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Looking for answers, in an evangelical World Cup brochure

posted by From A Left Wing
Friday, July 9, 2010 at 1:47pm EDT

Meditations on the Beautiful Game from an Unlikey Player and Fan.
Jennifer Doyle

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My favorite World Cup ephemera is this brochure, produced for a "Bible Correspondence Course" in Long Beach, CA. A friend of mine found it on his car windshield, a couple weeks before the tournament's start.

I'm amazed by the ease with which the authors of this text move from "How about life after death?" and "There is not much time left before the World Cup of Soccer takes place...." The brochure alternates between these visions of the afterlife and practical information about the tournament. It provides a list of previous winners, for example, and a table you can fill out as the tournament progresses as well as the essay pictured above, addressing the sense of emptiness and betrayal we are destined to live with, come Monday morning.

On the brochure's last page, one finds an address to which one can turn for solutions. Apparently, even the God Squad profits from World Cup fever.


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