On "Television Religion"

Found at Anecdotal Evidence, which bills itself as "a blog about the intersection of books and life," this quotation about "television religion" from novelist and essayist Marilyn Robinson:

I know I risk being unfair in characterizing television religion, because I have not paid much attention to it. But it seems to me more television than religion by a good margin. It is adept at exciting minor emotions and at stimulating viewer loyalty. It bears about the same relation to religion All My Children bears to King Lear.