Are College Football Fans Polytheistic Idolaters?

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Welcome to Bible Bash, where we aim to equip the saints for the works of ministry by answering the questions you're not allowed to ask.

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We're your hosts, Harrison Kerrig and Pastor Tim Mullett, and today we'll seek to answer the age -old question, are college football fans polytheistic idolaters?

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Now, this is one that hits pretty close to home for me, Tim. We did this episode for you.

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Yeah, this is actually in honor of me. Actually, what you're seeing right now is going to be a live rebuke from Tim to me.

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I don't normally, actually, I've never talked about this as long as we've been doing the show, but I am actually a college football fan myself.

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We live in the state of Alabama, so there's no pro teams to root for, really.

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Really, all we've got is college football. I poll for the

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University of Alabama, the Crimson Tide, which they've been doing all right. They've been doing all right the last few years.

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They've been doing all right, which has been fun. It wasn't fun for a long time.

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To be fair, I was at least a fan when they were really bad, and they were really bad for a while there.

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You wouldn't have known. I mean, you wouldn't have known that they were so bad by listening to the fans for all those years.

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Despite the fact that they had a horrible year, it was always that they were robbed, and this year was going to be the year, and just pervasive society -wide delusion that they were operating.

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That's normally the response from any of the, what you would call, blue blood teams, the ones that are typically pretty good consistently.

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Whenever they have bad stretches, it's always, this next year, this one's our year, right?

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That's right. That doesn't surprise me one bit. You guys are bad losers, and you're worse winners.

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Yeah, pretty much. Look, Tim, Alabama lost to Auburn one time, and a fan went out and poisoned

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Auburn's, I don't even remember what the name of that. The trees. The tree.

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The tree, the one that everyone rolls after Auburn wins a game, and has been there for,

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I mean, it's like a tradition. That tree's been there so long, and an

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Alabama fan went out there and poisoned the tree because they lost, right?

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We live in the South, and college football is a big, big deal in the

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South. I think there's probably a time in my life, definitely, where football, it really,

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I went on a weird journey because I didn't care at all about football while I was in middle school, while I was in high school, probably because our teams were so bad.

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I mean, when I was, between my freshman year to my senior year in high school,

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I think across all four years, we won a total of four games, and there was definitely a year where we won two games in that single year, so that also means that we had years where we didn't win any games at all, so I didn't really care about college football, but then

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I went to the University of Alabama, and I was in the marching band there, and that was sort of, you pretty much just have to learn to like college football because you're just in it all the time, and you're practicing every day with the band.

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You're having to learn all this music. You're having to learn all these chants and these cheers, and then your

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Saturday, I mean, your Saturday is totally dedicated to that game unless it's a really, really early game like an 11 o 'clock kickoff or something, and so I ended up really getting attached to college football through that, and it helped, like I said,

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I mean, at the time. Well, I mean, I say at the time. Before I started going to college, while I was in college, and then even now, there's still a really good team, so that definitely helped get me into it, right?

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It wasn't a repeat of my high school years where we just played the songs and then stopped paying attention as soon as the song was over and just talked amongst ourselves, but it's a big deal, and I mean, people will spend thousands of dollars on tickets.

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They'll spend thousands of dollars on season tickets. They'll wait years just to get season tickets.

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People, I mean, dress their babies up as their favorite team, right?

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They'll block out entire week. They won't go into work on Monday if their team loses the big game that they were supposed to win.

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You're just digging a hole. You're digging a hole. They won't go to church on Sunday, right? All season.

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Because what? Because they'll be going to the game, so they'll be traveling to Tuscaloosa every week.

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You're traveling, yeah. It's hard to travel, man. It wears you out, and you just got to take a

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Sabbath day, man. You got to rest. And even if your team does win, you see people come into church wearing their team's paraphernalia, right?

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College football's a big deal. Well, in the

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South, it's treated as a big deal, right? Objection.

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Objection. My bias is showing. Like I told you guys, this is a live rebuke.

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This is a live rebuke. You are seeing rebuke in action. One of the last episodes we did was all about, it involved biblical counseling a lot, and I mentioned that there have been times where Tim has been the friend who is wounding me because he cares about me.

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And right now, you are witnessing that in action. So the Alabama fans, I became an

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Alabama fan. So Tim, why don't I change the question a little bit?

