At the five-minute mark of this video, we see a sort of ersatz secular liturgy done with all the intelligence of Richard Dawkins and all the taste of Charles Saatchi.
Next time your church music director’s choices tempt you to atheism, remember the sort of liturgy that awaits you on the other side.
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