I was recently thinking about how much my religion is often as much about the tangible as it is the spiritual. For example, religion asks that we not only have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. It also asks us to take bread and water each week. It asks us not only to follow Jesus and keep His commandments but to put on a jumpsuit and walk into a font of water to get baptized. It asks us not only to obey God's commandments and live the gospel of Jesus Christ but to make tangible covenants that show we really mean it. It even asks not only for people who have died to accept Jesus Christ but to be baptized by proxy by living people in jumpsuits and fonts holding little slips of paper they printed out that morning. It's as if religion says, "It's not enough for your heart to be in it. Your body has to be in it too." I used to wonder about what there was about the nature of the water or the words that provided the transformative effect to cleanse us or endow us wi