This is the title of chapter 13 in my book, a chapter exploring a cryptic and little known story in the Old Testament (1 Kings 13). In hindsight, the chapter title seems prescient (prophetic): it is in fashion to take a timeout from sense, as recent events in the world demonstrate emphatically. Let me highlight three things from this chapter. First, there is a lesson on how to use religion for political ends. This is not new, of course, but the king in the story does it with