Fundamentalism and Eros: Post Three: Marc Gafni

A second type of fundamentalist fellowship is the communities of greed and accumulation. Greed and consumption move our lives because when the center doesn’t hold, the pseudo-eros of money seems the easiest means to fill the emptiness.

Paradoxically, more enlightened communities and individuals often seem weak and insipid, leaving us unmoved and uninspiredMark. We return to Yeats,

The best lack all conviction
while the worst are full of Passionate intensity
Surely some revelation is at hand…

The revelation at hand, that which we yearn for, is the secret of the cherubs. How to transform sexuality from a force to be controlled or a mere indulgence, into the spiritual master which teaches us how to live erotically in all of the non-sexual dimensions of our lives. The old merely suspicious approach to sexuality is insufficient to create a world which is holy.

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