Since time unremembered, God is whomever animals are sacrificed to.
I was in the kitchen when my wife gasped from the dining room.
"What?" I said.
"Something disgusting."
"Donald Trump in the news again?"
"Worse than that."
"Muslim terrorists?"
She read me the caption from the photo: "Chef prepares Rocky Mountain Oysters for deep-frying in advance of festival held Thursday."
Men used to sacrifice animals to God. The Jews still do. At least, in Israel. Jews here, having feasted long in a heathen nation, have given it up.
And Arab Muslims, of course, sacrifice humans to their God.
Theologian Paul Tillich said that God was "our ultimate concern."
Okay. In America, where the ultimate concern of most is to feed their trivial tastes, those tastes have become God.
America remains devoutly religious.
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