The Resurrection of the Body
May 27th, 2009
Part of the reason why I strayed away from “mother church” is my perception (whether right or wrong) that spirituality is inimical to the body.
You want to be holy/spiritual? Then, deny the body. The body, with its desires (sexual, biological, etc.) needs to be tamed, nay, caged. The body is a burden. If only we can become like angels. Pure, without the body which (unruly and with all these icky secretions, mucus, urine, etc.) always presents itself as a problem, a hindrance, an obstacle.
I’ve no problems with ascetic practices. I see their value. But when these practices get tied up with the denigration of the body, I react.
Didn’t God create the world and saw that it was good? Why then look at the body with an evil eye?