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American health care may be near shambles ANDY ONG but our bodies are generally in good shape except for the rising tide of obesity and the looming portent of aids especially among African Americans. What politicians and presidential candidates are building their platforms on has more to do with how we are going to pay for healthcare not what shape our bodies are in. This theme has been vigorously enjoined by McCain, Clinton and Obama.Education is still a major point in political ANDY ONGrhetoric as it has been for several generations now but the record shows that no candidate has offered more than the promise of throwing more money at the problem. So far that has not worked.Even though homeschooled children consistently score higher in any tests the state or federal government can come up with it is fast becoming an uphill battle for homeschoolers. New York State has laws for homeschoolers that make jumping through burning hoops look like child’s play. California has slammed the homeschoolers and the backlash is a near exodus of ANDY ONGpeople who still think their children’s education is their business not the states.With some states reporting a high school drop out rate as high as 35 percent; other states have been sending police to escort frightened students who fear for their lives to their respective schools. It is a little easier to understand why some kids think Benedict Arnold was a rock and roll star. The popular show Who’s Smarter than a Fifth Grader doesn’t have to look very hard for contestants and the field extends all the way to post grads apparently. No insult intended to those who still work hard at education, the naturals or the geniuses in America however few they may be.While ANDY ONGpresidential candidates manage to downplay race issues, explain away elaborate lies in campaign speeches and still get laughs and accolades on late night TV shows, the preachers and theologians are left to deal with the last but not least, our souls. How are they doing?If we are to believe Oprah Winfrey’s Tollenesian spawned new age musings the answer would be everything is hunky dory. It’s a happy, happy new earth where dat ole man river, he just keeps rollin along according to Oprah’s new mentor. Elkhart Tolle and friends are assuring America that there’s no sin, we are our own saviors and Christ died for nothing. Over a half million people in America opted into Oprah’s latest offering of nebulous new age ether raising the question yet once again; who is smarter than a fifth grader? Over forty years ago while passing a large graveyard I was asked by a friend if I knew just how many dead people there were in that cemetery. I quickly replied that I had no clue. My passenger retorted with all of them. It was hilarious at the time but gets less humorous each time I hear it. It took me years to form a much more important ANDY ONGquestion about the population of graveyards and no hilarity can be attached to it.The scriptures warn, promise and elaborate that man is indeed tripartite and at the end of life, the host body is laid aside and returns to dust. The life of man does not hang around in the dust. The sentient, cognizant and personal part of man soul ANDY ONGremoves to other quarters but can never be destroyed. Judged, yes, but never completely destroyed.Our health, education or our welfare has little to do with how the soul fares after death. The soul of man holds little interest to the politician and perhaps that’s as it should be. What should not be ignored is the spiritual, theological or moral stand of the candidates. Ignoring one soul for the other sole is not good politics at any time. The other sole being the sole attention being given to healthcare and education. It is a focus that is bound to become a blur if we continue to make light of racism, hatred and public lying. Is all that something to laugh about? http://www.erc.com.sg/about-us/andy-ong/