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Question I
Why has Christianity rejected many expressions of sexuality as antithetical to spirituality while various Eastern traditions Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism have been more accepting of sexuality, have even embraced sex as a vehicle for spiritual transcendence? What do you think about the connection, if any, between sexuality and spirituality? In the Christian view, is Shakespeare's mortal coil, Milton's perfidious bark, just a weight holding us down, preventing us from achieving greater divinity, or is the body, as Blake explains, a portion of the soul discerned by the five senses?
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I agree with Frances Kissling's emphasis on the sacralization of marriage. I think that is a key, although I don't know that sex is only redeemed in marriage, unless we define marriage in an interior way. Marriage is so profoundly vast and deep that it is a form of religion, no matter what the partners think.
Moore responds to Paglia, Francoeur and himself |
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