the beautiful people?

Pop culture mag People has published it's yearly list of the 100 Most Beautimous Persons Around, or something like that. Lots of "celebrities," natch. It's never been a magazine to focus on really important issues, but I think this kind of thing is a prime example of shallowness. Purely subjective, of course, and completely American. What's beautiful in one culture isn't necessarily beautiful in another. I've seen people who are far more beautiful - including The Wife - than the ones on this list.

Let's see what the Apostle Peter thought of external beauty. He wrote about it in the third chapter of his first letter:

Your adornment must not be merely external--braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.

How many of the people on that list would fulfill Peter's standard of beauty?