Want to watch Bangor on a Sunday?
September 9, 2008 6 Comments
No I didn’t think so.
Sunday football happened with a bit of a whimper in the end, and it just had to involve the seasiders. Hardly the most attractive of fixtures. Although Bangor will enjoy at least one bragging right in next season’s IFA championship for taking part in the first Sunday game.
I thought this whole process involved countless IFA meetings, votes, and overturning of constitutions. But no, all it took to finalise the move was a quick check with Glentoran’s evangelical Christian striker Michael Halliday to see if he would play and then off we go toward the gates of hell, watching sport on a Sunday like that God-less GAA lot. Oh and football fans from France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and most other professional leagues across Western Europe too.
What about the hundreds of “Protestant” young people who will be enticed away from Sunday School by the temptation of Glentoran playing Institute. Catch yourselves on, they’ll be watching Man Utd play Chelsea on Sky Sports! The Free Presbyterian protesters’ claims about Sunday school show how sadly out of touch they are with an area of Belfast they still believe they have some sort of moral hold over. Time to go back to the (flannel graph) drawing boards for a re-think lads. There’s more positive work you could be doing.
Men of East Belfast remember to keep your beards tidy and of a respectable length for these guys. You have been warned.
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Nicely put. Of course! That’s why people don’t go to church!! If only we’d made the connection before. Some seriously suspect theology on board the good ship sabbatarinism.
Agreed. I also think the issue (and indeed the football itself) represents an opportunity for any Christian willing to think in the vicinity of a box, never mind just outside of it.
You can judge tomorrow night whether the beard that I have been cultivating on my paternity leave is of an acceptable length or not.
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It’s a strange logic in many ways. Why do they care what people that don’t go to their church do on a Sunday… .or for that mater might not even believe in their god. It’s not evangisim, its not trying to convince people that ‘jesus loves them’ etc… its well, yes as you say. Belfast Taliban.
It is a strange logic – like Christians trying to prove the existence of God to people who don’t believe in God by only using verses from the Bible as proof.
Like the Sunday protesters – using a frame of reference that is largely irrelevant to the people they’re trying to convince.
yeah… i’d like to stand next to that guy with the placard.. with one saying ‘WHY?’. Or maybe a verse from the Koran, and insist that he observe Ramadan.