A question for readers I always wanted to ask.

vomit

Especially for British Congs.
Since it is idolatrous to support a Football team. Be crazy into football, wearing a football strip with flags etc.
Why is it ok for Assemblies be held in football stadiums? Its like going to the church of football. i.e. the house of the very idol.

KAYTEE

Vomit

A Very good point.

It's too early in the morning to think of an answer. I would have liked to have heard their response/reasoning if the question had been asked !

KT

Pubsinger

I don't think that they believe it is idolatrous to support a football team or wear the colours etc especially not in the UK

We don't have a cheerleading culture here or a parade/pageant culture either. And although the National Anthem may be played at major finals or international games football isn't associated with patriotism at all.

We use to play "friendly" 6-a-side football every week and we all used to turn up to play in whichever teams shirt we happened to support. Everyone did it - elders included. No-one cared.

I know that this is definitely UK wide. Of course there would be individuals who held an opinion but they actually just didn't like football. The WT may have posed the question "Is this idolatry?" In reality no-one thought it was!

DJK

Interesting question that I had never thought of. I went to many assemblies held in baseball stadiums and horse race tracks. I had a part on stage set up on the pitchers mound at Yankee stadium. I volunteered at assamblies in the kitchen area so I didn't have to be seated for the whole day.

dozy

Its like going to the church of football. i.e. the house of the very idol

Or in the case of Elland Road, home of Leeds United - the house of the very idle!

Seriously - I've never heard of anyone being hassled for wearing a football strip - national or club side - or being heavily into soccer. The only debate occasionally occured when some young kid wore a football strip sponsored by a brewery - some felt this wasn't appropriate.

slimboyfat

I was once told it was wrong to wear a national strip as it may be seen as nationalistic. I just looked at them bemused: I never liked football, much less considered donning a strip.

Putting my JW hat on (rather fetching it is too) the difference between a church and a stadium is that a church is always involved in idolatry, whereas sport only becomes idolatrous if you have a (Witness jargon alert!) 'wrong view' of it.

Slim (whose brains hurts a little from employing Witness 'reasoning')

Vivamus

In Overschie (little town here in Holland) the JW's bought an old church, and turned it into a Kingdom Hall. The building remained exactly the same, except for a little tower on it which the JW's had taken off.

I always found that weird too, you cannot get a building from the Whore of Babylon and turn it into a place of worship for yourself ...

Clam

I have attended Twickenham on many ocassions, both to worship Jehovah and to worship the England Rugby Union side as they played on the hallowed turf. BTW I gained more enjoyment from the latter.

A question for readers I always wanted to ask.

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