Following McGill, it appears that we are deeply ambivalent about our neediness. We feel that our neediness, our physical vulnerabilities and dependencies, are disgusting, degrading, and offensive. And nothing signifies this neediness more strongly than the human body. Feeling this degradation we seek to protect God from need, to create quarantines around God. God, thus, is self-contained, perfect, and holy. But inherent in this impulse is a flight from our own need, a refusal to exist in a state of need.
