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Sunday, February 13, 2022

A PAGAN OR SECULAR TEMPLE THAT COST MORE THAN THE LOS ANGELES CATHEDRAL AND FOR WHAT: SPORTS! DOES ANYONE IN THE SECULAR OR PAGAN WORLD COMPLAIN ABOUT THE COST?

 PAGAN TEMPLE COSTS MORE THAN $5 BILLION (YES WITH A B)! ANY SUPER BOWL FANS BOYCOTTING WATCHING THE SUPER BOWL OVER THAT SCANDAL?

According to the Los Angeles Times, SoFi Stadium cost more than $5 billion to build. It was all privately funded by Rams owner Stan Kroenke. The Designbuild Network reported that that price tag makes it the most expensive stadium ever built, and by no small margin.



8 comments:

TJM said...

This project provided a lot of people jobs: suppliers, architects, engineers, contractors, etc. Would you prefer they not have work?

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

I would love to know their pay! I am in the wrong business!

TJM said...

They are union workers!

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

The same, "...suppliers, architects, engineers, contractors, etc...." could have had work building schools, libraries, affordable housing communities, etc.

It's not a question of who gets to make money from work. It is a question of what do we value as a culture.

These multi-billion and multi-million sports compelxes are but a symptom of a culture that has misplaced values. Mindless entertainment gets pride of place. In the average 3 hours and 12 minutes footsball game, the actualy time the ball is in play is 11 MINUTES.

And THEN there is the whoile question of who gets the tax breaks and/or incentives to build these temples of entertainment? The multi-millionaires and billionaires, that's who.

It was only in the last few years that the NFL, in a public relations move, gave up the tax exempt status of the League Office and the Management Council. Reports note, however, that, "...the NFL would likely find enough write-offs to offset the savings it would lose along with its tax-exempt status."

Oh, and in 2019 ans 2020, the commissionaer of the NFL raked in appx $125 million.

Jerome Merwick said...

I have mixed feelings about this whole thing. Professional sports IS a new kind of paganism. NFL games are on Sundays--a day reserved for worship and rest. The Super Bowl has been treated as some sort of religious event for decades now. It's a tremendous sign of how misplaced our priorities really are. The very first "Super Bowl" was not even called the Super Bowl and halftime entertainment was a marching band. Now we have to have elaborate, sex-drenched pop star sluts strutting their nonsense for the cameras at halftime while the entire event is sold to the public like a box of soap. People gather for super bowl parties and the actual game has become secondary to the meaningless hooplah. It's really a metaphor for the spiritual vacancy of our modern world.

And the sport industry itself is a disgrace. At least when we had coaches like Lombardi (who attended daily Mass) players were held to some kind of standard. Paul Hornung had to sit out a year JUST FOR GAMBLING. Today, we have a thugocracy of players, many of whom haven't even graduated from high school, making millions of dollars and nobody cares about their violent off-the-field behavior, their drug use, their countless illegitimate children. We have coaches who cheat. And we have greedy owners who milk us--the sucker public--for every penny they can get, all the while imposing their politically-correct globalist ethos upon us as some sort of "higher morality" while their corrupt product saps our soles. Want an example? The virtuous owner of the Washington franchise signaled his holiness by removing the legendary and historic "Redskins" name to conform to our temporary new morality of interpreting racism through a very narrow lens. Yet how many NFL players have been called out for their vocal support of BLM or their even more vocal hatred of white people?

I'm almost sorry I got started. Every time I discuss this issue I just get angrier and angrier. Needless to say, the NFL doesn't get a second of my time or a penny of my money. It hasn't since the 1980's. Who need them?

Jerome Merwick said...

souls

TJM said...

Fr K,

You are pretty cavalier about the working man’s livelihood. And really, it is unseemly that you should be criticizing your Party leaders, the Clintons and the Obamas, who are now living in the lap of luxury off of “public service!” Obama is also damaging the Global Warming Religion by owning two mansions on the sea! Unless you can explain how what he is doing is ok.

Value? Well the last 50 years have shown the Catholic Church and what it is peddling has little value to millions of former Catholics, so why did Cardinal Mahony spend almost 200 Hundred Million on his Cathedral?

TJM said...

Fr K,

No rebuttal?