Inside America’s Largest Religious Revival You Know Nothing About by Heather Smith

Inside America’s Largest Religious Revival You Know Nothing About by Heather Smith

Unquestionably, the ongoing success of Athletica is rooted in its centrality to the lives of its devotees. As Christianity fades in the West, dying from a desire to be like everything else except itself, Athletica has risen to the ascendance as the self-assured, pervasive cultural influence. Where the Judeo-Christian world has laid down its mantle, Athletica has picked it up, unwittingly following the directives of the Hebrew Bible to teach tenets of the faith to their children, “Talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

Sports worship is a rare, acceptable form of idolatry within the church.