Why Watching Pro-Sports Is Mortally Sinful!

[MarkKurallSchuenemann]

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is Bingo a sport?
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[Luigi]

I don't watch sports on television (or on Sunday), but not for any of the OP's reasons. I just don't get much of a thrill out of watching one big lunk I don't know beating up another big lunk I don't know.

The one reason I do consider pro sports scandalous if not sinful - and the OP never even mentioned it - is the salaries of the players. How many folks could you feed on one player's million-dollar salry? How many folks could you educate? HOw much medical care could you provide - well, okay, so that's a bad example, but you get my point.

[Semper Catholic]

[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1298439604' post='2214857']
I don't watch sports on television (or on Sunday), but not for any of the OP's reasons. I just don't get much of a thrill out of watching one big lunk I don't know beating up another big lunk I don't know.

The one reason I do consider pro sports scandalous if not sinful - and the OP never even mentioned it - is the salaries of the players. How many folks could you feed on one player's million-dollar salry? How many folks could you educate? HOw much medical care could you provide - well, okay, so that's a bad example, but you get my point.
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Professional athletes are paid in accordance to their unique talent level.

There are roughly 300 major league baseball players in the United States, out of 400million people.

Dr. James Andrews is a world class physician who gets paid like a world class physician, same goes for any other person who is amongst the elite in their profession.

With the amount of money the Government actually wastes (billions of dollars) competitive salaries in professional sports is hardly an issue.

[MarkKurallSchuenemann]

[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1298439604' post='2214857']
I don't watch sports on television (or on Sunday), but not for any of the OP's reasons. I just don't get much of a thrill out of watching one big lunk I don't know beating up another big lunk I don't know.

The one reason I do consider pro sports scandalous if not sinful - and the OP never even mentioned it - is the salaries of the players. How many folks could you feed on one player's million-dollar salry? How many folks could you educate? HOw much medical care could you provide - well, okay, so that's a bad example, but you get my point.
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I could also say that about people who don't have a zero balance on their credit cards. If you are paying 200+ dollars a month on minimum credit card payments, how many children in the third world could you sponsor?

How are we any different than the high paid salaried players?

Edited February 24, 2011 by MarkKurallSchuenemann

[Luigi]

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I could also say that about people who don't have a zero balance on their credit cards. If you are paying 200+ dollars a month on minimum credit card payments, how many children in the third world could you sponsor?

How are we any different than the high paid salaried players?
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I agree with you - credit card debt is a waste of money, and people could do a lot more good with their money if they didn't rack up all that interest. But I don't do it, and I don't put money in the pockets of pro athletes.

[Semper Catholic]

[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1298522585' post='2215141']
I agree with you - credit card debt is a waste of money, and people could do a lot more good with their money if they didn't rack up all that interest. But I don't do it, and I don't put money in the pockets of pro athletes.
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Do you watch TV or Buy clothes? The majority of profits come from TV deals and Licensed goods and sponsorships, not concessions. Yeah Capitalism is a beautiful thing.

[Nihil Obstat]

It's simply a flawed understanding of supply and demand that leads one to say that professional athletes are paid "too much".

[Ash Wednesday]

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Pro-sports may seem to have no sin in it, but countless of mortal sins will be exposed when one examines it carefully:

First, almost every kind of pro-sports supports the mortal sin of gambling, and it is just a fact that these teams or players get a large portion of their pay-check from gambling. Pro-sports is in fact one of the biggest, if not the biggest generator of the mortal sin of gambling, which has destroyed countless of families and lead millions of poor souls to despair, suicide and hell. Thus, those who watch these games, watch people who are getting paid for supporting and making the mortal sin of gambling exist. To enjoy the eternal soul killing of other human beings is a clear cut mortal sin.

Second, almost every kind of pro-sport is played on Sundays which is a clear mortal sin since it is a work for these players and they get a pay-check from it. Therefore, they are breaking one of God's Ten Commandments, and there is no excuse for such things. It is a clear mortal sin to enjoy someone committing mortal sin.

