If there is an evolved human impulse toward belief in the divine, surely it is most purely manifested, not in the lethal austerities of the various monoculturetheisms, but in the passion with which the citizen-as-acolyte follows the infinitely never-changing everchangingness of the celebrities of the numinous?

Isn't to be Britney, or to be Hilary [sorry, Lindsay], to be as a Goddess? And it's a win-win situation for everbody:

Acts 19:24-28:

24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.

26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

The corps, of course, get us coming and going: With the Family Research Council (Paul) and other Christianist organs, they get the believers in the One True God of Their Choice; and with FUX (Demetrius), they get everybody else.*

A sort of theologically polymorphous perverity by the disembodied persons who rule our lives, and exploit our flesh....

NOTE * Except for those of us who are moving of the grid, of course.