Thursday, March 12, 2009

Mindless Bashing

The Journal of Religion, Culture and Public Life today published an article that makes my blood boil. In an article entitled "How Soccer is Ruining America: A Jeremiad" written by Stephen H. Webb (Ph.d. University of Chicago), a professor of religion and philosophy at Wabash College, he talks utter crap about how soccer is ruining America and how it is dumbing down the good people of the USA. What a load of shite Webb! This is coming for a guy whose nation has Baseball as the national pastime, a sport with which I have come to love but I do also realize, consciously, that the game does have its dull points, but by no means is it more interesting than Soccer.

I'm really not going to talk long about this because his article is pure tripe and borders on insanity. In no way does it warrant a long detailed response as any reasonable person will discredit this article by the end of the first paragraph. A country cannot fail because of the sports it plays or does not play. It fails because and among other things as a direct result of a working education system: something that the United States has been suffering from for some time. Barack Obama has made education a priority for his term in government and that can only be a good thing. As an educator, I hope I can contribute positively to this change and move the USA up from number 18 in the league of the worlds education system as according to the United Nations and the OECD.

This article is an example of "a bible thumper from Indiana" with no idea of how the world actually works, see's the world around him. It is sad, that someone that is supposedly educated has such a terrorizing, narrow minded view of the world. This is an example of literary terrorism on the mind through the printing of completely unfounded and unwarranted ideas that prays on the weak and undereducated to initiate hatred.

It is plainly propaganda, spreading hatred of people who love soccer, (over one billion people watched the last world cup final compared to 200 million watching the world series)-he may have a PhD but by no means is he intelligent. He is a terrific example of a Nut (he is totally insane, as is the article), and as one of my good friends said to me, there's a "good chance he's got plenty of other terrible opinions to share too." I am not bashing religion, I am religious myself, but this guy clearly has an agenda that is clearly not for the good of humanity.

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