Human fulfillment is not in how a person is embodied, but in how a person embodies purpose and love.

A religiously expressed fear of beautiful physical bodies is a perversion that automatically targets their beauty for the perverted attention that fuels the fear.

When a religious culture trains its children to treat the sight of human genitals as a sexual event, it has sown a pornographic view of the body and will reap a sex-addicted society.

By viewing people incarnationally---sacred embodiments of God's image, physical temples for the Holy Spirit, fleshly expressions of the souls Christ died for---our contemplation of the human body, naked or clothed, will become so devotionally pure that any thought of misusing its beauty for selfish gratification would repulse us. This alone is the measure of true freedom from porno-prudery.

Lenten fasting is not so much a denial of our bodies as it is a heightened awareness that our spirituality cannot be anything other than incarnational.

We will never save our children from the filthy pig-pen of pornography by feeding them on the ungodly slop of body shame.