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American society has been greatly corrupted in the past fifty years. America has had a total of four Great Awakenings and the most recent one occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. During this time period, people started becoming very spiritual and returned to church. In the current society we are living in more than seventy percent of people will claim to be religious or at least believe in God. While many Americans claim this, how true can this statement be, if in some cases other circumstances come before the all mighty father. Exodus 20:3 states “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” While a person may not have other gods they care for an event with more attention. These people demonstrate that they have a greater value that over powers everything including the Church of God. Some people treat this value with much more importance while church is slid into second place. This great value is called football and the Super Bowl. American values demonstrate how corrupted they have become when a congregation is willing to reschedule the instillation of a new minister to watch the Super Bowl. By taking these actions it is acceptable to criticize society by stating American society has become corrupt, questioning the order in which people place God and sports.
The football season is a harbinger of the Super Bowl that thousands of millions of people anticipate. The Super Bowl has been around for forty-six years and its popularity has continued to escalate. It’s called Super Bowl Sunday! Religion has been around since the beginning of time and its’ popularity has declined, grown, but is now declining more rapid than before. Church used to be a divine sanctuary where citizens could go and praise the lord. God should be number one in the life of those who believe, and on Sundays religious afflation’s should be done first. These two events should not be mixed because there is a place for praying and a place for sporting events. In today’s world the Super Bowl and church have

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