Thursday, December 19, 2013

"I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure."-- Michael Malone

Call me slow, but I've got to puzzle this one out.  Taboos are the "thou shalt not's", so faith and failure are the two things that Americans feel are "sins" (for lack of a better word)?
Failure, yes, I completely agree that in contemporary American culture,  failure is a sin.  Why else do we worship money and power--but faith?
I guess Michael never watched Fox News, where faith in the Christian god is a prerequisite for being an upstanding citizen, as is having money and power.
"Sinners", according to fox pundits, are not those that have both, but those that have neither.

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