Notions of purity and holiness create judgments regarding pollution, defilement, and contamination. These are dangerous attributions. Purity and holiness carve the world into clean and unclean and then direct feelings of revulsion and contempt toward the self or the other, those designated as “unclean.” Once these judgments and boundaries are in place, it is almost impossible to see how the mission of the church can be accomplished. Given all this, it might just be safer to eliminate purity and holiness categories from the life of the church, to restrict or eliminate their use in the faith
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