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The last time God spoke regularly to a girl on television was on the 1967 sitcom "The Flying Nun." This season, on three different shows, God is commanding girls to clean their rooms, get jobs and solve crimes.
The religiosity pervading popular culture - from Elaine Pagels’s best-selling study of a Gnostic text, "Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas," to the lyrics of rock groups like Evanescence ("My God! My Tourniquet,/Return to me salvation") - has also rubbed off on television. (...)