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Why don't I say, instead of our college football fans, polytheistic idolaters, I'll change it to, am

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I a polytheistic idolater? It's a definite maybe. A definite maybe.

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Oh man. Well, do you want to answer that really? No. I don't think

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I'm a polytheistic idolater. I don't know.

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We'll see how it goes. You're like, I'm not convinced. Okay. So in general, you know, we live in the

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South. You've observed a lot of college football fans. Are they, you know, the equivalent of polytheistic idolaters?

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absolutely. I mean, absolutely. As a generality, yes. I mean, obviously, you know, when we moved here, we moved to Alabama from South Florida.

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And so we watched more pro football because you had all the pro teams down there in South Florida where we're coming from.

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But we came to Alabama and it was the weirdest thing in the world to come to a state to where the first thing that people would ask you when they realize you were like the new kid in school or whatever is, you know, who do you go for Alabama or Auburn?

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And you just kind of look at them like, are you mentally handicapped? There are other teams, but those are the only two, you know, choices that you were allowed to, you know, forgive my ableism there, but those are the only two choices you're allowed to pick from, you know, it's just like, well,

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I'm neither, you know, and it's just like when you say neither, you were looking at people who just fundamentally didn't know how to process the words that were coming out of your mouth, you know, at that point, as if you're just like some person from the twilight zone who alien, you know, from another planet who's come here, you know, but I, you know, remember growing up and in high school and just seeing people engaging in conversations that consisted of, you know, one individual saying, you know, roll tide.

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And then the other person saying war Eagle and then going back and forth and back and forth. And that was the whole conversation.

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And it would just go on and on and on, you know, you know, and, and, you know, I've seen like people like, who like literally, and this is not uncommon.

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You see someone wearing like a Auburn Jersey or something out in public. And then you see the guy like slam on the brakes and roll the window down and start yelling at him, you know, for wearing the wrong shirt, you know, as he's narrowly missing, getting in a wreck and that kind of thing.

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And these are normal things that happen in our state, you know, and I was, you know,

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I, I, I did work, I worked an appliance delivery job for a while when I just got out of seminary and I just came back to Alabama.

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And, you know, I went in to deliver appliance into this lady's house. And this lady with like all like just totally serious, like she's totally serious.

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She looked at me and she said, you know, like it was, it was getting to be fall or whatever. And she asked me if I was excited about, you know, fall coming.

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I was like, yeah, you know, I, I prefer to be cold than hot, you know? So for me, it was about the weather change, but for her, it's about college football season starting.

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And she was just so excited about college football season starting. And she said, you know, college football is our second

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God here. Oh my gosh. And I just looked at her.

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I mean, I looked at her, I said, well, you know, I don't know if it's your second, you know, that's good.

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That's good. I don't know if it's your second, you know, if you have a second God, like, I mean, that's the whole point of the question. Are they polytheistic idolatrous?

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Like if you, if you have a second God, it's not your second, you know, like that's the point. Yeah. But certainly like you, you know,

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I've seen church members who miss entire, like they, you know, they're totally gone like during college football season because they're out, you know, going to the game with their season tickets and everything else.

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They disappear for a few months at a time. It's that and hunting, you know, are the two kind of things where people kind of disappear that might normally show up on a regular basis.

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But, you know, it's a problem. This is certainly a problem at the very least.

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so whether they're polytheistic or monotheistic, they are idolaters, right? I mean, it could be that they're actually monotheistic idolaters, but then, you know, in the

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South, everyone believes in God. So you have to go the polytheistic route. But as a generality, yeah,

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I mean, people are obsessed with it here, man. So, okay.

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All right. So as a college football fan myself, as a, as a self -professed non -idolatrous college football fan, am

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I allowed to like college football? Oh, man. Or am

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I going to be an idolater inherently? I, I think there's a lot of pressure, you know, in our society, in this, in the culture you live in right now to not, you know, have a, an appropriate balance for these kinds of things at the very least.

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Yeah. At the very least. Yeah. So you're living in a society that is obsessed with certain, it's obsessed with like, you know, college kids who are basically playing catch, you know?

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So, yeah, no, no, illegitimate. I mean, football is essentially a child's game, right?

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Right. And you have grown, I mean, grown men, 18, 19, all the way up into the, you know, the

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NFL, 40 years old, getting paid millions of dollars to play this game, right? And the reason they're getting paid millions of dollars is because people are paying millions of dollars to go see these games, right?

