Oprah A Moral And Spiritual Leader?

I just read this article from yahoo news and I feel like I'm going to vomit!

In the article there are quotes such as:

"She's a really hip and materialistic Mother Teresa"

Umm...Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is the last person I would compare Oprah to! The thought that anyone would even utter such words, makes me think that they interviewed this person at an insane asylum or maybe a Scientology gathering.

"She's a moral monitor, using herself as the template against which she measures the decency of a nation"

Moral monitor?! So, living with a guy for however many years and refusing to be married is good morals? Maybe in the Episcopal Church, but not in real life!

And if it's true that she uses herself as a "template against which she measures the deceny of a nation" I have two things to say:

1) No wonder America is so morally screwed up!
2) Isn't pride one of the seven deadly sins?

"Love her or loathe her, Winfrey has become proof that you can't be too rich, too thin or too committed to rising to your place in the world."

"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon" (Matthew 6:24).

"I think that if this were the equivalent of the Middle Ages and we were to fast-forward 1,200 years, scholars would definitely think that this Oprah person was a deity, if not a canonized being."

I think not.

Oprah may be a moral and spiritual leader of some wacko sect, but not for Christianity. Here's some more revealing quotes from the article:

"After two decades of searching for her authentic self - exploring New Age theories..."

"One of Winfrey's most appealing subtexts is that she's anti-institutional, says Chris Altrock, minister of Highland Street Church of Christ in Memphis. He says Winfrey believes there are many paths to God, not just one. After doing his doctoral research three years ago on postmodernism religion, a religious era that began in the 1970s as Christians became deeply interested in spirituality and less interested in any established church, he came up with what he calls "The Church of Oprah," referring to the culture that has created her."

"People who have no religion relate to her"

Oh, and they even manage to bash the Catholic Church in the article.