Worse, popular culture can break down even our ability to tackle more challenging mental tasks. By focusing on immediate experience, it erodes the skills needed for sustained attention. By offering easy consumption and emotional gratification, it discourages us from analyzing what we see and hear. This raises entirely different issues when we get to faith and our relationship with God. You may not agree with Postman's words but hopefully they will make you think, I think it is both fair and obvious that on television, God is a vague and subordinate character.
Television is after all, a form of graven imagery far more alluring than a golden calf. . .
Jimmy Swaggart plays better than God. For God exists only in our minds, whereas Swaggart is there, to be seen, admired, adored. Which is why he is the star of the show. And why Billy Graham is a celebrity, and why Oral Roberts had his own university, and why Robert Schuller has a crystal cathedral all to himself. If I am not mistaken, the word for this is blasphemy.