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Right. So, I mean, I think in a certain sense, it's not, it's not really, like, we live in an entertainment driven society across the board.

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So in some sense, like the college football question is not, like you can't divorce it from a discussion about entertainment in general.

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And we live in a society right now that is just obsessed with entertainment from start to finish. So, you know, the standard adult in our society watches like eight hours of entertainment a day, you know, on some kind of, whether it's their phone or TV or whatever else.

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And so like, in a certain sense, it's like, there's no, you know, whether you're talking about just, you know, binging

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Netflix, whether you're talking about college football, whether you're talking about video games, whether you're talking about other sports or, you know, music, you know, we're, we're a society that across the board is obsessed with entertainment and, and we're, we're not very productive as a society.

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And so it's a problem, you know, it's a problem anyway, anyway, you, you, you look at it as far as that goes.

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And I, and almost no one escapes this problem in general, meaning like the vast majority of people are addicted to entertainment of one form or another.

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Right. And it's just a matter, it's not a matter of whether or not they're addicted. It's what form are they addicted? So, I mean like the kind of like, um, you know, woman who's scandalized by men being addicted to college football or something, she has her own addictions, you know, like they're just different.

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Yeah. So it's just, it's just like, you know, like it's across the board, it's a problem. And like whatever form it takes, it doesn't necessarily matter.

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It's just a problem across the board. Right. That's the point. Yeah. So the man might be addicted to, you know, entertainment through college football and the woman might be addicted to entertainment through like just what binging on Netflix or, you know, watching

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Hallmark Christmas movies all year round or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Why would anyone want to do that?

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People want to do that for some reason. No, I think where it becomes, um, you know, so where it becomes kind of a thing is that, you know, your stereotypical man in the

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South basically is devoting the entirety of his Saturday every week for college football, you know, and then, you know, the predominantly what he's listening to during the week is sport, you know, talk radio, sports radio, you know, so it is kind of like a pervasive kind of obsession for him to where, like, you know, dad is going to be in his man cave watching his sports literally all

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Saturday. He's not there, you know, he's not there for the family. And so, you know, then like the exasperated wife and that kind of scenario is just looking at that and saying,

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Hey, I actually have to typically do things, you know, and then you're just down there. Don't interrupt me.

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You're not only don't interrupt me, but you're like mad and you're yelling and, you know, angry and upset.

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And if your team doesn't lose and if your team doesn't win, then everything is wrong. And, you know, you're depressed and, you know, irritable to be around and, you know, actively angry and mad and everything else.

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So that, I think those kind of things were things that I didn't really want to look when

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I'm looking at football and things like that. I, early on in my Christian life, I didn't really want anything to do with that because I just,

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I didn't want to be that guy who was basically just, you know, my Saturdays had nothing to do with anyone, but me watching a bunch of kids play catch, you know, that kind of thing.

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And so I found that personally to be kind of a distasteful way of spending time.

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And I didn't, I didn't want to go down that road. And so I haven't really part of part of, you know, my reaction to college football in general, as I just see is such a pervasive,

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I idle, you know, that I, I haven't really pursued it. Um, but then, you know,

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I, I played a lot of sports in high school and there is part of me that just doesn't like watching other people play sports.

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I'm not like a good fan, you know, cause I, it feels like sitting on the bench to me. So I'd rather do,

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I'd rather do, I'd rather play myself, you know, whatever the, whatever the game is, I'd rather go out and play.

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And I, I had more fun in playing it and then just watching it, you know, as far as that goes.

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And so, you know, so I, I think there's things like that, but I think largely what you're talking about is it really is like, what is the place of Christian entertainment?

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yeah. Right. What is the, uh, place of it? What, what, um, place does entertainment have for the

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Christian? That's kind of the, the broader discussion that college football is only a aspect of it, if that makes sense.

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Yeah. So if you want to argue that college football is just totally off limits, then you're going to have to basically to be consistent, you're going to have to reject all entertainment.

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and I don't know that the Bible rejects all entertainment, uh, but then it does, um, um, it does relativize the importance of entertainment for the, for the

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Christian to a great degree. Uh, it may be to such a degree that, you know, it, it's, uh, very hard just to be a rabid foaming at the mouth, you know, college football fan and be faithful.

