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"Taylor Swift is secular culture’s modern-day psalmist. But her view of redemption is too small," writes Alianore Smith in this article for the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity section on Connecting with Culture - Entertainment. "Taylor is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page." 

Some phrases think for us. They slip easily off the tongue, the obvious thing to say. We use them without noticing the presuppositions that have smuggled into our argument. 

‘Playing God’ is one such phrase. Recent news stories have accused us – the phrase is almost always used accusingly – of playing God with the atmosphere, with wildlife, with the human brain, and of course with technology. ‘Playing God’, it’s fair to say, is rarely used positively. 

This article is one in a series (Connecting with Culture - Science and Tech) from the the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity.