Why Should I Support Something that Hates Everything I Believe In?
I’m not watching the Super Bowl and I couldn’t care less who wins. That is a great change in my life. I used to be an avid football fan, a great supporter of the Dallas Cowboys. I was an even more devout baseball fan. The Houston Astros were MY TEAM, literally from the time they came into being in 1962 as the Houston Colt 45s. I was seven years old. I lived and died with these professional sports teams for many years.
But then, a few years ago, the NFL, MLB, NBA, and many other sports ceased being just sports and decided to go political and religious. And they went the wrong way. Instead of encouraging virtuous behavior, they began to endorse political—and anti-religious causes—that are greatly offensive to me. The “black national anthem” was again sung at this year’s Super Bowl. There is no “black nation” in America, or at least there shouldn’t be. We should all be Americans, “one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.” Professional sports has abandoned that.
They went racist and political in supporting left-wing causes. They went anti-Christian with their pro-homosexual bias. I finally, and completely, gave up baseball, and the Houston Astros, when they had their “gay pride” night. Such a thing is utterly and completely offensive to any devout believer in Jesus. I wrote to Astros’ management and told them exactly how I felt. Of course, I received no response. I literally didn’t know, until about 3 or 4 days ago, who had won the World Series last fall. I was a little amused to learn that the Texas Rangers, the only team that didn’t have a special night for perverts, was the victor. Maybe there is a little justice in the world after all. I will not return to baseball or football as long as they insist on offending me with their anti-American racism and blatant opposition to Christianity. These things are not necessary in sports, so they are being done deliberately.
I believe that black people are just as much people as white people or any other race. They are created in the image of God like every other human. They cannot help being born black. Thus, they should have the same political rights, legal rights, and societal opportunities that every other person has. But they shouldn’t have more.
Homosexuality is not the same. People aren’t “born” homosexual any more than they are “born” adulterers, murderers, thieves, or any other sinful activity. People are homosexual for the simple, and only, reason that they choose to be so. They, like adulterers, et al, refuse to practice the self-control necessary for a godly life. Politically, they have the right to engage in their perversion, and they can make the moral decisions they want to make. But they will answer to God for it. And their immoral, ungodly, unChristian lifestyle should not be forced on me by government or anyone else. I will oppose any entity, private or public, who tries to force their political or immoral agenda on me.
Some will call this “intolerant” and “hateful” and claim that Jesus preached love and against hate. Jesus certainly did preach love and opposed hate, more than anyone on this earth ever has. But Jesus also preached obedience to God and “go and sin no more.” It is not “love” to let someone continue in sin, on a pathway that will lead them to eternal damnation. Indeed, that is about the most unloving thing a person can do. Modern man obviously has a very, um, queer view of Jesus and love.
And Jesus Himself said that the world “hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil” (John 7:7). There is the true hatred. But godless Leftist philosophy dominates nowadays. Frankly, godless philosophies always have ruled mankind’s morality and probably always will.
Who won the Super Bowl? I couldn’t care less, and I won’t care unless and until the NFL starts devoting itself only to football and divests itself of its godless, anti-American, anti-Christian causes. I will not support those whose actions indicate they hate me and those things in which I dearly believe.