To play weatherman for a moment, he is a perfect storm of the culture of narcissism, the cult of celebrity and a secular society in which fathers (both the holy and the secular) have been increasingly marginalized from the lives of a generation of young Americans...Thus, in post-Judeo-Christian America, the sports club is the new church. Global warming is the new religion. Vegetarianism is the new sacrament. Hooking up, the new prayer. Talk therapy, the new witnessing. Tattooing and piercing, the new sacred symbols and rituals. And apparently, Barack Obama is the new messiah.
Kathleen Parker is a brilliant writer.
If only the world still cherished good thinkers.