If anything is sacred the human body is sacred - Whitman![08-12-07 READ 17000. [4] (Walt Whitman) Leaves of Grass Children of Adam [verse]](http://www.philpaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/08-12-07-READ-17000.-4-Walt-Whitman-Leaves-of-Grass-Children-of-Adam-verse.jpg)
In today’s prudish, prurient and bilious North American culture, Walt Whitman is as subversive as he was in the 19th century. In “I Sing the Body Electric”, probably the best poem in the Children of Adam section of Leaves of Grass, he proclaimed his personal manifesto: look at the bodies of human beings, if you want to see the divine, the sacred, and moral truth. The ranting, perverse peddlers of phony “values” — the pulpit screechers and Conservative haters of life — know nothing of truth, beauty, or morality. There is more morality in a single line of Leaves of Grass than in a million sermons of churchly bullshit.
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