Ephedra, Weight Watchers, diet pills, exercise, surgery–all lead to what our society holds up as the ideal–a thin body. Yes, I know part of it is for health reasons, but give me a break. When was the last time you heard anyone talk about what really matters–what’s going on in our hearts.

It’s my belief that if we worried more about the condition of the heart, we’d have less crime, fewer abortions, the divorce rate would plummet, and there would be fewer people with drug and alchohol problems. But, of course, we can’t teach about that in the classroom–things like self-control, putting others first, forgiveness–that’s too close to religion. And we can’t have that.

Instead, let’s worry more about the outer man and make laws to control him. That’s working really well.