There is a habit that plagues many so-called spiritual minds: they
imagine that matter and spirit are somehow at odds with each other and that
the right course for human life is to escape from the world of matter into
some finer and purer (and undoubtedly duller) realm. To me, that is a
crashing mistake -- and it is, above all, a theological mistake. Because, in
fact, it was God who invented dirt, onions and turnip greens; God who
invented human beings, with their strange compulsion to cook their food; God
who, at the end of each day of creation, pronounced a resounding "Good!"
over his own concoctions. And it is God's unrelenting love of all the stuff
of this world that keeps it in being at every moment. So, if we are
fascinated, even intoxicated, by matter, it is no surprise: we are made in
the image of the Ultimate Materialist.
Robert Farrar CaponThe Supper
of the Lamb
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