Sports allow individuals to vent desires and stresses that are restrained in everyday life, and it is for that motive that sports are related with conduct and behaviour that is rougher and more violent than other channels and aspects of social life. The short film documentary Fight Church highlights this message, that violence can be justified in the name of religion and Christ. Some characters in this short film were Christians first, then become fighters, and some are the other way around. “Everything we do is about God. Faith is saturated in what we do,” says the main character Paul Burress, a chaplain and fight coach at Victory Baptist Church in Rochester. Paul discussed the importance of not judging an MMA/UFC match as being gruesome and
