Colen Powell's Death Is a Civic Religion

"He is fallible, but he is noble. He has integrity," she says of the late congressman. "If there are any false steps, it's a mistake, he then owns up to those." The cossa cortes was an incantation at a civilian religious service where you say, please god, don't pile on me", writes CNN anchor Jake Tapper. 'This whole thing is a civic religion'