"In this secular age, focusing on one's diet and other lifestyle choices has become an alternative for prayer and righteous living, in providing a means of making sense of life and death. 'Healthiness' has replaced 'godliness' as a yardstick of accomplishment for proper living. Public health promotion then, may be viewed as contributing to the moral regulation of society, focusing as they do upon ethical and moral practices of the self."
~Deborah Lipton (famous health theorist)
this quote came up in my society of sport class today and it really made me stop and think. has our world ousted christianity and its values in support of the notion of healthism? how often do we assign moral value to our practices surrounding healthy living? is this ok? what's going to happen when society realizes that all of our research and medical knowledge is simply prolonging the inevitable, which is death? why are we so afraid of dying? does this question bring us back to the original struggle, which is where a God of the universe might fit in?
evz
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this is the struggle of balance that we always have to contend with in our human, but spiritual, walks. it goes back to the ancient philosophy of serving the creator, not the created (ourselves, our health, our lives), but in that we don't deny ourselves the necessity of good maintenance. we serve ourselves (ie take care of ourselves and health) out of respect for the one who created us. but we can't and shouldn't get them out of priority. there is only One who can heal when we mess up with ourselves, and only One who can provide the manna from heaven when there is none else.
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