I find it interesting that Living Church of God's biggest false prophet is speaking out yet again on how demonic and evil the Super Bowl and American football are. Yet, in LCG's homes across the country there will be tv sets turned on to watch the game. Beer will be consumned, hot wings munched on and junk food galore. LCG members will be cheering for their favorite teams. But not so in the Thiel household. They'll be sitting around watching Bambi and polishing their halo's.
False Prophet Thiel writes these silly tidbits:
Since most people in the USA have, at one time or another, made some hint of professing following Jesus, a relevant question may be:
Would Jesus watch the Superbowl?
I could not reconcile loving my neighbor as myself and cherishing my flesh and not doing violence to any man by watching others do it in a football game.
The Superbowl will do harm to participants in it.
The New Testament also warns Christians against being violent or approving of those that are (Romans 1:28-32), while history records that early Christians would not watch violent sports.
In the 20th century, the late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote:
Since it is more important for Thiel and Armstrongism to follow HWA than it is Jesus, I guess they must be giving approval for the murders, rapes, stalkings and abuse that went on in Armstrongism over the decades. Football is evil but these things rampant in Armstrongism are not. You never see the False Prophet Thiel speaking out against these evils happening right now in LCG or COG.Football (American football) is a violent body-contact sport. It is often played with an attitude of hostility and is dangerous and is fraught with physical injury…Soccer does not embody the same evils. (Plain Truth, July-August 1984)
I conclude with more comments from the false prophet, so incredibly stupid they don't deserve a comment:
Would Jesus watch the Superbowl?
Perhaps, some might say. And some may ridicule and/or dismiss what I have written.
Yet if Jesus did watch the Superbowl, would He watch it and hope that one team would tackle and crash into members of the other team? Or might He watch it, if He did, so He could make social commentary against the violence and/or distorted priorities of the land?
This is something that Christians, and others, should think about.
