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Tuesday, September 6. 2016

Appetites


From American Appetites: A Fiction Review in Three Courses:



 …in a culture of abundance and affordable luxury, bodily self-abnegation no longer retains this primeval horror. Rather, the twenty-first-century middle-class American must actively labor not to become fat. Thus eating becomes moralized behavior. How often have you heard a woman describe a rich dessert as “sinful”? To eat is to sin—in secular society, the body replaces the soul. Good and evil are no longer purely spiritual concepts—these words have been transubstantiated into the realm of the flesh.





Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Religion at 17:36 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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"...in secular society, body replaces the soul". And sex/sexuality becomes the new god.
#1 Frances on 2016-09-06 21:30 (Reply)
It's been going on since the 70's at least. Maybe earlier.
#1.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-09-07 00:04 (Reply)
Gluttony has been one of the Seven Deadly Sins since the late Roman Republic.

It is defined as eating more than one needs.

So it has always had a moral component.
#2 Whitehall on 2016-09-07 01:09 (Reply)
The quote above is bollocks.
#2.1 Ten on 2016-09-07 10:11 (Reply)
Florence King said that in a secular age the only people with souls are celebrities because they are the only ones with chance of immortality.
#3 Whitney on 2016-09-07 08:23 (Reply)
"Good and evil are no longer purely spiritual concepts—these words have been transubstantiated into the realm of the flesh." Good and Evil are not concepts, they are reality, and they have always played out in the realm of the flesh.
#4 Joe Y on 2016-09-07 10:35 (Reply)

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