James Lawler

The God Tube: Uncovering the Hidden Spiritual Message in Pop Culture James Lawler

Beginning with "The Simpsons" and ending with "The Da Vinci Code, " the entertaining sections in this book uncover profound philosophical and religious ideas in pop culture. Each work covered contains a challenge to both standard religious orthodoxy and secular science. In "The Simpsons Movie, " although Homer must be dragged off his couch to church, he experiences a spiritual epiphany with an Inuit shaman woman. In the film of "The Da Vinci Code, " Robert Langdon proposes that "the human is the divine." The author makes a striking case here for pop culture as a hotbed of alternative thinking.