{"id":36678,"date":"2013-06-03T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/ceremonial-theism-and-baseball.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T01:17:08","slug":"ceremonial-theism-and-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/ceremonial-theism-and-baseball.html","title":{"rendered":"Ceremonial Theism and Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mass social expressions of patriotism are sketchy enough in my opinion. Mass social expressions of patriotic \/ civil religion? That's just bad theology \u00a0and bad nationalism.<\/p>\n

Maybe if, instead of a slightly-sloshed seventh inning stretch tune, people would see it a bit more realistically if the words were being solemnly intoned as a prayer by a minister down on the field,\u00a0\u00a0faithfully repeated on pain of scowls by everyone up in the stands. Because that's what it really is, only set to music.<\/p>\n

Americans seem unique in requiring social events to be so ceremonially festooned with both nationalistic and religious brouhaha. \u00a0Not quite sure \u00a0why that should be.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/div>\n

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Why I sit out \u2018God Bless America\u2019<\/a>
\n Take this song out of the ballgame.\n <\/p>\n

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Mass social expressions of patriotism are sketchy enough in my opinion. Mass social expressions of patriotic \/ civil religion? That's just bad theology \u00a0and bad nationalism. 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