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Christian Ethics: Steroids America has built a society based on power and speed. We practice that more is always better and there is forever competition to be the best, at anything and everything. It should come as no surprise, then, that there is a fast-growing epidemic of the use of anabolic steroids. The short-term use of these steroids can be so impressive that athletes and the common man alike can be easily tempted to try these substances, but the long-term effects of use can be incredibly damaging, on an individual and a social level. From a Christian perspective, in a country claiming Christian heritage, the use of steroids can be seen as nothing other than an abundantly wide-spread act of evil against one’s own body. The explosion of increase in steroid use over the past few decades is a result of the roles they perform in the body. They imitate the predominately male hormone testosterone by producing both the androgenic and the anabolic affects that are associated with the hormone. The androgenic effects include masculine characteristics such as deepening of the voice, growth of facial hair, and the maturation of sex glands. The more desirable anabolic effects include the growth of body tissue and assi