Third, as we can see from the Book of the Machabees, the Jewish people neglected the divine worship in order to attend to different sport festivities at the arena. This is now prophetically fulfilled in many people who call themselves Catholic. For instead of praying the Rosary, reading the word of God and playing with and educating their children in good Christian morals as the Sunday is intended for, they watch these sinful games while placing their children in front of another TV set, neglecting their spiritual well being. Many saints teach that sports in of itself is no sin - which it of course isn't - but when it becomes too serious and more than a fun game between friends or when one take too much delight in it or makes too big thing of that which has no value, then they unanimously teach that it becomes sinful.

[indent]St. Francis de Sales- "Sports, plays, festivities, etc, are not in themselves evil, but rather indifferent matters, capable of being used for good or ill; but nevertheless they are dangerous, and it is still more dangerous to take great delight in them."

St. Francis de Sales- "Walking, harmless games, music, instrumental or vocal, field sports, etc., are such entirely lawful recreations that they need no rules beyond those of ordinary discretion, which keep every thing within due limits of time, place, and degree. So again games of skill, which exercise and strengthen body or mind, such as tennis, rackets, running at the ring, chess, and the like, are in themselves both lawful and good. Only one must avoid excess, either in the time given to them, or the amount of interest they absorb; for if too much time be given up to such things, they cease to be a recreation and become an occupation; and so far from resting and restoring mind or body, they have precisely the contrary effect. After five or six hours spent over chess, one's mind is spent and weary, and too long a time given to tennis results in physical exhaustion; or if people play for a high stake, they get anxious and discomposed, and such unimportant objects are unworthy of so much care and thought. But, above all, beware of setting your heart upon any of these things, for however lawful an amusement may be, it is wrong to give one's heart up to it. Not that I would not have you take pleasure in what you are doing,—it were no recreation else,—but I would not have you engrossed by it, or become eager or over fond of any of these things."

[/indent]Fourthly, people are spending billions of dollars on something that is supposed to be a game of fun. They have made a worthless game which holds no significance whatsoever, to become something serious. Think about it. People say: This or that person runs so and so fast or won this or that game. And people think about it as though it is some kind of achievement worthy of praise, when it in fact is saddening and abominable since it leads souls to hell. It is grown people valuing a worthless game or sport as something that holds significance or value: it is truly pathetic. They waste their money and time on this filth when they could be trying to help souls that are falling daily to the eternal fire in hell.

[indent] "And so the human heart which is cumbered with useless, superfluous, dangerous clingings becomes incapacitated for that earnest following after God which is the true life of devotion. No one blames children for running after butterflies, because they are children, but is it not ridiculous and pitiful to see full-grown men eager about such worthless trifles as the worldly amusements before named, (SPORTS, balls, plays, festivities, pomps), which are likely to throw them off their balance and disturb their spiritual life." (St. Francis de Sales, [i]Introduction into the Devout Life[/i])

[/indent]Fifthly, most of the different athletes or players are very immodestly dressed in clothes that are absolutely abominable for God since they are tight and reveal so much flesh. Only a few hundred years ago, women would have been arrested and jailed for wearing the clothes that athletes or players wear now. To watch any game or sport that supports or condones the five reasons mentioned above is totally sinful and any honest person who has not refused to meditate on hell and who realizes that it is possible that he or she may go to hell will agree as long as he thinks about this issue in a rational and calm manner. Don't allow your dependency on sports to trivialize clear cut mortal sins that are acted out in front of everyone. Repent before it is too late!

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[OnlySunshine]

I think it's time for someone to take a vacation and stop being so scrupulous.

[Tony]

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[Not A Mallard]

good thing I don't watch pro-sports except for the Super Bowl.

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why does this guy remind me of Wil Wheaton?

Edited March 5, 2011 by Not A Mallard