Do you wonder why Americans are so fascinated with celebrity? Poor Anna Nicole, Britney, Lindsay Lohan, and so many others. We create little mythologies out of such nonsense - little gods and goddesses - living these bigger than life lives - and our common fascination says something very sad about us. They are lives without meaning - not their lives - but the lives we give them in our common almost hypnotic hysteria. And I admit it, I follow them in a sort of fascination myself. When will the train actually fall off the tracks? Tomorrow Lent starts - 40 days to think of the life of Jesus intentionally - and it came to me that one of my Lenten resolutions will be to not allow myself to be sucked into these pretend lives. I will pray for them, but I won't be part of the drama. If anyone has ever needed prayer - it is certainly - these poor little girls.Perhaps the truth is this - celebrity is easy, it demands nothing from us, takes nothing from us, requires nothing of us. God? Different.
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We're fascinated with celebrity because we believe that fame makes us godlike. If we're famous, we can do whatever we want, have whatever we want, etc. We're fascinated with celebrities because we revere them as gods, and because we want to be gods ourselves.
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