American Idol

A great commentary on the show, American Idol, by Carl Trueman from Reformation 21. In it he says,
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I have said it many times in class, and now I write it in my column: the key to understanding and critiquing so much of human culture is total depravity. The drive to be like God is that which brought Adam to grief in the Garden of Eden; the desperation engendered by the success of a sibling was what drove Cain to murder. We might be more polite and superficially respectable than these two, but so many aspects of our culture, even trivia like American Idol, indicate that the central concerns of fallen human nature remain stubbornly intact, even in our most apparently harmless pursuits.