Comments on: Letters to the Editor http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/09/letters-to-the-editor/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:48:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/09/letters-to-the-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-18967 Tim Boucher Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:45:32 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/09/letters-to-the-editor/#comment-18967 Sure it could have - a caste of people supernaturally endowed is common to most cultures it seems like Sure it could have - a caste of people supernaturally endowed is common to most cultures it seems like

]]> By: prunes http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/09/letters-to-the-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-18961 prunes Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:26:12 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/09/letters-to-the-editor/#comment-18961 <blockquote>We are to worship them and be thankful for their “immense talent” while simultaneously remembering that they are they are regular people.</blockquote> Clear parallels to the idea of Christ simultaneously being both God and man: the celebrity bridges the pseudo-higher life and the mundane. I wonder if celebrity culture could really have arisen from a non-Christian tradition.

We are to worship them and be thankful for their “immense talent” while simultaneously remembering that they are they are regular people.

Clear parallels to the idea of Christ simultaneously being both God and man: the celebrity bridges the pseudo-higher life and the mundane. I wonder if celebrity culture could really have arisen from a non-Christian tradition.

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