teaches the kids so much about priorities and healthy interactions with other humans and that sort of thing.
11/19/08

Ricio78

i'm agree with the last commen...nice blog

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11/19/08

MidwestMom

As a mother, I understand that there are choices to be made in life. I teach my children the same thing. There are several local sports I would love to have them involved in, but the requirement to have practice and games on Sunday gets in the way.

I was raised that Sunday is a day for family to spend together. We devote it to church in the morning and visiting with our local relatives or doing something special together. For me, the choice to avoid other types of Sunday activities is a matter of personal conscience.

I *do* notice, though, that there seem to be more kids sports offered on Sunday than when I was growing up. (Back then, it was just the NFL, right?)

With that said, more churches are offering Saturday services nowadays, too. It is entirely possible that families who are involved in Sunday activities can be involved in their churches. Balancing sports and your family's faith practice is a matter of personal choice -- I don't think the two are necessarily mutually exclusive.

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11/19/08

kevinatserieatalk

this OP reminds me of the runner Eric Liddell. Many of you may have first been introduced to him when he was portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire.
Liddell was a committed Christian and refused to run on Sunday (the Sabbath), with the consequence that he was forced to withdraw from the 100 metres race, his best event.

Liddell spent the intervening months training for the 400 metres, an event in which he had previously excelled. Even so, his success in the 400m was largely unexpected. The day of 400 metres race came, and as Liddell went to the starting blocks, an American masseur slipped a piece of paper into Liddell's hand with a quotation from 1 Samuel 2:30, "Those who honour me I will honour." Liddell ran with that piece of paper in his hand. He not only won the race, but broke the existing world record with a time of 47.6 seconds. source: tinyurl.com/6ehwpd

It's all about priorities and contrary to earlier comments attending Mass or worship or whatever your community as decided to rename the celebration, is an obligation all Christians agreed to during their Christian initiation unless of course your Christian oath is hollow like a "clanging cymbal".

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