The Church of Human Bodies

Introduction

The Church of Human Bodies is necessary because no religion in the world exists to worship the human body and to celebrate our bodily life as final and real. No matter what religious faith you look at, ultimately it values not life on earth, but afterlife elsewhere.

Worldwide, this disease is the same. Religion celebrates not the body but instead something spiritual which is supposed to float free of the body and survive it. The holy, everyone maintains, belongs to this realm of the spiritual, not to the world of the body.

The Church of Human Bodies turns this around. We say it is the body which is sacred. We say it is life, not afterlife, that really matters. We embrace the delicious temporality of being bodies, and have come to the conclusion that it is this impermanence which renders our lives valuable.

When we say we worship the body, understand that we don't mean the body as it is idealized in popular culture. We mean we worship the bodies we actually have as human beings: old, young, skinny, fat, tall, short, healthy, or struggling to regain health; all are included in what we worship.

However we come, our bodies are us. And this is the life we live and care about, not some idealized, unreal image that can only be imagined, that cannot be lived.

Step inside, and expose yourself to a dose of sanity.