From USA Today:
Tonight on ABC's World News, correspondent Jake Tapper reports on a pro-wrestling match Saturday in Winterville, Ga., complete with body slams, men in tights and a revved-up crowd.
“Ultimate Christian Wrestling is like any other pro-wrestling bout you might see on a Saturday night in rural Georgia,” Tapper says. “Except the characters and story lines come to a dramatic climax at the end of the show straight out of the Book of Revelation: At the end of this show, dozens of folks in the audience said they were called to accept Jesus into their hearts. It was quite a thing to behold.”
Along with rock music, video games, movies and car racing, “wrestling is one of many non-traditional ways evangelicals are reaching out to Americans in what seems a very significant spiritual revival going on,” Tapper says.
From Iconculture:
Wrestling enthusiasts are a diverse group; Christian grapplers hope to tease out those eager to find God and bring them into the fold. The Lord is popping up throughout the culture, from U2 sermons to Papal text messages to Christian paintball. But pro wrestling seems a particularly powerful fit, since it’s already proven well suited for political evangelism. Hardcore piledriving fans can forget about WWE-style bloodbaths, though. Founder Rob Fields promises family-friendly, spiritually uplifting entertainment. Well, as family-friendly as a “Dr. Shock” vs. “Nightmare” grudge match can get.
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Please send help. The inmates are definitely now running the asylum in this country. We have gone from the Sermon on the Mount to the Slammin' on the Mat and they are calling it "a very significant spiritual revival" somehow.
Now I understand why the anchorites all retired to the deserts...
Posted by: Marshall | Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 10:57 AM
My inaugural address at the Great White Throne Judgment of the Dead, after I have raptured out billions!
At: http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/spaceman/inaugural.html (Read online)
My site: http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/spaceman
Your jaw will drop!
Posted by: Secret Rapture | Saturday, 13 May 2006 at 01:57 AM