Worship at the Shrine of David Beckham at a Buddhist Temple
By: Bob | August 17th, 2007
David Beckham’s goal heard around the world certainly inspired Landon Donovan to invoke religion, which is not really much of a surprise considering some people have been worshiping at the altar of Becks for almost a decade now. A Buddhist temple in Bangkok has a golden statue of Goldenballs built into its altar.
Chris Mitchell writes on Travel Happy:
The statue itself is definitely Beckham, sporting his floppy haircut from nearly a decade ago and even with the sponsorship logo Sharp picked out on his chest. It’s about half a metre high. As I wrote in my previous story about the David Beckham temple, the statue was installed at the temple in 1998 as part of the World Cup celebrations by Thai sculptor Thongruang Haemhod. According to this BBC News story, Thongruang wanted to add it because football is the new religion, and the temple’s abbot agreed.
Far be it from me to question anyone’s religious practices, but don’t you think someone like Ronaldo would be a better stand-in for Buddha than Becks? I do love the fact that it looks like Beckham is using a squat toilet. I’d convert to Scientology just to see that.
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I guess not all of Los Angeles is worshipping Becks…
http://deadspin.com/sports/david-beckham/as-long-as-you-dont-pan-back-its-amazing-290615.php
(shrugs shoulders)
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I FEEL THAT PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP A PLAYER THAT AINT EVEN GOOD ENOUGH WHICH I PERSONALLY THINK IS RUBBISH AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS LIFE BUT PLAY RUBBISH SOCCER..IS WASTING THEIR TIME AND A FOOLISH THING LIKE WORSHIPING A STUPID PLAYER LIKE BLOODY DAVID BUTTHEM
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