[Justin Bieber is..] 19 and peeling rubber in a rented yellow Lamborghini, drag racing in Miami Beach before dawn Thursday and flunking a street-side sobriety test, according to a police report.
Are his global followers, the Beliebers, still around to read this and weep? Do they even care or have they moved on to other idols of self-expression? (Miley, anyone?) Maybe they have found Bono, who once said, as Falsani noted: “There’s nothing worse than a rock star with a cause ”¦ But celebrity is currency and we want to spend it this way.”
It’s certainly not easy to be a celebrity in popular culture and still be taken seriously as a person who practices a religion ”” Christian or any other faith ”” in word and deed.
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