Given that it is almost unanimous on another thread that football is not almost a religion, it occurred to me to consider what it would look like if it were one.
I'll give it a go:
The deity of football must be something permanent, so who do we worship? Already I sense a schism. It has to be 'our club' shirley? So worshippers of the church of football have separate sects, like Catholics and Proddies. Yes, that makes sense. The Church of Brighton will never see eye to eye with the Church of Palace (the antichrist). And Albion* is the one true church. So that's settled then.
Focusing on the Church of Brighton (let's call it Brighton and Hove Albion) the adherents worship the club. The club is where it all started. It apparently died but in fact was resurrected. The father, holy ghost, and son. I think we could be called son worshippers. I'm comfortable with that.
Archbishops and priests come and go. So do managers and players. We don't worship them, but we do hang on to their every utterance, and many of us swear we have seen miracles.
The Church of Brighton is an unforgiving Church. Very Old Testament, with loads of smiting of enemies. But it is a forgiving church, welcoming back the sinner that repented. *Cough* Glenn Murray *cough*. Though not all worshippers agree on this point. Ours is a broad Church and it tolerates dissenting voices. A bit.
Anyway, I don't want to go all TLDR here. So over you you. What are the tenets of the Church of Brighton, aka Brighton and Hove Albion, as a religion? What is its code of conduct. Etc.
*It's good to have multiple names so that worshippers of other deities don't really understand what you're banging on about.
I'll give it a go:
The deity of football must be something permanent, so who do we worship? Already I sense a schism. It has to be 'our club' shirley? So worshippers of the church of football have separate sects, like Catholics and Proddies. Yes, that makes sense. The Church of Brighton will never see eye to eye with the Church of Palace (the antichrist). And Albion* is the one true church. So that's settled then.
Focusing on the Church of Brighton (let's call it Brighton and Hove Albion) the adherents worship the club. The club is where it all started. It apparently died but in fact was resurrected. The father, holy ghost, and son. I think we could be called son worshippers. I'm comfortable with that.
Archbishops and priests come and go. So do managers and players. We don't worship them, but we do hang on to their every utterance, and many of us swear we have seen miracles.
The Church of Brighton is an unforgiving Church. Very Old Testament, with loads of smiting of enemies. But it is a forgiving church, welcoming back the sinner that repented. *Cough* Glenn Murray *cough*. Though not all worshippers agree on this point. Ours is a broad Church and it tolerates dissenting voices. A bit.
Anyway, I don't want to go all TLDR here. So over you you. What are the tenets of the Church of Brighton, aka Brighton and Hove Albion, as a religion? What is its code of conduct. Etc.
*It's good to have multiple names so that worshippers of other deities don't really understand what you're banging on about.
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