http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2005/05/around-pagan-web-here-are-some-recent.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2005/05/around-pagan-web-here-are-some-recent.html#comment-95 Chas S. Clifton Mon, 09 May 2005 01:41:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2005/05/604.html#comment-95 "I would suggest that what is being urged here is not the physical removal of clothing ? though that is one option ? but rather a shedding of armor, of protections that we carry to survive in the world."There is the theologizing mind at work. I wonder what Uncle Gerald would say. To him, I suspect, nakedness was significant because (in no particular order) historic witches were supposed to have done it, it erased class distinctions, and it could be sexy.To those rationalizations, my teachers added that it lessens the fear of death by forcing us to confront the naked human body at different ages. “I would suggest that what is being urged here is not the physical removal of clothing ? though that is one option ? but rather a shedding of armor, of protections that we carry to survive in the world.”There is the theologizing mind at work. I wonder what Uncle Gerald would say. To him, I suspect, nakedness was significant because (in no particular order) historic witches were supposed to have done it, it erased class distinctions, and it could be sexy.To those rationalizations, my teachers added that it lessens the fear of death by forcing us to confront the naked human body at different ages.

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