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Right. Uh, that's probably going to be difficult. You're going to be pushing at the, uh, you, you know, um, pushing against the grain, uh, to a great degree.

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And it's going to be pretty hard, you know, with, with all that. So if one, one example, one example of what you're talking about, you know, as an

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Alabama fan, um, this is, this is silly and, and I'm going to make it even sillier with this next sentence.

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Um, I've never, you know, I've never actually told anybody this outside of outside of my wife.

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Um, now you're blasting it on the internet. And now, now I'm, now I'm putting that out there for everyone to see. This might be the most scandalous thing

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I've ever said on the podcast. Um, you know, as an Alabama fan, I absolutely hate saying roll tide.

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Like that phrase, that phrase just makes me cringe for good reason. And, and you know, like there, there's been times where my wife and I have gone to a game because some, you know, someone gave us some free tickets cause they couldn't go or they didn't want to go.

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Whatever the situation was, they gave us some free tickets. So we're like, all right, I guess, I guess we'll just go. So, you know, you drive down to Tuscaloosa and then you, you see all the, you're, you're, you know, seeing all these people dressed up and, and, um, and their paraphernalia, you know, they've got their hats, their red, their red shirts and whatnot.

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Everyone's just, you walk past everyone and they're like, roll tide, roll tide, roll tide. You know? And you're just like, mm hmm.

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Mm hmm. Okay. And you know, the funny thing is my wife and I, we decided, okay, we're not going to say, you know, we're not going to say roll tide.

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I don't know why we decided this, but instead of saying roll tide, we're just going to say, yes, sir. Yes. So roll tide.

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Yes, sir. You know? And then, you know, you're in, you're in the middle of the game and, and everyone, when the, when the team, when the team runs out at the beginning of the game, everyone's like cheering and losing their mind and, and screaming roll tide.

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And then, you know, the other team runs out and, and everyone starts booing. Right.

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And so we're like, well, that feels a little disrespectful. We'll just say, you know, instead of saying yes, sir, we'll just say no, sir, there.

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So, so the other team runs out, you just say no, sir, no, sir, no,

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But, I mean, I think that all that to say, I think that is an example of like, um, there, there, there's a lot of, there's a lot of pressure, right.

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To, to make it something that it shouldn't be from, from pagans and society.

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It is. I mean, I have stories like that too. I mean, it is compelled speech, you know, like in the South as compelled speech, you know,

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Jordan Peterson would be rolling in his grave, you know, over this kind of thing. But no, I mean, I, when I was in seminary, there'd be people like that.

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I would meet from, um, yeah, that were from Alabama. And when they saw me and they found out

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I was from Alabama, they got so excited, you know, and they would look at me and they say, roll tide. And I was like, oh, okay. You know, you're supposed to say, you're supposed to say, you're supposed to say it back.

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It's like, oh, okay. No, I can't,

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I can't, I can't, I can't bring my, but then like, like the fact is that that is like wildly offensive in the state.

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You know, the fact that that's wildly offensive to not say it back. It's like, you guys are just as crazy as the radical left, you know, who are demanding that I, you know, yeah.

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Say whatever, uh, pronouns, preferred pronouns. Yeah. I was about to say that. Yeah. It's the same thing.

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It's like, no, no, I'm good. I'm good. I'm not even trying to be rude. It's just like, I'm not a fan. I don't know what to tell you. Like, like, uh, that's weird to me.

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So sorry, I guess I'll just be rude. But, that's probably the most scandalous thing I've ever said on the show.

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You did, man. That is, you know, knowing where we live, there's probably going to be people coming after me after this.

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Oh, okay. So I guess, um, for the, you know, for the college football fan,

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I don't know. Well, there are certainly a lot of people who would say probably proudly.

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So they would say, yes, I am addicted to college football, right? I, you know, like the lady you mentioned, it's a second

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God. Well, actually, it's probably not the second God. Um, there's probably still plenty of other people who are, um, college football fans, but would never say that they're, you know, idolizing college football.

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Right. And that may be true or it may not be right. Like, um, I think for a lot of people, it's just, it is hard to admit that, you know, there's sin in your life, right?

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Even if you, even if deep down, you know it, sometimes we like to convince ourselves that it's not sin.

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So how, what, what should someone look for? To determine whether or not they've idolized college football.

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Yeah. I mean, if you, if you, if you have to watch every game, if everything has to be put on hold and you have to watch every game, if that, um, right.

