With Sepp Blatter having said recently that 'football is more than a religion' in Brazil, will he - or the Brazilian elites - be judged by these words being spoken on the very day of Brazil's battle with Germany (Tuesday, local time), at daily Masses across the 65 percent Catholic country?
Ummm, seems to me the World Cup trophy is one of today's modern 'false gods', not that FIFA will let the winning team take away the genuine article - a US$10 million, 18-carat golden globe upheld by football players. The winners are placated with a gold-plated replica instead. As The Guardian says, 'The ever-parsimonious Fifa keeps the original, possibly because it doesn't trust anyone else to look after it.'
Even the artisan (not a worshipper himself) who designed the current World Cup trophy, Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, is aware of the religious overtones. He said, 'I would modestly suggest that this intense affection for the Trophy comes from the object itself, and what it stands for. It is a symbol of victory, and they're thrilled to have won it, which is why they kiss it as they would kiss a religious relic.'
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With their silver and gold they made(Hosea 8:4-7)
idols for themselves, to their own destruction.
Cast away your calf, O Samaria!
my wrath is kindled against them;
...
The work of an artisan,
no god at all,
Destined for the flames—
such is the calf of Samaria!
Ummm, seems to me the World Cup trophy is one of today's modern 'false gods', not that FIFA will let the winning team take away the genuine article - a US$10 million, 18-carat golden globe upheld by football players. The winners are placated with a gold-plated replica instead. As The Guardian says, 'The ever-parsimonious Fifa keeps the original, possibly because it doesn't trust anyone else to look after it.'
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