Prophet Thiel is on his annual anti-football rant because it is close to Thanksgiving and football occupies the TV's in most homes that day.
Is playing football really about "loving your neighbor" as the Prophet claims?
Dirty, nasty, violent, ungodly football! You are damned to the Lake of Fire!
Should Christians support violent sports like American football?
The late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote:
Hostility toward the other is sin…Boxing at Ambassador College is definitely banned. God did not create the human brain and head to be pummeled and knocked senseless by an antagonist.While I have even heard some thank God for football, it is not a sport that I believe that the God of love would condone.
Wherever a game in sports involves antagonists–in hostile attitude to harm the other and/or to “get” from the other–to get the best of the other then a harmful, satanic and evil attitude enters in, and the sport is evil, not good…
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. (Plain Truth, July-August 1984)
“Love does no harm to a neighbor” (Romans 13:9), yet what do sports like American football and boxing do?