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So the Bible says all things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. Things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

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So it's just become like a mastery kind of issue. This is the thing that you have to do in order to be okay.

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And if you don't get to do it, then you're not going to be okay. You can't go to the, you know, the, um, you can't go to the baby shower or whatever.

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You can't go to the, you know, the, the birthday party thing, whatever, because there's a game there that's happening.

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You have to watch, you know, when you're watching it, everyone must leave you alone, give you space, you know, not talk to you, that kind of stuff.

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You're, you know, so all that is, um, like, if you have to do it, there's like a mastery kind of issue there.

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Um, if, if you're going to let your entire mood, you know, be affected by the outcome of some silly sports game, then you may need to take a break and not watch it.

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You know, if that, so, you know, the Bible says, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice.

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If this is some sort of temptation to, you know, lose your temper, some temptation to be frustrated, irritable.

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And for many people, it's not just a temptation. It's a, like, it's, it's like a, it's a temptation that they think is perfectly understandable and free pass.

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Yeah. Just to be a grouch and a grump, you know, well, you know, if they lose, you know,

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I'm not going to be very nice to be around, you know, kind of thing, you know, so there's that. I mean,

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I think, um, you know, the Bible says whatever's true, whatever is honorable, whatever is noble, think on these things.

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If you're, if your mind is constantly just fixated on sports, you know, if that's the thing that's running around in the background, like in your life to where it's just keeping track of everything that's happening, you know, what teams are playing, who, you know, all that stuff.

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And that's the thing that you get up. And that's the thing that you're thinking about when you wake up and think you're thinking about as you go to bed.

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I mean, that can like really hinder a person's prayer life. It can really hinder a person's ability to read the

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Bible, to study the Bible, to learn about God. Uh, it can hinder their ability to like, listen and pay attention to, you know, their spouse or their kids, because in their mind, they're constantly, you know, distracted by this entertainment thing that's running around the background, uh, that they have to, you know, and if they don't get to scratch that itch, they're going to be frustrated and grumpy.

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You know, all those things are, I think, um, issues. I mean, there's also just an issue of like time investment, right?

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So the Bible says like, we need to, um, make the best use of our time, uh, because the days are evil.

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Like, let us like think about how we walk, not as unwise, but as wise, redeeming the kind for the days are evil.

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Uh, so God's created us. It's a six day, like six days. He's created us to work or to rest one day, you know?

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So there's like a very real sense in which we should be working hard, you know, uh, engaging in productive things, spending the bulk of our time doing things that matter, you know, uh, for this life and for the next, uh, engaging it, not in just like trivial, you know, things that don't matter and filling the vast majority of our time with trivial, um, things that don't matter.

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Now, because we live in such a prosperous society right now, like most of us are spending a lot of our time, like being like engaged in, you know, frivolity and everything else.

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And so, like, I think that most people need to learn to work harder and, and, uh, do more and accomplish more and make better use of our time, you know?

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So that's not to say that there's no place for, you know, entertainment in general. It's just to say that that's, those are some things to be thinking about, uh, as it relates to those things.

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But I do think there is some kind of place for entertainment and maybe, um, you know, maybe that's something to be said to, you know, as, as it relates to these things.

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But, um, you know, and I could just say this. I mean, when I, when I went to seminary, I, I basically had spent so much of my time, like I had to spend so much of my time in Bible college and seminary to learning and reading that I went through a period where I totally rejected entertainment for a while.

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But I will say that like, there's a limit to the amount of information that you can cram in your head. And, you know, like if you're just constantly working nonstop, you know, most people aren't in that situation.

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That's just a very rare situation. People are finding themselves into where you're just pushing yourself. You're a workaholic.

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You're constantly cramming in for, and I think you do have to have some kind of chance to relax.

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And so I think there is some kind of place for entertainment. Ecclesiastes three, one says there's a, for everything, there's a season, there's a time for every matter under heaven, the time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, the time to pluck up what is planted, the time to kill, a time to heal, time to break down, a time to build up, a time to weep, a time to laugh, a time to mourn, a time to dance.

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I think the time to laugh and a time to dance kind of thing, you know, that's just, those are kind of entertainment.

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There's a time for that, but it shouldn't be the life dominating pursuit that you have.

