Greetings. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum. Welcome to the Tuesday, September the 12th,

2023 edition of the Daily Article Podcast. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison.

New York Jets' star quarterback Aaron Rogers was injured on his fourth play of the year last night. The team fears he tore his

Achilles and MRI is scheduled for later today to confirm. In other news, Aerosmith lead singer

Stephen Tyler suffered vocal cord damage over the weekend, forcing the band to postpone their

remaining September concerts. Why are the two making headlines this morning?

It's not because their stories are so unusual. Rogers would be one of approximately 60,000 people

who injure their Achilles annually, while Tyler is one of an estimated 17.9 million U.S. adults

who have problems with their voice each year. The answer is obvious. They're

Aaron Rogers and Stephen Tyler. And what happens to celebrities interests the rest of us,

which is why they're celebrities. Another way to make the news is to do something unusual,

like the dog that escaped its crate at the Atlanta airport and was found after three weeks on the loose,

or the horse that was rescued from a backyard swimming pool in North Carolina,

or the Pennsylvania man who went to 77 movies in a single year,

earning a Guinness world record in the process.

By contrast, some of the most significant

events of our lives can become routine over time and lose their apparent urgency. For example,

how much did you think about 9-11 this time last week? When last did you consider its consequences

for our everyday lives, from enhanced airport security to increased

government oversight to the ongoing threat of terrorism as the new normal? Here's one more

normalized casualty of the worst terrorist attack in American history, the waning of religion in America.

America's growing disinterest in religion is now so often reported as to

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