Standing O for the Rabbi. Why cast pearls before swine?
I would almost agree with you -- except for this little nugget from his essay:
Tuned to give them the impression that they had had a conversation about God — when all they were actually doing was coming all over their pants with the "grown-up" discovery that God and religion are stupid.With this analogy in mind, I imagine an entire generation fed up with their parents' and teachers' conventional obeisance to boring, rote-driven, hypocritical religion. (Think about learning holiness from a pastor who, you later learn, has been seducing women who come to him in profound grief after their husbands' deaths, or has been seducing/coercing young boys into sex while proclaiming eternal damnation for those who desire same-sex marriage.)
So maybe the primary blame for such a slobbery program as the Roseanne talk-show belongs in the behavior of much of established, official American religion.
Contrary to the notions of this learned rabbi, using phrases like "coming all over their pants" to describe these juvenile nihilistic rantings of the hosts of the show debases him nearly to their level. Further, his characterization of the miniscule exceptional minority of pastors and priests as "much of established, official American religion" is so grossly wrong on so many levels that it completely marginalizes anything else he has to say.