The Hill News

In our times the sacred mysteries abound. “Would you like to become Catholic, Johnny?” Don Rickles once asked Johnny Carson. “It might mean a free drink for you.” Once again we have entered an Age of “Plastic Jesus” (Janis Joplin’s phrase); an age of conspicuous piety like that coarsely displayed in the '50s by “flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark,” on the Buick dashboard. Of which Bob Dylan said, when he first rose to moment, “It's easy to see without looking too far, that not much is really sacred.”

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