Alas, how far have we fallen from a right honoring of the Lord’s day in a land that was once “a city on a hill!” And how short is our collective memory of far better and holier days. But a simple search will bear witness. Our center of pleasure has shifted from the sacred to the secular, from God to games. The following is the Wikipedia entry for “Sunday sporting events.” Telling.
“Sunday sporting events were not usually played until the early 20th century. In North America, they were prohibited due to blue laws at first, but then cities like Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati later decided to legalize them. Other cities such as New York City and Philadelphia had intense political and court battles to legalize the games. Nowadays, professional sports leagues schedule games on Sundays in the United States, though this practice continues to be opposed by some Christian denominations upholding first-day Sabbatarian doctrine.”
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