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Subject: Spiritual Body Modification Author: S. Marambio Date: Tuesday November 28th, 2006 URL: www.lun.com

The creed of the Modification of the Body has two thousand followers in the United States Church asks faithfuls who perforate the body to arrive at the sky

They say that they reach the illumination through pain.

“The day in which I put my first piercing, my life changed… At the moment in which I felt how the pain expanded by my chest, it bathed a white light to me. I connected myself with parts of my body that did not know that they existed and I knew that until that minute it had gone by the life surrounded in an empty shell. That was the first time in my life that I was one witness epifanía”. The one that he precedes it is the history of the illumination of reverendo the Steve Haworth, a American who has the face crossed by three hurt which they seem the scratch of a tiger, and founder of the Church of the Corporal Modification (CBM, by its abbreviations in English). The wounds of Haworth have to do with their faith and the one of the 2,000 faithfuls who integrate the CBM, church that proposes that “practicing the techniques of manipulation and corporal modification we reinforced the bows between body, mind and soul and we were able to live our espiritualidad like complete individuals”. According to the CBM postulates - recognized as church by the EE.UU. government - the feligreses can profess any religion. The important thing is that they perceive that through boring, tattooing and to stretch the skin of the body they can feel the divinity. “We always thought that our bodies are temporary, but also say that they are temples of God… Good, I decided to adorn my temporary temple” (See ***Note*** Below), says in Internet reverenda Vain Jayne, that as the other “priests” of this faith must guide those who need it and orienting as far as the cares to follow after perforating or painting some part of one.

Scandals

And like other churches, this one is not saved of the controversy. In fact, one became thanks to one well-known: in 2001 an employee of the chain of supermarkets Costco Wholesale demanded to the company to dismiss it not to want to remove piercing from the eyebrow in working hours. And although the feligresa of CBM alleged religious reasons, lost the demand. But followers won. Another scandal was the arrest of two of its reverendos, defendant of to have practiced a genital modification without medical license. The rest of the ministers organized one collects to pay the lawyers of the prisoners, but the bottoms disappeared mysteriously.

***Note***

Although it is always an honor to find something such as this published, I must correct the part in which I was misquoted. The actual quote is:

"We are always taught that our bodies are only temporary, yet we are also told that our bodies are the temples of God. ... I explain to them that I simply have chosen to decorate my temporary temple."

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