George Michael must have known something when he wrote,“You gotta have faith.” Because whether we like it or not, no matter what religion we believe in — if we do — we all need to believe that there is something out there watching over us, call it the universe, God, or the government. In their paper “Celebrity Worship as Weak Religion,” Deena and Michael Weinstein sum it up in a short sentence: “Celebrity worship is a substitute for traditional faith that satisfies spiritual needs that persist after the latter has declined” What are those spiritual needs that the Weinsteins are referring to?…