The 10 craziest things about the Susan Boyle craze

1) Boyle is evidence of God’s love

In the US, where Boyle is even bigger than in Britain, leading Christians have written about ‘Susan Boyle and the Love of God’. Apparently the whooping of millions of people at the sight of Boyle getting a standing ovation is evidence of our inner Christian leanings. Says one Christian columnist: ‘The way we see Susan Boyle is very nearly the way God sees us: worthwhile, special, talented, unique, beautiful.’ Another reckons Boyle is living, singing evidence of ‘the divine spark, the God-kiss, that lives in each and every one of us’ and which is infinitely more important than having ‘perky breasts and unlined skin’. It is a divine revelation of Christianity’s desperation that it needs a quirky, increasingly viral video of a woman singing nicely – a ‘cyberfable’ as one of them approvingly calls it – to try to make a connection with a largely God-indifferent public.