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Football: a moral force for good?

Moral Maze

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The Importance of Religion in Football

There's a lot of religious feeling and language around football. My dad suggests it's not just preeminent, but it has actually replaced some of those things. I suspect what they would say is in the case of football, that feeling is being directed towards something that can be quite ugly. That can get expressed in football through racism and through excluding people. But there's archaeological evidence of slavery and the racism associated with that that predates written human language. So this problem has been around for a long time that football draws it out.

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