Religious disembodiment stems from fear of bodily mortality

Evidence

The body is the closest that we come to touching any kind of reality. And yet we have the desire to flee the body: many religions are based entirely on disembodiment, because the body brings with it mortality, fear of death. If you accept the body as reality, then you have to accept mortality and people are very afraid to do that…. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 552

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fear of death is immanent to sexuality through shared separation — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2724; King James Version literalism stems from childhood familiarity and fear of change. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 93

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