China combined). We have become accustomed to homeless people sleeping in parks and under bridges, something virtually unknown in my childhood. The leading causes of death are self-inflicted, the side-effects of tobacco, obesity, alcohol, sexually transmitted diseases, drugs, and violence.8 It’s time to ask the question: how did Western morality stray onto such a slippery slope? What happened to us? I can explain it in two ways: historically and biblically. THE