Nick Spencer writes in the Church Times on the bitter divisions in Western Democracy.
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“My Weekends are dominated by football. I don’t especially like the game, don’t support a team, and can’t play for toffee. But through the seemingly random drift of genetic chance that is natural selection, my 11–year–old son has developed a passion, and, even more mysteriously, a talent, for the game. Hence, my weekends are now spent on various touchlines, cheering and shouting and pretending to know what I’m talking about.
It is different when you have skin in the game, as they say. Rarely am I as committed as when cheering on the Colts, and the same, naturally, goes for other parents and other teams. Although I have yet to witness any actual fisticuffs, my touchline mornings have occasionally lifted a veil on human nature which is best left down. “Serious sport”, Orwell famously wrote, “is war minus the shooting.”
Read the full article at the Church Times.
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