Shelby Foote is a southern...
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Shelby Foote is a southern novelist and historian who recently has attracted a great deal of popular attention as the chief commentator in the Public Broadcasting System's monumental series, The Civil War. He recently said that he doesn't understand what the fuss is all about. In his mid-70s, he doesn't see much reason why he should suddenly be a media celebrity. Something in his quiet style and slow easy manner with a story caught the public's attention. He says that it has been more of an annoyance than anything, but the notoriety has at least sold a great many of his books.
No more did Paul and Barnabas understand how the people of Lystra could mistake them for gods. Yet they should have known how often we try to elevate to the status of gods those who amaze us or entertain us. In our age, it happens all the time to those who appear in our homes on television. We can hardly be restrained from offering sacrifices to a Madonna, or a popular evangelist. But those who accept such adulation, as though it is their due, need to be wary. Those to whom we sacrifice one day, we are likely to attack the next. For many of our popular idols (a most appropriate word), their fall comes as fast as their rise.
--Curley
No more did Paul and Barnabas understand how the people of Lystra could mistake them for gods. Yet they should have known how often we try to elevate to the status of gods those who amaze us or entertain us. In our age, it happens all the time to those who appear in our homes on television. We can hardly be restrained from offering sacrifices to a Madonna, or a popular evangelist. But those who accept such adulation, as though it is their due, need to be wary. Those to whom we sacrifice one day, we are likely to attack the next. For many of our popular idols (a most appropriate word), their fall comes as fast as their rise.
--Curley
