40-year-old book remarkably insightful about state of culture and religion today

Book review: ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business’ by Neil Postman, ★★★★★

From the cover of the 2005 edition of the book by Neil Postman, published by Penguin Books.

Few writers have more accurately explained the current state of American religion, at least its most visible aspects, than has university professor Neil Postman.

What passes for American Christianity on television, he wrote, “is not anything like the Sermon on the…