Tag: Popular culture

Oprahfied spirituality

I have my doubts, too: doubts that naturally arise when, say, her magazine hawks both the philosophy of voluntary simplicity and $185 beach blankets without a smidgen of irony.

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Competitive theism

Believing that God wants you to be famous actually improves your chances of being famous. What’s helping these stars is not so much religion as belief—specifically, the belief that God favors their own personal, temporal success over that of almost everyone else.

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Sacrilegious? Or just nacho cheesy?

This advertisement, in which a church reverses its declining membership and solves its budget problems by offering communion-goers Doritos and Pepsi Max, was yanked from the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ad contest.

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