RE: Man killed by family for watching soccer instead of religious program
June 24, 2010 at 10:17 am
(June 22, 2010 at 2:09 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(June 20, 2010 at 7:11 am)Atheist_named_Christian Wrote:(June 20, 2010 at 6:13 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: But don't they see that soccer for fans is a religious thing!
IMO soccer for fans is much better than religion as it does not tell you how to lead your life. Of course it's also about ripping people off - but that's one of the least problematic things of religions.
I am not a fan at all; however I like "fundamentalist soccer fans" much better than fundamentalist religious crackpots.
You've never met the 6:57 crew have you?
If you had you might re-evaluate how harmless football fans are.
Agreed, I have withnessed people making death threats, and having preconceptions about some other teams fans, not to mention riots. I like soccer, on an amateurish way, to play with friends or in an amateur tournment, then after the match, a nice group dinner, then a bar late night, that is what I like. But the Pro scene disgusts me, players beeing traded like cattle, the rivers of money spent on such a futile thing. All the money spent on pro sports, if it went to Research, to help people overcome famine, to get medication and doctors to needed people, to build and support schools, perhaps this world whould be much better now, -sigh-. Not even mentioning that together with the vatican money!