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Right. It shouldn't, it shouldn't dominate your thoughts. It shouldn't dominate your feelings. It shouldn't dominate your time.

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It shouldn't get the priority, you know, over your family and, you know, work and church and all of your various responsibilities.

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Yeah. There's a time to feast. And the Bible says, you know, like, essentially, don't be overly wise.

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Don't be overly righteous. Even don't, you know, there's a time for relaxing. Enjoy. God's given us all things richly to enjoy.

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There's, there's a time for these things, but the, you know, the vast majority of Americans are spending so much time doing these.

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And if you're going to adopt some kind of hobby that really it's hard to do in moderation, you might want to think about getting a different kind of hobby.

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How wise is that? How wise is it? You know, if every Saturday you have to do it and all that. So, like, if it'd be better just to, you know, it may be better just to not feed that obsession and addiction to.

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So, maybe some kind of wisdom of that, but if you can keep it in moderation, keep it in proportion, you know, it's something you can put, take up and put down, you know, it's something that your life doesn't revolve around, then it's no different than any other form of entertainment.

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Okay. Well, I think, I think that's a good place to stop. I do think it is, it is good to say, you know, still keep the, you know, entertainment does have its place in life, right?

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We don't want to. For most people, it should be less, you know. So, so we, the pendulum definitely needs to swing back, right?

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Right. Right. But then you don't want to swing it so hard that you, you, you take it in the other direction and say, you know, all, all entertainment is off limits if you want to be a faithful Christian.

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But certainly for most people enter, I mean, entertainment in general is, is an idol, but then related to, you know, college football.

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I mean, it's a massive idol for, for so many people. And there are very few people who have swung the other way.

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oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Most people need to cut it back, you know, significantly. Right.

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And so, so the lesson to be taken from this is whether it's college football, whether it's Netflix and, you know,

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Hallmark Christmas movies, or, you know, video games. I think even, you know, re reading as entertainment and, and here, here's one listening to, well, maybe, maybe you won't agree with me on this one and, and that's fine if you don't, but I think there is, like listening to theological things like sermons, like spiritual things like sermons and, you know, podcasts and whatnot as entertainment.

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Right. And, and I found myself in times before where I'll click on some podcasts that I want to listen to that, that's about God.

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It's about some sort of theological concept and, you know, I'll get five minutes into an hour long thing and decide, well,

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I'm bored and then close it out, you know, and I think, I think that can be, I think it,

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I think it's still helpful to listen to those things and that's probably better. Then, you know, the football thing, but I think that is a little, that can be.

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I'd much rather people do that. Right. You know, any day, but then there is a, there is a problem when, like if, if people have no place for, like if, if, if they're constantly being stimulated, whether it's good things or bad things or whatever else, like, like let's say that you, you know, you're constantly, you know, you, you can't function without listening to the, you know, sermons or whatever else on your phone.

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That'd be a great problem to have that most people aren't having, but then that you do, you know, to that, like 0 .001

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% of the population, I would say you do have to have, like there are good things that happen when you, you know, turn everything off and think.

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Right. And you pray and, you know, there's good things that can happen there too. But I would say that is a problem that is so rare that, but I do know people who have it, but it's just very rare, you know, which, you know,

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I wish you could replace the one with the other, but then, yeah, I agree with what you're saying. Yeah. Okay.

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Well, I think that's a good place to end this episode on. Hopefully that's, this has been encouraging for you to hear.

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And maybe some of you are even thinking, I don't even, I don't even like college football. Why are you talking about this?

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Well, I think, I think there is still, there is still something to be said about entertainment in general.

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And, and this conversation about, about college football that we tried to mostly can contain to college football.

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It does spread. It does apply to all other areas of entertainment in general.

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it's no good to criticize college football, you know, psychopaths, if you're doing the same thing with Netflix.

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Right, right. so we have to realize that they're the same thing and then treat them both appropriately the way the

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Bible would expect, the way God would expect us to. So, so that's the challenge for you guys listening, whether it's college football, whether it's

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Netflix, Hallmark Christmas movies, video games, even, even sermons. If we're listening to sermons as entertainment to try and keep us from having to, you know, have moments of peace and think for ourselves and pray for ourselves and whatnot, then, then we do need to take that seriously.

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So hopefully this has been encouraging for you guys. We want to thank all you guys for listening week in and week out and supporting the show.

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And we look forward to having you on the next one. Thank you.

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