Sharlet: What is it about penguins and God? Whatever the flightless, flippered birds do is taken as revelation of divine will. Mostly, this has been an ugly business, the forced conscription of some harmless birds to right-wing causes. I prefer Alexander Cockburn’s penguin theology, if for no other reason than that he not only invokes John Calvin to explain Happy Feet, but also my favorite German Romantic, Caspar Friedrich. You’ll have to scroll down through some provocative, if accidental, religion commentary on departing theocon Rick Santorum’s unexpected vote against murderous old Robert Gates and rising piety peddler Barack Obama’s empty theology before you get to the Happy Feet review at the bottom.