day no. 17,280: apostasy as compost for foreign gods

"The Super Bowl halftime was not a multicultural celebration of America’s Latin Quarter, but was rather intended to be an Anglo Humiliation Ritual. The raunchy part was aimed at our residual and fading Christian consensus, and the no hablo part was aimed at our residual and fading American identity. The whole thing was really inflammatory, in other words, and was intended to be." ― Douglas Wilson, Standing Up to Evil Rabbit

While I am not myself a big sportsball guy, I am a big religion and culture guy and like it or not, the Super Bowl is an annual religious observance our culture celebrates. If it were not already on a Sunday, I'm sure it would be a holiday.

"Culture is religion externalized.” ― Henry Van Til

Worship is foundational and inescapable. Everyone worships and every society worships. And whatever is worshiped will come out that society's fingertips. Religion produces culture and culture produces laws, norms, and rituals that reinforce the religion of the people.

“We believe that culture is religion externalized, always, whatever the religion and politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from worship.” ― Jared Longshore

All this to say, what happens at the Super Bowl does not stay at the Super Bowl. And whatever happens at the Super Bowl does not originate with it either. It came from somewhere. So, when a society's annual festival is co-opted by an alternate culture by the dominant culture's own invitation and volition, it bodes bad things for the dominant culture. You cannot invite a virus into your body without it affecting its health. It is one thing to account for viruses and to have an immune system to deal with them. It is quite another to invite the viruses and to suppress your immune system into oblivion. A country with open borders is soon to be someone else's country just as a body without an immune system is soon to be someone else's patient. If you invite invaders over, you will soon be an outsider in your own backyard; and if you suck up to sickness, you will soon be outside your own body.

Apostates are compost for foreign gods. If you don't want your home, someone else will. If you don't worship your God in your land, someone else will worship theirs there.