Church leaders have urged the Premier league to stop staging fixtures on Easter Sunday so that people can take part in Christian activities. Story here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7985596.stm)
Should people be going to football matches today or should we all be considering the true meaning of Easter, the birth of the Easter Bunny?
Church leaders ought to stick to their own hobbies and stop touting for business just because their company's going down the pan.
Mercenary
12-04-2009, 21:16
Church leaders have urged the Premier league to stop staging fixtures on Easter Sunday so that people can take part in Christian activities. Story here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7985596.stm)
Should people be going to football matches today or should we all be considering the true meaning of Easter, the birth of the Easter Bunny?
Hmm I somehow doubt the forty odd thousand who went to Villa Park but have gone to Church today if the game wasn't on!
happyhippy
12-04-2009, 23:08
If they mean the various Easter Bunnies who have been on certain Sky channels all day, then I vote for Easter all year.
Ahem ;)
On a more serious note, we're a secular society where the vast majority don't pray to pixies in the sky. The Queen(TM) is only the head of a church(TM) by dint of a bloke who got hacked off with a bloke who lived in the Vatican(TM).
Two of my neighbours are Jehovah's Witnesses(TM). I honestly don't know a single other person in a wide circle of friends who go to any form of organised religion(TM).
Unless football/cricket/rugby can be called organised religions(TM) :D
the_rudeboy
12-04-2009, 23:15
The Church might pull bigger crowds if they had pies and bovril at half time.
Crunchy Nut
12-04-2009, 23:34
Throw in a stripper and a free bar and i might consider church on a sunday